//------------------------------// // Chapter 1. Reincarnation. // Story: The Elder Dragons of Equestria // by FanboyGamer3E //------------------------------// 1st Person POV ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today was definitely not my day. First my alarm goes off an hour early, I blame that on my asshole little brother and his pranks, Next my toast gets burnt because my baby sister some how managed to get up on the counter and fuck with the toaster by turning it up too high, then on the way to school my regular route gets shut down so they can repave the roads, so we have to take an already crumbling road which was bumpy as hell, and now I'm lying here bleeding to death in the school's shop class because some dumbass thought it was a good idea to cut a metal chain with a handsaw normally used to cut plywood. I didn't even get a warning like "LOOK OUT" or something like that. One minute I'm using sandpaper to get rid of any splinters on the side of this little bird house I was making, the next I feel the spinning blade of the handsaw shredding it's way into the back of my thigh and make it's way in between my legs. I'm not a doctor, but by the amount of blood coming out, I'd say it must have cut an artery. Apparently the guy trying to cut the chain, Brandon I think his name was, got it in his head to cut a metal chain in half so he could rework it into some kind of chain belt like some kind of Hell's Angel, but someone was at the cutting table so he grabbed a handsaw and got his two stoner friends to hold the chain so that it wouldn't slip. But then the dumbass leans his whole body against it, cuts through it, and falls down onto me which cut open my leg. That was five minutes ago, the teacher's called the paramedics, the trio of morons responsible for this are being held in the principal's office until the cops come, and my vision is starting to fade out due to the blood loss. There's this one pretty blond girl beside me holding my hand. She's saying stuff like "Your gonna be alright," and "Just hold on a little longer." I think she's trying to comfort me or give me some kind of hope, but I'm a realist. The paramedic's aren't going to be here in time, and even if they are, what are they gonna do for a severed artery? I'll tell you what, Jack-Shit. The best the can do is stick a whole bunch of blood bags in my arm and try to buy me as much time as they can until they get to the hospital and rush me into the E.R. and even then there's no guarantee I'll survive, and if I do I'll have to stay in bed for weeks while doped up on painkillers and antibiotics before being healed enough to start up physical therapy. Of coarse that's assuming the paramedics get here in time, which they most likely won't. It's funny, most people would be crying or freaking out, but I'm just calm. Not content because I'm kicking the bucket at such a young age, but calm. Although that's probably just because of the blood loss. My vision is really starting to go now, I'm also seeing a bright light, I think I read somewhere that flashing lights in my vision means my brain is dying which people in the old days would mistake as some kind of portal to heaven. Not wanting to be an open-eyed corpse, I close my eyes and slip into the sweet embrace of death. At least I think I do. It takes a minute or two after the lights in my eyes stop flashing for me to realize I'm still conscious, not only that but my well being has considerably improved. "Human." A young male voice calls out. "Open your eyes." Not having anything better to do, I comply with the voice's request, and am surprised to what my eyes are greeted to. I'm in an empty black void, buck-ass naked, and lying down on a floor of nothing. It's not like an infinite darkness, because if it were I couldn't see a damn thing in front of my face. The best thing I have to compare it to is the abyss where you fight the four kings in the first Dark Souls game. I got to by feet and looked around at the nothing, before shouting out "HELLO, ANYONE, HELLO-OOOOOOH." "Hello human." The voice said in a calm tone. It was weird, it's like it was coming from everywhere and yet there's nowhere for it to come from. "Uuuuuuh, God, Is that you?" "No, not exactly. I am the Tester, and I have chosen you to be my test subject." "Okay I have some issues with the test subject thing but first can you give me some kind of thing for me to identify you as so I'm not just looking everywhere. And could you also have the thing you make be where your voice comes from, I mean I'm all for ASMR, but not when it's coming from everywhere at once." The "Tester" as he calls himself didn't respond right away. But he did, I guess the right word is manifest, some kind of orb of light which asked, "Does this construct meet your standards?" "Yes thank you, now about being a "Test subject." what exactly does this imply?" "First allow me to explain what I am. I am a transdimensional being which through extreme fortune had obtained omnipotence. I have always had a fascination with experimenting with how life forms will react and adapt to change, this change being the universe in which they exist and the body the reside in." "Alright got it, getting a lot of Sci-fi vibes from this. So what you're going to make me immortal and send me back in time, turn me into some kind of immortal prophet to lead the world in a