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After a brief spat with Spike over a seemingly trivial matter Twilight decides that in order to learn more about dragons she should try to become one. With a simple spell she transforms her little pony self into a larger dragon and quickly realizes that she has no way to change back available to her....
I knew a story of this quality and calibre relating to this scenario was inevitable.
Thank you for writing it, I've been looking forward to a Twilight Dragon story since I stumbled upon Dragon Twilight images. I will say you've written this first chapter brilliantly and it was a joy to read. I look forward to seeing where you take this story. So once again thanks for writing this, can't wait to read more 
>>264600 That could be very funny, assuming it isn't blown into the realms of facehoofingly stupid, like big as the planet. But the author, Cosmo seems more than competent if not a Excellent writer. Myabe another one or two growth spurts, before the joke gets annoying and un-amusing.
Also Really looking forward to chapter 2. Dragon Twilight is best Po-I mean Dragon 
“Tricky Transformations…a terrific treatise on matter transformations by Starswirl the Bearded,”
I love how people never notice that the spell that made Starswirl famous was the mustache growing spell. I like how you took it in the direction of him specializing in transformation magic.
Also, I'm calling this now. The reason there is no counter-spell is because Starswirl never made one. He used it once and then lost his unicorn magic, thus taking away any chance for him to make one.
So I like the story so far and am looking forward to where you are going to be taking it.
One thing that is not clear to me is exactly how long into the future this is (since Spike is growing).
Also, I'm not a huge fan of the whole, 'Twilight didn't bother to do all of her research before casting a spell' trope. It really seems like Twilight is the type of pony to make sure there is a reversal spell before turning herself into something else. It would have been easy for you to have had the reversal spell ruined by water damage and rendered unreadable. However, I could see some plot reason for you doing it the way you did.
i dont give a damn what word of god says, twilight is the person who lives with him, and feeds him and he lives with her his WHOLE life, and im 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999% sure, that the show shows twilight as being the mother figure of spike
so yes, she is the mother figure of spike
Well in the show it seems like Spike spends a lot more time with Twilight than Celestia.
Though the time of him hatching from his egg to the present time in the show is unknown, you will probably be able to assume that Celestia did raise Spike for a few years and giving him to Twilight as an assistant. (The most notable example that this actually happened is the fact that Spike and Celestia are able to send mail to each other.)
Now considering that in the show it seems like Twilight is in her very early parts of marehood and also considering she seems to have a strong bond with Spike I can assume that Celestia gave Spike to Twilight quite early in her life.
This would mean that Spike would have been in Celestia's care for maybe roughly guessing 6-12 years again considering how she has a strong bond with Spike (A bond just doesnt happen in a short time ya know)
So I'm going to guess Spike was in the care of Celestia for a sizable portion of his life but as of now is mainly in the care of Twilight.
Also I really do not know how well dragons remember stuff especially in the early parts of his life. For all I know he could have only remembered the last 1 or 2 years of his life under Celestia care.
All in all I think Twilight and Spike has a very strong sister-brother relationship if not a motherly one.
Now that I have made this long comment I'm now going to say interesting story can't wait to see the rest of it. 
That can't be the only way they age, after all, when Spike had his greed-growth he was a raging, out-of-control monster, acting very different from the other two dragons that appeared in the show. Also, Spike couldn't speak properly after growing, but the other two can.
I liked this story before it was recommended.
I hate this. When there is a perfect story, there is nothing you can turn against it. Everything in this story was spot-on, from the characterisations to the grammar. Absolutely brilliant.
I just have a minor point, if a pony, especially a male, would make a spell, wouldn't it be logical if the age status inflicted by the spell would be relative to the age status of the original pony.
so
Adult Male/Female Pony ---> Adult Male/Female Dragon
Juvenile Male/Female Pony ---> Juvenile Male/Female Dragon
Baby Male/Female Pony ---> Baby Male/Female Dragon
and not the way you did it, all ponies in existence (except for the alicorns) would likely turn into baby dragons. I cannot see why a great wizard would design a spell that way.
