‘I assume, princess that since you are here. You wish to hear my story, yes?’
The solar princess stared at the blade leaning against her students bookcases. The sword looked oddly more familiar than she would care to know. Upon closer inspection, she could finally figure out why. The swords blade was embedded with the Elements of Harmony!
Celestia turned to face the sword known as Ultorius and said “I will ask you this once and once only, WHY do you have the Elements of Harmony with you?”
A hum filled the room as Ultorius thought about his predicament. ‘I do not know why these ‘Elements’ are on me, I just know that they are. And since I can’t see myself I suppose one of you will have to tell me what I look like.’
Twilight stepped forward from the others and cleared her throat. “Well Ultorius there are six Elements of Harmony; each one represents the aspects of friendship. Loyalty....” Rainbow raised her hoof and placed it on her chest, all the time looking smugly at Ultorius. “Laughter....” Pinkie Pie stepped forward and giggled at him. “Generosity...” Rarity flicked her mane out of her eye and smiled at him. “Honesty...” Applejack stepped forwards tipped her hat at Ultorius and moved back into the line. “Kindness....” At that Fluttershy hid behind her mane and moved behind her friend, Rainbow Dash. “And Magic, me” Twilight smiled at Ultorius as she finished her introductions.
After Twilight did that she pointed a hoof at him and said. “The elements of Harmony have both a spiritual presence and a physical presence; the spiritual part is in each and every one of us in one way or form. And the physical part is these gems imbedded into your blade. Plus there’s these weird diagrams on your hilt which you said were Runes.”
At that Ultorius gasped ‘THE RUNES DESCRIBE THEM!’
Twilight was scared by Ultorius yelling at her and the princess did not look happy that he had done so. Ultorius collected himself and drew in a shuddering breath.
‘I am sorry for yelling Twilight.... Please, tell me what these ‘Runes’ look like.’
Twilight looked towards the hilt of the sword and spoke out in a calm voice. “One looks like a Star-” ‘That would be a Pentagram’ “Right, one looks like a pentagram surrounded by each element in a circle. In the middle of the pentagram there is what looks like a water droplet..... That’s not water is it?”
Ultorius swore to himself. ‘I just HAD to activate the ancient trap didn’t I? God damn idiot....... What you see Twilight is now what I confirmed to be the results of a Blood Ritual. Very powerful Rune, also very hard to undo without the blood of an ancient magical being..... Even then it would not guarantee 100% of me turned back to normal. If what I think has happened then I am on an entirely different world, and my body may adapt to become more like your own.’
Twilight looked towards the princess knowing that Ultorius was mentioning her when he said ‘Blood of an ancient magical being’ and said “Your highness, I know that your first meeting with Ultorius wasn’t the greatest but he needs our help to find out what sent him here and-” Twilight continued to talk to the princess as Spike entered the room. When he saw the blade lying against the bookcase he was in awe. Spike moved towards the blade cautiously looking towards Twilight and the princess before reaching out and touching the sharp part of the blade. Retracting his hand from the sword, as the blood of the young drake seeped from one of his claws to fall upon the white gem at the hilt of the blade; he quickly grabbed a cloth and wiped away the blood before a voice spoke to him ‘Might want to get a plaster on that young dragon, and make sure not to touch my sword again.’
Spike left the room in a hurry to do as the voice said, heading upstairs just as Twilight and the princess turned around to help Ultorius. No one had seen him enter, and no one had seen him leave, except Ultorius.....
^^^^^^15 minutes later^^^^^^
“Ok Ultorius I will help you regain your true form, but you must after that come with me to Canterlot and answer my questions that I have.”
‘That is agreeable princess. Now please step forward, this will only hurt for a second....’
The princess moved towards the sword lying against the bookcase and reached out with her magic to grasp the sword. Bringing the point to her hoof she made a small cut on it, and let the blood trickle off to fall onto the sword. The red droplet hit the white gem that only a little earlier Spike’s own blood had hit. Everypony present watched intensely as the Pure White gem faded and turned to a Blood Red.