better direction?" "Not quite, I've noticed that you humans have many titles in media." "Yeah so what, they're just made up stories." "Not entirely, tell me are you familiar with the concept of Multiverse theory?" "I mean I know about it from some Justice League movies and Rick & Morty. It goes that there's an infinite number of universe where anything can happen, Boys can be born as girls, Good guys turn into Bad guys." "And made up stories can be real life reality." "Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa, wait, are you telling me that nearly every story line of Tv, movies, and Video games are real, their just happening across infinite universe." "Yes, in fact I suspect that someone is writing about us right now." "Whoa man that's trippy." "Indeed, it took me nearly a century to fully come to terms with the reality of the multiverse when I first obtained these powers. But enough small talk, it is time to commence with the transformation part of the experiment, I warn you this will be painful." And let me tell you it was. I barely had anytime to react to what the Tester had said before a wave of pain sent me reeling to the floor. It was like I was being burnt with fire, acid, and electricity from inside and out. I could barely make out what was happening to my body from my state of pure agony. My muscles and bones where growing and shrinking as my body transformed, at some point I had grown a tail and a pair of leathery wings, my skin was being replaced with scales, and bony spikes had started growing all over my body, with the two largest ones growing out of the sides of my head creating massive horns. By the time the transformation was over nothing even resembling a human remained on my body. "Huh huh huh, what did you do to me?" I asked between ragged breaths, at least my voice was still the same. "I transformed your body into a powerful dragon. I now erase your original name form your memory and christen you with your new identity. You are now Nergigante, The Elder Dragon of Extinction." Out of nowhere I felt myself forget my name, my own fucking name. My other memories were still intact, but whenever I tried to remember myself writing or responding to my name I just couldn't make it come to mind, it was like I never even had it. "In exchange for your erased memories I gift to you knowledge of the various monster from the world Nergigante is originally from." And just like that I felt a stream of information rushing into my brain, a number of facts about the monsters from the Monster Hunter series. Even facts I didn't need or want to known, like the mating habits of various monsters. "Whoa, this is just insane. Are you sure your not a god." I asked. "No, the title of God is reserved for beings of my power who serve as guardians of a universe, and who are worshiped for their power. I have no followers, and I see life forms such as you as play things. Now then where to send you, Tamriel, no they've got enough dragons after the whole Skyrim incident. The Capital Wasteland, no they'll just think you're some new breed of DeathClaw and try to kill you right out the gate. Paradise Island, having a flying dragon on your side would certainly help out against the titans." Now it was my turn to cut him off. "What about Equestria?" "The pony world, are you sure? It seems a bit too cutesy for an elder dragon like you." "Hey, you turned me into this thing, you're the one who involved me in your little "Experiment," I feel that I should have the right to choose where I end up at least." The Tester made a sound like he was blowing air through his lips like people do when they're annoyed before saying, "Very well, but I get to decide where you go in the timeline." "Alright, fair enough." "I will also be sending other beings such as yourself there as well, they will all be beasts from where Nergigante is from so you will know what to do when they appear." "Alright then. Now what? Do you just StarTrek beam me down to the planet?" "Not quite, your ride down will be a bit more "bumpy."" "What does that- OH SHIT." I yelled as I was sucked through a portal into vacuum of FUCKING SPACE. I thought I was going to be left floating out there forever until if felt myself falling. I turned around to see that I was actually falling down to the planet's surface, the one thought that ran through my head before I began to panic again was, "Oh so this what he meant by bumpy." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Person POV ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight was gazing out of her telescope in the Golden Oak library. She enjoyed looking up at the night sky. She stretched her wings before taking one last look up at the sky. That's when she saw it, a shooting star falling from the seemingly infinite heavens. She looked through the telescope to get a closer look at it, and noticed that it looked like it was flailing around at one point he even though she saw wings, a tail, and a face. She also noticed that it was getting closer. Twilight looked up from her telescope to see that some of the detail were more noticeable now, and watched in awe as the falling thing that she no longer thought of as a star flew over the house before landing somewhere in the Everfree forest, causing a flock of birds to scatter in it's wake. The only phrase that came to her mind was, "Well that was ominous."