Edit: When looking through a second time, I actually notice a good deal of grammatic failures, most notably a lack of punctuation.
Wait, In season one - Dragonshy, it's shown that Fluttershy has and EXTREME FEAR of dragons that aren't babies.
And this sentence --> ““Oh my…you um, weren’t pulling a prank this time,” said Fluttershy to Dash, looking embarrassed.
Doesn't that imply that RD told Fluttershy that 'there's this dragon at the library!' and asked Fluttershy to come with her to see it? At the mere mention of DRAGON shouldn't Fluttershy be cowering in fear or something? Why would she even agree to come with RD? And further on, we can see that Fluttershy isn't hesitant at all around the dragon even before she knew it was Twilight. Now that's just weird. 
Twilight dragon, pretty cool idea, but I couldn't make myself finish this.
>>266571 agree with 7.
[edit] okay, maybe FS somewhat got over her fear of dragons, a bit, but that was because her friends were in danger. FS thought it was a prank at first, hence she didn't even know that Twilight could somehow be in danger. Still, she's even afraid of the wind and everything, no way she can completely get over her fear of dragons anyway.
Wait, what? I guess the grammar wasn't perfect, but I loved the characterizations, aside from the now seemingly obvious (why didn't I see it) part that Fluttershy wasn't scared of the dragon.
And please, please tell me - why you are criticizing me, and not the author? If you do not think it is perfect, then spend some time helping her/him!
And saying "It's not that great" does in no way shape or form qualify as good criticism.
I agree with that on principle, since most of it makes rational sense. However, we have no way of knowing from this story whether or not this was originally an actual working spell (pretty sure Twilight could make it work, if no one told her it wouldn't work), or something experimental that never got tried. In that light, the reason for no counter spell could merely imply never having needed one. The existence of instructions could plausibly suggest your hypothesis, though. In either case, there is nothing that indicates that a counter spell is impossible, simply that one does not exist. I also find nothing here to prove that this spell prevents unicorn magic from working (especially since it's not clear if she's tried it), she still has a horn I'm assuming. In fact there are only a few facts beyond physical appearance to imply she's even a proper dragon, such as eating gems and snoring smoke, we don't even know if this is temporary and what might terminate it or even if it's a one way spell or one affected by magical energy to sustain it (Twilight has a lot of magic to fuel something like that, not including the element of magic).
Hope there's more to read soon.
I will say that this is a nice read.
(Dragonborn walks in)
"I am dragon slayer!"
(Twilight looks at Dragonborn)
Twilight: "Prove it"
Dragonborn: (Slowly backs away...) "I...I...well look at that oddly placed hole over there by the wall.I think I will just use that and be off now. Toodles" (Dashes off)
>>269747 
Woah. That would be like that ironic short story about the lady and man with the comb and pocketwatch: The Gift of The Magi
Excellent. Tracked.
I wonder if her growth is due to maturity or gender differences actually n not just due to the fact she owns 1000 times more stuff than Spike does. Technically the entire library is her horde.
Also... Can she still do magic?
The sun was high in the sky and she was using the wide sail like fin at the end of it to shade her friends
"it" should be "her tail"
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!
Missing quotation mark at beginning.
>>266709 Yes, it's totally obvious 
And we're here, reading or writing because we love MLP, right? How could we forget canon? We shouldn't let all the fanon become our only canon, remember the previous episodes - watch season 1 again since if we didn't recently, then our memories will fade of course. How come no one noticed? Simply because we forgot our roots and whatnot 
Fuck you, I had the same idea this morning as well. Expect it's a rabbit instead of a dragon.
