//------------------------------// // Disaster // Story: Lily and the Dragons // by Hyper44 //------------------------------// When the yelling started, Lily tripped over Leftfang’s tail and just managed to stop herself from crashing into a table. She too had felt the tension but staying with Leftfang near the study table she had had no way to investigate. She quickly lifted the table out of her way and charged in the direction of the voices. She wove between the gathering circle of dragons and ponies and skidded into the center. To her dismay she saw Rainbow Dash and Midnight Fight standing nose to nose with teeth bared in angry sneers. “You want to call me that again you moron!” Rainbow snapped furiously. Midnight Fight snorted, “Better said by you. You can’t overcome it if you wont admit it.” “Admit what?!” Rainbow Dash yelled throwing her hooves in the air. “What did I do! We were getting along fine when all of the sudden you start accusing me of being greedy. What did I do that was greedy?!” “Not now but you would. We dragons have something that ponies want and-Hey!” Midnight Fight snapped and Lily pushed the two apart. “Just hold on for a minute!” Lily demanded. “You two were becoming good friends moment ago. How can you suddenly start arguing and making accusations like this?” “I don’t see anything wrong with it,” Green Claw interjected before either could reply. “With the type of magic we dragons have we have to know if we can trust any ponies before we hang around them.” “Yeah, another dragon cut in, “Didn’t we come here to reform you.” Ponies stared back at him blankly. “Reform us?” Twilight Sparkle asked walking into the middle of the circle. “What are you talking about? We invited you here to help with Leftfang’s magic and to build a bond of friendship. Friendship is very important to us.” “But how can you have friendship when one side wont own up to their nature?” Green Claw asked. “Yeah,” another dragon spoke up turning to Rarity who was standing next to her. “Can you admit your greedy nature?” “Whaaaaattt?!” Everyone flinched at the at the high pitched indignant wail. “M-me! Greedy! Wh-what?!” “Everypony and dragon calm down!” Twilight said flying above the head of the crowd. “I believe that there has been a huge misunderstanding.” Green Claw snorted, “Perhaps on the ponies side. We just don’t want anypony stealing out magic.” “Please just listen a moment.” Twilight pleaded. "We are not out to take your magic!" A ways from the crowd Leftfang stood perched on a table as he watched the gathering. “What in Draco is this about?” He growled. “It’s definitely not going to help my magic.” “Such a nuisance isn’t it,” Flam commented walking up on one side of the table. “I know, I wonder what got into them,” Flim added walking up on the other side. “I think that they’re worried that ponies may get greedy and wanting wishes,” Flam said with a sideways glance at his brother. Leftfang missed the look as he kept watching the crowd. “Certainly a possibility with ponies but if they haven’t pulled anything by now then-“ Leftfang never finished. He and the two unicorns vanished in a flash of magic. Both ponies and dragons on the opposite of the crowd saw them disappear. “They kidnapped Leftfang!” “It was a trap!” “No!” Twilight tried to yell over the uproar of angry dragon and a number of confused ponies who hadn’t seen what had happened. “That wasn’t us!” Rainbow Dash, yelled flying above the crowd. “And we’ll get him back from those jerks.” “Yeah right,” Midnight Flight snapped. “We never should have trusted you!” “It wasn’t us that took him!” “I saw ponies clear as day take him.” “I say that we get out of here and make sure that they don’t follow to take any more of us!” Green Claw roared flying above the crowd and signaling to the dragons below. In union the claws of every other dragon lit up. “Wait!” Twilight yelled desperately. “If we help each other to stop Flim and-“ Heedlessly the dragons vanished in a blinding flash of light. When ponies opened their eyes they saw that not only was their entire town covered in a sticky ooze but a strange magnetic force pulled the Pegasus to the earth. “What is this!” Rainbow Dash yelled floundering on the ground. “I don’t know!” Twilight yelled. Her horn flashed sending out a pulse of magic only for the light to wash over the town with no effect. “What! That should have cancelled any spell.” Desperately looking around Twilight spotted the only two dragons left. The dragon scholars from the mountains were standing in the center of a protective bubble while looking around wide eyed. “Please help us. I don’t understand how to counter dragon magic,” Twilight cried. The two dragons just looked back with suspicion and uncertainty in their clouding their eyes. ‘Please! We never wanted anything from you except friendship.” The two stared at her a moment before vanishing. “AAARRRUUUUGGG!” Twilight cried. A second later another burst of light flashed and Starlight Glimmer appeared next to her. She gasped at what greeted her and formed a protective bubble around herself only to have it drug down by the sticky goo that covered the ground. “What happened?!” “Flim and Flam kidnapped Leftfang and the other dragons turned on us and not them!” Twilight yelled. “What! That's horrible! Perhaps if I had only been a bit quicker,” Starlight said, “I know what is wrong with Leftfang’s magic. Zecora told him, he simply didn’t listen.” “We can’t help that now. We have to save Ponyville. Help me figure out this magic.” Standing back and wishing that she had never won a riddle contest Lily watched everything. She watched ponies struggling to walk in the sticky ooze that drug them down and Pegasus trying to fly only to have a mysterious force pull the back. Even Twilight and Starlight couldn’t teleport away from the force. Teleporting to it was apparently no problem but once in Starlight as trapped as the rest of them. Lily could feel the suction of the ooze and the pull of the pony magnetic force pinning her hooves to the ground. She looked down and easily pulled a hoof free. She had no magic to counter a spell but she had her super strength. She easily ran across the street, picked up Twilight and Starlight and carried them over to the table where books on dragon magic lay. “I’m going to go find where Flim and Flam took Leftfang,” She said setting them down. Without waiting for an answer Lily took off down the street easily pulling her feet out of the goo with each step. Near the edge of town she felt the strange force pulling at her, trying to drag her back. A moment later she felt it fade and then disappear. Once clear of the town she headed for the Everfree certain that she knew were Leftfang was. As her hooves pounded the ground she couldn’t stop the anger burning inside her. So much was ruined because of two selfish ponies and one selfish dragon. She hadn't missed the triumphant grin on Green Claw's face nor the evidence that Flim and Flam had stirred up the trouble in the first place. Now because of them, Leftfang was kidnapped, her town was a disaster and a mending rift had been torn wide open.