Dragon Training

by BakaOniisan

The Dragon Lesson

Previously, in Dragon Training:

"The Elements of Harmony, I found them!"

"I want to know more about my species!"

"Twilight! You have to come! There’s a dragon who wants to live here in Ponyville!!"

"I just want to live here in Ponyville, my name is Kingodonamsumka"

"I'm sure I AM the only dragon who knows all about our species."

"Please, teach me all about dragons!"

"Please! Pretty please, teach me all you know about dragons!" Spike begged the green dragon again.

"What? Hell no! No bucking way!", King reacted immediately.

There was a looooong silence, ten loooong seconds of silence, the purple dragon started to panic:

"Huh?! But I- I thought that, and-", the baby dragon panicked .

"HAHAHAHAHAA!” The elder dragon enjoyed loudly. "If only you could see your face!! It was amazing!"

"Huh?"

"I was kidding, kid!", said the dragon, "sorry if I made you lose your mind. But why are you asking this? You're a dragon, aren't you?"

"Yeah, but I was raised by ponies... So I don't know anything about my species."

"I see...", murmured King. "This is getting very interesting", "But why didn't you go to the dragon's migration three days ago?", he asked.

"I did! I spent time with teen dragons, but all that I’ve learnt is that they were fools", the kid said.

"Oh, looks like you met Garble and his gang... well let me think about this teaching thing..." The dragon started to scratch his head, with a serious face.

Spike was waiting for the answer. Is he going to say yes? or no? "King's probably thinking that this is going to be a waste of time, he must be thinking that I'm ridiculous being a dragon, and knowing nothing about my own species...”He though ”I’m gonna say sorry for wasting his time and-" the young kid started to think."Okay." he heard from King's mouth.

"What? Can you repeat it?"

"Well, Why not? I consider it as a test of what I learnt from Ancients Dragons. So okay! Just tell me where you live, and tomorrow morning, I'll come to your place, and start the lesson."

"Oh! Thank you soooooooooooo much!! I live at the library, with Twilight" The little dragon thanked loudly.

"The Element of Magic, huh?" King thought. "And, Spike, you can tell this to Twilight, she can be interrested.”

"I'll do it! See ya! And thank you again!” The kid yelled, he was already running to the library. "Yesssssssss!" He exclaimed for the last time of the day.

King stared at the child disappearing around the corner of the street "There is no doubt about it, It's Him, but it seems he's not awakened yet. I'm sure if I teach him, and certainly train him enough, he'll wake up." He opened the door. " Now let’s see what's important for tomorrow's lesson, and mayb-"

"SURPRIIIIIIIIIIIISE!!!!" Almost twenty ponies screamed, hidden between furniture in the house.

"MY HEART!! GOD DAMN IT!!” The dragon shouted back at the floor, three meters away from where he was a second ago.

"Surpriiise!", a tiny voice screamed, later than the other ponies. "Oh, crap!".

"Pinkie? Aren't you supposed to babysit the twins?" The dragon asked, still surprised.

The pinky pony explained that she had lied to him, because she was preparing this surprise party to celebrate the arrival of a new inhabitant of Ponyville. King sighed and went to the buffet to eat some chips. The earth pony asked him to come on the dancefloor. The dragon froze and hesitated: "I- I don't dance" He returned to eating. He also asked to the pony when this party was going to finish. She thought for a few seconds and said "Well, it's 8 p.m. so the party's going to finish tomorrow at 1 a.m.!" with a big smile.

"Oh shit!" King exclaimed.

"Why?"

"Can't you, I don't know, stop the party at 11 p.m., or even at 10 p.m?”

"And I ask again: Why?"

"You see, Pinkie, tomorrow I'm going to the library to teach Spike all my knowledge about dragons." the dragon explained. "And I would go there early".

"You're going to be Spike's teacher? This gonna funa-fun-fun!~"Pinkie Pie crooned.

"Yeah, sure. Please? Could you do that?" The new dragon begged.

"Of course! A teacher needs to have his eight hours of sleep."

King thanked her and the party continued until ten o'clock. Everypony left the house and the dragon started to prepare his lessons for tomorrow… It took him four hours.

In Twilight's library, the door was hit three times. Celestia's faithful student pulled the triangular piece of wood to face the dragon who was standing on the threshold. "Hi Twilight, I'm here for Spike's Dragon Lesson.” Twilight invited him to enter.

