The next morning I wake up to see that darkning still wasn't here. Presumably still getting that stuff for us. I sigh and think. Tomorrow was the test against Blueblood. I sigh as I get up and start walking out the door. I then see some smoke in the air. I groan. I walk and open the school door.
"Hi, lightningman. Here for another day of learning?"
"No." I shake my head. "I came to tell you that I have to deal with a dragon and I probably won't be back until this afternoon." Silence.....
"I've heard some bizarre excuses, but that was the most bizarre excuse I've ever heard."
"Hey, blame it on the writers and their ideas for the show. I don't control this."
"Technically you do." Said a voice issuing from the walls.
"No, my future self-controls this story, but he doesn't control the actual show." I groan. "Now you can stay out of this dude." I groan at the author.
¨Fine. I´m gone." the voice stops issuing from the walls.
¨Yeah. Sorry, but I need to go if I want to catch up to the girls. I´ll see you later.¨
¨um. Alright.¨ Ms. Cheerilee nods as I leave. I run and look around for Fluttershy. I finally see her in the park trying to get the attention of other ponies.
¨Help. Help! Please? Help? There's... there's a horrible cloud of smoke. It's headed this way and..." She then shrieks at Rainbow Dash almost hits her while bouncing a ball on her head. I hurry towards them.
"Don't be such a scaredy-pony. It's just me, future Equestria ball-bouncing record holder. Three forty-six, three forty-seven..." Rainbow Dash continues to count.
"This calls for a celebration!" Pinkie Pie says as she jumps up beside me.
"No, it doesn't."
"What do you mean?"
"Look at the sky. Fluttershy has been trying to tell you." Pinkie Pie looks at the sky and gasps.
"Oh NO!! SMOKE!" Everyone gasps and looks up. Suddenly Twilight appears on the bridge.
"Listen up! Smoke is spreading over all of Equestria."
"I'm pretty sure we already knew that." I roll my eyes
"Well, ok. But don't worry, I've just received a letter from Princess Celestia informing me that it is not coming from a fire."
"Yeah. It's coming from a Dragon." Everyone stops and looks at me. They see that I wasn't making a joke and gulps.
"Y... Yeah. How did you..."
"THIS IS A SHOW FOR ME! REMEMBER!?" I yell in frustration from always having to tell them.
"What in the name of all things cinnamon swirled is a full-grown dragon doing here in Equestria?" Applejack asks.
"Taking a nap," I state to her. "The snoring is what's causing the smoke. Go grab the girls, get prepared for a trek." I say as I start to walk to the library. Applejack nods and she runs to get Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Pinkie Pie.
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I was leaning against the tree while Twilight gave a pep talk to all of the girls.
"Alright girls, listen up. I'm mapping out the fastest route, but we've all got to keep a good pace if we expect to make it up the mountain by nightfall."
"Mm-mountain?" Fluttershy asks meekly
"The dragon is in that cave at the very top." twilight points to a cave.
"Alright. I'll see you there." I smile as I turn on the spot with a loud crack causing Fluttershy to "EEP!" And hide.
Twilight was silent for a moment. "We could have just asked him to bring us up to the dragon's cave couldn't we?"
"Yep." Rainbow Dash said as she facehooves
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I was laying on the rock that would be destroyed soon when I heard
"Still think it was a good idea to bring Fluttershy along?"
"We're about to find out." Twilight stops, none of them have noticed me. "We're here." I smile and walk up behind them.
"HI GIRLS!" I put my hand on Rainbow Dash and Twilights back. They both yell in surprise and disappear. I burst out laughing.
"T-t-that was g-g-great!" I completely lose it. "BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH." I was rolling on the floor.
"Lightningman! That wasn't funny!" Twilight says as she appears from behind a rock.
"OH come on." I turn to Applejack. "You have to admit that was funny."
"Kinda yeah." She smiles and says to twilight. "Sorry sugarcube, but it was." Twilight shakes her head.
"Anyway. I have a plan. Rainbow Dash, you'll use your wings to clear the smoke. Rarity and Pinkie Pie, you'll create a diversion to distract the dragon if things get a little hairy in there.Applejack, you're ready with the apples in case he decides to attack. But it shouldn't come to that, because Fluttershy will do what she needs to do to wake him up, and between the two of us, we should be able to get him to understand why he needs to go."
"What about me?" I ask
"Moral support." I frown as I remember that there was a dragon language in Skyrim, I could use that to communicate with him. But then I heard something.
" I-- I-- I can't go in the cave," Fluttershy said.
"Oh, great. She's scared of caves now, too." Rainbow Dash said exasperatedly
"I'm not scared of caves, I'm scared of...." Fluttershy then mumbled something.
"What's that, sugarcube?" Applejack asks
"I'm scared of...." She mumbles in the exact same volume.
"What?" Twilight encourages.
