"Man, can't wait for the others to enjoy these snacks we made." I commented while holding onto a small box filled with delicious PB&J Sandwiches, along with some containers of Iced Tea I made as well. Oh...I didn't see you there. Hi, I'm Kaede Ross but you're pretty much know who I am throughout this adventure. I'm just your everyday average high school girl...or at least I thought I was till I found myself stuck in this world. I started getting used to being here in this world and possibly a good place to relax from my stepfamily for a while. But right now, I was just carrying some lunches along with Applejack, Carrie, Spike and Pinkie for a special event we're going to see and I think many of you are gonna like it. I even brought Rosy with me as she was resting on my left shoulder and I gotta say, she looks so adorable.
"I know right?! Especially with all these cupcakes, chocolate cake, red velvet cake, cinnamon rolls, and milkshakes!" Pinkie exclaimed in excitement, holding onto a box filled with the items she described.
"You made all that?!" Carrie exclaimed in awe, drooling a bit. "Ooh, just hearing all those delicious sweets just makes me wanna have them all!"
"Same here!" Spike added.
"Settle down Carrie, remember it's for everyone." Applejack reminded her.
"Yeah, everyone deserves to eat these while they worked hard for that Dragon Migration thing." I added with a smile. Oh? What's the Dragon Migration you ask? Well I don't know much about it but Jamie and Twilight explained that it took place once a generation for dragons across the entire continent of Equestria flying towards a new home and they calculated that they're always seen in the exact same location we're going to watch. Just up the hill on the outskirts of Ponyville.
"Yeah, I helped too on it, remember?" Spike smirked. "And besides, these desserts will be something all of us will enjoy."
"Of course Spike, you worked so hard on them." I nodded. "Say, you wouldn't mind if I helped carry that box for you, huh? It looks kinda heavy."
"Nah, I got it." Spike shrugged, not bothered how heavy that small box was.
"Well alright then. If you insist." I shrugged as we continued our way towards up the hill.
“Say Spike, are you excited that you’re gonna more dragons?” Carrie asked curiously.
“Are you kidding? It’ll be awesome to see my own species!” Spike chuckled. “After all, dragons are the greatest species on Equestria.”
“A-HEM!” Spike turned to Applejack and Pinkie, who both gave him raised brows.
“As well as ponies, obviously!” Spike chuckled nervously, much to their satisfaction.
“You know, I never known about dragons that much.” I stated. “What kind of dragon are you Spike?”
“Yeah.” Carrie nodded in agreement before we noticed Spike rubbing his head bashfully with a nervous yet depressed look before replying “Well…that’s the thing. I really don’t know about what kind of dragon I am nor where’s my family at.”
“Oh right…sorry about that.” I apologized.
“Yeah, we didn’t mean to ask you that.” Carrie added, but Spike shook his head with a soft smile and said “No worries. I really don’t think about it much. I mean, I got you all right?”
“Well…I guess you have a point there.” I chuckled before we finally towards the hill and one look at the top to see a giant trench in front of us, with Jack and Mason working on it. “Hey you guys! We’re back!”
“About frigging time!” Jack sighed heavily the moment he pushed his shovel down the dirt.
“Wowie-Zowie! Look at those muscles!” Pinkie exclaimed, gazing at their bods. Apparently, both Jack and Mason had to take off their shirts off and showing some bare skin, which made Applejack covered Pinkie’s eyes, even covering her own eyes.
“Woo-wee! You two didn’t tell us you were going to show off that much skin!” Applejack exclaimed.
“Sorry, we didn’t mean too.” Mason apologized with a little bow. “It was getting hot down here and so we decided to take our shirts off to keep ourselves cool.”
I blushed a bit with a nervous grin while Carrie and Spike giggled at that before I commented “Well…that makes sense.”
Soon, he and Jack put down the shovels before putting back on their shirts back on while Jack had a smug look on his face and said “Ha! How do ya like it? We’ve worked on it all afternoon and managed to finish it in time before the others showed up!”
“Okay, no need to boast about that.” Mason rolled his eyes with a smirk on his face.
“I gotta say…” Applejack whistled, uncovering Pinkie’s eyes before she said “This trench looks mighty big. Great work you two.”
“Thanks!” Mason and Jack said in unison.
“Wow, this looks so cool!” Carrie said, gazing down at the huge trench they made before forming a confused look. “But…why do we need it? Aren’t the dragons gonna be friendly creatures like Spike.”
“Yeah, aren’t they?” Pinkie asked.
“I’m sorry but that’s not it.” We all turned around to see Jamie, Twilight, Ren, Fluttershy, Kodiak, Rainbow Dash, and even Rantaro walked into the scene, but the strangest thing is that they were all wearing suits that makes them looks like military men. So I guess they did come useful, huh? “Dragons are known for being very aggressive dragons and we can’t have the possibility of us getting roasted.” Twilight stated.
“Y-yeah…it’s true. Spike is just an exception because he was raised among ponies while the other dragons a-are…let’s just say…aggressive.” Jamie added.
“I’m right here you know?” Spike tapped his foot, forming an upset look on his face.
“Well either way, I guess we’ll be safe in this trench during the migration, right?” I chuckled nervously before putting the food down onto the trench. “Besides, you guys should enjoy it.”
“Kay’s right.” Ren agreed. “We didn’t come all this way for nothing, right?”
“Exactly!” I nodded.
“Though I am well surprise for both Fluttershy and Rantaro to be here.” Mason pointed out.
“W-well…I didn’t have a choice…” Fluttershy muttered, hiding behind Ren. “I-I didn’t want to come here…”
“And I was feeling bored what with no one of those ponies wanting info. I guess they can pay the prices.” Of course someone like you would figured that out, Rantaro…
“Makes sense with the two of you having no upbeat about it.” Jack scoffed lightly, causing Rantaro to smirk and Fluttershy to hide behind Ren more.
“Really? How ironic for a fatso like you.” Rantaro snickered, causing Jack to feel enraged and tried to go over and punch him in the face, but Mason held him back.
“N-no! Just don’t! It’s not even worth it!” Mason exclaimed, holding him back. Jack soon calmed down before scoffing “Tch!…Whatever.”
“So anyway…” I turned over to Fluttershy and asked “Why exactly don’t you wanna come Fluttershy? I thought you love animals?”
“I do…but not dragons.” Fluttershy shivered as Ren held her hoof to calm her down. “They’re so big, mean, scary, and…and…big!”
“Oookay?” Well I never seen her THAT scared before. “So what made you come here and enjoy the Dragon Migration if you’re so scared of it?”
“That’s what I’m wondering!” Rainbow exclaimed. “I tried many times to make her come, even reminding her the time for dragging me over to that stupid Butterfly Migration!”
Rainbow pulled out a picture of her and Fluttershy as they were on a plain fields area where many butterflies were seen flying into the skies on the background. Fluttershy was seen smiling happily while Rainbow Dash on the other hand had a solemn and bored look on her face.
“Well there’s a difference between dragons and butterflies Rainbow.” Mason pointed sternly.
“Whatever! Anyway, I owned her a favor, now she has own me a favor by watching the Dragon Migration!” Rainbow exclaimed, not noticing the anger look on Fluttershy upon hearing her friend called the Butterfly Migration ‘stupid’.
“Rainbow Dash, calm down.” Ren said with a soft smile. “I understand why you’re upset, but you have to understand that Fluttershy is the type to be easily scared. I mean, you do remember what happened last time when a large dragon came to Ponyville?”
Rainbow widened her eyes upon hearing that being mentioned before looking away with a light blush on her face.
“W-well…I….shut up Ren.” Rainbow muttered. Huh? A large dragon here in Ponyville? I’m guessing it took place while the rest of us weren’t around.
"And besides, Fluttershy is always comfortable and finds Ren irresistible to hate." Kodi added, causing the two to flushed in embarrassment.
"H-hey come on...!" Ren exclaimed.
"I-I'm not that attracted to Ren." Fluttershy twiddled her hooves before covering her mouth upon realizing what she said before turning to Ren and said "I-I'm so sorry Ren! No offense!"
"Nah, it's alright." Ren raised his hands with a nervous grin, not bothered by what Fluttershy said.
"Hey!" Jack yelled out of impatience. "Don't you think we should watch that frigging Dragon Migration thing or whatever?!"
"Thanks for the reminder Jack." Twilight smiled. "I am quite excited to actually enjoy it. I think we might be the first ponies and humans to ever witness the Dragon Migration!"
"Really?" Ren asked in surprise. "But I thought ponies would come here and enjoy it like we are."
"I-I'm afraid that's impossible." Jamie shook his head, glancing down nervously. "Y-you see...I heard from Twilight t-that many ponies don't research about dragons."
"They don't? But why?" I asked, feeling interested upon learning that.
"W-well..." Jamie twiddled his fingers until Twilight spoke up and said "Don't take it as an offense, but what he's saying that many ponies are quite too afraid to approach them and scared confronting them due to their violent and aggressive behavior."
"But what about Spike?" Carrie asked.
"Spike is a good friend and a great assistant." Twilight smiled.
"Y-yeah..." Jamie softly smiled. "He's quite d-dedicated with his job..."
"Ahh...thanks you guys." Spike smiled.
"So...nopony has ever researched about them?" Mason questioned, crossing his arms. "Because they were afraid of being near them?"
"Yes." Twilight nodded. "I know it might sound like a bad excuse, but it's the truth."
"Y-yes." Fluttershy nodded. "I-I mean...I'm scared of dragons too you know."
"But you hang out with Spike." Rantaro pointed out, pointing his finger on the right side of his head like he was pretending to hold a gun in his hand. "Who happens to be a dragon."
"W-well...he isn't that big, scary, or mean...." Fluttershy admitted, blushing a bit.
"Yeah, Spike is a nice guy and a dude you want to hang out every weekend." Ren added with a grin.
"Guys, come on, you're embarrassing me..." Spike chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his head.
"Man, you ponies are pussies." Jack scoffed. "You all are just scared of the littlest bit of anything, almost like your shadows."
"Says you." Rainbow snickered, causing Jack to give her a deadpan glare.
"Whatever..." Rantaro shrugged.
"Hey, how about we stop all the yip-yap and get over to watch the Dragon Migration?" Applejack reminded us.
"Yeah! Me, Carrie, Applejack and Kaede didn't make all these snacks by ourselves you know!" Pinkie added. Everyone nodded as they decided to save their argument later before climbing down onto the trench and gazed at the picnic we made for the occasion.
"Whoa!" Kodi gasped in amazement before drooling all over the floor. "Just look at all of this food!"
"Huh...impressive." Mason smirked a bit.
"No way! Y-you worked all of this?!" Jamie asked me in shock, which caused me to blush a bit on that.
"W-well...I wanted to help out and not feel left out from the activities. I can cook, clean, and make outfits and dresses you know." I rubbed my arm bashfully, glancing away from their awe expressions.
"Huh...I guess you're not so useless after all." Jack laughed.
"Well, what you expect? She's the type to love to clean like some women I know." Rantaro chuckled, causing me to raise a brow at him.
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?" I asked suspiciously.
"Wait..." Mason looked around the trench with an open eye. "Where's Rarity? Is she not here yet?"
"N-no...she said she was gonna 'prettified' herself for this event." Jamie replied. "Though...I-I have a feeling that she won't bother to even wear the outfits Kaede made..."
