//------------------------------// // How to Awaken a Dragon // Story: The Oracle Infinium // by TwiWonderfilly //------------------------------// I wasn't wrong when I was born without a horn. I wasn't wrong when I was treated unjustly by my parents. I wasn't wrong when they banished me out of Lonsdale. The entire populace will now rue the aberration that they have created: ME. They will regret they sent me here. How to Awaken a Dragon. Step 1: Complete the Oracle Infinium. Step 2: Kill my little sister. Step 3: Put her blood in the pages. ⟡∮⟡ I felt it like it was yesterday. I was born into a family of alicorns in Lonsdale. Everything here seems really great. I had all the ponies greeting me each day every time I walked through the main streets. The ponies here seem to be enjoying every second of their lives doing their daily work. Everything was fine, except for one thing: the love I deserved from my parents. The moment my little sister, Bright Star, was born was the moment that I realised that the love you get from your parents could not be much simpler: what makes you special. No matter what I did, my parents would love my sister more, every single day. They story-tell her every night, bring her to the park at weekends while I sit around in my room and ponder. I guess having both wings and a horn really paid off for her. What made me hate them more is due to the fact that no matter how talented I am, or how hard I try, they never seem to care for me due to me being.... a pegasus, not even being the greatest flyer in Lonsdale would change their minds, nor pulling out a void breaker consistently. Last week was my little sister's planned coronation to be Lonsdale's next heir to the throne. I was angry to hear that I did not receive my rights as a first-born. There was only one logical thing to do to set things right: convince them to choose me by force. What turned out to be a peaceful negotiation - parent and daughter turned out to be a reckoning. I disrupted the coronation by destroying the boutiques and decorations around the throne room, causing massive panic to the citizens. Guards come in to try and stop me, yet in spite of my flight being capable of harming ponies by ramming them, my parents are much more powerful with magic by their side (and their wings). I am now here, banished to the unknown, with nothing except a pony-made knife I created from my survivability. ⟡∮⟡ Yesterday.... Yesterday was the moment that I set my eyes to something of pure evil. I set my hooves in the peak of Mt. Apocalyptus after living my damned life in the woods. As I delved deeper into the cave, my hooves began to tremble at the unknown, but I kept on walking until the edge of the mountain. I was disappointed at seeing nothing there until fires are lit from torches when I must have stepped on a stepping stone. Once the fire was lit, I saw a slumbering dragon. It's huge, with scales as dark as night and wings dreaming of vengeance and fear. To that moment on, my eyes were attracted to it, as if an unknown force have led me to awaken this dragon. Suddenly a voice came to my mind. Its whispers are unclear and ominous. "Seek the piece.... to take back what's yours. Down in Altzein beyond its den...." I didn't know where the voice came from nor how it came to my head, but it gave me something: hope - a dark hope that I can achieve to satisfy my vengeance. "Seek the Oracle Infinium.... awaken it from eternal slumber...." They have made a grave mistake when they put me here in the first place. This is the task that I must fulfil, and it's not merely a task. It's my destiny - my destiny to take back what's mine and show them I wasn't wrong. I wasn't wrong when I was born without a horn. I wasn't wrong when I was treated unjustly by my parents. I wasn't wrong when they banished me out of Lonsdale. The entire populace will now rue the aberration that they have created: ME. They will regret they sent me here. The time has come to set things right. After delving through countless ruins, I have finally found the pieces buried beneath the pillars. At last, the Oracle Infinium. Such that it says: Oracle Infinium - Waking Darkness Shall Blood Smudge the Paper It Shall Awaken the Dragon's Power But, Wrong Blood in the Paper Turns Vapor Read Carefully to Attain the Right Offer The Blood of Purity Recherché for Everybody Attributes of Trinity Or More, Full of Uncertainty I tried to decipher the rhyme. "Blood of purity....?" I thought to myself. "How am I supposed to find that....?" The long hours of pondering have made me curious enough to think about all the possible mythical beasts alive. I searched around the corridors of the ruins for drawings, clues, runes.... After hours of thinking, I thought to myself: "Why didn't think I of this!" I'll just give my sister a surprise. A bloody surprise. It's time to put my knife to use. I can't believe that the knife that I'm going to use would be useful to not only survive but also to kill. To kill somepony I hoped I could love. ⟡∮⟡ Today is the day I will have to assassinate my little sister. I enter the castle through my room before sunrise. Walking down to the throne room was excruciating and tedious, as I have to sneak through the hall, knocking anypony out cold when they see me before bringing them to my room. I believe I knocked out around 20 guards and maids in the hallway alone. After that, I sneak through the foyer and into the throne room. While everypony wasn’t looking, I immediately hide by covering myself with a cloth behind the thrones, which may hide something for the coronation. Then, I looked behind and see a stained glass with a yellow alicorn and violet mane, with a strand of pink hair. There, I muttered myself: "I can't believe it..." My little sister is on her coronation?! Oh, the drama.... What a good day to die, isn't it? I hear trumpets, which means the coronation has started. Then, I listen that a door opened. I immediately turned around and look through the cloth. By doing so, I saw a pink alicorn and a smaller yellow alicorn, both in royal dresses, walking from the door, slowly to the throne. As the visibility of them is reduced as they get closer to the throne, I see the door closing and hear locks at the door. I realised that the guards are now on full patrol. I have no choice from now on. I can't turn back. The guards are now in full patrol around the castle and the entrance is now on lockdown. No one can get in and out of the castle during her coronation. Perfect, another sign of my parent's love and care for my sister that they just HAVE to make everything secure. My