"Hello Kingo-" The unicorn started.

"Just King, please.", he said immediately. "It's easier for you guys."

"Okay then, "King", we've been waiting for you." she said smiling.

"Huh, "We" ?"King asked.

Indeed, King's future students weren't just Spike and, accessorily, Twilight, but all Elements of Harmony, plus some other ponies like a purple mare who seemed to be another teacher along with all her students "Oh buck! Kids! Too many kids!" The dragon thought. A brown stallion who was talking to a grey funny looking pegasis with a blond mane, Granny Smith and Big Mac were there too. "God in heaven, please let them not ask too many questions!" The new teacher thought again.

"I brought some friends, like this, the lesson can be much more fun!" The Element of Laughter exclaimed. "That doesn't bother you, does it?"

"No! Of course not!" The elder dragon smiled. "Youuuuuuuu daaaaaaaaamn pony!"

"I see you put the waistcoat that I crafted for you. What do you think about it?" Rarity asked.

"I like it, it's comfortable, thank you so much Rarity."

King asked every pony to sit down, he looked at them and noticed that three young fillies were talking to each other: "Ah, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are also here..."

"Do you think we’ll have our cutie marks by knowing things about dragons?" The yellow earth pony asked to the orange pegasis.

"Maybe, but it would be awesome to have a dragon form for cutie mark!" Scootaloo exclaimed.

"Yeah, but I don't really want a dragon for cutie mark" the white unicorn respond.

"Girls! Be quiet! The lesson's going to start!" The pony teacher said to the three fillies.

"Thank you!" King smiled to Cheerilee. "Okay guys! Now let's start the Dragon Lesson." every pony applauded. "First thing: dragons are NOT vegetarians!" he said, staring a purple dragon. All kids in the room gasped, and all eyes turned to Spike.

"There's a beginning for everything." the young dragon smiled.

We first are going to speak about dragon's description and habits, and I'm sorry if I tell everything in disorder 'cause you see, I never teached a lesson to someone before. And as dragons don't have much history, I'll speak about it as last. Any questions? Yes Twi?

"If there's not much about the History, why don't you begin with it?"

Do you wanna make the class for me? No? So shut up, please!

There are so many types of dragons… the earth dragons, flying dragons, man dragons, golem dragons, etc. Dragon's sizes are variable, the larger is one or two hundred meters high. We can live up to five hundred years. If some of you have seen dragons to adulthood, you probably noticed that they were moving on four legs while the youngest ones, like Spike or myself, move on two legs. That's because by growing up, our body grows and becomes heavier, heavy enough that our hind legs can no longer support our weight and that is why when we are adults, we move on all four, like ponies.

"Well, that was interresting..." Spike said.

"... And kinda obvious"? he purple unicorn continued .

Some dragons are suffering from a peculiar disease: at their birthday, if we give them too many presents, they become materialistic and turn gradually into adult dragons before the adult age. Not very dangerous for the dragons but: it's not cool.

"That what happened to me!", the little dragon exclaimed.

As you may have noticed three days ago, dragons do a huge migration every hundred years to find a new place to live another hundred years and then redo another migration. Whereas someone like me leaves the flock to live alone or with his family into a quiet place. Uh... Dragons are very powerful when they can stand in two legs because they can learn the big techniques of martial arts, they can use their fire, their spikes, their fists to fight. The adults can use their fists too, but can't move by using them. So we can deduce that the young dragons are more powerful than the older but those are a lot more resistants. So the younger ones are hunting for the flock, while the adults are the shields. Uh, yes... Dragons are gemivorus, we all, without exception, eat gems, but when there is no gems, we're carnivorous, when there is no meat, we're insectivorous, and if there is no insect, we look again and if there is still no insect we became herbivorous… but JUST in that case! Yes, Sweetie Belle?

"Do dragons eat ponies?"

I don't, but some dragons yes they do. What can I say... Uh... Some dragons have a very bad temper. And... Yes! Wait... No, no....

"You look a little hesitant", Rainbow Dash observed.

Yeah... Well I think it's all about the Habits. Now we can talk about their History.

First, I can say that we, dragons, have been here for a long long time, before the creation of Equestria, before ponies started to live in this world. And- yes Twi?

"What do you mean, "before ponies started to live in this world"? "

Well, I mean that before ponies ruled this land, there were others biped creatures who ruled the world. I don't know anything about them. Just that they were here before you and the Princesses, and that they were for us just giant burgers on legs.