The room filled with red light making all present including the princess back away from the sword and cover their eyes. Growls of pain filled the room as the Blood Magic was flushed from Ultorius body. The sword glowed with a bright intensity and each of the gems colours intensified beyond the point that a little ball of rainbow light was all that was left.
The rainbow ball was outlined with blood as each power tried to dominate the other. The harmonious magic trying to expel the blood magic out of him while the blood magic trying to force its way back into Ultorius’ body. Princess Celestia could tell that the colliding powers that be could expand outwards at any moment. Teleporting all the ponies present into a clearing inside the Everfree forest, the solar princess threw up a shield around her subjects and herself at exactly the last moment.
Harmony in the end won over the blood magic and it was dispelled in an explosion of magic that bent the trees in the clearing backwards, scorching the ground and igniting the air into lava. This continued for several minutes before the lava on the ground cooled into stone and the raging inferno of magic stopped.
Celestia hesitantly lowered the shield and the smell of burnt wood and earth assaulted the noses of all ponies present. What they saw before them left them in awe, for no one could have survived the explosion of magic that had radiated outwards from the conflicting powers. What was left in the centre of the clearing was a crater filled with lava, and any grass remaining from the explosion was quickly set alight by the flames flickering out of the pit.
Twilight moved forwards cautiously, but a look from her princess stopped her from continuing forward. They all stopped and stared at the lava pit before them, expecting something to happen. A bubble appeared on the surface and popped, beyond that nothing else happened.
Twilight looked towards her mentor. “Princess.... Is he... going to be alright?”
The solar princess looked towards her student with a look of pity in her eyes. “My faithful student I’m afraid that Ultorius is-”
A bolt of rainbow lightening struck the centre of the lava pool and created a straight line down the middle. They all heard it collide with something deep inside the pool of lava. After a few minutes nothing seemed to have changed, and as the princess was about to continue her sentence the pool of lava erupted outwards and a death defying screech filled the air.
What had erupted from the lava pool was a being of fire and stone, the wings on the creature made of red leather in the middle. The creature looked almost Draconic in nature, were it not for the twin horns on its head. It flew upwards from the pool of lava, straight up into the sky.
The princess looked up in worry. “Twilight, take your friends and head back to the library and put up a shield. Who knows what in Tartarus has been unleashed upon the world but I intend to stop it, no matter what.”
Twilight flashed her friends away in a bright light of purple before looking at her mentor, probably for the last time. “Please... stay safe.” In a flash of purple light Twilight too was gone from the clearing.
Celestia stared up into the sky, spreading her massive wings she took flight after the demon....
^^^^^^6 minutes later^^^^^^
A clawed hand shot out of the lava reaching for the edge, gripping it with intensity the creature struggled to heave itself from the fire. Reaching out with the other hand it dug the clawed hands into the baked earth and pulled its way out of the fiery depths of the lava pool.
It stood on four legs which ended with talons; it had shimmering blue fur and scales along its body. Blue feathers lined the draconic wings on its back, with black leather in-between each. Its muzzle was almost drake like in appearance and almost pony like, a cross between the two resulted in the creature standing on the ground. Each tooth in the creature’s mouth was a stark white. The draconic being had silted eyes outlined by green and surrounded by gold. Atop its head was a long horn that would allow it to use magic to aid itself in times of need. The creature had an ethereal mane that looked like the roaring sea. All in all, the creature was 4 feet taller than the Sun Princess.
Looking up with eyes more sharp than any eagle, the creature saw the princess in battle against the demon that had tried to steal its soul. Spreading its massive draconic wings it launched itself into the sky, and in a matter of seconds reached the two fighting in the sky.
It screamed past them both, stopping fifty feet above them. Neither the demon looking one of the one with the flowing mane had noticed it go by. Using its height above the demon one as its advantage, it dove towards it. The creature ROARED at the demon and smashed into it, causing its wings to cave in and fall towards the ground.
The draconic creature stopped just before the ground and pulled up. Causing the demon to smash into the ground and shattering the earth beneath it. Landing on the ground where the demon hit, the creature spoke. “Come out you filthy mongrel, I know that you are still alive!”
