//------------------------------// // Destiny doe not play fair // Story: New Wolf-Dragons in Equestria // by Toa Coy //------------------------------// New Wolf-Dragons in Equestria By Toa Coy Based on “A New Dragon in the Crystal Empire” By Vedues Now we start. ~Toa Coy~ Chapter Two: Destiny does not play fair During the rest of the day the wolf-dragons began to use the healing magic to make many of the gravely injured beings to be so the doctors, both ponies and wyrm, would not be overly drained. Fire Eyes and Spike keep watch on them while Cliff was taken to a more sterile location as his arm was still mangled and injured. Coy and Dracana would chat with the injured as they worked through them leaving living and reinvigorated patients in their wake. A few of the far off island, where drakes and ponies lived in harmony and had offspring, gave the twins strange looks. Dracana’s wings raised a question to asked about the twin’s birth for as far they and the rest of the world knew only their island had non-draconic hybryds. Added in the strange armor and magic it left many questions to where the hybrid came from. It was evening by the time shift changed for Spike and Fire Eyes with Rainbow Dash and, much to the mare’s chagrin, Blue Blood. The mare had learned over the course of this war to deal with the stallion, trusted him, and fight alongside him but respect was still far off from table. They came to where Spirit and Eyes said they would be and found the two newcomer...in a camp site with about ten beings around them. From the look of it it seemed like they had a grill over the fire with corn on it and several ponies, griffons, wrym, and even two drakes eating with them. “So what lead to you two coming here?” Spirit asked the twins as Coy flipped over the corn. “We have been here about three years,” Dracana replied noticing the two ponies and waved them over. “It was near a griffin village but they were high up and ignored us as we farm the land and it was only after we saw some griffons in military uniforms that we even knew of this war.” “But how would that tell you that where was a war here?” Fire Eyes spoke an eyebrow raised skeptical of that statement. “How do you think we got the seeds for the corn?” Coy retorted back. “We did have some contact but we were more or less by ourselves.” “That brings up another question, where are you storing all this food.” Rainbow broke into the conversation bringing attention to her and Blueblood. “Pocket storage in a personal space that has time being relevant to it.” Dracana responded. “I think this is two years old and still fresh.” That kinda confused some of the group and made others nod but still a bit on the fence. A rumbling was heard just then, this made all of the beings there want to rush to the sound but it was across the city with the cries of pain and death on the wind. As ponies, dragons, and griffins rushed for equipment and tools, the wolf-dragons snuffed out the fire and left the grill away from the tent and to keep a fire from being added to the list of bad things that happen this night. Armor on in a minor flash of light and weapons in hand they followed the soldiers but it was too late. It was hit and run. Even with Coy and Dracana there, no survivors and the evidence was clear the Requiem Guard had hit this group from the tunnels below and left without even being seen. The current non-curable magic was in the major hint to the armored minotaurs being here and not a random DA attack. The wolf-dragons helped moved the remaining bodies that was left of group; civilians, soldiers, some old and some younger. Not a child among this group of the now gone, this did raise a question to the twins but they did not voice it due to hope that only a few of these had children and were alone in this world. For no one should see a loved one like this, either dulled as magic has been taken with life or disemboweled and not knowing what parts belong to who. The last body was one that cause Spike to freeze up for a moment before the grim look on his face deepened and a wave of dread mixed with anger passed through a few of the others. This was notable from those close to him beyond the army. “This is Lieutenant Liberty Valiant.” The dragon spoke as he began to remove the armor around the pony. “I can only imagine Verre will take this hard, but I wonder how Autumn will handle this.” Rainbow, Eyes, and Blueblood moved to see what caused him to feel like this, while the rest kept to their own armor removal and kept it near the bodies of the soldiers while moving the civilians to another part of the street to make way for a way to transport them to the mortuaries that had sprung up after the fighting had gotten more intense. That did leave a hole in the road that would make it easier to get this grim task finished, in addition to the fact it is another way for the DA and Guard to attack from. “We need to get some more crystal ponies here to seal that hole before somepony falls in at night.” A unicorn soldier telled to a subordinate near the twins. Hearing that