"Oh, so Kaede made those cameo outfits?" Applejack asked.
"Wow, I didn't know you can make that kind of outfits!" Pinkie added while I smiled happily at being complimented before waving it off and said "No no, it's nothing. It's just out of my generosity for you guys. I don't mind."
"Wait, why the hell are you wearing those?" Jack questioned with a dumbfounded look. "What? You all going to a frigging military or something?"
"No, it's just something for precautions." Twilight stated. "After all, safety first."
"Yeah yeah whatever. Ain't gonna wear that junk." Jack scoffed before laying on the side of his hip before scratching his butt a little. "Wake me up when it begins."
"Oh Jack...." Mason sighed before turning to me and asked "Is it possible that you made many more outfits for the rest of us?"
"Yep, sure did." I nodded with a smile. "I gave it to Jamie and Twilight to hold onto them."
"Y-yes...she's right." Jamie nodded. "I-I'll go get them out of the bags..."
"No, let me go get them Jamie. I don't want you to overwork yourself like you did last night." Twilight said with a concerned look.
"No...please..." Jamie said with a soft smile before walking over to the bags he and the others brought over as he began unpacking some things to get the other uniforms. Oh right...I know what he was talking about since we discussed about it yesterday.
Flashback
"No way!"
"Holy crap!"
"Are you...serious?!"
Those comments came from Kaede, Jack, and Mason as they looked at Ren in shock and surprise. It was hours after the little time-traveling skirmish as Ren, Twilight, Jamie, Spike, Kodiak, and Pinkie Pie returned back to Ponyville as Ren decided to call everypony to the library as they discussed what Ren witnessed during traveling through time, along with him finding a book that only we can see...but the others can't.
"Yeah, it's what I saw!" Ren nodded before rubbing his cheek with an embarrassed grin on his face. "Or...at least what I witnessed. I didn't get any clearance on what I saw but I saw myself talking to some strangers in weird black suits telling me about something."
"And you couldn't find out what it was?" Rantaro questioned, sucking on a lollipop he 'bought' from over Sugarcube Corner. "Well...that was some useful clue."
"But it might lead up to something." Twilight pointed out sternly. "This could be a key to why you guys are here."
"But how in Equestria did Ren witnessed that event while time-traveling?" Applejack asked.
"That's a good question..." Jamie looked over at his own notebook and looked over his notes. "B-but I guess that can't be solved for a while since that spell we used to go back in time can't work since we used it once."
"Yeah...but I guess maybe it could've been an interruption from the spell or something?" Twilight suggested.
"Who cares?! I just wanna get out of this place and get back home to my gang!" Jack exclaimed angrily.
"Calm down..." Mason stated softly but with a stern look. "I understand your anger, but remember to calm down."
"Tch..." Jack growled a bit, seemingly calming down.
"So...what happened then?" Kaede asked.
"I don't know, but whatever it was, I kept refusing it." Ren replied with a shrug while Kodi came over and nudged his arm in worried.
"Well...do you think they were talking about?" Kodi wondered aloud.
"Don't know, but maybe an offer or something?" Ren shrugged before placing his hand on his chin in thought.
"Obviously if you said that you kept refusing on what they said." Rantaro scoffed, glancing towards him.
"And not only that...but we found this journal in the Starswirl The Bearded Wing of the Canterlot Archives." Jamie showed them the book, letting his human companions see the weird language words on it but the ponies couldn't see anything.
"I can't darn see the words!" Applejack pointed out.
"Yeah! Are you sure that you're not messing with us Jamie?" Rainbow questioned, shocking Jamie.
"W-what?! N-no I wouldn't!" Jamie shook his head, flinching a bit from that accusation.
"Calm down." Mason said. "Jamie would never joke about something like this."
"He's got a good point." Fluttershy agreed.
"Whatever! What the hell is it saying?! I can't read this crap!" Jack exclaimed.
"That's the thing...I-I don't know..." Jamie muttered, causing Jack to snort and said "Of frigging course you wouldn't know that."
"S-Sorry!" Jamie squeaked, causing Twilight to glare sternly at the biker.
"Jack! That's enough! Right now we'll likely try to translate it!" Twilight stated sternly, causing Jack to snort.
"Whatever..." Jack scoffed.
"Hey! How come they can read it but not us?" Pinkie whined.
"Yeah, even I can't read it." Kodi added, pouting a bit.
"Yeah..." Carrie nodded. "Do you guys think it might be a magic spell?"
"No doubt about it." I nodded. "But if this belong to Starswirl, why did he enchant his own journal? To keep out anyone from reading it?"
"That seems like a possibility..." Rantaro let out a smirk and said "Guess this old geezer might've thought that he couldn't trust anyone into whatever he wrote."
"Rantaro!" Twilight exclaimed in anger.
"Ugh, such foul language he gives out." Rarity scoffed.
"Wow, how ironic for such a 'lady' like you." Rantaro shrugged, causing Rarity to make a dramatic gasp.
"Excuse me?!"
"Alright alright, simmer down." Applejack said, trying to make sure no one starts up a fight. "Look, we may not know what's that book says to them or to us-"
Applejack stopped mid-sentence as Pinkie raised her hoof in the air, causing her to sigh.
"Yes Pinkie?"
"But how can we read it since we can't see it?" Pinkie asked dumbfounded while Applejack face-hooved herself and let out another sigh and said "Well they can read it for us, but I bet it's gonna take a while."
"Applejack has a point. I'm sure Princess Celestia can figure it out." Twilight smiled softly. "Hopefully it leads us to some good answers. And better yet..." Twilight smiled excitedly with a glee and exclaimed "This could be it! We could possibly discover any secret Starswirl The Bearded has ever kept that nopony has ever found it for 1,000 of years!"
"That could be a possibility!" Jamie exclaimed, sharing the same excitement as her before he grabbed her hooves and said "We could learned any type of spell that no one has ever discovered or maybe some secret locations he never revealed to anyone but himself! Think of what we could discovered Twilight!"
"I know, right Jamie?!" Twilight giggled as they stared at each other for a long moment while the others cleared their throats, gaining their attention. Jamie and Twilight blinked before coughing awkwardly and looking away from each other. "R-right...anyway..."
"Yeah..." Kaede nodded with a nervous smile. "But...we might have a chance to go back home!"
"Really?" Carrie asked, feeling hopeful about that.
"Yeah! I mean that book might contain some spell that can transport others to worlds, right? At least that's what I think so." I nodded.
"Yeah! Kaede might have a point!" Ren agreed with a bright grin on his face as he continued "That book might contain something like that once Jamie and Twilight can decipher it's code!...Or at least Jamie, but hopefully Twilight can help him figure that out."
"Of course we can." Twilight and Jamie said in unison, feeling proud that Ren has total faith in their credibility.
"Well...I sure hope so." Mason sighed.
"Ugh...wasted my time for this sentimental crap." Rantaro sighed irritably.
"Well at least enjoy spending time here." Pinkie stated. "I mean, the way you keep saying that it's wasting time makes us wonder why you're acting so mean."
"I'm not mean. I'm just stating out how I feel." Rantaro smirked before taking his leave. "Now excuse me, I rather go and earn some money."
"Well...at least we don't have to hear more of his crap." Jack scoffed.
"So...do you think that journal might lead us back home?" Carrie asked curiously with a hopeful smile.
"Well that's what they're assuming Carrie." Mason softly smiled. "But...maybe Ren and Kaede have a point. It might contain something that can lead us back home."
"Exactly!" Kaede said with a smile. "We just have to wait for when Jamie and Twilight tried to decipher the code."
"We sure hope so..." Jamie muttered loudly.
"I know that you can." Ren assured, surprising Jamie as he realized that he said it too loud before calming down a bit with a soft smile.
"Y-yes...thank you Ren." Jamie softly smiled, blushing a bit.
"Yeah, I sure hope so..." Kaede muttered as she smiled over at her friends, feeling a bite hopeful that that mysterious journal could be the key leading them back home. It will lead them to possibly some answers to the mysteries surrounding Equestria.
Flashback End
Man, it sure was shocking by what Ren told us what he witnessed during his time-traveling adventure after the part about giving past Twilight and Jamie that message.
"Kaede, something wrong?" I looked over to see Carrie as she looked at me with a confused look.
"H-huh? Oh no, it's nothing Carrie! Just thinking about...things." I assured with a soft grin. Carrie seemed to understand as she decided to hang out with her older brother while the rest of us were wearing the cameo outfits that I worked on all night last night. Rosy soon woke up and began nuzzling my cheek, causing me to chuckle a bit.
"Oh thanks Rosy." I chuckled before scratching her underneath her chin before setting her down on the ground. "Here, why not you go play with your big brother Kodi over there?"
Rosy beamed at that idea before running and over and jumped on his face, which caught Kodi off-guard before laughing upon realizing who it was.
"Aww Rosy!" I couldn't help but smile upon seeing that scene while the rest of the gang were sitting around either eating snacks that we've prepared or watching outside to see if the dragons finally arrived.
"I don't see any dragons." Twilight said, not noticing one in the sky with her binoculars.
"Me neither." Applejack nodded.
"Me neither neither." Pinkie added, causing Mason to give her a deadpanned look and asked "Is that even a sentence?"
"Maybe so, maybe not?" PInkie shrugged, causing him to face-palm himself.
"S-strange..." Jamie took out his notebook and looked over it with a confused look. "We should've seen some by now."
"Shoot!" Rainbow cursed herself, feeling extremely angry and worried at the same time. "You don't think we missed them, do you?"
Twilight shook her head and said "No, I don't think so. We're just a little early, and I'm glad we are."
"This way, we can watch every moment of the migration without bringing any unwanted attention to ourselves!" Jamie added.
"Whatever, it better not take long!" Jack scoffed while his pet guinea pig was laying on his head with a relaxed look on his face. No sooner when she arrived...
"Yoo-hoo!" We all turned around to see a red carpet roll straight towards the stairs into the trench. She came in wearing some weird outfit that she might've made which I soon realized why she wanted to wear it.
"Well, what do you think?" Rarity asked as she posed smoothly in her outfit. "Aren't I the toast of the trench or what?"
"Toast of the trench?" Ren asked in confusion.
"What does that mean?" Kodi asked in confusion, only to receive a shrug from him.
"You'll be toast alright, when the dragons see you parading around in that getup!" Applejack glared at her.
"Yeah, are you trying to get yourself killed ya loon?!" Jack growled. "Besides, it makes you look more ugly than before."
Rarity scoffed at him and muttered "Says so what with that dirty overcoat you're wearing..."
"R-Rarity..." Jamie spoke up, feeling a bit worried on what she was wearing. "Y-you look very nice, Rarity, but maybe could you look nice down here in the trench with us...as well as taking the outfit off for our sake?"
"Indeed, it might lead to the possibility to lure the dragons here Rarity." Mason agreed.
"Ooh, but come on! I worked so hard on it all night!" Rarity complained. "What's the best of wearing a good dress if you aren't gonna wear one?"
"Who the hell even says that?!" Jack exclaimed.
"Don't bother to talk her out of it, trust me I tried..." I sighed irritably while the others soon realized how true that was. Rarity was some stubborn pony, am I right?