A clawed hand reached out from the crater in the ground and grasped the edge. A huff was heard as the demonic being climbed out of the hole. One horn was broken; a wing shattered by the impact and it was limping on only three legs. The demon looked at the creature before him and spoke out in a deep voice.
“Who are you to call me a Mongrel, Half Breed?”
The creature backed away from the demon while snarling at it. “What did you just call me?”
“You heard me correct, I called you a Half Breed.”
The Draconic creature reached out with a clawed appendage and gripped the demons throat, bringing its face closer to its own the creature snarled at it. “You will regret calling me that demon!”
With all the strength it could muster it threw the demon into the trees, splintering them upon impact. It flew after the demon, flying at almost Sonic Rainboom speeds it grabbed the flying demon and flung it into the sky.
Celestia watched in awe as the strange being attacked the demon that so easily wore her down was now being defeated by this strange being. She watched as it flung the demon into the forest and chased after it at breakneck speeds that a certain speed demon would be jealous off. The sun princess watched as the demon reappeared in mid air, only for the creature to grab it in mid air and rip both of its wings off. Holding it by the tail now, she watched as it flung the demon at the ground again, spearing it on a small tree that splintered upon the demons impact.
She watched as the creature flew down and landed next to the blooded body of the demon that had caused her so much trouble. It leaned next to the demon as it spoke to the creature. Scowling at the demon it promptly grasped its head and twisted it, snapping its neck and killing it. Looking up it spotted Celestia and flapped its massive wings, making it speed up from the ground in a matter of seconds. Flying towards the Alicorn above it, the creature stopped before her and growled.
“You know it’s not nice when somepony thinks you are dead because of a small amount of lava.”
Celestia’s eyes widened as she recognised the voice. “U-Ultorius, is that you?”
The draconic creature shook its head. “Twas my name once Princess of the sun, I am no longer known as Ultorius in this form though.” The princess was confused by what he meant by form.
Sensing her confusion the being that was once Ultorius spoke up. “Remember the blood ritual?” After her nod he continued. “Many of my people know how to make transformation runes that allow us to change our appearance. This is what I meant by form, and in this form, I will be known as Draco Lamina, The Dragon Blade.”
^^^^^^Twilight’s Tree House, During the Battle^^^^^^
“Quit your pacing Twi’! The princess will be fine, trust me.” Rainbow watched as Twilight kept on pacing regardless of her words.
“I’m not worried Rainbow, do I look worried because I sure the hay am not!” Twilight looked towards her speedy friend as she said this, causing her to shake her head in annoyance.
“Twi’ Rainbows right, ya need ta calm down.” Applejack was holding her hat in-between both her front hooves.
Pinkie spoke up next. “Yea Twilight stop being a worry wart, if the Princess was in trouble my Pinkie Sense would have told me!”
When she said this Twilight visibly relaxed, as did the others. That is until the felt the earth beneath their very hooves shake from some unseen force. They all remained still as the tremor subsided. After several minutes they felt it was safe to release their holds on the objects they had latched onto during the tremor.
“WOAH! Thatwassomuchfuncanwedoitagain?” Pinkie had begun bouncing around the living room spouting random stuff that was incomprehensible to the others present. Twilight shook her head at Pinkie’s antics, gaining a laugh from the small dragon sitting beside her.
“Well at least we know that Pinkie was having fun.” Spike smiled at the pink pony jumping around the room.
Twilight sighed at her assistant. “Well it may be fun but the princess and-”
“HONEY I’M HOME!”
All eyes looked towards the source off the voice, what they saw was a Dragon Alicorn carrying the solar princess on its back. It walked into the room and placed her on the couch before looking around itself.
“What? No hugs for an old friend?” The Draconic creature spoke to them.
Pinkie rushed forward at the half dragon half Alicorn, slamming it into the ground and started squeezing it.
“ULTY YOU’RE BACK!” All the girls looked at Pinkie hugging the dragon thing and had looks of shock on their faces.
“Pinkie, that’s not Ultorius. That’s a drag... Actually what in the name of Celestia are you? AND WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRINCESS!?!?!”
