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// Dragon meet Shy Pegasus 
// Story: Great power comes in Small packages 
// by Izalith 
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	'So tell me this again Mr. Yayalito how does one do that trick again? I am a bit troubled at the thought of what you had just done back in that tavern the other day.'

'Why Mr. Scarbrough, the trick to it is to have a really small scepter, a bottle of really strong ale and a really good sense of timing.'

'So that is how its done? I thought you just used a spell to create water and make it spew from your lips.'

'No, just a strong bottle of booze and a quick low grade fire spell to make one believe that you can breath fire. It works wonders on some of the wild beasts beyond the walls of Ul'Dah and the outlaying towns.'

'Huh, imagine that.'

'Yup! That is pretty much how it is but hey, its funny when you do it at a bar and when more than half the patrons are tanked.'

'That is true, but, for now my small friend I must be off, I need to head to the Copper Mines, we got a report that Bombs are returning in greater numbers and this time they have a few Imps in their number leading them.'

'Have they tried to attack Horizon yet?'

'They haven't tried yet but even if they tried to they wouldn't be able to get past the gate.'

'And why is that?'

'Because their numbers are dwindling fast due to a few of your brethren are making daily patrols out there.'

'I see....'

'Well then, I must be off, take care my friend.'

As my dream came to an end I let out a small stifled yawn before nuzzling the top of my sleeping partner's head and with a content sigh I hugged my partner a bit tighter and with a bit of a grumble the one I am hugging curls a bit into my grip before letting out a cute yawn as well. Feeling something wrapped around me I shifted around a bit trying to find out what it was but with a bit of a grumble and groan before feeling soft feathery brushes against my cheek and arm before stopping just beyond my sense of touch but it quickly returned when my head was then engulfed in warm fluffy goodness.

A week has passed since Trixie came in and pissed off Ponyville with her shoddy magic tricks and her two stupid worshippers that brought in a bear made of cosmic energy and magic into town and nearly wrecked the place, and if it wasn't for me distracting the bear long enough for Twilight to do her thing and get the bear out of here I would have feared that I would have to take drastic measures to keep these ponies safe from harm.

With a ray of sunlight to my eye I let out a low grown before slowly and gently opening my eyes before shutting them as I see the sun directly beaming its righteous fury down upon me in the form of sunlight.

Groaning a bit louder I shuffled a bit in my bed before hugging whoever is in front of me a bit tighter and pulled them in, the warmth coming out of his person is high and is a bit uncomfortable but I ignore it for now, just feeling their body being pressed against mine is enough to let a sigh of deep content out as I slowly drifted back to sleep.

My eyes snap open as I just realized that I went to bed alone and now have the feeling of two people sleeping in the same bed with me and with a look down I saw the green frills of a certain purple dragoness snuggling into my arms and without even needing to look behind myself I see the white feathers of a certain griffoness surrounding my head and with a bit of a shuffle backwards I can hear her heart beating and although it is quiet I heard the tall tell sound of purring.

'Oh dear Nald'Thal what did I get myself into this time?'

And before I could continue to question the situation I am in the sun's light disappears behind a cloud in which I am thankful for as I steadily went back to sleep even though I have Gilda acting like the big spoon with me being the little one and I was being the big spoon to Barb. Now that I think about it this is just one big cuddle bundle and a sandwich...a...a sandwich that I just realized that I am the guy between two girls.

'Why is Gilda sleeping in my bed? I thought she was going to use the sofa last night like she told me she would? I can understand Barb sleeping with me because she has a damn crush on me but this is just plain ridiculous.'

Rolling my eyes under their lids I just go back to trying to fall asleep and just as the lull of the dream land start to play its lovely music to guide me back, the sun decides to break through the cloud cover and fire its non-lethal beams right at my face.

'Oh god why are you messing with me! I need to sleep!'

Just before I could get up and close those curtains the sunlight goes away again but this time my eye sees something that is causing the disturbance of my sleep.

Dark clouds, rolling, pitch black, clouds.

'Is it supposed to rain today? I thought Rainbow Dash said that this entire week is supposed to be clear and sunny? What the hell is this then?'