"Well can you at least come down here before you attract any attention?" Ren asked, which Rarity complied as she arrived down into the trench and was eager to enjoy the scene until she accidentally stepped on her drapes and fell down until Mason caught her.
"I gotcha!" Mason said, settling her down a bit as she looks up with awe and a blush.
"O-Oh Mason! T-thank you so much darling!" Rarity smiled as her cheeks showed some pink on it and it wasn't from the make-up.
"I was just looking out for you, that's all." Mason softly smiled at her before covering his mouth with his scarf, and I could've sworn that he was feeling embarrassed as well.
“Guys! Look!” We all looked over at Carrie as she pointed upwards through the sky as we bore witnessed to see so many dragons flying through the skies and there were like millions of them!
“Holy cow! Look at them!” Ren exclaimed in excitement.
“OOH!…AHH!…” We all went as we felt amazed upon seeing it.
“There’s gotta be like thousands of them…” Kodi muttered in awe.
“No…millions…” Jamie added.
“Amazing!” Twilight exclaimed in excitement.
“Amazing indeed!” I smiled softly. Wow, I never witnessed something like this. You would see some things from a movie and/or TV show, but seeing it in real life makes you feel like you just accomplished something.
Soon, we saw a yellow dragon dived and did a quick loop de’ loop before rising back up to join to his friends and family.
“Whoa!” Kodi exclaimed in joy.
“Pfft!” Rainbow scoffed before blowing a raspberry and said “Pretty lame move. Is that all they got?”
As if on cue, one dragon bumped into another, that one blowing fire in rage, making us all duck in time while Rainbow didn’t, her face covered in smoke.
“You were saying Skittles?” Jack laughed. “Looks like that dragon isn’t as lame as you thought, eh?”
Rainbow Dash wasn’t even bothered by Jack’s comment as she shook her head to blow off the smoke and made a meek smiled.
“I…stand corrected. I retracted the word lame and subsitute fierce!”
“And formidable!” Rarity agreed.
“And outstanding.” Mason added.
“And awesome!” Carrie exclaimed.
“And super-duper-scary!” Pinkie squeaked.
“Woo! Man, this is something out of How To Train Your Dragon!” Ren exclaimed in amazement. “Ooh! When we have time, we gotta watch the series, specials, and the movies! You guys are gonna like it!”
“’How To Train Your Dragon?’ That’s a really weird name for a movie.” Fluttershy pointed out.
“And please, train a dragon? We can practically train ourselves.” Spike chuckled. I’ve seen that movie before and it’s such a heartbreaking movie! Ooh, my favorite part is the one about the one was that part where he and his dragon flying around for the first time! It was so epic!
“Well you are Twilight’s number one assistant.” Ren joked, drinking a bottle of spring water. “But man, you sure how to be prepared Kay.”
“Oh come on, I was just helping out, that’s all.” I waved it off with a light blush.
“Yeah! Kay is the best!” Carrie giggled while I flushed in embarrassment.
“G-guys…stop it. It was something out of my help. After all, if Rarity was planning on making the snacks, she would have done the same way as I did. Just an act of generosity.” I chuckled while Rarity smiled at me and commented “Quite true Kaede darling.”
“Well who cares? She’s got some snacks, I say stop embarrassing her.” Jack chuckled, picking his ear a bit before gazing over at the dragon on the skies. “But damn, who knew dragons actually frigging exist here?”
“But Spike is a dragon, remember?” Carrie reminded him.
“Okay, so what?!” Jack exclaimed.
“Well it’s understandable really…” Rantaro shrugged. “Dragons only exist in myths, so there you have it.”
“But you have to understand…” Spike walked over with a pink apron on and handed us the vittles that I packed as well. “Us dragons are definitely a force to be reckoned with! It’s a shame that they don’t exist in your world.”
“And probably a good thing…” Rantaro muttered, causing me to frown a bit. I just hope that Spike didn’t hear that because that might’ve been an offensive word there.
“True, but still Spike…” Rainbow laughed with a smirk on her face. “That’s gotta be one of the scariest aprons I’ve ever!”
That caused the other girls, Ren, Jack, Kodiak, and Rantaro except Carrie, Mason, Jamie and I, to start laughing while we raised a brow over by the confused and enraged Spike.
“What’s wrong with wearing an apron?!” Spike demanded, feeling upset about it. “You won’t be laughing when you spill blueberries all over your scales!…” He widened his eyes before realizing something before saying “Feathers…that’s one tough stain!”
“How the hell can feathers be a tough stain?!” Jack fell down on his back and kept laughing.
“I’m with ya fatty! One tough stain against one lame dragon!” Rainbow chuckled.
“Okay, I think that’s enough.” Mason stated sternly.
“Yeah!” Ren soon started to calm down before wiping a tear from his eye. “But I gotta say Spike, you can be quite a cool guy despite being a small dragon.”
“Uhh…thanks” Spike raised a brow in confusion as Rarity came over with a smile and said “Indeed! Spike’s style is unique! He doesn’t have to look like other dragons!”
“Or act like them.” Twilight stated, causing Spike to feel bad for himself.
“My little Spike-wikey is perfect the way he is.” Rarity said, ruffling his spines while Spike started to get boiling mad as he slowly asked “I don’t…act like other dragons?”
“Oh no even close!” Pinkie answered with a bright grin.
“Umm…girls? Don’t you think that you’re going too far?” I asked in worried.
“Yeah, I think that’s enough n-now.” Jamie pleaded, but they kept going as Applejack asked “But why would you want to, Spike?”
“Yes. You've got something those dreadfully fierce dragons can only dream of." Rarity giggled, neither she or the others noticing Spike's face turning red.
"What's that?" Spike asked.
"The cutest widdle chubby cheeks, ooh!" Rarity giggled, messing around with his cheeks before he felt embarrassed before pushing her hooves away and exclaimed "Cute?! Dragons aren't supposed to be cute!"
"It's not much of a big deal." Rantaro shrugged. "I mean, you are a baby after all."
"Yeah...a walking talking baby dragon." Ren added.
"Oh sweetie, you are turning the most delightful shade of red, it is most becoming!" Rarity gushed, causing Spike to growl loudly before yelling "ERRRRGGGGH!"
With that, he stormed off, humiliated while we watched with worried and confused looks until Mason gave them a stern look and exclaimed "What was that for?!"
"What? We were just complimenting Spike." Twilight shrugged.
"That's not what he thought." Rantaro pointed out. "What he heard from you girls were insults."
"What?!" All the mares in the room exclaimed in shock.
"B-but we didn't mean that!" Fluttershy exclaimed.
"Hey, calm down Flutters." Ren assured with a soft smile. "You all just didn't know."
"Though I am quite worried about Spike..." Mason said, gazing at where Spike was at. "I have a bad feeling that he's starting to question about his own existence."
"W-what do you mean Mason darling?" Rarity asked in concern.
"I mean is that he might be questioning whether he's a dragon...or not." We all looked at each other in worried, letting Mason's words sink in. I-I'm so worried about Mason, but...I just hope Spike didn't take it personal.
"Well I'm sure he'll be fine." Jack shrugged it off as he continued "Besides, he would've accept who he is if you girls would stop treating him like a baby instead of a man."
"Uh, what?" Applejack questioned as she and the other girls glared at the biker.
"I'm just saying that he can take care of himself, but you girls just keep pestering him every day and can't just let him mind his own business." Jack stated, causing the girls and the rest of us to look at each other in worried.
"D-do you really think so?" Rarity asked.
"I have to agree with him there." Rantaro shrugged, taking out his lollipop and giving it to Gizmo, who just happened to be sitting around by where we packed our foods in as he enjoyed sucking it. "If you mares hadn't compared him to those dragons up there, then maybe he wouldn't feel upset. I hope you're happy..."
With that, Rantaro walked out of the trench while the rest of us looked at each other, feeling guilty for what we've done. Ooh, I just hope that Spike doesn't take this personal...
The Next Day
It was the day after the Dragon Migration, we all headed back home and spend the rest of the day with our normal lives, but it was getting late and we all went to sleep and now we all were eating some breakfast that me and Mason cooked up. It was just me, Ren, Carrie, Kodiak, Rosy, and Mason around in the dining table. Jack and Rantaro weren't up yet and Jamie wasn't around due to staying up all night over by Twilight's library and we were still feeling bad for Spike getting talked-down unintentionally like that.
"Big brother..." Carrie looked at her brother with a concern look and asked "Do you think that Spike is...gonna be alright?"
Not wanting to crush her hopes, Mason gave her a soft smile and said "Rest assured Carrie, I'm sure Spike is gonna calm his temper down and try to forget what the girls said to him yesterday."
"Yeah, I'm sure he will." Kodi stated with a smile.
"I sure hope so." Ren sighed before forming a smile. "But overall, I am curious to know what kind of dragon he is. I mean, we never did find out about him."
"But don't you remember what Twilight told us back then?" I reminded him as I said "She said that she first met Spike after trying to hatch him from an egg that she tried to go over towards the entrance exam when she was a kid, remember?"
"I know but do you ever wonder where he came from?" Well...you do bring up a good question, but none of us even have the answer for that.
"Well...I don't know about that..."
"Thinking about it, Spike is just an orphan, just like me." Kodi pouted, lowering his head down until Rosy came over and nuzzled his cheek, making him form a smile on his muzzle.
"Along with me and Carrie back then. I can understand the self-doubts Spike is having after yesterday's skirmish." Mason crossed his arms with a solemn look on his face.
"Yeah, me too..." Carrie nodded.
Yesterday after Spike left the trench in anger and humiliation, we haven't seen him for the whole day. I wonder if Twilight and Jamie knows.
"Ugh, you guys still talking about that crap?" We all turned to see Jack...in his underwear, and it looked like they haven't been washed for weeks as I immediately covered my ears in embarrassment and a massive blush on my face while Ren and Kodi jaw-dropped on that while Mason covered his sister's eyes the moment he saw him entered. "What? Never seen a guy without his pants?"
"We have!" I exclaimed. "Put some pants on Jack! You're gonna make us hurl!"
"Y-yeah...same here." Ren nodded, his face nearly turning green.
"Oh what? You guys are just wimps." Jack scoffed as I lowered my hands down and saw Jack scratching them, causing me to look away in disgust. You know, I'm starting to agree with Rarity about his manners. I know that he's a biker, but still! That's just gross!
"Ugh, ever heard of manners?" We looked over to see Rantaro exiting out of the elevator with a slightly annoyed look on his face. "Seriously, you make me think you were raised by pigs."
"Shut it bastard!" Jack scowled. "Look, I'm gonna go and change my clothes, alright?!"
"Thank goodness!" I exclaimed in blessing as I heard the elevator turned on and uncovered my eyes to see Jack was gone. "Phew, I would've thought that he was gonna eat in his dirty underwear all day..."
"And I am gonna have nightmares of witnessing that." Ren sighed, his eyes still widened in shock before shaking his head with a nervous grin. "Well...with that out of the way, why not we go check up on Spike to check up to see if he's feeling any better?"
"That we can agree." Mason nodded with a smile before uncovering his sister's eyes, who only blinked in confusion.
"Umm...what just happened?" Carrie asked curiously, causing some of us to look at each other in worried and fear.
"Don't bother asking kid, that's something you're not ever gonna find out." Rantaro answered, much to our relief. That memory will always messed up my eyes for good...
