//------------------------------// // Nonsence // Story: Lily and the Dragons // by Hyper44 //------------------------------//     Leftfang flew swiftly away from Ponyville and quickly reached the trees of the Everfree. His keen dragon eyes quickly spotted the others gathered in the trees waiting for the “important delegates” from Ponyville to find them. He shut his wings and dropped to the earth like a stone. The surrounding dragons jumped in surprise as he landed hard on the ground. Leftfang folded his wings on his back and looked around at the surprised eyes staring at him.    “So are we going to stop this foolishness?” He asked calmly. It was obvious from their blank stares that they did not understand.   “Great, you escaped!” Green Claw finally responded walking up with a fake smile and slapping Leftfang heartily on the back.   Leftfang shrugged him off. “I escaped no thanks to you. No thanks to any dragon. You seemed more focused on revenge then rescuing the one who you were taking revenge for. Do you even know what you are trying to stand for?”    He was met with blank stares. Green Claw snorted, “Leftfang, buddy, you’re making this all about you. This is about standing against greedy ponies who want to use us. We made a mistake accepting that invitation for Friendship. Bah! Ponies know nothing about friendship.”   “We made a mistake by ignoring the good ponies and only believing the ones who really wanted to use us for their own gain!” Leftfang snapped. “Ponies are just creatures like us. With the good and bad just as we are. Can you really not see that?”     Green Claw growled, “What is wrong with you?”    Leftfang ignored him, “Do you really want to solve problems or do you just want to be angry and hate ponies? That is what it comes down to and your hate and anger will hurt you much more than it will hurt them.”    “Leftfang!” Green Claw roared shoving him away from the group. “We need to talk.” He directed the bright red dragon away from the eyes of everyone. Once out of ear shot he spun around and snarled at Leftfang. “What is wrong with you? Do you like ponies now?”   “I like some of them better than I like some dragons,” Leftfang replied curtly.    “Then you are stupid,” Green Claw growled. “Ponies are disgusting. How can you stand looking at those faces? No matter what they are going to treat you like a tool to grant wishes and never like a living being.”   “How would you know? You’ve never given them a real chance. You’re judging every one of them by the worst among them. Would you like them to do so with us? I mean if others took met you and then judged us by that standard well...”    “What is wrong with you?” Green Claw snorted contemptuously. “You lost your magic by hanging around with ponies.”    ‘Did I?” Leftfang asked before suddenly vanishing in a burst of light. He reappeared behind Green Claw. “I lost my magic because I met a friend but still decide to still hate her and all those like her. I was confronted with reality but refused it. Don’t you realize that we are hurting ourselves? Keeping this heavy burden is hurting our magic and likely a lot more.”    “If you think that any pony can be a better friend than a dragon then you’ve gone mad.”    Leftfang nearly laughed, “If compared to you, Nightmare Moon could have been a better friend.”    Green Claw snarled and instinctively went into a fighting stance.   “Well catch then,” Leftfang snorted filling his claws with energy and casting it at him. Then he surrounded himself with a protective shield. To his surprise Green Claw did not catch the magic or send an blast of his own. He simply sidestepped and then stood there glaring at him. Leftfang slung another orb of energy and again Green Claw sidestepped.   “Stop being stupid,” Green Claw growled.   “What’s wrong?” Leftfang asked, “You know how our magic duels work.” He dropped his shield and crouched into a fighting stance, “I’ve heard that you were a master of magic duels. Let's battle.”   “You’re stupid. It’s a waste of my time,” Green Claw snorted and turned to walk away. Leftfang teleported in front of him.    “I know that you’re not afraid of me,” He said tossing another ball of magic energy. Again, Green Claw just sidestepped letting it crash into the ground and snarled, “Knock it off.”    Leftfang stared at him critically a moment. “You don’t have your magic, do you?” He asked finally. Green Claw didn’t answer. “You've lost it just like I did.”   “I lost it due being around ponies. They must carry some disease.” Green Claw replied.    “Since when have you hung around ponies?” Leftfang almost laughed. Then his face became more serious. “Though at some time you must have reached a point where you would have realized or should have realized…”    “Realized that ponies are a greedy plague which I have known all of my life,” Green Claw retorted.    “It is it really worth losing you magic?” Leftfang asked.    Green Claw glared darkly at him. “I hate ponies.”    “Can you not see how you are viewing everything through that anger? They could offer you a mine of endless gems and you would still hate them. You could probably slap one of their princesses and then complain if they got even a little angry. No matter what you will always see ponies as evil. Most of the greed evil on ponies comes through your eyes and not from the ponies themselves.”    “Are you saying that no pony is evil and greedy after you got kidnapped?!” Green Claw roared.    Leftfang blinked Green Claw for a moment. “You really can’t see, can you? And you are going to drag every dragon with you that you can.” Green Claw just snorted in reply. Leftfang turned his back on him and spread his wings. “Film and Flam will find you soon with “medals of dragon friendship.” I suppose you will have fun. It’s probably the only way that you can be happy.” With a final angry snort Leftfang flew off back to Ponyvile.  “Stupid dragon!” Green Claw roared after him. “Stupid Pony friend. Let’s see how well you last hanging around them! You’ll come crawling back!”   He turned around seeing many draconic eyes staring at him through the foliage. “What are you staring at?! Eavesdroppers!”   Before any dragon could reply voices echoed from the forest. “Hello, trusted friends of dragons here.”     “Yes, we have the medals to prove it.” * * *      Angrily Leftfang flew back to Ponyville. Down below ponies were gathering in and around the town hall. Spotting the lavender coat of Twilight and pastel pink of Lily he swooped in through the doors. To his surprise he was greeted by a cheery waive from a yellow dragon.    “Lemon Jade? What are you doing here?” He asked.   “Eating lemon drop cookies,” She replied as if he had asked a ridiculous question. “So how did it go?”    “Not well,” He replied. “You know how Green Claw is and how every dragon listens to him.”    “Is no one else coming back?” Lily asked.    Leftfang shook his head. “I don’t think so.” He turned to Lemon Jade. “You know that you will be treated as an outcast when the others find out.”   Lemon Jade just laughed. “Why in Draco would I pick bad friends over good friends just because the bad friends happen to look like me? Why should I care what they think either? They don’t care about me they just care to make sure that I believe what they believe.”    “That’s true. Still, it’s still rather infuriating that no other dragon will listen.”    “Hey, are the Cakes here?” A deep voice suddenly interrupted. Every pony and dragon turned to see Rock standing in the doorway. “I need to learn how to throw together those recipes.”    “I’d be happy to help,” Mr. Cake called from the back of the crowd and motioned for him to follow.    “Has anyone seen that rainbow-colored pony? We have some unfinished races.” A second voice called from outside.    “You mean unfinished races for me to win!” Rainbow Dash called back flying above the heads of everypony and dashing out the doors in a gust of wind.   Lily hurried outside with Twilight right behind her. More mini dragons were joining the crowd and the party was soon going as if nothing had never happened. Twilight smiled and leaned down to whisper to Lily. “This wasn’t such a fail after all. The impossible can happen.” Lily just nodded as she watched dragons and ponies mingling again. It wasn’t all of the dragons from before, after all you can’t win over everyone but you can build friendships with the ones that you do.