Before I could guess as to why Rainbow Dash changed the weather for this week I felt Gilda press herself harder against me and I felt her hindlegs wrap themselves around my waist as her arms wrap almost around my neck and at that point I know that I had made a fatal error in letting her stay with us to redeem herself to Ponyville.

Thinking that what Gilda is about to do to me is going to be messy I steadily move my hand to one of her weakpoints and before I could press down hard on it the door to my room slams open to reveal a deeply concerned looking Twilight Sparkle.

"Tatalito! Barb! Come quick!" she shouted which not only woke up a sleeping Barb who let out a girlish squeal of terror before leaping out of the bed and as for Gilda well...you know what they say about scaring cats when they are asleep.

As Gilda fell backwards I felt her talons stab into my skin and I yelped in pain as her body squeezed down hard and we both fell backwards off the bed and into a pile of feathers, fur and skin.

"Damn it Gilda that hurts! Let me go!" I shouted as I thrashed in the griffon's arms and as I tried to wiggle out from her grasp she took the hint and let me go as she growls a bit at Twilight for disturbing her sleep.

Grumbling a bit I moved around my room picking up my mage's uniform I started to put everything on and as soon as my pointy cap graced my head I let out a huff of annoyance that my day off from doing anything in general was cut short because some purple unicorn barged in and said 'Come Quick'.

Taking my staff from the hook on the wall I gave it a brief twirl before walking up to the purple unicorn and as soon I was leveled with her back I saw her horn begin to glow and we immediately are sent down stairs where Twilight and all of her friends are waiting for us. As they started to talk about what it could be I look out the window and followed the smoke trail and from here I think it is coming from a forest fire.

"So Twilight...do we know what is the cause of that long ass smoke cloud that is floating on outside?" I said as I walked over to Rainbow Dash and raised my fist at her and she in returned raised a hoof and we bumped them together, our friendship at first was rocky but because of what I did when Trixie was here she saw me in a different light and she thought what I did was cool and seeing how Gilda is staying with me for the moment we all started to hang out, on occasion I had to create a blob of water to catch either of the two when their stunts go wrong. Dash just shakes herself off and she looks fine when she drip dries but Gilda, her fur and feathers puff up like a sponge and it is hilarious, for like a second before I get tackled to the ground and sat on until I apologize for laughing at her.

"According to Princess Celestia he is taking a nap, his snoring is what's causing all this smoke." Twilight says as I start to question how big of a dragon this is because for something to make a smoke cloud that large means that not only are we dealing with an adult dragon, but we are dealing with a really large and more then likely old adult dragon.

"What are we meant to do about it?"

"Give him the boot!" Rainbow Dash said as she hovered above Twilight before kicking the pony head statue and the egghead caught it in her magic field before quickly levitating it up as the rainbow pegasus flies underneath it and crashes into a bookcase.

"We need to encourage him to take a nap somewhere else. Princess Celestia has given us this mission and we must not fail. If we do then Equestria will be covered in smoke for the next one hundred years." oh snap, I knew that dragons hibernate for a couple decades but a hundred years of smoke overcast, yea I am not going to be staying in a place that will be having failing crops and constant winter weather.

"Come back here in one hour." and with that they all went their separate ways to gather what they need and as the flew off I went outside and placed two fingers into my mouth before letting out a sharp and loud whistle, and just after a minute I saw a yellow blur in the distance kicking up a dust cloud and as it got closer I saw that it was Dizzy heading this way.

As soon as my chocobo stopped in front of the Golden Oak he immediately sat down and waited for me to get on but when I told him I need to get a few things before we go on a journey to where the dragon is sleeping I had to bring the important things on this trip.

Running back upstairs I see that Barb has already left my room and is now somewhere else, probably helping Twilight pack her things for this quest, and as for Gilda she went back to sleep and I had to be a bit extra quiet as to not disturb the lioness and avoid getting clawed. Grabbing my satchel and placing it on myself I moved over to my standard and rolled it up along with a goodbye pat on the head to Gilda which she batted my hand away with her tail, seemingly conscious enough to do that but not awake enough to tell me to stop being a dweeb.