Later
"So what do you think Spike is doing back at the library?" Kodi wondered.
"Don't know, probably sulking while eating some ice cream." We all gave Ren some looks, which he noticed. "What? I've seen some characters on movies, TV shows, and shorts do that whenever they feel depress.
"...Okay?" Mason sighed while I snickered at that. Wow, Ren really knows how to do stuff like that. Makes sense for an average kid who plays video games and watches anime all day and all night.
"Well Spike did some ice cream just the other day during that whole time-traveling problem Twilight and Jamie faced." Kodi pointed out. Ren made a gesture with a smirk plastered on his face, causing some of us to smile and shake our heads from that.
"Ha! That's something I would do if I ever felt depressed!" Jack barked up a laugh, causing the rest of us to laugh as well.
Sooner or later, we arrived to the place and before Ren could open the door, it slammed opened by none other by Spike carrying a bag with a stick over by his shoulder.
"Spike?!" I exclaimed in shock.
"What's up with that bag?" Carrie asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"Spikey-wikey! Don't go!" Rarity soon charging out of the door with a frightened look on her face. "This is a terrible idea!"
"Sorry Rarity, but I have to..." Wait what?!
"Spike, what's going on?" Mason questioned suspiciously.
"I'm just going off..." Spike replied, walking past us with a sad yet determined look on his face.
"Off? Are you running away?!" Mason asked in surprise, shocking us all as well.
"No, I'm not running away!" Spike exclaimed before sighing. "I just need...time alone."
"Oh god." Rantaro rolled his eyes. "I had a feeling something like this might happen."
"Jeez, you think?" Rainbow asked, flying out of the library with an upset look on her face.
"Wait Spike!" Ren exclaimed, feeling shocked by what Spike was planning. "Why are you leaving?! I know the girls wouldn't mean that stuff but-"
"No Ren! This is the only way and it's not like I'm running away for good. I just need some aspiration..." Spike assured.
"Aspiration?" Carrie asked.
"In other words, to achieve something." Mason stated.
"So I take it you're going to that dragon migration, huh?" Rantaro guessed, which he nodded until he noticed Jamie and Twilight coming out with concern and worried looks on his faces.
"I-I'm afraid so." Jamie answered, glancing away nervously.
"He's doing there in order to find aspiration and find out his true calling." Twilight explained. "Late last night, we woke up and decided to look through my books for anything about dragons but..."
"You couldn't find anything?" Rantaro asked.
"Yeah...just like Twilight said that not that many ponies ever researched dragons due to how scary they are." Jamie explained sadly.
"Which is why I have to go on this quest of self-discovery!" Spike said in a dramatic pose.
"But Spike, you don't have to do this." I said with concern.
"Yeah! You're our best friend!" Carrie exclaimed. "You can't!"
"I have to! I need to find out what it means to be a dragon and that's only gonna work if I spend time among them!" Spike stated in a serious look.
"Spike, that's crazy!" Ren exclaimed.
"Yeah! What if something happened to you?!" Kodi added, feeling like it's a bad idea.
"I have to agree." Mason agreed. "You have to understand that this is quite a bad idea."
"Hell yeah!" Jack exclaimed. "Are you frigging serious?!
"I've made up my mind you guys!" Spike shouted before sighing sadly and said "I'm sorry but I have to do...goodbye for now..."
"Spike..." I muttered in sadness as we watched him go off towards the distance while we felt disappointed.
"Damn..." Jack muttered in shock. "That Spike dragon really is a tough guy, huh?"
"Yeah, I've never seen Spike this angry and dedicated before." I nodded in agreement. "But...what are we gonna do?"
"Well we can't just let him go off by himself." Ren said, forming a serious look. "We have to follow him!"
"That's a good idea!" Twilight beamed at that idea.
"Y-yeah...it might be a good idea." Jamie nodded meekly. "While we're out on it, we should also let S-Spike do this."
"Wait what?" Mason asked in shock.
"W-well maybe he should do it. You know...it's his decision and we can't stop h-him." Jamie twiddled his fingers with a nervous look.
"Are you frigging serious?!" Jack exclaimed in anger, causing Jamie to shivered in fear while still standing.
"No wait! Jamie might be onto something!" Twilight insisted, much to our confusion. "For all his life, Spike never knew so much about his own kind nor about his family. I raised him myself the day he hatched during my entrance exam and dreamed so much of studying him and I promised him that one day that I'll reunite him with his family, and if this will be the only way to learn so much about himself then I won't stop him."
"So we won't stop him?! Is that you're saying?!" I demanded.
"Well technically no." Twilight shook her head, much to our confusion. "Because we'll follow right after him. That's why Rarity is planning on making an outfit on chasing after them."
"Let me guess: You're gonna dress ourselves as dragons eh?" Rantaro guessed.
"W-well...that is the plan." Jamie nodded with a soft smile. "After all, how else are we gonna blend in when we try and go after Spike while avoiding the other d-dragons?"
"Well I sure hope that'll work..." I sighed before looking over at where Spike was last seen. I feel so bad for him...I can sorta understand what it feels like having self-doubts of herself ever since my mother passed away...I wished I could stay by his side as a dragon. That way I can try and help him, and so can the others.....
"AH!" What the?! What's going on? "Ooh...my head...."
"Kaede, what's wrong?" Mason asked as I fell down to my knees and fall down, holding onto my head before letting darkness consume, but not before hearing some of the others screaming. I don't get it...what's going on?
"Kaede...Kaede....Kaede!"
Ooh....what just happened? Last thing I remember was falling unconscious and hitting the ground like I got knocked out by some force or something.
"K-Kaede?...Is that you?" Huh? I slowly began to open my eyes to see the horrified looks of Rainbow Dash, Kodiak, Rarity, Jamie and Twilight looking at us with shock while Rantaro looked at us like he was unfazed by this.
"What are you guys talking about? I'm-" I stopped myself at mid-sentence upon noticing something wrong with my arm. It was...filled with scales. I-I don't understand, why? "Umm...mirror someone please?"
"Allow me...Kaede darling." Rarity pulled out a mirror from out of nowhere and showed it to me as I looked out an ear-curling scream. I-I...was a...dragon! No serious, I was! Apparently, my whole body was covered in the same scales as Spike, except for the spiky spines of his, but all I got was smooth spines that seemed to form my hairstyle and I didn't wear my sweater. I looked similar to Spike, except my scales were velvet color and my underbelly was creamy white and my smooth spikes were tainted pink.
"W-what...happened to me?!" I asked in shock.
"W-we don't know! Honest!" Jamie exclaimed. "W-we just saw this bright light emerging from you and the other four transformed into that!"
"Huh? The others?" I questioned before turning to where I last saw Ren, Mason, Carrie, and Jack, and to my shock, they were turned into dragons as well. "G-Guys!"
"Uhh...what just happened?" Ren muttered, rubbing his aching head. "My head is spinning..."
"It's like someone knocked the living daylights out of me..." Jack growled before he and the others opened their eyes and noticed the others looking at them with shock before gazing at me, slowly turning surprised and shocked by that.
"W-what the hell?!" Jack exclaimed.
"K-Kaede!" Mason widened his eyes in shock. "W-why are you....are you..."
"I know! I've been transformed! Even I was shocked!" I stated before pointing at them and exclaimed "And so are you guys!"
"Wait what?!?" One looked at themselves caused them to widened their eyes in shock. "N-no way!" Ren exclaimed in shock. "How did this happened?!"
"This is...impossible..." Mason felt shocked upon seeing himself as a slim black dragon as his normal height and his underbelly were light tan, but his spikes were spiny and red.
"Whoa...no frigging way." Ren said in awe as he looked at himself, seeing his scales were blue like his eye color while his underbelly was orange like his spikes, and a hairstyle from his spikes, along with his ahoge on his head made from a little spike, for the scales they were pointy and his body was the same size as his normal self and was quite skinny too. "This is so freaky!"
"Yeah!" Carrie agreed, gazing at her new form. She was quite small, at the same height as Spike's. Her scales and underbelly were magenta pink while her spikes were light pink with little red shaped hearts on each of her cheeks. "This is so amazing!"
"What the fudge?" Jack looked himself, and of course his new form keeps his fat self, but overall, he was still the same height as Mason. His scales were light yellow and spikes were colored grayish white, along with his bulging underbelly. The spikes on his head formed the same ruffled dirty hairstyle of his and the rest of us were all naked, but it seemed that we didn't mind at the moment.
I still can't believe that we've been transformed into dragons, and we even got wings on our back. Well except Carrie...
I guess that she's too young to have wings, right?
Soon, Jack glared at Jamie, Rantaro, and the rest of the ponies as he yelled "What the hell did ya do to us?!"
"We don't know! We just saw this happened right in front of us!" Twilight exclaimed.
"But wow, you guys don't really look that different in those forms." Rantaro commented.
"We don't?" Ren asked in confusion.
"W-well..." Jamie spoke up, clutching his notebook hard and felt nervous at gaining attention before speaking up and said "While those forms are quite different, y-you guys still look like the same as your regular selves. The spikes on your heads resembles your hairstyles."
We all looked at each other, seeing how right Jamie was.
"...You make a valid point." Mason sighed.
"No way! You guys get to transformed into dragons?!" Rainbow gasped. "How awesome is this?!"
"Not for me! Change us back!" Jack demanded.
"Well I'm certain I can try." Twilight stepped forward before her horn started glowing before shooting a magic beam at us, forcing us to stay still as we embraced it...until five seconds later, we still remained in these dragon forms. "What?! It didn't work! But how?!"
"Are you saying you can reverse the effects on them?!" Kodi gaped.
"I'm afraid so!" Twilight shook her head. "I just don't understand why it didn't work!"
"I-I know! I've study about a spell that can transform ponies into dragons from the ancient archives!" Jamie exclaimed in shock as he traversed through his notebook in slight panic. "I even copied down the notes for it! I-I just don't know what's happening anymore!"
"So you can't change us back?" Carrie asked.
"Fudge!" Jack cursed himself before turning to Rarity and asked "Hey loon! Why can't ya change us back?! Aren't ya a frigging unicorn or whatever?"
"I am." Rarity narrowed her eyes at Jack still calling her that nickname before she continued "But I'm not much of a talented spell chanter than Twilight here. So I'm afraid not."
"Now that you mention it, the only spells I've seen you do were lifting objects into the air for when making and designing the dresses with me, along with that gem-finding spell of yours." I pointed out, remembering much about her magic.
"Yes...quite true Kaede darling." Kaede nodded.
"Well you're pretty much frigging useless." Jack scoffed, ignoring the little protest Rarity shouted.
"I don't know, I think it looks kinda cute on me." Carrie giggled, gazing at her new body. "Say, I wonder if we can fly."
Carrie decided to do it by running around and jumped, before falling on her stomach. She looks behind her and realized that she doesn't got any wings.
"Oooh..." Carrie groaned while Mason helped her up with a soft smile.
"Are you alright Carrie?" Mason asked in worried.
"Y-yeah...I think so. Thanks big brother." Carrie softly smiled at her older brother while Ren took out his Hacking Gun and looked at it for a while.
"Oh man, it feels kinda weird holding the Hacking Gun while being a dragon. I gotta say that it's pretty cool." Ren grinned in amazement.
"Are you sure Ren?" Kodi asked, stepping forward to gaze at his new form, along with Rosy inspecting me curiously. "You're not that much bothered by it."