"I'm scared of dragons!" Fluttershy cries out as the dragon lets out a massive snore. I frown and sit down beside Fluttershy.
"To be honest? your not the only one scared of things....." My voice trailed off as the girls looked at me a little shocked. Why bring this up now? Right at the dragon's cave? Is it just to help Fluttershy or what?
"R-Really? What are you scared off?"
"M-my par....." I mumbled the rest of it.
"I-I'm sorry?"
"I'm scared of my parents alright?" I said a little more loudly than I'd have liked. The girls stared at me. The person, who was possibly one of the most powerful on the planet, was scared of his own parents? Why? Rainbow Dash voiced this question. She had a bit of experience with parents, Not like mine, but still. So she flew down beside me and asked it, not at all in her usual loud brash voice. This time it was gentle. like Fluttershy
"Why are you scared of your parents? your probably the most powerful pony, or person in Equestria. Your parents shouldn't scare you."
"My parents..... they don't know I'm a brony." silence.
"Brony?" Applejack asked.
"Remember how I said you were all characters of a show on my planet? Well, we have a community of the people who watch the show. We call ourselves bronies and pegasisters. And they are usually met with an unnatural amount of hate on them. We've been called childish, adult babies. all sorts of names. Almost nobody knows I'm a brony on my planet. Especially not my parents. I don't know how they would react, whether they would simply accept me, or even throw me out of the house. That's half the reason why I was so prepared to live here. and that's why I have everything packed already. I was preparing to be kicked out someday when they realize I was a brony."
My mask was getting hot so I took it off. my eyes were brimming with tears and my voice was cracking. I wipe my face off and then curled up, terrified. As if my parents had heard what I had said. The ponies were looking at me, they understood the situation with my parents was difficult, they just didn't know how bad it truly was. After a few moments, I got myself under control and sigh. I wipe my eyes and air out my mask before putting it back on.
"But Fluttershy, if you don't want to go into the cave and face the dragon, you don't have too." I mentally hope that I can break the sequence that makes her face the dragon. But it probably won't work.
"T-Thank you Damyon." She hugs me. I smile and hug her back. Twilight sighs and walks forward.
"I'm goin' in. He... probably just doesn't realize what he's doing... right?"
"Hold on, I'm coming in with you." I get up and walk forward.
"Are you sure? You kinda just had a breakdown."
"I'm fine," I say as I go over what I remember from the dragon language in Skyrim. Soon we see the dragon. Twilight starts to wake him up, when she succeeds, i cut her off from talking and I speak.
"Ahnok til, dii faan los lightningman ahrk daar los suvulaan viim, Um. .. Mu came wah laan hi wah bo nol het wah vorey gul. Dahik waan hi dreh ni bo, ruz Equestria vust lost graav aax drehlaan wah nii." (Hello there, my call is lightningman and this is twilight shimmer, Um. . . We came to want you to fly from here to other cave. Because if you do not fly, then Equestria could have serious harm done to it) Both the dragon and Twilight's eyes widen when they hear me talking in dragon language.
"Vir dreh hi mindok wuth dovah vun?" (How do you know old dragon tongue?) The dragon asks in a deep rumbly voice.
"Niidro lingrah tey tol fund ofan hi klovhod nid trun vir onik hi los. Nii defies multiple thun do hahsebom" (No's long tale that would give you headache no case how wise you are. It defies multiple law of physics) I wave off the question "Nuz faal Laan los wel you'll lif uv ni." (But the Want is whether you'll leave or not)
"Nid, pah dii trok los het, ahrk zu'u dreh ni laan wah nuthaak dimaar wah drun nii ahstaad voz." (No, all my stuff is here, and I do not want to bother myself to bring it somewhere else) I nod.
"Bek, ruz zu'u laan wah naav hi, soqat malkey fen unt wah wahl hi nep, sot malkey fen unt wah lingrahserk hi tir do osos do hin umriid, ahrk lokluvfahin malkey fen vek hi nau hin sumaar. Don't gevild nii wah niin, nust nunon laan wah jaaril niist nor." (Okay, then I want to warn you, the pink pony will try to build you laugh, the white pony will try to weasel you out of some of your treasure, and rainbow pony will hit you on your nose. Don't castle it to them, they only want to protect their land.)
"Bek, kogaan fah naav, Zu'u don't lorot zu'u grist dimaar, dii faan los Buraki." (Okay, a blessing for the warning, I don't think I introduce myself, my call is Buraki.)I nod.
"Bek Buraki, zey ahrk suvulaan bo tir wah saraan fah korosend wah unfold, bek?" (Okay Buraki, me and twilight fly out to await for event to unfold, okay?)
"Bek." (Okay.) He answers and I look at twilight.
"Come on, we're done here."
"He's leaving?" She asks excitedly?
"Oh no. I just gave him some warning." I leave the cave with Twilight behind me shocked.