Coming back outside I placed the standard into its holder and with a leap onto my mighty bird steed we were off, running to the horizon only to stop when we spot Twilight and all of her friends waiting for me, and of course Rarity had to look nice for the occasion with a stylish hat and Fluttershy is sadly, shaking in place while making herself as small as possible, which is why I am standing beside her on my feathered friend to hopefully give her some courage to take this challenge head on.

As soon as Twilight started to inform the rest of the gang on what is going down I turned to source of the smoke cloud, wondering how long this will take and what is our course of action besides giving it a talk to move somewhere else when it fails.

"-get up the mountain by nightfall." I heard a small snippet of what my landlord said as the yellow pegasus quivers at that one word before she says it herself. I don't know how she managed to help defeat Nightmare Moon but even a Carbuncle could easily defeat her with just a cute stare.

"The dragon is in that cave at the very top." and with that Applejack and Rainbow Dash started to talk and then Rarity joined in by pulling out a pink scarf and putting it on, I couldn't help but snicker that a single scarf will help keep her warm and cozy.

At that everyone started to do their own thing, the girls were busy talking about what they are expecting what would happen and how much fun this might be, while Fluttershy tried to talk to Twilight about staying behind but that idea was immediately shot down when she said that Barb could easily take care of the her little critters. I thought it was funny that Twilight was going to let a small dragon tend to the wildlife that is Fluttershy's pets and expect everything to go well cause as soon as our fearless leader turned around and went back to map reading, a white rabbit leapt onto Barb's head and started to stomp before jumping off and scurrying away.

I thought it was hilarious to see a dragon scamper after the birds and mice to get them back in line.

"Alright girls, move out!" and just like that they all started to gallop towards the mountain with a screaming Fluttershy in tow, and as for me I climbed up onto Dizzy and like every other adventurer out there my chocobo reared back but as he did so I fell backwards and landed on my ass as he sped off after my equine friends.

To say I was not amused would be an understatement of the century.


Tall Mountain


"Whoa what was that?" I heard Rainbow Dash as I went over yet another hill, running after my own chocobo is embarrassing to say the least, especially when it runs off without you.

"That is what it sounds like when a dragon snores." Twilight said as I finally reach them, I am huffing and puffing, already out of breath and yet we still have a mountain to climb by nightfall, which leaves me with no breaks.

Finally reaching Dizzy I tapped his leg and when he realized that I am on the ground he makes a chirp like noise as a means to apologize but I just conk the birdbrain on the head with my staff before climbing up and strapping myself in to ensure I don't fall off again.

I am just going to say that going up the mountain wasn't much of a problem, it was trying to get Fluttershy to go up the mountain that was a problem. She kept freezing up or running back to cower behind one of the girls but what was the worst part was whenever the dragon snored she just faints and locks up. I swear if we have to keep stopping and going cause of one pony then I am just going to up to the top myself.

But sadly we all had to stick together and that means waiting for the buttercream pegasus to reach us so I sat beside Rarity and Pinkie Pie as they started to play tic-tac-toe and after the first twenty victories by the pink mare it got boring as hell and I ended up falling asleep on top of a rock.

'What did I do in my past life to deserve this kind of torture?'

Well whatever it was I sure as hell don't deserve this kind of hell but in the end it doesn't matter because the shy yellow pony just now arrived with my apple farming friend finally showed up and with that we were off yet again but this time I get myself secure away on Dizzy and once we finally got ourselves together we started to follow the only trail up the mountain.

As it turns out walking on a trail going up a craggily looking mountain isn't so bad, sure there is no wildlife to look at or is the mountain itself a pretty sight but hey, the view from up here is amazing, almost as good as an airship but still pretty damn good. Pulling out a small spyglass I turned to face the edge of the cliff and looked through it to spot Ponyville off in the distance to see a couple of ponies going about their day with a few on occasion pointing at the smoke trail or at the mountain we are on.