"Nah! This is quite awesome being a dragon! A little shocking, but still awesome!" Ren toothily grinned. "Though I wouldn't mind transforming into a Night Fury, or maybe a Monstrous Nightmare, or better yet, a Deadly Nadder?!"
"I have no clue what kind of dragons are they." Twilight said deadpanned.
"Well you haven't seen any of the HTTYD Franchise yet!" Ren replied, feeling offended by it.
"A-Anyway...can we please focus on the task on hand or hoof?" Jamie timidly asked. "W-while we may not soon figure out w-what's going on with your bodies, w-we should probably go back focusing on the main topic."
"Huh? Do you mean Spike?" I asked curiously.
"Duh, that's what we were talking about a while ago." Rantaro replied.
"Rantaro!" Twilight exclaimed, giving him a scolded look.
"What? I'm just stating the truth." He led out a shrug, not bothered by what he said. "But overall, I say go after him and maybe and hopefully he'll come back, which he will not."
"And what makes you say that he won't?" Rainbow asked, crossing her hooves with a hard glare towards the broker.
"I'm just saying that he seemed pretty dedicated and like Twilight said, this is for his own good." Rantaro replied before he began to walk off much to our surprise.
"Wait! Aren't you gonna help us?!" Ren called, but simply got a wave from him as he just continued to walk away like it was nothing. Unbelievable...he was totally unfazed by that. Hmm...come to think of it, he was rarely unfazed by almost anything that comes around Equestria. It's like he's hiding away his emotions so easily.
"Well there he goes..." Rarity glared before letting out a 'HMPH' sound before asking "So what are we gonna do with all of you now?"
"I wonder that too Rarity." Mason sighed, crossing his arms while he twirled his bamboo pole a while. "While we do not know what was the cause of our transformation, we must hurry to Spike."
"Yeah, maybe these new bods might give us some recon, eh?" Ren nudged Jack, who gave him a deadpanned glance and asked "What?"
"You know, maybe with these new bodies, we can like blend in with the crowd and watch over him. Heck, I don't think he'll even recognize us, am I right?" Ren smiled while we felt unsure about this.
"Well...I guess I can give it a try." Carrie replied, much to our shock. "I mean, I look kinda cute in this form, and so does you all."
"C-cute?" Jack exclaimed in shock before snarling "I ain't frigging cute!"
"Well you are in that chubby dragon form of yours fatty." Rainbow laughed, ignoring the angry glare he was giving her.
"Well...Ren does make a good point on using these 'forms' to blend in with the rest of the dragons." Mason sighed. "Well...I just don't know."
"Well, why not?" I spoke up with a soft smile and said "Maybe we could possibly use these forms to protect Spike from some trouble. It's like he won't know what hit him. So I'm with Ren on this one."
"Well you're the only one left Mason darling." Rarity said with a smirk while Mason gaze upon our determined looks, causing him to shake his head in annoyance while pinching the bridge of his...uhh...nostrils, maybe?
"I guess so, so why not?" Mason sighed.
"Alright Mason!" Ren chuckled.
"Way to join the team big brother!" Carrie smiled brightly.
"W-well...we should head over to the northwest. That's where the dragons went for their Dragon Migration once a generation." Jamie said, taking out a piece of paper with direction in it before handing it to Ren. "H-here, you might need it. I already copied it down in my notebook so it should be useful for you guys to get there."
"Thanks James!" Ren thanked with a smile on his face while the rest of us nodded.
"Good, now we'll go get the costumes while you guys go on ahead." Twilight insisted.
"And remember, don't pull any punches yet in case Spike's gets hurt." Rainbow added, flying off towards Carousel Boutique.
"And Mason..." Rarity gave Mason a worried look and asked "If anything, and I mean anything happened to my dear Spikey-wikey..." She crossed her brows angrily and said "Make sure that they shall feel my wrath!"
With that, she dropped that look on her face and replaced it with a smile before walking off, along with Twilight and Jamie while Kodi stayed behind. The rest of us blinked in shock and surprise by what Rarity said.
"...What the hell was that for?" Jack asked bluntly.
"She was just saying that out of worried for Spike, that's all." Mason replied. "Spike should be fine and I'm sure we won't assist him unless its necessary." Mason glances down with a worried look and continued "But I can understand Rarity's anger, if something were to happened to Carrie, I would never forgive myself."
"Don't worry big brother, I'll be fine!" Carrie smiled. "Besides, I know that you would never fail to protect me, like you did for Elena and Rarity!"
Mason glanced away with a blush through his scarf and muttered "P-Please stop...you're embarrassing me..."
"But I'm your little sister, so of course I'll keep annoying you. That's my job." Carrie smiled, causing Ren to laugh at that.
"She's got you there dude." Ren chuckled, alongside with me, Kodi, and Jack while Mason gave us a deadpanned glare.
"Jeez...thanks a lot for the support you guys." Well sorry! It's just so true yet funny!
"Well anyway..." Kodi cleared his throat before looking at us with a worried look. "I wished I could come with you guys..."
"Don't worry Kodiak, you'll be fine." Ren assured, petting him on the head. "After all, maybe you should man the fort for us while we're gone."
"R-really?" Kodi asked incredulous while I scratched Rosy underneath the chin, who wasn't afraid of me upon seeing who I really was.
"Well why not?" I suggested with a smile before picking up Rosy and walking over to Kodiak. "I mean, you could spend some more time with Rosy, you know."
"Meow!" Rosy purred before leaping on top of Kodi's head and nuzzled him, causing Kodiak to laugh a bit.
"Okay, I see your point. Well I hope you guys will do alright. Still, I'm gonna miss you. Especially you Ren." Kodi whimpered a bit before nuzzling his friend while Ren smiled at him before bending over to his height and said "Relax boy, I'll be fine. Just watched over the home-ship along with the other pets and we'll come back till Spike finishes up his dragon quest. I promise."
"Pinkie promise?" He asked suspiciously, causing Ren to sigh before doing the whole 'Pinkie Pie Promise' thing.
"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." Ren stated, doing the gestures for the little Pinkie Pie Promise, causing the two of them to laugh out loud.
"Okay, I'll watch over the home-ship for ya guys Ren!" Kodi grinned while Rosy nodded in agreement.
"Oh, and just watch over Jo Jo for me, will ya? He should be sleeping in my couch up in my room." Jack said, rubbing his nose a bit.
"Along with Nate and Maddy. I left them in my room to enjoy their sleep since they deserved some more rest." Mason added.
"You left your squirrels up in your room?" I asked curiously. Wow, I rarely seen those two squirrels of his ever coming out of his scarf.
"They were sleeping peacefully, so I didn't want to wake them up, that's all." Mason replied.
"Well okay you guys! I'm on the case!" Kodi saluted with his paw before he began to running off, heading back to the home-ship with Rosy by his side. "Good luck on your journey and tell Spike I said hi when you have the chance!"
"Okay! See ya guys!" Ren waved goodbye to them before turning back to us and asked "So...you all ready?"
"Yeah sure, but one thing..." Jack turned to him with a glare and asked "How the hell are we gonna get there? That spiny little dragon probably went too far ahead of us."
"Well not with that attitude you don't!" Ren stated with a smirk on his face. "We just need to find a way how we can get there quickly as possible!"
"We have wings, remember?" Mason reminded us, which made us look at our own wings and realized that he was right.
"Well...shouldn't be too hard to fly right?" I asked with a light chuckle. I mean, it shouldn't that hard, right? I've seen Ren fly around with his hoverboard all the time, along with Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and the other Pegasi who lives here in Ponyville flying around in the blue skies. So it shouldn't too difficult right?
Later
"I had to open my mouth...." The moment we tried to fly, we had some uncontrollable through the skies, though at the same time we were getting the hang of it. But since Carrie doesn't have any wings, Mason offered to carry her on his back and he's been doing some difficulty handling on flying and carrying his sister. Man, these forms are just questionable and I still don't understand why are we like this in the first place.
“Does anyone know how to fly?!” Jack exclaimed, feeling nausea. “And…does anybody got a barf bag?”
“Yeah, I’m kinda not getting used to these wings on my back!” Ren exclaimed, trying his best to maneuver his fly. “Man, it looked so easy for those dragons, including the ones from the movies!”
“Well we’ll get used it when we practice flying!” I called back before feeling nausea on my stomach. “Ooh…I’m starting to agree on Jack about that barf bag thing.”
“Look! I see it!” Carrie pointed over to the sky, seeing a giant volcano-like region just up ahead. Ren looked over at the map and said “Yep, that’s the place! Alright everyone, prepare for a landing!”
“And how do you propose we could land?” Mason questioned, causing Ren to widened his eyes upon realizing that it’s gonna be very difficult to land.
“Oh…no….” He muttered before we started diving down and fell onto a lava crater.
“AHHHH!” I screamed in shock. “It burns! It burns!”
“Whaaaa! My face!” Ren screamed before the rest of us looked at each other and saw that we weren’t…burning at all. “Wait…my face is fine.”
“And it’s not even hot at all.” Carrie added, touching the lava with her finger.
“I guess being a dragon makes you immune to lava heat and gas what with all of these scales in our bodies.” Mason pointed out.
“Ugh…whatever.” Jack wiped lava off his face before saying “Glad that we aren’t burning alive.”
“Yeah…I guess the many advantages a dragon ever has.” Ren chuckled before we exited out of the pool. We all looked at ourselves and saw no burn marks on our bodies, even when Ren brought out his Hacking Gun out of nowhere, it was still fine. “Huh…it’s still okay…Neat!”
“So…where are we anyway?” Carrie asked curiously as we all looked around, seeing so many volcanoes and lava craters around here.
“Like Ren said, we’re somewhere around this volcanic area.” Mason replied. “Just like the map and Jamie stated that this place is where the dragons go to during their migration.”
“Yeah, it even says it right here.” Ren took out the map, but instead of a full-fledged map that showed us directions, it was a torched up piece of paper before it got turned into ashes. “Ooh…this can’t be good.”
“Jeez, you think? Now we’re frigging lost in the middle of nowhere!” Jack exclaimed.
“Calm down Jack.” I assured. “Remember, Twilight, Jamie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash are coming here with a map of theirs so once we bumped into them, then we’ll find a way back home.”
Jack let out a scoff before saying “Fine…but I just hope we don’t fly around like total idiots again.”
“We’ll get the hang of it, trust me.” Ren said with a soft smile.
“Frigging whatever…” Jack snorted, letting some fire out of it which made us startled by it.
“Whoa…” I muttered in surprise and awe. “I didn’t know we could that!”
“Well we are dragons.” Mason reminded us.
“Ooh! I wonder if I can spew out fire too!” Carrie said, filled with enthusiasm before taking a deep breath and only coughed up some green flames. “Ooh…I guess with only a little power.”
“Don’t worry Carrie, I’m sure you’ll get the hang of it.” Mason ruffled her spikes, causing Carrie to smile softly at her brother while me and Ren smiled at them and Jack crossing his arms, but hidden a smirk on his face. It’s nice seeing these two get along so well…I sorta envy them because they have such a nice bond while my older sisters are just always asking me to do things because they see me differently than them. It makes me wonder…why?
