Its been a week since I arrived in equestria and twilight has shown me many places and ponies, on the second day the one called pinkie pie gave me a welcome to ponyville party, I had a great time and met the rest of her friends briefly giving me a minor assessment as to what they are like.
The next few days I spent more time with a couple of her friends one being rarity, who almost immediately took a liking to my armor saying it was a beautiful color and intricately designed, and the others being rainbow dash and fluttershy, dash reminded me of one of my dragoon friends full of energy and spunk and a little overconfident while fluttershy was the complete opposite, she was well very shy with almost no confidence.
The last friend I get to meet today is the one called applejack who runs a farm along with her family, it kind of reminded me of my family after the second dragon campaign, my mom and dad settled down and started a farm which I grew up and worked on harvesting and picking multiple fruits and vegetables.
As twilight and I get to the outskirts of town I see some smoke coming from the direction were twilight said applejack lived, "something doesn't look right im going on ahead to see whats wrong" I said with a stern tone, "uh ok just don't hurt yourself" said twilight.
I jump into the air and take off flying down the trail, as I get there I see that the barn is on fire and a couple ponies are trying to put it out, I fly over and see applejack standing next to a big red pony with a blonde mane throwing buckets of water on the fire.
As I land I can tell something about this is worse than it seems, as soon as she sees me applejack rushes over yelling "oh thank celestia yer here mah sister applebloom is trapped in the barn and we cant get to her cause the flames are to much, please save her" I instantly jump into action running towards the door " don't worry ill save her" I yell back.
I yank open the barn doors and im immediately surrounded by flames that burn me slightly, as I force my way in debris is falling everywhere, I go deeper while calling for the little filly after ten minutes I hear a faint voice, following the voice and encouraging her to keep talking I finally find her with her head pinned down between the tines of a pitchfork, I rush over and rip the farm tool off of her and saying "its ok im going to get us out of here" I don't wait for a response as I block more boards and debris from falling on her.
As I make my way out of the barn the heat was starting to get to me, finally making it to the door I watch her as she runs off to her family crying happy tears, I was just about out myself when the barns two support beams fall on top of me knocking me to the ground pinning me and burning me, at the same time I could of sworn I felt something snap in my right arm, I tried to get myself free but my vision went blurry and I lost consciousness.
(applejack's POV)
Me and big mac waited for a good twenty minutes waiting for Drackus to bring mah sister out of the burning barn, I saw movement coming from the door and I smiled when ah saw mah sister running towards us, I quickly grabbed her into a hug and held her there for a minute just thankful she was alive.
But things wernt going to be happy for very long because after the hug I heard a crashing sound along with a cracking sound and a loud groan, I look over and see Drackus pinned beneath two support beams struggling to get free I get into a panic and look at my brother and say "quick big mac we need tah get water on them there pillars before he burns tah death" as we grab and fill the pales we throw the water on them only fer them to keep burning.
At that moment ah see twilight running towards us out of breath, I run over to her in a panic "please twilight you have to help drackus hes stuck under some pillars and hes gonna burn tah death" twilight looked at me with a scared but determined look and said "ok I have a spell that will put out the fire but im going to need yours and big macs help getting them off of him" I nod and go tell big mac, I watched as she used the spell and the flames disappeared leaving her drained and me and big mac got to work shoving the pillars off and dragging him to safety.
He had blood seeping out of his mouth his violet scales had black scortch marks on them and his arm was twisted in the other direction clearly broken, twilight used her magic to set him across my back which even I have to admit he was purty darn heavy but we make our way to the hospital and get him admitted as they rush him into intensive care.
As we get outside I look at twilight and say "ah sure do thank ya fer helpin with the barn but ah gotta get on back and help build a new one could you send me a letter when he wakes up I want to thank him personally for saving mah sister" twilight gave me a wide grin "sure you will be the first to know when he wakes up" I tell her thanks and head home to build a new barn and thinking about drackus.
(end of AJ's POV)
Lets just say I was having one hell of a dream well more of a vision really, it starts off normally, I am with my parents and they are sitting on the couch crying, I don't know why but I try to comfort them anyway, as I go to pat my mom on the back my hand passes through like I was a ghost as I hear mom say "dart what are we gonna do we have searched everywhere but there is no sign of drackus or the violet dragoon spirit" crying as dad hugs her trying to sooth her "i know but we will find him even if I have to go to the ends of the earth, I will find him on my reputation as the divine dragoon" stating this his stone shines showing his sincerity, then the crazy stuff happens.