Putting away the spyglass I turn back and keep following after my pony friends, my eyes occasionally staring at Fluttershy who keeps flinching and stiffening up at the sound of a snore or earth movement and at one point there was a small gap in the path that requires one to jump across, I just climbed onto Pinkie's back and let her jump across, but I stayed on and failed to realize that she would be jumping back and forth that results in me feeling motion sickness and slowly starting to turn green.

I don't have a problem with flying or riding a mount but going by boat...yeah nope.

Once she landed on the side with the other girls I jumped off the bouncing pink mare and landed face first into the mountainside before peeling myself off the side and stood up to see a scared Fluttershy shaking beside Pinkie Pie.

Pulling myself off the dirty ground I dusted myself off and looked around to see that were only half way up the colossal mountain, I breathed out a sigh of relief because our task is almost complete.

"We will camp here for tonight." Twilight Sparkle said and once those words were uttered everyone started to set up camp, Rarity and Applejack were setting up the tent, Rainbow Dash the campfire, Pinkie was holding Twilight's map while Twilight was looking at the map trying to find us a route to the dragon, and as for Fluttershy, still scared stiff on the floor.

Once everybody else was busy doing their own thing I went to Dizzy and took off his saddle and allowed him to relax which he did by falling over and started to sleep in a lazy manner. As for myself I got started on setting up my own tent which is small enough for one person, me, and it would only fit things so in all it was the perfect tent.

"What a wonderful day to camp, the sun is out, the grass is green, the birds are chirping and a dragon is snoring loud enough to make a Primal grind their teeth in annoyance, can't this get any better!"

And sadly, it can't.

"Hey! Tata! Get over here real quick, we need your help with something." I heard Rainbow Dash shout at me and when I lifted my head out from the opening of my barely-put-together-tent I saw that she was having trouble start the camp fire. I don't know about these ponies but magic can easily make this job an easy task.

"Dash, scoot over, I am going to light the campfire."

"Whoa, I don't need help with that, I was gonna ask if you could help Rarity and Applejack, those two seem to be at it again."

"At it again? What do you mean?"

"Oh you know, Rarity tries to make Applejack all pretty and beautiful because she thinks that she has natural beauty while Applejack says no and tries to fight her off. It's like their typical tuesday night."

"Typical? They do this all the time?"

"Yup, whenever Rarity manages to trick her into coming over."

"Huh, remind me to never fall for her tricks, I think I can live without any makeup or frilly clothes being forceibly placed on me. I already fell for that trick before and I am not going to fall for it now."

"So what is that you wanted me to help them with?"

"Oh I just wanted you to break them up, can't be stuck out in the cold at night up here, us pegasi can endure the biting cold winds and temperature but everypony else can't, even you I think."

"I highly doubt its going to get that cold up here."

And just as soon as I said that a cold gust of wind blows by and it chilled me, this isn't the typical mountain breeze that will give you goose bumps, no this is the kind of breeze that makes you ask for a thick wool coat to not freeze to death.

"On second thought I better go bundle up before it gets too cold." I mumbled as I hurriedly ran to my satchel that was in my partially put-up tent and put on my store-bought heavy coat that I got from a village in the snowy mountains of Eorzea.

Usually I would only wear my Immortal Flames uniform, my Black Mage robes and hat, or even my day-off vest and shorts, but on this day and two weeks on the snowy mountain that is full of dragons, I am allowed to wear a thick coat that not only looks silly on me, but I had to shorten the sleeves, pant leggings and the coat itself to fit me.

The store didn't sell Lalafell-sized winter coats.

After putting on my coat I grabbed my large hat and before I had a chance to put it on I heard Rainbow Dash snickering behind me.

"Looking good there little guy hahaha."

"Do you want me to freeze your wings?"

"I like to see you try." and with that being said Rainbow Dash turned around before slowly taking off into the air.

Before she even got two fulms (feet) off the ground I cast a weak Blizzard on her wings and watched as her feathers locked up and hardened before the pegasus dropped to the ground with a thud.

"What the buck! Pipsqueak what did you just do!" Dash shouted as she tried to move her wings but they refused to budge an Ilm (Inch) in any direction. I simply smiled smugly at her before returning to my tent work.