“Alright, teenage dragons! Now that’s more my speed! And size!” Huh? Was that…Spike? I looked around before noticing a familiar purple baby dragon walking towards a group of dragons that seemed to like like they were young adults than teenagers. Oh man, they look kinda scary.
“Umm guys?” I called, gaining the other’s attention. “I think I found Spike.”
“Cool, where?” Ren asked with a smile. I pointed over behind me as the others looked over and saw Spike talking with some of the teenage dragons. We all hid behind some rocks as we heard Spike introducing himself to the other dragons, interrupting their conversation.
“Um, excuse me? Uh, hi. I’m Spike.” Spike smiled softly, while some of the dragons gave him blank looks until one of them asked “You sure your name is Spike and not Shrimp?!”
That caused all the dragons to laugh while Spike narrowed his eyes in anger before exclaiming “No, it’s Spike! I’m not, I mean, I’m sure about that-”
“You look more like Peewee to me.” One of the smaller teenage dragons said, causing another laughter while the rest of us glared angrily at the dragons.
“They sure aren’t nice.” I scowled.
“Yeah, Spike was just being nice, that’s all.” Carrie added, feeling worried for him.
“They will regret for making fun of him.” Mason grabbed the tip of his bamboo pole, glaring at the dragon gang. Soon, a big red dragon stepped up with a cocky look on his face.
“Hey guys, come on, seriously. Leave him alone or he might fly away.” Oh, well that’s nice to see one dragon getting along and defending Spike. Unfortunately, he picked up Spike with a smirk on his face and said “That is, uh, if he had any wings!”
And I spoke too soon…
“Wow, those dragons aren’t exactly the helpful and nice types here, eh?” Ren muttered, sweat-dropping a little.
“Nope, but I gotta say, they’re my kinda guys.” Jack grinned, causing us to give him deadpanned looks.
“Are you serious?” We all asked before looking back at Spike and the other dragons.
"You fly in on your mommy's back during the migration?" We looked back to see Spike twiddling his fingers nervously at the dragons and replied "Not exactly..."
"No, no , can't you see baby Spike just hatched? I bet he still sucks his claw at night!" One of the older dragons stated with a smirk.
"No! I haven't sucked my claw in months!" Spike replied angrily, causing the dragons to laugh.
"Well, if you weren't just hatched, how come we haven't seen you around before?" The red dragon asked suspiciously.
"Oh, well, you see, I live in Ponyville and-"
"Hahahaha!" He laughed before saying "Ponyville? That explains it! I knew there was something vaguely pony-ish about you! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were part pony!"
"Who, me?" Spike asked in shock before shaking his head and said "No no! I'm not part pony! I'm all dragon, see? Raar!"
We all sweat-dropped by Spike's attempt to make a roar while the red dragon gave out a small smirk before laughing "Or maybe you're a pony in a dragon costume!"
That caused the others to laugh alongside with him.
"A pony in a dragon costume...!" One of the dragons stated, nudging one peculiar one. I took a good look at it and felt confused upon seeing it. Huh, weird...that one looks like too weird to be a dragon.
"Aheh...yeah...hilarious." Huh? That was quite weird...I felt as though that voice sounded very familiar.
"Nnh...!" Spike growled angrily. "I am a real dragon!"
"Oh, yeah? Prove it." The red dragon snarled, causing Spike to feel tense from him.
"Well...how?"
"By acting like one! Who's up for a little belching contest?" With that, the dragons let out a cheer before each one of them starting burping out fire out of their bodies until one of them burped out a large portion of fire through Spike and the other dragons, though it didn't affect them since their scales protected them from the heat. The large brown dragon sat down in exhaustion from spouting out that much fire while the rest of us looked upon seeing that belching competition.
"Uhh..." We all looked at each other with blank and confused looks as I asked "So...what do you guys think of them so far?"
"Well I know one thing..." Ren rubbed his cheek bashfully before he continued "These dragons don't act as nice as Spike nor the dragons from the HTTYD Franchise."
"First of all, grow up." Mason sighed. "Second of all, I have to agree. These dragons are quite acting quite disgusting with their manners. More than Jack."
"Ha! Say what ya frigging want! These guys are the type I wanna hang!" Jack grinned. "I mean, what with all the burping out fire and junk, I bet they do many dangerous stuff!"
"Are you serious?!" I exclaimed in shock.
"Hell yeah! So what?" Jack laughed while we gave him blank looks.
"But...what if they did something dangerous that you can't do?" Carrie asked curiously.
"...W-well...I don't know." Typical....
"You think you can beat that, Peewee?" The red dragon asked curiously. Spike gave out a nervous look before replacing it with determination as he tried to burp like them, but instead, he burped out a scroll.
"Huh?" The teenage dragons asked before picking up the letter and reading it over.
"From the desk of Princess Celestia. Dear Spike, please te-" The red dragon stopped himself before letting out a smirk and chuckle. "Ha! Get this, guys! Spike's pen pals with a namby-pamby-pony princess!"
That caused the other dragons to laugh while the big red dragon crumbled the scroll up into a ball before throwing it into a nearby lava crater, burning the letter up while the rest of us glared at him, except for Jack as he let out some chuckles.
"Ha ha! These guys know how to tell a joke! Namby-pamby!" Jack toothily grinned.
"Seriously?" Ren asked in shock. "I mean, you haven't even met her."
"So?" Ren face-palmed himself, unable to comprehend on Jack's saying.
"Well we know for sure that these dragons don't seem to respect Princess Celestia." Mason crossed his arms with a stern look on his face.
"Yeah! How could they?" Carrie asked.
"Don't know, but we have to do something or else they'll do something to hurt Spike." I said, which Ren nodded and said "Good idea! Let's go!"
We soon got out of our hiding places and walked over to see the dragons still laughing until I cleared my throat, gaining their attention, along with Spike.
"Hi." I waved my...uhh...claw at them. "Umm...we're new around here and we thought we could ask you guys on what's happening?"
"What's happening?" The red dragon laughed. "Nothing except making fun of this wimp for being friends with some namby-pamby ponies!"
"And what's wrong with that?" Mason questioned, earning confused looks on them. "We are sorry, but we're just curious to know why."
"Yeah, I thought ponies were nice and friendly guys." Carrie added.
"Pfft! Yeah right!" A small chubby purple dragon scoffed with a smirk on his face. "They're just so lame what with their 'friendly ways' or how 'sensitive and cowardly' they are."
"I know right? So stupid." Jack grinned, causing us to glance at him with annoyance. "Those guys gotta be so scared of almost everything, am I right?"
"...Yeah." Ren nodded with a nervous chuckle until the big red dragon walked over and eyed at us for a moment. "Umm...is there something wrong?"
"Yeah...how come we've never seen you guys before?" He questioned, causing us to feel tense about it.
"W-well..." Ren glanced away, sweat-dropping a little until I spoke up and said "We're somewhere far off from the region of Equestria. So that's why we're different. We're just traveling around the places on our own right at the moment until we saw this place and we were just curious upon seeing these dragons here!"
"Really? You don't say?" He asked before chuckling. "Ha! Traveling across Equestria, what a weird bunch of dragons. You four are quite curious looking, and seemed pretty cool looking than this Spike pony dragon."
Spike slumped his head with a sad look on his face until Ren stepped up and said "Well, maybe you could give him a chance. I mean, just because he's small doesn't mean that he's not capable of handle anything."
"Yeah! What he said!" Carrie agreed, causing Spike to softly smiled at that.
"Wow...thanks I guess." Spike rubbed his head bashfully.
"Bah! I don't know, he's too small and wimpy to be a real dragon." The red dragon scoffed before turning his eye towards me as he slowly began to smirk. Huh? What is he doing? "But you on other hand is quite beautiful."
"Uhh...what?" I asked in confusion.
"You know what I mean? You've gotta be the prettiest dragon I've ever seen before." Oh no...please don't tell me where this was going. "You know, why not ditch your loser friends and hang out with me? Names Garble by the way."
Ooh god....I let out a sigh of exasperation before walking back away from him before he had the chance to wrap his arm around me.
"Well...thanks for the compliment." I chuckled with a nervous smile and said "But I prefer being friends, not on what you were implying, so sorry Garble."
The big red dragon known as Garble let out a grumble of frustration before clearing his throat and said "Y-yeah...whatever babe."
I rather not be called 'babe' thank you very much.
"But anyway, we're just new." Mason stated with a serious look on his face. "We're just over on a little break for the Dragon Migration. We traveled a lot, but rest assured that we live...somewhere far away."
"Yeah! So far off that you don't know anything where we live!" Carrie added with a soft grin while she held her brother's claws while the others either chuckled or rolled their eyes.
"Yeah...sure..." A medium sized orange sized dragon rolled his eyes.
"Besides that, looks like we got some newbies here. Guess Spike here isn't the only weak dragon around here." Garble laughed.
"Hey...that was quite uncalled for." Ren rubbed his spikes bashfully with a nervous look.
"Shut it. Let me handle it..." Jack pushed me and Ren aside before crossing his arms with a serious look on his face. "Hey, why not you piss yourself off?"
"Excuse me?!" Garble exclaimed in anger. "Who do you think you are to just talk to me like that?!"
"I'm talking to some fire-breathing lizard, that's all." Jack scoffed with a smirk on his face. "Besides, you don't know for sure if this 'shrimp'..." He pointed over to Spike, who felt surprised on seeing him defend a dragon that he barely noticed. "Can be useless? I say that he's more useful than you."
"Really?" Garble smirked before saying "Well...let's see if you and shrimp here are tough in a tail wrestling contest."
"Wait what?" Jack asked, a little startled upon hearing that.
"Come on, let's see if you two are strong to handle it. Unless you're chicken..." Jack growled at Garble's comment before smirking and said "I gotta say, I like your attitude. Alright, we'll do it."
"Yeah!" Spike agreed before turning to him and said "I don't know who you are, but I gotta say, thanks you guys for defending me."
"It is our pleasure." Mason nodded with a smile before glaring towards Garble and his gang.
"Ha, you'll see how difficult it is. Come on you guys, let's take these guys over for some tail wrestling." Garble's gang let out a roar of approval before grabbing Spike and Jack, which was a mistake since do to his weight, causing them to feel over weighted by the sudden fattening of Jack.
"If you guys are tough enough, then you can handle carrying me." Jack scoffed before they began slowly descending towards inside of the volcano.
"Come on, you guys want to be proven that you're real dragons. Enter if you dare." Garble smirked with a sly smirk on his face before entering the place, leaving the rest of us alone outside.
"Are they serious?" I asked in shock.
"Yeah, I mean 'tail wrestling'? Do we have to wrestle by using our tails?" Ren asked with a bewildered look on his face. "I don't even know how to use it."
"And so does Jack." Mason sighed, crossing his arms in frustration. "I should've known that his stubborn pride might've lead him to something stupid like that."
"You can say that again, Mason." Huh?
"Exactly my point." Mason nodded before realizing that none of us said a thing. "Wait, how said that?"
"Right here!" What the? Oh! It's that dragon from earlier, the one peculiar dragon I mentioned. Hmm...wonder what's up with him/her? "I knew that you guys would arrive."
"Umm...who are you?" Ren asked curiously.
"And how do you know that we would arrive?" Carrie asked curiously.
"It's us!" The whole dragon uncovered itself, revealing to be our friends, Jamie, Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. "We told ya we'll arrive!" Rainbow grinned.