The half Alicorn looked towards the puzzled and mad librarian and just smiled at her. “I seem to distinctly remember you asking something similar to that this morning Twilight. As for the princess, She was tired after her fight with the demon and-”
All the elements eyes reduced to the size of pinpricks and Fluttershy curled into a ball behind Rainbow Dash. Twilight looked at the newcomer and said “D-did you say....”
“Did I say demon? Why yes I did say demon Twilight, I fought a demon that the princess could not. And I won.”
The librarian was shocked that this creature knew her name, now that she thought about it; the creature’s voice sounded very familiar had a deeper and more of a growl than a melody to it.
“Want me to prove I am who I am to you Twi’? Ok then.” The creature looked directly into her eyes and said ‘Is this better? Or do you prefer actually speaking to me this time?’
Twilight looked at the beast before her in realisation and shock, snapping a claw next to her head he said.
“And my name is Draco Lamina now, just so you know.”
Spike was looking at the new Dragon in awe. He had deep blue fur and scales black leathered wings laced in blue feathers along the bone, a few ruby red spines travelling into his mane and down his tail. His ethereal mane was a deep sea blue and moved like waves, and his piercing eyes were a green around the iris and gold around the green expanding the rest of his eye to the whites. His muzzle had scales and some of his sharp white teeth were clearly visible to the young drake. His talons were a sapphire blue, and he stood 4 feet taller than the princess herself. And he had a HORN for magic! No other dragon in the world had a horn for magic!
“What are you looking at their Spike?” The blue Dragon pony called to him.
He looked up into the eyes of the older dragon and smiled. “I’m not alone anymore....”
The dark blue Dragon Alicorn smiled at the young purple drake. He lifted a paw and patted him on the head. “No Spike, you were never alone. You had your friends and family to look out for you, you never were and never will be alone Spike. So long as you have friends like these.” He waved a paw around the room to emphasise his point. “You don’t have to be alone.”
Spike’s eyes started to water as he realised that the words that he had spoken rang true. He ran towards the tall Alicorn and hugged one of his legs crying his eyes out.
Lamina smiled at the young drake, and placed a paw on his back as he cried. He hadn’t shown affection towards any other person or dragon in this case, for a very long time. He picked the young drake up and placed his in-between his wings. Watching Spike curl up and fall asleep there calmed the Dragon Alicorn.
“So Lamina,” The Dragon Alicorn looked around the room, only now just noticing all of them were staring at him. He looked to the princess who was lying on the couch.
“Yes princess?”
“What are you?”
He was confused by the statement that the princess had said. “Pardon your highness? I don’t quite understand...”
She got up off the couch and walked over to him. She glanced all over him, walked in a circle around him, all the time muttering to herself ‘scales... horn...’ or some other mumbo jumbo that didn’t make sense to him.
Lamina was confused by what the princess was trying to accomplish by muttering to herself when she said. “You appear to be part Dragon, but also Part Alicorn.... A Dragon who can perform magic, and an Alicorn immune to most magical attacks.... Strange...” she poked him around in a couple places, including the wings.
Twilight perked up at this statement by the princess. “Does this mean we have discovered a new race Princess?” oh boy Lamina thought to himself.
“Yes Twilight, it appears our friend here discovered a new race..... But what do we call it?” Both Twilight and the Princess had their hoofs to their chins in thought. Rainbow couldn’t help but chuckle at this.
After 5 minutes of them humming in thought Lamina blurted out “Dralicorn.” Both of their eyes widened at that, and the Princess smiled at him. “Indeed. A Dralicorn.... It is a fitting name.”
Lamina heard a snoring from behind him and looked to see the young drake asleep on his back. Smiling again he said to all those present. “WELL! As much fun this has been I need to sleep, and so does this little guy.”
With that he walked upstairs and into Twilight’s room. Lamina placed Spike in his basket, curling around Spikes basket was a natural feeling to him. And as soon as he had done so, he promptly fell asleep....
^^^^^^Downstairs^^^^^^
Twilight looked up the stairs at the sleeping duo and smiled to herself. Walking back into the lounge she found that the Princess was getting ready to leave.
“Princess, are you returning to Canterlot now?”
