“This must be it.” Twilight said as she pushed her thick cat frame glasses back up her nose, her vision again becomes clear as the glasses focused her eyes.
Before her eyes was a large mountain path between the province of Ponyville and the city of Canterlot. She trotted up the trail as her straight cut fringe bounced back and forth between her horn and glasses. Upon reaching the top of the trail she was met with a dark entrance to an imposing cave. She reached into her backpack and pulled out a torch she held between her teeth. The light chased away the darkness to reveal a small pile of skulls and a vast pile of gold and treasure. The pile of wealth was so grand it touched the ceiling of the cavern in some places. The light of the torch shone on the brilliantly glittering gold. Twilight gasped as her eyes shot wide open.
“There must be over a billion bits in here.” The alicorn thought to herself as she quickly estimated the volume of the pile in her head.
Before she could finish her calculation however a blue streak rushed towards her lightning quick.The blue blur stopped revealing it to be a pony-sized dragon. It had deep blue scales, silver spikes down it’s back from head to tail and bright blue eyes. The dragon spread it’s bat-like leather wings as it faced the intruder.
“Y…yyyou must be Mr. Maurice.” The lavender pony stated somewhat startled as she stepped slowly backwards.
The dragon’s eyes dropped to an unimpressed glare as he spoke in a raspy voice.
“The name’s Bolt.” He barked as he zipped around the pony at high speeds.
Bolt’s high-speed antics had caused Twilight to drop her torch and glasses. She fumbled around in the dark on the cave floor looking for her glasses. The blue dragon took his opportunity to mess with poor Twilight who was blind as a bat. He zipped over to the pile of skulls and brought back a pony shaped one wearing a pair of red goggles.
“You know last pony who came into my cave I roasted alive. What was that guy’s name? Lime Wire or something to that effect.” He said as he crushed the skull to dust within his claws, he then pulled back the elastic on the goggles and flung them from the cave as they shot off out into the open.
Twilight felt around desperately wanting to find her lenses.
“I didn’t come here to slay you or steal your gold. I need help.” The dragon fell over and burst into a hysterical laughing fit.
“You? A pony! Slay me? Hhahaahaa! Oh man that’s rich. I’ve got a pile of the skulls of creatures who have tried.”
Twilight while a little frightened was getting sick of the dragon’s attitude very quickly and stated her business.
“I came here because I need your help dealing with a unicorn.”
Bolt yawned falling backwards onto a pile of gold.
“Listen Babe. Unicorns are boring. And dealing with ponies is more boring.”
Twilight finally found her glasses and used her hoof to slide them back up her nose. Her sight becoming clear once more she got a good look at the blue dragon. She raised an eyebrow and said dismissively.
“I’m surprised a big tough guy like you is afraid of unicorns. You hide in this cave all day so they don’t find you?” She said with a sassy smirk.
Bolt’s eyes shot open as he zipped over to her in less than a Nano-second. Being face to face with the alicorn she could see smoke bellowing from Bolt’s nostrils this often happened to him whenever he was angered or annoyed. His voice was rough and raspy as he spoke.
“Listen Babe. That’s mighty big talk coming from a nerd with double thick glasses. Why do you need these things anyway? When I’ve read about you in the paper I don’t recall you wearing glasses. Also aren’t you the Queen of the rainbow friends or some dorky crap like that? Why not get them to help you out.” He asked curious as to why Twilight would risk her life by entering his home.
Twilight took a deep breath and pushed her mane out of her eyes.
“I don’t need glasses. Well I didn’t when I had my magic. You see I’ve always had blurry vision. I usually preform a sight spell. It was one of the first spells I taught myself. Being a bookworm and having to wear glasses was too cliché for my tastes. I am the Princess of Friendship.” She said correcting the dragon with authority in her voice. “Or at least I was. The elements of harmony are partially useless without my magic. So my friends wouldn’t be much help on this one. Besides they’ve been through so much lately. They need a break. I read about a dragon in one of my books. The tales tell of a reptile that moves blindingly fast and can vanquish creatures at least five times his size.”
Bolt smiled being very well aware of the book she was speaking of.
“Heh yeah that’s me.” He responded having had his interest peaked.
“Being Royalty I can pay you very well for your services.”
Bolt’s eyes shot wide open as he then rolled them.
“Why would I want your money? I literally sleep on a mountain of gold. Geez you ponies really are as stupid as you look.” He told Twilight gesturing to the endless piles of gold surrounding them.
He looked at her horn and wings before the fact she was an alicorn hit him.
“I’ll tell you what. I’ll help you out no questions asked. If after we get your magic back you do a favor for me.” Bolt inquired as Twilight clapped her hoofs together in glee.
“You’ve got a deal Maurc…er Bolt.” The pony said correcting herself before she stepped on his sudden change of heart.