"Well it's about time." Mason said, crossing his arms. "We were wondering what was taking so long. Even in these forms, it feels...uncomfortable being in this strange body."
"Ooh Mason, that new form of yours makes me feel antsy about that as well." Rarity said. "But overall, I just hope we find the cure for each of your transformations."
"W-well...h-hopefully..." Jamie muttered, feeling concern on that possibility. "But anyway...we've came here in order to watch over Spike and make sure nothing h-happens to him. You guys just need to make sure he doesn't get hurt."
"Don't worry, we promise." Ren winked before taking out his Hacking Gun and handing it to Jamie. "Oh, and could you please make sure nothing happens with the Hacking Gun James? Don't wanna the other dragons see me with it and get suspicious."
"Oh!..O-Okay!" Jamie nodded before receiving the gun before he began to feel some heat coming out of it. "Ow! Ow! W-why is it so hot?"
"Uhh..it's a long story." Ren rubbed his spikes bashfully with a sheepish grin.
"Anyway, we should get moving." Mason said, glancing towards where Jack, Spike, and the others went off. "Or else we might draw suspicion from those dragons."
"I highly doubt those ruffians can suspect other dragons, especially for criticizing Spike for living in Ponyville." Rarity scoffed.
"And for destroying that letter!" Twilight pouted. "That could've been very important from Princess Celestia!"
"Don't worry Twilight, I'm sure you'll get another one." I assured.
"Yeah! I mean, the princes is always one step ahead of you, right?" Carrie added, causing Twilight to smile softly at that.
"Thanks you guys..." Twilight replied.
"Though I can't believe they would c-criticize the princess like that." Jamie stated with a worried look. "I-I have never seen anyone say mean comments to her before."
"Yeah. I'm just worried on what they think about ponies." Ren said in concern. "Come on you guys, let's go."
"Okay." I nodded before seeing Twilight and the others placing the cover of their dragon costume back on, causing me to sweat-dropped a little. "By the way...what's up with the costume? It looks kinda weird just seeing it up close."
"Yeah, blame Rarity for making such a weird costume." Rainbow said through the costume.
"Excuse me?!" Rarity exclaimed in anger while the rest of us laughed. I had a feeling that the costume had a little dash of...Rarity in it, wouldn't you agree?...Okay, enough about jokes! Let's get this over with and see where this goes.
"Can we go now?" I asked.
"R-right, let's go." Rarity replied before saying "Oh, and Mason?"
"Yes Rarity?" Mason asked with a raised brow.
"Please don't let Spikey-wikey get hurt by those brutes." Rarity begged, which Mason nodded until Carrie grabbed her brother's claws with a bright grin on her face.
"Come on everyone! Let's go big brother!" Carrie said, grabbing her brother's claws and said "Let's go see how Jack and Spike are gonna handle the others? Besides, you wanna impress Rarity, don't ya?!"
"W-what?!" Mason and Rarity exclaimed, and I could've sworn that they were blushing in embarrassment.
"Come on! Let's go!" Carrie quickly pulled him and has him entered the volcano while the rest of us let out giggles before heading inside of the volcano, eager to see how this will play.
"So do you think that Jack will protect Spike?" I asked in worried.
"Don't worry, I have faith in Jack so that I know he'll do great!" Ren assured as we kept looking around the place till we arrived and saw an unexpected seen.
"Ha! Take that!" We all soon bore witness Jack beating another dragon by using his tail as he barked up another laughter.
"What the?" Ren asked in confusion.
"Oh man! You're so awesome Jack! You really are a tough dragon!" Garble exclaimed in joy.
"Thanks and you guys aren't so bad after all!" Jack toothily grinned before wrapping his left arm around Garble as the two laughed so loud.
"...Are you guys seeing this?" Mason questioned, which the rest of us nodded. I don't believe it. So Jack's here just to fight these guys while being buddy-buddy's with them? Well I guess it makes sense since he's a tough biker gang and they're always so aggressive.
"Yeah...I never expected Jack to make good friends from these guys." Ren muttered in shock.
"Tell me about it." I agreed before noticing Spike stepping up as Garble said "You know, you're tough for being fat. You are quite the dragon...uhh, what was your name?"
"Call me Jumbo. Jumbo the Dragon." Jumbo? What a weird name, but then again...we can't let Spike know its us. Just because it's us transformed into dragons doesn't mean we should reveal our names so open easily.
"Jumbo? Weird name for a dragon." Garble muttered before waving it off. "Nah, it's probably nothing. So Spike, let's see if you're a real tough dragon."
"Oh trust me, I'm ready!" Spike said, his tone filled with determination.
"Break a leg, kiddo. Trust me, you gotta stand tough against one of these guys." Jack grinned.
"Oh...thanks Jumbo!" Spike smiled softly. "At least I got somepony by my side and cheering me on."
"This is terrible!" Rarity whispered to us. "We can't afford Spikey-wikey to go through this! He'll end up hurt!"
"W-well true..." Jamie whispered back. "So we need someone t-to go over and tail-wrestle h-him or something..."
"Allow me." Mason said, stepping up and walked past his sister as she called "Go easy on him!"
"Yeah! You can do it!" Ren cheered, while the rest of us smiled over to see Mason taking up the plate.
Mason smiled back at us with a nod before looking back at the dragons with a serious look on his face and said "Please, allow me to go and challenge Spike to a tail wrestle!"
"Who's this weirdo?" Garble asked his pals about Mason.
"Don't know, but he looks pretty serious." The slim orange dragon replied with a shrug.
"Whatever." Garble rolled his eyes before turning back to Mason and asked "So how bout it? Who are you?"
"I am..." Mason closed his eyes and thought for a while before replying "Please just call me Burn."
"Burn? What a weak name." Mason twitched a bit while Spike snickered, along with Jack.
"Ha! Burn? That sounds something I would've come up with."
"Shut up Jack." Mason said through gritted teeth, ignoring the laughter coming out of the biker/dragon. "Now then, shall we tail wrestle?"
He turned to Spike, who stopped snickering and felt nervous just by seeing him.
"Y-yeah...let's go." Spike nodded as he and Mason got into their positions as their tails grabbed ahold of each other as Garble shouted "Ready? GO!"
Spike tried his best to throw back Mason, but even in that dragon form, Mason is still tough to beat. But he was doing this for Spike, also Rarity was watching and you all know how overprotective she is with Spike around. So Mason did a true friend would've done...purposefully lose the match. He lowered his strength down and with that, Spike knocked his tail out to the side, causing the dragons to let out roars of approval.
"Whoa...I didn't know that I had it in me to do that!" Spike said in amazement before exclaiming "Awesome!"
"You're welcome..." Mason smiled until Spike gave him a good look at his body before noticing the red scarf wrapped around his neck, causing him to gasp.
"What the?! Wait...is that-" Uh oh! I think he found us out already! Although, how come he didn't noticed the scarf around his neck till now?
"Nice going, little Spike! Maybe you are a dragon after all!" Garble complimented, patting Spike on the back with a toothy grin.
"U-Uh...yeah! Maybe I am!" Spike grinned nervously while the rest of us sighed in relief.
"Thank you Mason..." Rarity muttered, smiling over at the black dragon.
"Okay, so who's next? I'm ready to kick your butts into next month!" Jack said, feeling pumped up about beating someone else.
"Uhh...yeah..." Spike rubbed his head bashfully before saying "Listen, can I have a moment alone please?"
"Whatever! Just don't take so long!" Garble said as he went over to hang out with the rest of his pals. Soon, Spike turned back and looked at us with a shocked look and yelled "M-Mason...is that you?"
"...Took you quite a while to figure me out. I would've thought that you would realize that it was me already what with my scarf and bamboo pole." Mason said, feeling a bit bewildered by that fact. Spike blushed a bit and replied "H-hey come on! I was getting pounced at by those guys! What do you expect?"
"Good point there Spike." Ren chuckled nervously, causing Spike to turn to Ren himself before gasping "R-R-Ren?! Is that you as well?!"
"Yeah, sorry!" Ren rubbed his head bashfully with a sheepish grin while I sighed and softly smiled at Spike and said "And it's me, Kaede."
"Along with me!" Carrie added, waving towards him.
"Yeah, same here." Jack burped, causing Spike to look over us with an extremely shocked look on his face.
"I-I-I-I...! WHAT IN EQUESTRIA HAPPENED TO-" Mason immediately grabbed him and shushed him.
"Shh! Be quiet! We can't let the others hear you Spike!" Mason whispered, which Spike nodded slowly before he let him go. Spike shook his head before looking at us with a shocked look and asked "No way! Are you guys...dragons?!"
"Yeah, we don't know how it happened." Ren shrugged.
"What do you mean 'how it happened'?" I rubbed my cheek in embarrassment before replying "Well, the moment you left for the Dragon lands, we all fell unconscious and got transformed into dragons."
"No way...!" Spike exclaimed. "So wait...does that mean you guys followed me over to the Dragon Lands?!"
"Indeed." Mason sighed. "Twilight and Jamie were extremely worried about you."
"Well I don't need them." Spike scoffed, crossing his arms. "I told you before, I need to search out the answers for myself and that's final."
"We understand." I replied with a worried look. "But...we're just worried for you Spike. Besides, while we're still confused about these new appearances we have, I thought that we can go over to the Dragon Lands and helped you out in case any of the dragons..." Like Garble and his gang for example. "...harmed you or worse."
"Yeah dude." Ren nodded in agreement. "We aren't saying that we're taking you back, but we're gonna help you!"
"Help...me?" Spike asked in shock. "But are you sure about that? You guys would...do this for me?"
"Of course! We're friends!" Carrie giggled before pouting while she looked behind her. "Though I wished I had wings in this body."
"Oh trust me, sometimes I wished to fly as well." Spike shrugged. "But still though, it's hard to believe that you guys got transformed into dragons in the first place."
"Yeah well, we still haven't frigging figured out why we're like this in the first place!" Jack exclaimed. "Besides, we weren't really frigging planning on letting you know it was us, but I guess thanks to Mason we got no choice."
"Please forgive me." Mason sighed, twiddling with his scarf. "I guess maybe I should've left my scarf back home."
"Well even so, I kinda grew suspicious and curious upon seeing you guys just come out of nowhere like that. Including hearing those voices because I thought they sounded familiar to me." Spike chuckled with a smile on his face. "But still though, I guess it's nice for you guys to just come here and help me out."
"Hey, that's what friends do." Ren winked.
"Ha ha, good point." Spike smiled before looking around and suspiciously asked "Wait...If you guys are here in those weird bodies, then is Twilight here?"
"Uhh..." I quickly glanced towards the fake dragon disguise of theirs and I saw Twilight making a mouth statement that says 'Don't tell him!' towards me.
"Nope! Not at all!" I shook my head with a smile on my face. "She's back home along with Jamie and they're respecting your privacy being here in the Dragon Lands so that you can learn how to be a true dragon."
Spike started to tear-up from all this before wiping a tear from his right eye and said "Wow, that's so nice of you guys to help me."
"Trust us, at first I was shocked by this whole transforming into a dragon thing, but now...I'm enjoying myself." Jack grinned. "But one question..." He turned around and showed us his bare bottom, causing me and Carrie to cover our eyes while the boys flinched. Well he's not wearing any pants and it wasn't that bad, but still! Doesn't he know any privacy at all?! "Does this form make my butt any bigger?"