Coy moved to the closest part of the whole to him. Not many paid attention to the wolf in armor, well not until the sound of rock moving up from the whole and the shaking might have caused more if not for how quick it was. The unicorns in the group did notice a shift in magic from the ground but not from the armored being, they noted it and would report it to the higher ups. ---- Cliff could not sleep, not because of his arm or him chastising himself for being reckless, his mind was elsewhere and thoughts of what could have happen. All of them grim with either him dying from the guard or Fluttershy seeing him nearly broken and half dead. Thinking of the first battle she had seen and how she was after it, imagining her seeing that nearly hurt as much of his arm and their daughter...he might have never got to see her in person. The loud rumbling from earlier did not help the wrym’s grim thoughts, and the lack of living beings coming from it along with the movement of the doctors and nurses did not fill him with hope. It was about thirty or so minutes and another rumble was heard again but it was not followed by anyone rushing unlike before, which brought more concern given he was almost non-movial without a good amount of painkillers to dull the injured arm. Tonight was going to keep him up for a good long time. ---- Luna had to deal with the activities of the night as well as this latest attack from the guard, a part of it was unlike her sister, niece, nephew-in-law, and the respective heads of the many branches of the army had been drained from the battle while she and those healed by the pair of wolf beings had restored stamina in addition of the healing of wounds. She had to deal with the writing of the letters to the families back in Equestria that either mother/father/brother/sister/son/or daughter have been killed in action. Using her magic she wrote on one piece of parchment. Dear Families, I regret to inform you that________________ has been killed in action. Please send a reply to the E.U.P operational headquarters for burial arrangements. On behalf of Equestria I am truly sorry for your lost. -Princess Luna With that short letter wrote she began to use a duplication spell until it fit the number of the reported dead from the army with in the past day. By the time a crystal pony came to see if the lunar princess had almost all of her corner of the war table filled with death notices. One of them seemed small and the pony thought the princess would be done soon, that was until they saw that that was where the current one was placed. Not breaking training of letting emotions out because they were meant to leave their life once they started their shift but seeing all those stacks and how few the princess had done just...kinda froze them. They had not kept up with the count as they wanted to just ignore this horrible travesty that was only second if not above when Sombra enslaved the empire. “Princess do you need anything?” Luna turned her head and looked at the servant. “"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” With that she went back to work with the servant noting that down and doing as the princess asked. They did not envy the princess or any of those doing the real fighting. A part of them also knew that even with all the power that those had could not be done without beings like them supporting them and even then it might be creature comforts but it was something. A slight quicken of pace had the servant go through the many layers of the bunker to the kitchen to fulfill the request of the princess of the night. ---- Coy and Dracana were lead by a soldier to an empty barracks with bedding, The soldier told them where the restrooms were and that guards are going to be posted until they were deemed safe to be left alone. The pair understood and waved goodbye as the soldier left them. Around them was cots most of them was not made just empty, given all of the rooms they had to wonder if this was common or just a spare room. “I know we told them a bit of a fib but I think we should have told them we had hopped into similar universes before hence why we knew Spike and the other commonalities.” Dracana said making the bed for herself while her brother began to open a portal to get a bag of clothing. “I feel ya sis but here is the thing. We tell them that we have met before in alternative timelines then Twilight and others like her would just want notes. Remember that one where we were in our kid forms.”  