"Well Rainbow Dash you did say that you would like to see me try, so I did although you didn't see it." I said over my shoulder as I inserted the tent pole through the loop before planting the other end of the pole into the peg, nailing the other end into the rock with a small hammer to keep it from flying away in the event of a powerful gust of wind comes by tonight.

"I didn't mean right now! Unfreeze them!" the rainbow pegasus yelled at me as I dusted my hands off and looked proudly at my handiwork.

"No, you should respect me more, if it wasn't for me you, your five friends, and possibly this entire world would be dead due to poor planning and a never ending night that would freeze this planet over." I stated as I finished putting my tent up, although I thought it was meant for one Lalafell it was actually meant for two ponies, I think I left my private tent back in my botany room and instead somehow snagged this pony tent...I was wondering why my tent seemed to be larger then it was meant to be.

"Well I-"

"Rainbow Dash, are you arguing with Tatalito again."

"No! I was just trying to get him to unfreeze my wings!"

"Tatalito can you please refrain from freezing my friend's wings solid."

"I can refrain myself from doing such a thing, but your friend must learn to respect those that are their elder."

"Pfft please, you are not older then me, heck you are younger then me by several years! Your just a colt!" Rainbow Dash shouted for all to hear, and in that moment I told my calm, peaceful demeanor to go screw itself because this mare is now in session and is about to learn a harsh lesson.

Grabbing my staff and slamming it into the ground I immediately cast a high powered but non-lethal Blizzaga at the rainbow maned pegasus, covering her entire body save for her face and ears. An entire spire of ice entombed Rainbow Dash from the back of her head to the tip of her tail, the sounds of five other ponies gasping in shock and of course there was a reason why for that. I had Rainbow Dash in an ice prison, forcing her to hear what I have to say.

Standing there beside Rainbow Dash was me, the magic within me flaring up to its highest point just below my breaking point, my usual mana color for ice-based magic has been replaced with a black and purple electrical cloud forming around me. The sheer amount of magic coursing through me is enough to create a synthesized gust of wind blowing my clothes back to give it a more dramatic pose.

"You will listen to me you piece of Malboro shit, you will not insult me, you will not prank me, you will call me by my proper name and my title if I ask for it. I am twenty-two years old, my people may be small and look like we are children but that is because that is the way we are, do not insult my race just because of our size. Do not dare even insult ME, you are not my friend and the only reason why I am not leaving you permanently frozen is because you are a friend of Twilight Sparkle, to me you are nothing more than an acquaintance so you are barely protected from my anger. I am an officer of the Immortal Flames, I am a practitioner of elemental magic and the dark arts and I am the only person here with enough backbone to tell a goddess to shove that horn where the sun never shines." I screamed out at Rainbow Dash, my one eye that all of them can see is bloodshot and is shaking, my voice cracking ever so slightly as I yelled louder then normal and my body shaking almost like a leaf in the wind. My left eye that is covered with the eye-patch is glowing a faint, unearthly purple color but for the most part can be easily mistaken for just a trick of the light.

"Do not my patience, you will fail." I firmly stated before slamming my staff into the ice prison, shattering it while releasing Dash from its confines before moving back and away from everyone.

As soon as Rainbow Dash hits the floor her friends come rushing to her, seeing if she is okay while I walk off and away from them to go clear my head.

I really hate being called short, doesn't matter who says it, a fell Lalafell,Hyur, Elezen, Miqo'te or Roegadyn or even the spirits that are within this world, I HATE being called short. I also hate being insulted or called weak or even someone insulting my people or the great city-nation of Ul'Dah, but for those that insult my family, or crudely remark my dead fiends and those that do will know pain unending.

Walking away from the gang of mares I walked to the edge of the mountain side and sat down with my staff right in front of me, the head of the staff was still chilled and coated with a layer of frost.

Letting out a sigh I cross my legs I place my staff out before me, letting it rest on my lap as I started to silently chant to Nald'Thal, hoping that he hears my chant and offers me some sound advice, that and a means to return home.

"Um Tatalito....can I speak with you for a moment....if you wouldn't mind." a shy, timid voice said from behind me, I only needed to hear this voice to know exactly that it is Fluttershy.