Celestia smiled at her student, “Yes Twilight, I am returning to Canterlot now. Somepony has to be there to raise the sun in the morning.” She stopped before the door. “Oh and remind our feathered Dragon friend that he has to come to Canterlot tomorrow.”
Twilight smiled as she watched her mentor walk outside and disappear in a flash of magic. All of her friends had either returned to their homes or were busy doing something here. Walking back upstairs she spotted the draconic duo sleeping, she smiled as Lamina curled up tighter around Spike’s basket. Levitating a blanket from her cupboards, she draped it over the two drakes.
She prepared to head back out to see if Rainbow Dash was still there when she heard a voice call out.
“No... That’s... Muffin... Chocolate.... Caramel....”
She brought her hoof to her mouth to block the giggles as she realised the Dralicorn was dreaming, what about, she had no clue. When she was out of earshot she let herself giggle at the Dralicorn’s sleep talk. She might have to talk to Pinkie about baking a chocolate caramel muffin for him....
^^^^^^9am Ponyville Library^^^^^^
Yawning as he got up, Lamina stretched his tired body. Oh yea that felt good.... looking around the room he noticed several things. One: he was taller than before. Two: he could hear snoring from below him. Three: he had claws and wings. And Four: he smelled what seemed to be pancakes coming from downstairs....
Processing.....
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Analysis complete!
There are pancakes downstairs!
His eyes widened and he started to run out of the room, waking Spike from his slumber. “PANCAKES!!!!!”
Spike jumped out of bed and grabbed onto Lamina’s tail as he dashed out of the room, dragging Spike along for the ride. Spike held on for dear life as Lamina dived of the top of the stairs landing on the ground with a thud.
Twilight jumped at the sound and turned to see Spike and Lamina sitting at the table, forks and knifes in claw. Smiling she said “Good morning boys, I made gem pancakes for breakfast.”
Spike started drooling at the thought of having gem pancakes, but Lamina seemed confused by what had been said.
“Gem pancakes? What the heck are those?”
Spike had a look of shock at what Lamina had said. Twilight remembered that he used to be a sword, and before that a human and she casually looked over to the Dralicorn.
“Dragons here in Equestria eat gems as a source of food Lamina.”
He looked at her with a face that said ‘ah I get it now’. Looking towards the young drake he said. “So which gem is the best to eat?”
“Fire Ruby is defiantly the best.”
He hummed at the thought as Twilight placed down the pancakes and said “Dig in!”
Spike tore into his pancakes while Colerem looked thoughtfully at his. “You know, Dragons where I come from don’t eat gems.”
Twilight looked at him as he started talking; levitating a notepad and quill over to her she sat down as he began his explanation.
“Dragons, who we thought to only be myth, had actually been in hibernation for over 5 millennia. The first Dragon to exit hibernation set fire to one of our cities in the North. We didn’t even know what hit us until it was too late.”
Twilight was scribbling notes down unto the paper before her, while Spike was listening to the story.
“Many people were lost that day and reports estimated that the death toll was over six thousand,” Twilight gasped at that, most deaths in Equestria were almost slim to none. “I was there at the time of the attack; the city that I was in was called Starlight. You remember this bit right Twilight?” She looked at him and shook her head. “Well it was the time of my hanging, who knew looting was considered a crime against the crown? Anyway as you know Twi’ my dear friend Maria saved me from being hung, but after that the Dragon arrived.” Lamina looked downcast at this point. “The screams of lots of dying people filled the streets and many were fleeing from the town. The Dragon whom we knew later on was the Dominus among them that means Lord in Latin.”
Twilight nodded at his tale. He stopped himself from continuing his story and began to eat his breakfast. Twilight wrote a note to remind her to look into his memories at a later date.
After they were finished a breakfast of hay and gem pancakes Twilight mentioned what the Princess had said last night. “Oh yes, we need to go into Canterlot today. The Princess wishes to meet you.”
He hummed to himself in thought. “I might need to find a place to stay for a while though. In case there is no way back to my world.” He looked sad when he said that.
“Well I’m sure the princesses will figure something out. Oh, look its Applejack, good morning Applejack!”