The wingless sibling pointed out. “In that world Twilight saw the need to have a generation of dragon hybrids due to a possible future. Given how this world is already at war rules that out anything like that.” “Don’t you think that is a bit pessimistic?” She said sitting on the cot. “I mean you seemed to be the happy person when we travel around.” “There is a few beings that can make war funny.” Coy replied laying down looking at his sister. “We best get some sleep knowing them we get up early and either be tested or do mock battles.” “If you say so I’m going to have a shower before turning in.” The winged wolf spoke getting up and asking one of the guards posted outside their door. ---- Spirit had chosen to be the one to tell his marefriend and her mother that somepony close to them died. He knew that Autumn might be a bit callous to this idea while her mother might just break down from her husband being killed. All of his day weight heavy on his mind, a lot of stress was taking away from stillness, but he had a job...no duty to be there when both mares hear the news. This also meant shutting his mind off from the web of connections he had dragon magic can only help when it is truly felt and not just spoken words. In his somewhat robotic, if not lack of perception, the wrym came to the house of his lover and her mother before he knew it. If he was not in the stillness he would feel nervous, tired, and concerned. Now he still felt those things but it was like a thought that you had for a moment and just a moment but could not recall it. The door stood there still unopened and a light on in the window, with only a deep breath and the stillness Spirit moved to open the door. The soft creak of the door was his only announcement as he stood at the threshold, choosing not to enter to see who was there. It was Autumn's mother, Verre, that he saw first. He almost lost his focus on the stillness but his training held and with his movement he made his presents known and his task was to begin. ---- Fire Eyes was glad to get out of her suit for repairs but having to watch the twins that appeared at the end of the battle and healed most of the still living beings giving them energy so every being was not as tired. This left the natural white dragoness stained with her blood and metal cutting into her scales, both things that she did not mind but by this time of night it had gone from annoying to irritating. While she would have liked to have bathed in lava it was too dangerous to have in a war zone, so a hot shower would do. It did surprise her to see a mare standing guard outside of the shows, the female wyrm knew of some males that would sneak peek of females for sport or for perverted reasons so this was not that odd to see also most did not wear clothing so that added to a bit of confusion for the dragons. “I take it that another mare is in there at the moment?” Eyes asked the guard passing by her. “Nope.” The mare replied. “The female of the pair that we were asked to guard until Celestia and the other members of the council have seen them.” “Okay, thanks for the information.” Fire Eyes responded walking in. The shower area was like any public washing area stalls with shower heads and faucets, curtains were not added here as it was seemed as a waste of material. It was not hard for the white wyrm to see the crimson hair of the hybrid but something surprised the female when looking at the side view of the she-wolf as the blue eyes looked towards the dragoness. The nude form of the crimson wolf brought the image of a young female drake but hybrid had mounds on her chest with strong pectoral muscle under them. Fire Eyes was sure she had seen similar mounds on mares but only with extremely young foals, which caused more questions to form in the wingless dragon’s mind. “I know I look nice but I’m not ‘stare forlong’ worthy,” Dracana quipped. “Besides I’m almost done it you want some just right water for those with a bit hotter than ponies.” Eyes broke her stare searching the benches for something other to look at, mostly to gather her thoughts. Something that did catch her eye was a neat stack of clothing she had seen Dracana in earlier. The sound of the shower turning off finally snap Fire Eyes back to her normal attitude. “So what is with the things on your chest?” Fire Eyes opened up with the obvious. “I mean I’ve seen them on mares but lower and normally with young foals near them.” “I see.” The wolf replied stepping out of the stall wet fur matted from the water and shampoo that was once in it. “Bipedal Mammalian Anatomy 101: breast develop at a young age to show that she can bear children but the process takes a number of years to complete to maturity. So they are the same as you have seen on mares but unlike them mine are always visible due to me being upright.” Well that explain what Eyes wanted to know and that satisfied her curiosity for the moment about the hybrid. Then a ring of fire enveloped the wolf however before Eyes could say anything it was out and the crimson wolf was a bit fluffier but not singe at all. This did raise more questions for the dragoness, but the wolf just moved to her clothing. “I would be a poor dragon if fire could kill me.” was the reply Dracana spoke as she began to add layers of clothing to herself. “True.” The white dragon replied going to the show stall and began the show. Dracana was fully dressed and headed out, but before leaving the hybrid turned back to Fire Eyes. “Even if that was a bit akward moment it was nice meeting you outside of all the armor and battle.” Fire Eyes just nodded and starts scrubbing the dried blood off of her scales.