How the hell do we have the same fucking idea at the same time? Only difference is that I haven't fucking wrote it yet because of damn work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqRxBtNrFs
Very nice story. I like how you approach this already-used concept with intelligent writing, and the part where Spike fainted was hilarious! The appetite and growth thing makes sense, and I think It is her 'hoard' of books is what made her grow. Still, I can't wait to read more!
I personally think Spike sees Twi as a mother figure, or at least a sibling. You know, I'll probably get fried for saying this, as it is a stupid idea... but I sometimes wish somepony would write a serious, intelligently written AU, NON-CLOP fic where Twilight Turned into a dragon, experienced the problems of being a dragon, developed a mother/ son relationship with spike, then stayed a dragon, and met a male dragon and had a brood of hatclings, with spike having to deal with being the adopted hatchling. It would be a mature story, but again NOT CLOP. 
I wish it would be written, but if wishes were fishes....
Anyway, can't wait to see where this one goes
>>266709 Of course "it's not that great" doesn't count as a thorough criticism. If I wanted to give a thorough and complete criticism, I'd have spent the half-hour scanning through it carefully and pointing out each individual mistake. But I didn't, because I've found that the ff.net crowd's standards of writing are rather low, and it's good enough as it is to be widely accepted on this site as an excellent example of fan-written literature.
In short, to be the only guy pointing out all the mistakes made on a fic everypony else seems to love would have made me feel like an asshole. So I said, "It's not that great" and left it at that.
As for why I'm criticizing you, that's simple. You stated that the grammar and characterizations were flawless, which taken at face value simply isn't true. Nothing personal.
Very very good... This one is pleased with this story, this one also approves of AnonyMouse criticizm, as it takes guts to be one voice that doesn't agree with the mass. Healthy criticizm is good and helpful tbh, other than that it's only natural for a story to have some flaws, as nothing in the universe is flawless (except Chuck Norris maybe and possibly peanut butter). For that AnonyMouse receives:
A random guy seal of approval!
And of course the Author receives:
A... toaster for some reason... Well... Toasters are cool so it's approved!
What is your excuse then? Afraid people will flame you? I think the author would much rather hear of someone that does not like it, and why - so the author can note or fix the mistakes, than to hear of someone like me who praise the story.
Instead of spending your time criticising me, you could have pointed out atleast some flaws, and made a image of yourself as a trustworthy critic, and proved me wrong, and all the others.
And as a sidepoint, some books are perfect for what they are - how could you critique a childrens book, for example?
From a distance, there was the sound of chanting. No one could make out the language, sounded like "naal ok zin los vahriin". Unrecognizable.
Then, the shadowy figure of a stallion started to come into view. It appeared to have horns on it's head, not a unicorn horn. The ones similar to a troll in a fantasy story.
The figure was infect a well renowned warrior. Wielding a magic sword [don't ask] and wearing a helmet. It was decorated with two horns from a mammoth, boosting the fighter's power.
The hero charged towards Twilight, waving his sword. It was obvious that he was prepared to fight.
"JOOR ZAH FRUL" shouted the warrior loudly.
It was clear now...the warrior...is the dragonborn.
I am sorry, couldn't resist.
I'd like to know how to turn an onion into an artichoke. I love artichokes.
I love how Pinkie Pie never once questioned that the big purple dragon might not be Twilight. She just knew it was her. That is so unrealistic...then again, this is Pinkie Pie I'm talking about, and Pinkie Pie is unrealistic.
My only criticism is that Fluttershy seems to comfortable around the dragonified Twilight. I'll give credit that you did have her keep her distance when she gave Twilight the book. But Fluttershy has a legitimate fear of dragons. Even if it's her friend, she should appear more uneasy around her. And when Rainbow Dash took Fluttershy to first see the dragon, even if you take into consideration that she overcame her fear, Fluttershy should've naturally felt uneasy. But she didn't appear to have any fear. She was just like "Oh, so it wasn't just a joke".
I'm curious to know what that tingling is and if she should be concerned about it. Is it a side affect of the spell, or is it a side affect of being a dragon?
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