Without even needing to turn around I waved her over before resuming my quiet chanting.

"I-I don't mean t-to be a bother but...why did you do that to Rainbow Dash? I-I heard that she angered you but did you r-really have to do that? Couldn't you have j-just tell her to stop?"

Turning my head slowly until she could see only the side of my face with the eye-patch and she was immediately silenced as I stood up and slowly began to walk to her, and standing behind the timid and scared butter yellow pegasus mare are the rest of the girls with a cold, shivering cyan pegasus mare who is glaring at me.

"She needed to learn that insulting other people can always come back to bite you in the ass, just because you are a national hero for defeating a fallen moon goddesses with the assistance from someone that was pulled in from a different dimension against his will, doesn't give you the right to start talking down to someone else."I said as I kept my eye on Fluttershy, my temper slowly started to die down.

"I know she didn't mean to-" Fluttershy started to speak to me but I cut her off by talking.

"It's Rainbow Dash, she doesn't mean to do anything because she always acts before thinking, if she used her brain more often than just running that mouth of hers then there would be less crashing and more getting work done. If she actually ever thinks before acting then I wouldn't have to freeze her" my biting words making the timid pegasus lower a bit but she stayed standing up.

"I know that she is very sorry for-" I cut Fluttershy off again, continuing on with my rant.

"I won't accept her apology on your behalf, she has to say it herself and she has to truly mean it. I know I told you all and the rest of Ponyville that I hate being called short, you should have taken this to heart when you saw a few times of the mares and stallions that I have used my weak non-lethal spells on." I stated as I look over to Rainbow Dash who is still glaring at me but it weakened a bit, either from the fact that what I am saying is the truth or that she is really considering that apology.

"Well can you-" I cut her off one last time with the wave of my staff near her muzzle.

"I will still help you girls deal with the dragon but I will not talk to Rainbow Dash until she either apologizes or until I grow bored with this punishment. Good day, Fluttershy." and with those words done I walk past Fluttershy and then the rest of the girls before heading into my tent and waiting for nightfall before actually falling asleep.


Morning


"Come on girls, we are almost there!" Twilight shouted as we resumed our climb up the mountain after we took down camp, put water on the still smoldering embers of the campfire and went on our way.

I was still not talking or even looking at Rainbow Dash, I was still mad at her and she knew it because I gave her a private talk this morning. She doesn't talk to me and I don't talk to her and I just might forgive her for the offhanded insult.

"Twilight, do we know how big this dragon even is?"

"Not really Tatalito, seeing how its creating enough smoke to cover the sky I can safely say that this dragon is a few thousand years old or just barely entering its thousandth year."

"So its pretty big."

"Yes."

"Perfect...a giant dragon...I doubt it will be easy to remove from its slumbering cave."

"Have faith in us Tatalito, Princess Celestia has entrusted us to remove this dragon and so we must!"

Rolling my eye I keep on holding onto Dizzy's neck hoping that the worst of the cold weather is over but sadly it only keeps getting worse as we go up, I now envy these ponies for if I had a warm coat of fur I wouldn't be freezing my ass off here.

I don't know how long it took us to get all the way up to the top but we did it, even though it is very cold up here and that I now need to keep breathing hot air into my hands just to feel them, the gloves are starting to get frosty.

"We finally made it to the top! Now to get that dragon to move out of here!" Twilight proclaimed just as we reached the last lip of the mountain, the seven of us cresting over the top and finally onto the landing of the mountain.

"Finally, I think my butt is frozen solid....going to need a roaring fire to warm myself up after this." I grumbled out, rubbing my arms with my hands to transfer some heat into them.

"Want some hot cocoa with that?" Rainbow Dash snickered underneath her breath, hoping that it was loud enough only for her friends to hear but I was listening in and I was not pleased with her, not one bit.

"I am going to haunt your dreams Rainbow Dash, sleep lightly tonight." I growled out, I am starting to regret that I didn't haunt her dreams last night just to teach her a lesson.

I heard a quiet meep from behind me and I knew that it was the cyan mare, hoping that nipped her underhanded talk in the bud I turned my attention to the colossal dragon sleeping and snoring in the cave in front of us.

