A Scaled Flame: Return Of The Legend

by Opius Malikai

Chapter Two:Scroll Searching and The Idiot Guards

I was lost. After wandering throughout the hallways for at least an hour I had come to that conclusion. I hadn't seen many servants or maids strangely though. They must all currently be celebrating their new Princess. The castle was very different to the last one I had seen. The halls seemed more elegant, they had a more open feeling to them. Walking through the halls while not looking suspicious is hard when wearing a cloak. My scales didn't help either. Making it look like lumps were along my arms.

After walking for a while more I saw a maid cleaning the hall. She had light cerulean blue fur and was wearing that french maid costume you always see. The fabric looked flawless, meaning a unicorn had sewn it. I should explain. The ponies in this land are made up of three races. The unicorns, the pegasi, and the earth ponies. Unicorns are ponies with horns and are able to do various spells. Pegasi are ponies with wings and are able to fly. Earth ponies are just regular ponies but are built with stronger bones and a connection to the ground. Pegasi are very light in comparison to earth ponies. Her green eyes had a sparkle in them. I started to read her aura and saw what the sparkle meant, she was ambitious. She took pride in her job though. It had a special place in her heart. A beings aura is separated in their body. One part of it is in their heart, this is the bigger piece. The other part is in the mind and is much smaller in comparison.

So what lies in a being's heart is able to affect their aura. Which means an aura greatly represents their heart and their beliefs. An aura is an easy way to tell if someone has good or bad intentions. It was at that moment that I had realized I had been staring at her this whole time...while she was bent over. Before she could say something I put into her aura the motion to fall asleep. When she had fallen asleep I used her pride of her job to get a map of the castle. When I had my path set out I laid her down as if she had passed out during the job.

My main mission was to now see Celestial. However I realized to even stand a chance against her I would need my other powers. I was still able to call on my sword but I would need a specific scroll for my other powers though. So I started to head towards the room they kept their "Special Artifacts" in. It was in the library which wouldn't be difficult to get to. It took another few minutes of going through hall after hall when I finally came onto the library.

I could only think of one word to describe the library: MASSIVE! It looked like every single book that existed was in this library. The walls were lined with shelves which had thousands of books. There wasn't a second floor so the shelves went up to the ceiling. It also looked like the archives room, which hopefully kept my scroll, was hidden behind a wall. If I knew this world it would have to take pulling one of those books to open the secret door. Which means that this would take a lot of trial and error of pulling books to uncover the secret door. It's a good thing nobody was around. Because this is gonna take a while.

Celestia(3rd Person)

Everything was going perfectly. They were still setting up the room for the official coronation but Celestia knew nothing could go wrong. Well she thought that. The thought was diminished when she saw that Discord was pacing. Never a good sign. It either meant he was frustrated or something wrong was going to happen.

Celestia walked up to Discord planning to say something when Discord beat her to the punch. "I can't remember." He said.
Celestia ruler of Equestria the most powerful being on the being in the world(in her subjects eyes) could only say one thing,"What?"
"I had done something a long time ago that had to deal with a fourth princess...but I forgot."
"Maybe, it was just a bet with somepony who isn't around anymore."
"Yes that's probably it...probably."

Meanwhile

How was our hero...horrible. I was ready to burn down this whole library and every book inside it. There was 278,279,280 and counting books on the floor(I had gotten pretty good at counting while stuck in stone) and none of them had worked. It was getting to the point of being frustrating where I was about to go insane. Again. I decided it would be a good idea to take a break. So I decided to look around the place. I was on the right side of the library(if you looked fro m the door) with a huge pile of books around me. There were two desks with chairs pushed in next to me. I decided to sit at a desk to collect my thoughts.

When I pulled out the chair a sound like gears turning was heard and the shelf with little to none books left slid down into the floor. I was torn between crying out in joy or crying out in anger. I settled with going into the archive to retrieve the scroll I would need. When I stepped in the first thing I noticed was the lack of artifacts. Many of the shelves were empty as if someone got rid of them. I then noticed that their were scorch marks on the walls. It took me a minute to realize that someone must have broken in and burned some artifacts. I hurried through the artifacts looking for my scroll.