"Well, Ah learn something today!", AppleJack exclaimed.

Like I said earlier, we don't really have much History. Just one big event happened three thousand years ago and was forgotten by almost all dragons, except Ancients, who I learnt it all from.

"What's the event? Was it something fun?"

For dragons: yes. For other species: not really. This event was called: " The Discovery Five". It's called so because five Great dragons discovered something really sweet for all dragon kind: the two special and secret dragon's abilities.

"What's the names of those dragons?", asked Spike.

Here are their names: Alduin, Shenron, Ridley, Rayquaza and Mushu. They all, together discovered the abilities. The- *sigh* "Bucking buck's sake!" Yes, Scootaloo?

"What are these abilities?", the orange pegasis asked .
I was about to say it. So, they discovered two abilities. The first is: the perception of the aura.

"What?!" Twilight screamed.

*re-sigh* What now Twilight?

"It's impossible for a dragon, as powerful as it is, to perceive the aura. Everypony knows dragons can't use magic."

That's where you're wrong, the perception of the aura is nothing magic, it's just focus and open-mindeness. I can do it, easy.

"Prove it!"

I don't need it, bearer of the Element of Magic. "Wow, all pony shut their mouth up!"

"H-How do you know that? Just the ponies from Ponyville know that I'm an Element of Harmony."

Well, it's not a big deal if you can perceive the aura of living being. Like it's not a big deal to tell that Pinkie Pie is the Element of Laughter, AppleJack the Honesty, Rarity the Generosity, Rainbow Dash the Loyalty and Fluttershy the Kindness.That's because all of you have different aura, unlike the other ponies.

"Wow, that's amazing!"

"And fun!"

"So you really can see the aura of every pony?" Twilight asked, surprised.

Eeyup.

"Hey! That's mine!" Big Macintosh yelled.

Sorry, Big Mac. So I was saying, the Ancients teached me how to do that.

"How long it takes you to learn how to perceive the aura?" Fluttershy asked quietly, behind everypony.

*re-re-sigh* It took me four years to learn how to master it perfectly.

"Oooow... I’d really liked to be able to perceive auras..."

Now can I explain what is the second secret ability? Yes? Thank you. Now... Everypony... stay silent... and look.

King folded his hands in front of his nose, closed his eyes and suddenly, he spat on his hands an orange flame. While everyone began to panic, shouting that he was going to burn his hands, they noticed that his hands were not suffering from the high temperature, even the waistcoat did not burn. The flames surrounded his hands without burning them.
"That right kids, the second ability is: the control of our flame!"

"THAT. SO. AWESOME!" The blue pegasis yelled, very impressed.

"I know." King smiled.

"How the hell did you do that?" Twilight asked.

"You really want to know everything, huh?"

"Sure!"

"Well, same as perception: focusing, but it says that you must to know how to fight and have sense of protection.", the dragon warned.

"Can all dragons learn these abilities?" Spike asked.

"Yes. But for some reason, almost every dragon forgot about this big event, just the Ancients and others know about it, don't know why."

"But, how did those dragons learn about these two great skills?"

"Nobody knows."

Three thousand years ago

A giant green snake was waiting for friends in the crater of a giant volcano, he waited and waited and waited and waited, then there was an explosion from the sky and a purple skeletal dragon arised from the smoke.

"Ridley!" The snake “smiled”.

"Rayquaza! Long time no see dude!", exclaimed in his turn the purple dragon.

"Sure thing! Gimme three!" Rayquaza extended a hand to his friend as far as possible ('cause he’s got small arms).

"It's four for me." Ridley smiled. "It was a great idea from Mushu to organize a meeting between friends from dragon college."

"What about your job? So, captain of Space Pirates, huh? That’s cool!"

"Yeah sure, but there’s that bitch: Samus, who's always on our way."

"Not cool, dude."

"Hey guys!" A voice said, coming from nowhere.

The two dragons looked around.

"C'mon, guys! I know, I'm small, but not that small!"

They looked down and saw a tiny red earth dragon.

"Oh, sorry Mushu, we didn't see yah"

"Nobody sees me..." Mushu sighed with rage.

"Well, sure thing, it was a great idea of yours to organize this meeting", the giant snake said.

"Yeah, thanks dude, it's good to see some friends again" The purple dragon thanked.

"Nah, it's nothing guys. Oh, and I discovered something cool! Look!"