"Wow...that is one big dragon...are you sure this is the right dragon?" I said as I looked at the dragon, I know that I have enough magic to probably kill this dragon but I highly doubt that I would have enough time, distance and skill to pull it off without dying in the process.

Looking the dragon over I can safely say that this will not end well if we anger him while he is sleeping, that is one thing everyone of Eorzea has been taught as a youngling, never, ever, wake up a sleeping dragon.

"So Royal Pupil of the Sun Goddess, how do we remove such a fine beast of the sky and earth from its home?"

"We will wake him up and ask him to leave!" Twilight said with a smile on her face, thinking that plan will work without fail.

I promptly turned around, went away from the mouth of the cave and hid behind a rock beside Dizzy.

"Tell me how it works!" I almost shouted just as I duck behind the rock waiting to hear the sounds of screaming mares running for their lives.

I didn't have to wait long for that, as I hid behind the rock with my staff in my hands and my list of arcane and thaumaturgy spells at the ready as the head of my staff starts to crackle with mana. As soon as I heard Twilight start to talk to the sleeping dragon I heard a loud snort followed by ponies being blown all the way out of the cave and land right beside my hiding rock.

Peeking around the side I looked down to see the six mares all in a pile of waving limbs and shouting mouths, I find it funny that the plan of talking a dragon into leaving peacefully would not work, especially when the dragon is about to enter its hibernation sleep.

"How's it going down there?" I said with a smug smirk with my arms crossed, the six mares managed to untangle themselves from each other before dusting themselves off while Twilight gives me the stink eye.

"Oh hush it, we can still do this." Twilight hissed at me as I shrugged and went back to hiding behind the rock.

Giving her the go ahead I went back to hiding behind the rock and soon enough they get tossed back out but instead of landing in a heap they are galloping for their lives with the exception of Fluttershy who flew as fast as she can to the rock I am hiding behind and hides with me. Rainbow Dash on the other hand is staying besides her friends but its for the protection of the spells that Twilight offers.

"Well I guess its my turn."

Walking around the giant rock I look up to see an enraged adult dragon as it comes thundering out of the cave with murderous intent in its eyes. I almost brown my trousers in fear.

Gathering my courage and mustering enough stupid bravery to do the task at hand I look up at the dragon and raise my hand to stop the dragon's advance, hoping that it doesn't step on me. It turns out that it did see me because it stopped in its tracks and looked down at me, lowering its head before allowing me to speak.

"Hail dragon!" I shouted at the top of my lungs as I slammed my staff down into the ground, to the untrained eye or those that are not hyper-sensitive to magic then they would not notice the fact that I am already weaving magic into the stonework around the dragon.

"Small folk, why do you dare stop me from chasing down those insufferable ponies for daring to awaken me from my slumber." the dragon rumbled out his worlds, I found out it was male not because of its plumming down below, it was simply its voice when it spoke that did the trick. The dragon stopped moving and looked down at me as he spoke, I knew my plan is on the verge of failure simply because of his size alone.

"Because my dear friend that those same insufferable mares were just trying to get you to relocate to another mountain to have your hibernating slumber away from pony held lands to prevent an ecological disaster on a colossal scale." I said as I kept on weaving Blizzaga runes all over the cave, every single one of them pointing at the dragon, all primed and ready to go as soon as they are placed. All over the floor and walls are barely seen glittery runes, the dragon could possibly see it but so far he hasn't shown any sign of knowing that there are runes all over the floor.

"And why should I care about the lives of these bothersome ponies? They are small and numerous, they will simply breed back the numbers they have lost over a few decades." the dragon rumbled back at me, I can see his eyes slowly glaring right at me before going to the ponies.

"My dear foolish dragon friend, if you do not move your smoke will cause the crops for miles to fail, ponies to starve then die, and the sun and moon monarch will not be pleased with the lives of their precious ponies being cut short because of your lack of empathy for others, and they will surely remove you by force if you do not heed to their wishes." I shouted back, my mana weaving is so far working, he hasn't detected it yet.