The orange pony turned to face them. “Mornin’ Twi’ mornin’ Lamina, ah popped in ta see if ya’ll want a job at sweet apple acres, Celestia knows we need th’ help.”
Lamina looked at the orange work pony before replying. “I would like to have a job at your farm Applejack, but the Princess has requested my presence at Canterlot today.”
Applejack nodded at the Dralicorn. “Well if ya ever need a job, ya come ask me.”
With that the work pony tilted her hat and walked out from the room and out the door, to do whatever it is that work ponies do.
Twilight looked at the door her friend had exited from and hummed to herself. “Might need to get you back tonight in time for the party or Pinkie will be sad.”
Lamina just nodded his head and they walked towards the door, which was when he had a thought.
“Hey, um Twilight won’t they be afraid by my appearance?”
Twilight looked towards the Dralicorn as her eyes widened in realisation. “Oh....” was the only response the purple mare gave the Dralicorn. He looked at her and sighed.
“Alright..... Let’s see if this works, it worked for the backpack.” And with that Lamina concentrated on imagining himself as a Unicorn, a few minutes passed and nothing happened. Twilight was about to say something but just as she was there was a flash of rainbow light and where Lamina once stood was a Unicorn stallion with a three different shades of blue for his mane and a deep blue for his coat, his eyes retained the same colour as his Dralicorn form and his height had reduced to the same as hers. He retained the more refined air around him and the charming smile that was always evident in his Dralicorn form. He looked at her then after a few seconds.
“Is that better Twilight? I don’t know if it changed anything or not. Oh I'm smaller, aparently it did something.”
Twilight stared at the stallion in front of her; to say he was handsome would be an understatement. He was drop dead handsome, the kind that mares would be tripping over their own hooves if he walked past them. She would have to be careful least she fall for him herself.
“Twilight, are you there?” Waving a hoof in front of her face seemed to not get a reaction out of her. Raising a hoof to Twilight’s face he bopped her on the nose. This managed to get a reaction from the purple mare, and she blushed and shook her head.
“S-sorry Lamina, my minds a little distracted.” Twilight was acting as nervous as Fluttershy at that point and this elected a chuckle from Lamina.
“Tis nothing to worry about Twilight, but we should get moving, no?”
Twilight looked towards the door and then back to Colerem before smiling. “Well?”
Lamina was confused by what Twilight meant when she said that. “Well what?”
She rolled her eyes and pointed at the door. “Aren’t you going to be a gentlecolt and open the door for a mare?”
Swerving his head around the room in confusion he said. “What mare? All I see is a lot of books and a book worm.”
Twilight struck him on the shoulder causing him to go into hysterics at the mare’s response. “I’m only joking Twi’.” Walking towards the door and opening it with his magic, he bowed slightly at Twilight, causing her to blush yet again.
Walking outside the two noticed that Ponyville was less active than usual, only a few ponies were out and about, and this confused Lamina. “Twilight where is everypony?”
Looking around Twilight noticed what he was saying “They probably haven’t woken up yet, it is early in the morning on a Sunday.”
“Hey Twi’, who’s the new guy?”
“Rainbow Dash you’re up early!”
Looking up, the two noticed Rainbow Dash lying on a cloud with her tail and head only just poking over the sides. Lamina chuckled at Rainbow Dash and looked to Twilight ‘Hey Twi’ want to have some fun?’ Twilight smiled with the corner of her mouth and nodded slightly.
“Greetings fair maiden, you must be the one Miss Sparkle has mentioned to me.”
Rainbow Dash Tripped over her hooves and fell off the cloud. Right before she hit the ground she spread her wings and glided down and looked at Lamina. Rainbow looked at Twilight then back to him. She flew over to Twilight and dragged her off to the side where they began talking. Lamina pretended not to pay attention to what they were saying. His attention more focused towards the ponies only just now coming out of their homes. Some of the mares where staring in his direction with a blush on their checks, and some stallions where paying him no mind whatsoever.
“- and so we’re here now, so come on Twi’ let’s go!”