"Wow, Mushu discovered something! It can only be interesting." Rayquaza laughed with sarcasm.

The little dragon spat it fire on his hand, and the flame stood on its members without burning them.

"Well, that interesting."

"How did you do that?"

"It was a week ago, I was doing a barbecue, quietly, when suddenly, I sneezed my flames on my hands. I panicked but noticed that my hand didn't burn, I was controlling them! And the best part is, when I wanted the flames to go out, they went out!", explained Mushu proudly.

The two dragons stared at him, speechless for a few seconds... "Awesome..."

A storm appeared above the volcano, and an enormous chinese dragon slowly pulled out.

"My friends! Long time no see."

"Shenron!" The dragons in the crater exclaimed.

A roar was heard, and a big black dragon emerged to meet the others.

"Alduin!"

"It's Lord Alduin."

"C'mon, dude, we're friends, we can call you Alduin if we want to." Rayquaza smiled .

"If you were not a friend of mine, I would eat you up."

"Roooooh, C'mon! Oh! Guys, guys, look what Mushu discovered!" Ridley said. "Do it again Mushu!"

Mushu dispayed his show one more time.

"That’s interesting, Mushu my friend." Shenron said .

"I'm proud to be you're Overlord."

"Huh, Ya not mah Lord..." The little red dragon said, quietly.

"Now that I'm thinking about it, I also discovered something."Alduin said.

"What is it?" asked the giant chinese dragon, intrigued.

"I can perceive the aura of anybody."

"Cool! And I guess you can't really prove it, huh?" the giant snake crossed his arms.

"Not really, but if you could see in my eyes, sure."

"Okay... Well, I organized this meeting to share this discovery with you guys. I want the Dragon world to know that WE discovered these skills" Mushu admitted.

"That’s really generous of you, my friend. I accept!", thanked Shenron.

"Me too!" Rayquaza said.

"Me three!" Ridley said in his turn. "Hey, Alduin why don't you share your discovery with us?"

"It's not my style to belittle me to my subjects, but... you're my friends, I can make an exception." the Overlord said with authority.

"Great, we can call this: "The Discovery Five"!", Mushu exclaimed.

"YEAH!" they all yelled.

"Well, I hope you've enjoyed the Lesson, ‘cause it's over", King concluded.

"That was cool!" Scootaloo said in her turn.

"Hey, let's check our flanks! Maybe our cutie mark's appeared!" Applebloom exclaimed.

The three fillies stared their flank, still blank. "Ooooooow..." they sighed.

"Come on, kids. we need to go back to school, the day isn't over yet", the pony teacher said. "Thank you for your time King."
"You're welcome, my lady", the dragon said in response.

"Well, Ah think that the Apple family is leaving too, thank you for this lesson, buddy", the Element of Honesty said.

"We're going too! Bye everyone." The brown stallion was pleased. "Well, Ditzy, it was a good idea to follow the lesson about dragons, it was very interesting!"

"Doctor! I told you to call me Derpy, please." The gray pegasis respond, by exiting the room with the "Doctor".

Every pony left the house, there were only three people left in the room : Twilight, Spike and King.

"C'mon Spike, I know you want to ask him." The unicorn said quietly her assistant n°1 by pushing him towards the elder dragon.

"Huh... King?" Spike started.

"Yes? ("3... 2... 1....")”

"Please, can you train me to become a dragon? I want to know how to use the secret abilities!"

"déjà-vu, as I planned " King smiled: "Okay, Why not. Meeting at the Town Hall Square at two o'clock in the afternoon, okay?”

"Sure! I have just enough time to finish my chores!", the little dragon exclaimed while King was leaving the library. "Do you believe it, Twilight? I finally gonna learn how to be a real dragon!"

"I'm so happy for you, Spike. Sure we learnt something very interesting today, maybe it's not about friendship, but interesting. I'm sure that the princess will like it. Spike! Take a letter!"

"Sure!"

Dear Princess Celestia,
Yesterday a dragon named Kingodona named King came to Ponyville to live here. He's a tall green dragon, rather nice, which today has taught me, Spike and a few friends the Dragon description, habits and history. I learnt that the dragons were (Blablabla...) And that what I learnt today.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
P.S: Hello Princess, here Spike. I just wanted to tell you that I'm soo happy, today. I finally learnt a lot about my species, and more important, a REAL dragon is going to train me!
Your humble subject,
Spike