father is now saying his rites: "Ponies of Lonsdale, the time has finally come for a new ruler to take the throne. As the tradition continues, we will begin our coronation to present the first born as the new princess of Lonsdale." First born?! She's not the first born.... I am.... I can't think straight. I am shedding tears through my very eyes, and now I can't figure out if I'm supposed to be sad or angry to hear this. One thing must be done, and it's to finish her and take back what's mine. "Through our ancestors long-gone, we, the citizens of Lonsdale, present the rites of passage for our kingdom's first-born to inherit the crown. May our kingdom thrive forever and ever with our new princess. Princess-" At this moment, I get out from the cloth, reached out through the back of her throne and grabbed her by her neck. I drag her from her parents and away from the throne room while slamming the door shut. She cried for help, panicking, as I dragged her while flying towards my room. “Help!” She panicked. She attempted to slow me down by flying in the opposite direction, but my superior flying skills, strength, speed, and a much more developed body trumped her futile attempts at resisting me. After entering my room, I immediately locked the room. Nopony shall know what happens. "Hey! Let me go! Who are you? I demand you to let me go at once! Your princess orders you!" she said while panicking. She looked around my room and see ponies lying around. She immediately freaked out at seeing dead ponies. “Did… did you-” she is startled at “death” itself. I interrupt her before she finished. “No, they are just unconscious,” I replied. Then I get back to the topic. "And Princess!? I think you know who deserves that title in the first place!" I growled at her. "S-sister....? Why are you doing this?!” She panicked while at the same time, confused about why is she at fault. "Don't ask me why! You know what you've done. You've stolen everything that I had. All my hopes and dreams and my right as a first-born crushed just because.... just because I lack a horn! You know what you should've done? Convince those parents of yours to decide what's rightfully just! I should've become the princess, not you, you spoiled brat. You brought this on yourself now." I'm ready to pull out my knife attached from my right hoof when all of a sudden, huge bangs are heard from the door. I try to listen to what they are saying: "Stop whatever you're doing, intruder! You have just committed a huge criminal offence in Lonsdale. By the name of the king, show yourself!" I whisper softly to my little sister, thinking about how much attention she has received ever since she was born. I give her my last kiss goodbye in her neck. "You realise how much love and care you had all these days? Well, it wouldn't matter anymore if you're dead!" "Y-you.... you're insane, sister! W-what are you?" "I am Cimmerian Raven, first born of Lonsdale and true heir to the throne." I immediately thrust my blade to her, but then she cried, begging for mercy. “Please, sister… let me make it up to you… I’m- *scream in pain*” she cried, hoping that asking for forgiveness may change my mind, yet with a single thrust, I strike her down with my knife to her neck. She let out a huge shout of pain and misery that can be heard from outside. As she spends her last breath, the door breaks down. Guards with spears are in position, aiming at me with full caution and stern. “Princess!” A guard scream after seeing a lifeless body. Then, the guards are horrified at the sight of ponies lying around. "Stop right there, criminal scum! You have committed crimes against Lonsdale and her citizens. Come with us peacefully and we will execute you painlessly." The guards shouted to me as I think of a way to escape. It seems like there's.... 10? No, 20 guards surrounding me, each with a serious stance. I see a stained glass on the roof of my room and.... ("WHAT?") I thought to myself. I can't believe that they even made another stained glass design for my little sister! The same picture like the one in the throne room, except her wings becomes shiny and she has a halo above her. Immediately, I took the blade out of her neck and rushed to the rooftop by flying, creating a void breaker the moment I took off from a standstill. The entire castle shakes with tremor, and all the guards fall down with hooves covering their ears, perhaps deaf in the process, which now I think of it, is probably the most fortunate scenario that can happen in a void breaker. As I take off to the skies and bypass each of the guard keeps, I dodge all the incoming arrows shot at me. The sky is red as blood as I fly west to the sunset, back to Mt. Apocalyptus, where that dragon slept. ⟡∮⟡ As I arrive, I immediately take my sister's blood from the blade and smudge it along the Oracle Infinium. I cover one of my eyes with my hoof and let out a huge sinister laugh. The time has finally come to show them who I am! Suddenly, a dark ray emerges from the piece that tears the sky apart. The sky is suddenly as dark as the night sky, and the sun turns black with rays of white. As it happens, two alicorns, both pink and blue, approach me from behind. "Raven, stop this. You don't know what you're doing!" he said. "I know what I'm doing, and I'm doing it to show that I am the rightful successor of this petty kingdom! I'll show you two how I felt when I was cast away, so you will all know my suffering! All this time, you never treated me like your own daughter, as if I'm not special enough to gain your attention. This time, I WILL show you how special I am!" Suddenly, a huge earthquake shook the mountain, and a huge roar is heard from my back. It's true.... It has finally awakened. Now is the time that I can finally show them my pain, for they will know how I felt. As I feel the heat coming from my back, I immediately fly up to the horizon. "Raven, look. It's not what you-” Before they are able to continue their apologies, a huge fire incinerates them both. A loud scream was heard from both of them as they were incinerated. All that remains were ashes. The dragon suddenly flies towards Lonsdale, or that is what I hoped. But what actually happens is that its eyes are suddenly looking at me with a huge glare, ready to attack. I suddenly tremble in fear as it decided to breathe fire to me. My wings seem to be paralysed. I can't seem to fly. I fall down the mountain to a huge forest, unconscious. The last thing I see is that the dragon is flying towards Lonsdale. Unconsciously I thought to myself before I faint: "What.... have I done....?"