One minute im with my parents the next im in ponyville but its all screwed up like the valley of corrupted gravity but weirder, houses where upside down the ground was checkered and I swear I just saw a pony with bunny ears digging a hole. As I look around I see what looks like a dragon but with mismatched features, as I spot him I also see the twilight and her friends standing in front of it.
I then here it say "ah, this again?" it threw something behind it and it exploded "that's right you couldn't break up our friendship for long" said applejack, her necklace then began to glow as she was taken towards the thing "oh applejack don't lie to me, im the one who made you a liar" after he said that everypony except twilight was brought towards it "do you ever learn" twilight then teleports in the center of the group and creates a shield bringing them all back to the ground.
Twilight looks at the thing and says "ill tell you what we learned discord, we learned that friendship isn't always easy but there's no doubt that its worth fighting for" then the thing which is now identified as discord says "eh gag fine go ahead, try and use your little elements frienimies, just be quick (flashes to throne) im missing some excellent chaos here" twilight looks around and says "all right ladies lets show him what friendship can do".
"wait, wait, wait" we look over and see pinkie drinking what looks like chocolate milk from a cotton candy cloud, satisfied she joins the girls as twilight makes the area glow. The girls' necklaces start glowing and shooting stuff at discord wiping the smug look off his face putting a look of surprise on it instead, twilight's eyes begin to glow as a rainbow appears behind them shooting straight for discord it hits with him screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" turning to stone as the rainbow splits in two making everything right again. As everything was put the way it was everything goes black and I dream no more.
Out of nowhere I start hearing beeps I am not to familiar with, as I listen the beeps start annoying the shit out of me, finally having enough I open my eyes and squint at the sudden brightness but still look around for the annoying sound.
I look to my right and see a strange box with a zigzag line on it, as I reach to grab the thing somepony walked in "well looks like your finally awake I will go inform Mrs twilight that your awake". She left the room and soon twilight walked in with applejack who ran to me and gave me a crushing hug which hurt, "ok applejack don't squeeze him to death" said twilight as aj put me at arms length "drackus ah cant tell you how thankful I am that you saved mah sister" she hugged me again and planted a kiss on my cheek.
I blush at the affection which got a questioning glance from twilight so I try to play it off "your welcome aj, so how long was I out and when am I allowed to leave here, wherever here is" twilight looked confused and said "you've been out for about five hours and have you never been to a hospital before?" I look at her confused and said "is that anything like a clinic?" "oh that's right your from a world where the technology isn't advanced yet so yes it is like a clinic" she says in an understanding tone.
After a day or two I was finally allowed to leave the "hospital" I swear that place was almost as bad as hellena because of that thrice damned beeping box, as I exit the doors I breath in the fresh air and look at aj and twilight "well I don't know about you but I would really like to get to the tree house" I said as aj gave me a questioning look.
"well if its ok with twilight I have a guest room that you can stay in till yah git yer own place" she said and twilight nodded in agreement saying it was fine with her, so as we get to the tree house I pack what little belongings I have and follow aj back to her house.
When we get there I am tackled by her little sister who was both greeting me and thanking me for saving her, I look around and see an old pony with a green coat sitting in a chair with big mac standing next to her he also thanks me for saving his little sister and the elder pony gives me a nod and a wink which left me confused.
Aj takes me to the guest room and I unpack what I had and go back downstairs as the family is sitting down for dinner "since yer gonna be staying a while I figured its only right that you get a place at the table" before I sit I take the liberty of pulling out AJ's chair and motioning for her to sit, as she goes to sit I see a small blush appear but she quickly hid it and sat down I then walk over to my own chair and sit as we dig in not noticing the grins that big mac and the elder pony sported.
The rest of the night consisted of me meeting granny smith and hearing many embarrassing stories about her and big mac when they were younger and their parents, all in all it was a very productive day, as I make my way to my room aj stops me and says "i just want to thank you again for what you did for my family ah don't know how to repay you". I look at her with a smile and say "you don't have to repay me where I'm from its only natural for someone to help others in need" she smiles and out of nowhere kisses my cheek and walks off like nothing happened, I watch her walk away and cant help but notice a spring in her step, I shake it off and walk in my room and lay on the bed thinking about the days events until sleep final claims me.