When I got to the end of the hall I saw sitting on a table was one scroll. Walking up to it I took the scroll in my hands and read the title. Mastering the art of Thu'um. It was definitely mine. For the scroll to work all I had to do was open it up and i'd be granted the power. When I opened up the scroll I felt winds whipping around me. It felt like snakes were coiled around my stomach. My throat felt stronger, however that could happen and I heard a deep voice from the scroll speak to me,"Vrii Yolos, hi lost kosaan ofan zin wah zaan med dovah nuft daar wisely." I had gained my first ability again. I wouldn't be much more powerful as Celestia without some more practice with shouting but I would be able to defeat her.

I began my journey now to the throne room. Thinking of strategies and ways to defeat her. Her magic wouldn't work on me because of the magic resistance dragon's had. So she would be forced to attack with her sword. Which judging by the lack of security, she hadn't used it in a while. Before she would be able to attack I would use my Thu'um, assuming she has her sword. It will be too easy without her sister interfering.

As if the universe hates me it put a huge wrench in my plans. Because around the corner came Princess Luna herself. "Hello." she said while giving a quick nod to me. So it looks like they're actually speaking to their "Peasents" as they called them. I nodded back and she continued walking. It's a good thing I had this hood or otherwise I would have had to deal with an unexpected battle. Now if I was much younger I would have given her a salute to mess with her head but I had matured much since then. So when her back was to me I flipped her off.

I finally came up to the door to the throne room, and(lucky me) there were three guards there. I couldn't just walk in or they'd question me. But if I attacked they would probably send one in to warn their princess. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place I would have to form a ver-"Hi sir." One of them interrupted my thoughts,"Are you here for the coronation. The one who had spoken had orange fur with a blue mane. He wore gold armor that must have been for show. "Yes." my roughened voice responded with. I could see concern flash in his aura before it was returned to normal."Alright then go right on in!" he cheerfully responded with. I wanted to facepalm so much right now.

The guards stepped aside to let me open the door. I walked up to it and and opened the door where I could see the cold blooded killer standing near the throne.

Author's Note:

Took longer than I would have liked. Hopefully it'll be backstory time next chapter. Also 32 favourites!!

Comments

[val]

my only feelings

[Moongaze14]

I like the chapter.

[Opius Malikai]

4895148 I hope that's a good reaction to my story. and if not could you tell me what you didn't like?

[val]

4895165 I'm just confused at how they can be so dumb
even though its true

[Golden Script]

4895174
If you think about it, his imprisonment wasn't exactly commom knowledge. Nightmare Moon was at least an "old mare's tale" while he was locked in a basement for longer.

Good job, though i think that just giving him attributes of a dragon, with some main power, would have been enough for a LoHAH/LoHAV character.

[Opius Malikai]

4895333 I wanted to make him powerful enough to compete with some other things coming in the story besides Celestia.
Although I may get rid of the second scroll idea.

[Golden Script]

4895573 ok, that's better. Thank you. He doesn't seem as cobbled togeyher as before.

[Opius Malikai]

4895785 I've officially scrapped the second scroll so so far what I have to write with is a Magic Resistant, Scales sharper than diamond, Winged, Shouting, Trained with a sword, Fire-breathing, Dragon-man...It could be a lot more overpowered...like umbra

[Golden Script]

4895984
umbra codes the multiverse, he's meant to be OP; but his weakness is holy light... or light based magic... i don't know, i'm not his writer.

anyway, what's your character's weakness?

[Golden Script]

4895984
also, you can credit most of those powers to being a dragon-man (and dragon-man isn't a power, it's a state of being; just sayin') so, all in all, he's not too overpowered, in my eyes.

[Opius Malikai]

4896118 One weakness is obviously the Elements Of Harmony, and the "New Characters" I have planned will have things he's weak to. But a basic one is that he's not invincible he can be killed if he suffers a great injury. But it's not as much of a problem with the armor he has on.

[Opius Malikai]

4896118 One more thing, do you think it's appropriate to write his first backstory chapter now?

[Golden Script]

4896429
Yes. If I were writing this I would put the first past chapter here.

[3volve]

my imagination: imagine this but with out the lasers
the meaning of this since he is part dragon can he blow fire? that is why i imagine this

[Jacknife557]

very nice i wait for more

[Opius Malikai]

5689302 I hope to make another chapter soon.

[The Red Butcher]

And of course it goes no further. This has to be the thirtieth frigging story that remains uncompleted that gets to a good part, mainly when a scorned protagonist ends up finding Celestia and is ready for a bout with her.

Lazy bastards.

[Phosys]

5694573 Sometimes all it takes is to take the first step.

[Nitro19]

Interesting story, would like to see it get updated.