Lamina looked towards the two mares in front of him, both of whom were staring at him. He looked between each one of them with a confused look. Twilight looked at him with a smile on her face. “You are coming Lam, right?” He smiled at the new nickname that, and nodded at the purple mare. They trotted to the train station where the four other mares were awaiting them.
Twilight waved to them. “Hi there girls we ready?”
The four mares nodded at Twilight, after a few minutes they noticed the new addition. Rarity looked at Colerem with a smirk on her face.
“And who is this dashing stallion Twilight?”
Lamina chuckled at Rarity, and smiled at her. “Why Rarity, if I knew it would be looks that would win you over I would have tried this ages ago.”
All five mare’s faces were in shock, it took them a couple minutes to compose themselves. It was then that Rainbow spoke up. “Lamina? Is that you?”
This received a smirk from him and a slight bow, “My previous appearance would have scared the townsfolk, so I simply shifted to a Unicorn form.”
Rarity was the one that spoke up then. “How were you able to do so?”
He simply waved two forelegs in front of himself and used his magic to create a small rainbow spreading between each hoof and said “Maaaaagiiiiiic!!”
This cause the pink party pony to giggle and Twilight to smile at him, he looked at the others confused faces and said “What?”
Twilight shook her head and walked forwards to talk to the train attendant about accommodations on the train for their new passengers. Lamina looked at the other ponies gathered and smiled, causing Fluttershy and Rarity to blush and the farm mare to hide beneath her hat.
He leaned towards Rainbow and whispered quietly. “Am I really that good looking?”
Rainbow smirked mischievously and leaned in to whisper back. “Dude you may not know this but you are hot.”
He looked away from the rainbow mane mare and whispered. “Daaaayum....”
^^^^^^Canterlot Castle 5-6 hours later^^^^^^
“Ugh.... Remind me to make an airship when we get back...”
Twilight looked confused at Lamina and said. “You mean a hot air balloon?”
His eyes widened in shock as she said that. “Oh god no... Don’t tell me you don’t have air transport....”
Twilight smiled at the disguised Dralicorn and said. “Oh we do... but what’s an airship?”
Lamina looked at the purple mare and started his speech. “An airship is a power-driven aircraft that is kept buoyant by a body of gas that is lighter than air. Or it was until someone discovered the rune to make stuff float. Now day’s parents make their kids airships so that they can fly around. Anyway I need to build one of those someday so I can travel around faster.” He started rambling on about how he would ask the princesses for the required resources and a lot of other stuff.
Twilight was only staring at him until Rainbow spoke up. “Welcome everypony to Canterlot Castle!”
Lamina stared slack jawed at the architecture of the castle, marble pillars, water fountains. The sort of stuff that castles are supposed to have, only one word was in the disguised Dralicorn’s mind as he looked upon this wonderful sight. “B-beautiful....”
“Yes it is isn’t it?” A voice that was familiar to them all said from behind them, turning around he saw Celestia standing there. He smiled at the Alicorn and said. “Princess it is good to see you again.”
This confused the princess as she could not remember meeting this stallion before. “I’m sorry, but I haven’t met you before. So how can it be good to see me again?”
The disguised Dralicorn’s face was simply put in an ‘oh’ he looked around and said to the princess. “Ahem, princess it’s me, Lamina.”
“Ah...” Celestia looked at him intensely, “Were you not a Dralicorn before?”
Lamina looked down at his hooves and smiled. “I did not wish to scare the townsfolk, so I changed forms. Give me a second and I’ll revert back.”
Celestia was confused by this, revert back? Whatever does Lamina me- A flash of rainbow light appeared and everypony was blinded as the Dralicorn resumed his natural form. “I suppose this is better for you Princess?”
The princess smiled at the Dralicorn, “Yes Lamina, just remember that it is better if the inhabitants of Ponyville get used to you in your more natural form than if you were being fake around them.”
The Dralicorn thought on that for a moment, “Well they won’t have to get used to me, I rather like it on a mountain, and I suppose you won’t mind having a guest around the castle for a while.”
The princess smiled at the Dralicorn. “Yes, having a guest around the castle will make things less dull. I suppose I could find you a room to stay in.”
“Oh if you don’t mind I’ll take the room with the good view.”