dragons
After a small chat over doughnuts, Nightshade had went to bed, along with Metamorph and Sapphire. But the sleep was any but peaceful for her, in fact, she had an old nightmare come back to haunt her, and for the first time in a long time, she woke up in a cold sweat. Her mind was reeling with fear, as well as the images that had flashed before her eyes. And regrettably, she rose to her hooves and trotted over to her window, flying out almost immediately. She knew that Metamorph would probably freak out in her absence, but she knew she also needed to go to her father's former home, the presence of his magic always used to give her the sense of closure. So after flying past the empire she sighed and flew down to land in a cave in the mountain range nearby, dark crystals filled in and the dark magic was almost overwhelming as she walked into it. She walked into the centre of it and sat down, as she did, she began to make more dark crystals, expelling her dark magic with a sigh. When she was done she got up and walked to the mouth of the cave, and began the long flight home, but when she had gotten halfway there a loud roar almost knocked her out of the sky. And when she looked around for where the roar came from, a large red dragon came into view, and it was quickly gaining on her. Although she was trying her hardest to get away from it, it's large talons grabbed her out of the sky and took her off her original path home. And short after she had been grabbed she passed out, due to the stress on her already physically drained body, when she woke up she was chained up and surrounded.
“the prisoner is awake, I hope your not in the mood to pass out again,”
The red dragon said as he paced around her cage like I prison,
“what…do you want?”
She said as she forced herself to sit up, but soon after she did the red dragons face was right in front of her.
“you of all ponies should know, we want to be able to freely live on your land, while enforcing our tradition,”
She jumped to her hooves quickly to confront him,
“after doing this to me, you'd be lucky to live,”
He just laughed and all the other dragons did as well.
“you must be joking, I've faced ponies larger than you and have won, being an alicorn makes you just a tiny bit stronger than them,”
He grabbed the chains on her front hooves, hoisting her up and exposing her underbelly.
“I'm surprised that you have any power at all, you don't even have any war scars or fighting experience,”
She stared coldly at him, which just angered him further.
“I didn't know fire breathers were so cold hearted and weak, I have an aquatic dragon as a daughter and I'm not afraid of you,”
He grinned and hoisted her body up more, making her wince as she felt her body stretch,
“you may take the night to ponder your decision, but in the morning, you better have a good answer,”
He dropped her heavily, and she groaned in pain from landing on one of her wings. She stayed on the ground as he walked away and sent a few dragons to her, and she quickly worked out the fact that they were going to guard her, and she hoped that her family would be okay without her.