"Bah! Those stuck up, pompous pony princesses do not have the stones or the power to remove me from my new home, and I highly doubt that you have any power at all to stop me either, so what are you going to do about it, tiny beast?" the male dragon said before lowering a claw near me.

"If you do not take the diplomatic route of accepting Princess Celestia's request to move away from here then I will be required to use force against you." I stated with blinking an eye.

"I will sleep where I please! There is nothing that you nor your precious pony princesses can do to stop me." and with that said he used that claw that was near me and in one motion flicked me out the cave and off the cliff side.

'Well...this didn't go well.'

As I fell off the side of the mountain, I saw the big blue sky slowly get further and further away, the rushing of the wind blowing by me as I watched birds fly by and clouds slowly roll around, its such a beautiful view, its too bad that its the last I will ever see ever again.

'Nald'Thal, I am ready for death.'

I watched as I fell further down the mountain the ground turning from its soft grey rubble and dirt to its more signature brown color and before I could even feel for the last time, something rams into my body sharply, changing the direction of my fall before making me go from looking at the sky to looking at a rainbow mane and cyan fur.

"Easy there small fry, I gotcha." the same snarky, nasally voice that I had told off not even a day ago spoke up and I knew exactly who it was.

Turning my attention from the rainbow mare to the mountain I watched as we rapidly approached the summit and as soon as we landed the dragon was still there but was taking swipes or breathing fire on my friends.

"Girls! We got to get out of here and tell Princess Celestia!"

"No, you won't have to."" I said from behind the five of them before rearing my left hand back, a powder blue of mana glowing within its core before I slammed it down, my staff still in the rock beside the dragon's foot reacts exactly as the way I have wanted it too.

All of the ice runes within the cave go off at the exact same time, rapidly exploding into a barrage of crystalline ice, the same thing that happened to Rainbow Dash just happened to this dragon, but only temporarily, this type of trap is using too much of my mana supply just to keep it going let alone keep its strength up.

"You! How dare you hurt my friends like that! You could have seriously injured somepony!"

"I got flicked off a fucking mountain! How is that not seriously inj-" I almost shouted before getting muffled by Twilight and Pinkie Pie, obviously they didn't want me to ruin whatever it is that Fluttershy is doing.

"You should be ashamed of yours, abusing your power and height to get what you want, don't you know that your smoke is dangerous to everypony that isn't a dragon and you are just not caring about them."

"But I-"

"Now you apologize to Tatalito right now for flicking him with your claw and think about what you have done."

"I....I....I'm sorry."

"For?"

"I am sorry for flicking you off the mountain."

"I am going to mur-"

"Apology accepted! Now go think about what you did." and as soon as Fluttershy said that was the exact same moment that my mana started to run out and to prevent myself from passing out from over-using my mana pool I stopped channeling everything I had into the multiple spells and at once all of the ice shattered like fragile glass sending ice shards everywhere, allowing the dragon to sniffle back a few tears before leaving the cave and flying off the summit and away from us.

At this point I was just fuming, I was trying to get two words in edgewise but sadly these ponies prevented me from doing so and as soon as the dragon is gone and out of earshot did they allow me to finally speak up.

"What the heck was all of that about! It was an adult dragon! Probably older then both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna and you expected it to actually listen to her demands! If this mission actually went south I would have ended up as a flattened bloody pancake on the floor and the rest of you would have been eaten! Do any of you have any idea how hard it is for me to not want to conk you all on the head for how stupid this idea was! I almost died back there while the rest of you were up here screaming your heads off! I swear its almost like Celestia is just watching this happen from afar with a telescope laughing at us!" before I could go off any further on my rant we were already down the mountain were quickly approaching Ponyville on foot, I walked the entire way to Ponyville instead of riding on top of Dizzy's back.

"Tatalito, I think you should just give up on your little rant, just believe in whatever Princess Celestia has to say and believe in her actions, trust me, she would never steer us wrong."

Sighing angerily I pinch the bridge of my nose before leaving the house and walked all the way to the only bar this town has to offer, traded in four gil for a large glass filled with hard cider and drank my troubles away.

'I swear this ponies are driving me to drink.'