"Ooh trust me, it's big alright." Ren stated, looking away until Jack turned back around and cracked his knuckles before saying "Whatever! I'm actually enjoying my stay here and I bet that this might get much more fun being here what with all these strong dragons around!"
"Of course you would enjoy your time here." Mason rolled his eyes before turning to Spike and said "But overall, I guess we should enjoy our time here while we help you fit in here so that you can clear the self-doubts in your mind to find the true answer of who you are."
"Wow, that was a bit poetic there Mason." I said with surprise while Mason crossed his arms in a huff, blushing a bit.
"Well still, thanks you guys and while I am still surprised upon seeing you guys totally different, I'm...kinda glad I have some friends of mine to help me out." Spike grinned. "Say, let's go over and see what the other dragons are doing."
"Hell yeah!" Jack yelled. "I'm already pumped up on seeing whatever crazy activity they have here!"
"Me too! I bet they're super fun!" Carrie laughed with a smile.
"As long as they aren't dangerous..." Mason muttered until he was nudged by Ren and said "Come on, it'll be fun. We even might learn what dragons do during their Dragon Migration."
Mason thought for a while before sighing "Well...I suppose you make a good point. Alright, let's go!"
"Yay!" Carrie cheered while the rest of us decided to see what else did this place have in stored for us.
"Well alright!" I said, feeling pumped up about it. "Maybe their activities isn't that hard than tail-wrestling, right?"
"Yo Spike! Jumbo!" We all turned around to see Garble approaching us with cocky smirks on their faces. "Are you ready to have some more fun or what?"
"Hell yeah I am!" Jack patted his gut and flexed a bit.
"Yeah! I'm ready when you are!" Spike nodded, also flexing his muscles.
"Ooh, getting a little cocky. I like it." Garble grinned before turning to us until he noticed me, causing him to smile weirdly and said "Why hello there beautiful. Back for more?"
"Ehh...gross?" I muttered, feeling a bit tired just being around him.
"Oh, don't be like that. You'll soon learned to love me..." He giggled crazily before asking "So...you never told me the rest of your names."
We all looked at each other until Ren stepped up and said "Well my name is Delta Rune, but just call me Rune."
"And I'm Torch!" Carrie introduced herself, giving her another alias for herself.
"O-oh! A-And...I'm...Blaze." I smiled softly, giving them a fake name to them. Well just because now that Spike knows who we are doesn't mean we shouldn't give them our real names. I just can't imagine what might happened if they found out that we're not actually dragons and found out that we're humans the whole time. Seeing these guys makes me feel scared of these guys...
"Ooh, Blaze!" Garble giggled. "A beautiful name for a beautiful dragoness."
"R-right..." I muttered, backing away from a little while the others glared at the red dragon.
"So anyway..." Ren stepped up with a curious look on his face and asked "We're just here to see how tough we are."
"Really? You think you're tough because of your slim body?" Garble laughed, causing Ren to glare at him before exclaiming "Oh don't worry, I can do this!"
"Well...Jumbo already beaten most of my gang, so why not challenge him?" He pointed over to a small dragon squeezed in between two older dragons.
"Okay! Bring it on!" Ren grinned, turning around and showing off his tail until he looked back and jaw-dropped upon seeing the small dragon's tail, which turned out to be extremely large and filled with spikes. "....Mother?"
Unfortunately, Ren's pleas didn't work as he was grabbed around the tail as Garble shouted "Ready? GO!"
And with that, Ren was launched into the air and slammed hard against the cliff, causing us to wince in pain while we watched Ren slowly fall off the mountain and landing with a loud 'THUD' on the ground. We all immediately ran towards him while Ren was on the ground, his eyes swirling unconsciously.
"Ooh..." Oh man, that's gotta leave a mark.
"Damn...good thing I didn't challenge him a tail-wrestling contest." Jack commented bluntly.
"Mm-hmm." Spike nodded.
"..Is he gonna be alright, big brother?" Carrie asked in worried while Mason sweat-dropped and replied "...Yeah, I think he'll be fine."
"Yeah..." I chuckled nervously with a sweat-drop. "Well...he was just unlucky, that's all. It can't get any worse, right?"
Later
"Why does the world hate me so much?"
Unfortunately, I spoken too soon because after we met up with Garble and his gang and asked him to show us what other activities they're here in the Dragon Lands, we were taken towards a mountain filled with treasures and jewels. We all gaze at the giant stack of treasures with shocked looks, unable to speak on what we're witnessing.
"So you guys, you wanna prove that you're real dragons?" Garble asked with a smirk on his face. "Then go over and complete this test that we like to call..." Garble took a deep breath and shouted "King of the hoard!"
"Whoa...it sure is massive..." Ren muttered in shock.
"Real massive..." I nodded while staring at the mountain filled with jewels. Whoa, just look at those gems! This is amazing just looking at them!
"Yeah, you can say that again." Spike gulped until we noticed the other dragons racing towards the hoard and tried to take Garble down, but he made sure that none of tried to take his spot.
"Ooh...this looks intense." Carrie said until Mason comforted her with a smile and said "It's alright Carrie, we won't do it."
"Well you wimps can sit and mope while I go and win this damn match!" Jack laughed before racing over and climbing over the mountain of jewels.
"Hey!" Spike yelled before chasing after him. "No one is gonna win but me! If I'm gonna be a real dragon, then I have to do this!"
"Wait for me!" I called.
"Yeah! We can't just leave ya behind!" Ren added before wincing in pain from the last impact.
"Ren, maybe you should sit this one out. I'll go after him. You guys stay here." I said before running towards the mountain filled with jewels as Ren tried to stop me, but it was too late as I started to climb up the mountain filled with jewels while I saw the disguised Twilight and co. kicking some dragons away to make sure that none of them tries to hurt Spike. I could've helped him but I still need to get used to being in this weird form, that's all and besides...I still don't know how to use my wings.
Sooner or later, I managed to caught up with Jack and Spike, who surprisingly didn't get overrun by these guys until they reached the top where Garble was fighting off another one of his gang before pushing him aside while Jack got up and sucker punched the dragon Garble was fighting off in the face, knocking him onto the jewel-filled mountain.
"Ha! Thanks!" Garble grinned until Spike came underneath him and accidentally pushed him off of the mountain as well. Spike widened his eyes and looked around, realizing that he, Jack, and I are the only ones left up here. I soon came down and stretched my back and said "Wow...I guess it's just us three left."
"Woo-hoo!" Spike cheered. "King of the hoard!"
"Yeah!" Jack grinned before cracking his knuckles with a smirk on his face. "But there can only be one winner."
"Wait what?" Me and Spike asked in confusion. Before you know it, he stopped his feet so hard that the impact caused the jewels we were standing on to collapse while we fell down. Luckily, I started flapping my wings and grabbed ahold of Spike, who let out a sigh of relief.
"Phew...thanks for the save Kay." Spike thanked, which I nodded before we landed down as I glared at the big fat white dragon that did that to us. Jack laughed loudly while Garble and the other dragons roared, like they were cheering for Jack.
"Awesome! Now that's what a real dragon!" Garble laughed before turning over to me and Spike the moment I gently landed down on the ground. "And don't worry, you both gave it your best...only you Blaze."
Ugh...does this guy like stalking me or what? I mean, I'm not beautiful, am I?
"Looks like this is another fail for you, little Spike. Can't wait to watch you fail at lava cannonball, too." Garble slyly grinned while Spike and I looked at each other, gulping in fear.
"Wait, lava cannonball?" Ren asked in confusion.
"Course some 'dragons' don't know it." Garble scoffed in a taunting way towards my friends. "Maybe that challenge could help toughen you out since neither you three tried to go through King of the Hoard."
"We had our reasons." Mason stated firmly, which Garble scoffed.
"Reasons, schmeasons. Now come on, let's go over to lava cannonball!" Garble grinned, causing us to feel tensed and a little afraid of what's gonna happen while Jack grinned and laughed loudly.
"Ah ha ha! That's gotta be a handful! Let's do it!"
Oh my god...I'm starting to feel worried for him. I understand Jack is trying to help Spike learn...but right now he's becoming way too addictive with these guys.
Later
Huh...doesn't seem too hard. This whole 'lava cannonball' thing was just diving into a pool of lava. Well we all learned from when we crashed land into this place, we discovered that our scales protect us from it.
"Whoever makes the biggest lava splash is the ultimate dragon!" Garble announced before stepping back a little before charging and jumped over the cliff as he shouted "GERONIMO!"
He landed straight into the lava crater, creating a huge splash while Spike and Carrie backed away a little from the lava splashing onto them.
"Nuh!" Spike winced.
"Big brother! I-I'm scared...!" Carrie exclaimed in worried and fear until Mason held her close and said "It's alright Carrie. Will it be alright if we jumped together?"
"O-Okay!" Carrie nodded with a soft smile while the disguised dragon backed away from this in fear.
"You guys aren't gonna come with us?" Ren asked in confusion.
"Sorry Ren, but this suit isn't technically lava proof." Rainbow stated.
"She's right. We're sorry but looks like you guys and Spike are on your own for now." Twilight said as she and the rest of her friends walked away from them.
"Well...alright." Ren shrugged while I gave him a reassuring smile and said "Don't worry Ren, it looks quite easy. Like your diving into a pool."
"Yeah, you make a good point there." Ren smiled before noticing Jack stepping up as he scoffed "Pfft! Let a real dragon show ya how its done! You better be paying attention Spike if ya want to be a real dragon!"
Spike rubbed his arm bashfully, feeling scared of doing this. I can understand how he's feeling, I'm starting to grow scared too...
With that, Jack jumped out of the crater and made a huge splash into the lava pool, which caught onto us but we were fine due to the scales protecting us.
"He just never learns." Mason sighed before holding onto Carrie's claws and said "Are you ready sister?"
"Y-yes big brother." Carrie nodded as the two walked over to the cliff. They both took deep breaths before jumping straight towards the lava crater, nearly making a huge splash, but it wasn't enough.
Spike gulped and started sweating nervously as Ren walked over before saying "My turn! Cannonball!"
He jumped into the cliff, putting his hands over his knees before landing into the lava pool, creating a minor splash. He popped his head out of the lava pool and noticed the minor splash he made.
"Well...I was expecting a bigger splash." Oh Ren...Oh well, guess it's my turn. Before you know it, I noticed Spike started shivering in fear as I gave him a sympathetic look before noticing the other dragons jumping into the lava crater, with the last one creating such a huge splash that was quite an impressive feat, nearly similar to Jack's splash.
"Are you feeling okay Spike?" I asked in concern.
"O-of course! Never better!" Spike chuckled nervously. "I mean, w-w-what makes you think that I'm not feeling any better?"
I bend down to Spike's height before hugging him and said "It's alright Spike, I'll be here by your side. Besides, you don't have to do this if you don't wanna do it. I mean, you don't have to prove anything."
Spike glanced away nervously before forming a determined look and said "No...I have to! I've been living with ponies since the day I was born, Kaede. I...I never thought about other dragons till now. That's why I'm gonna do this..."
I couldn't help but admire Spike's courage as I stood back on my own two feet and asked "Well...wanna do this together?"
Spike smiled back at me before saying "Thanks Kaede! Now let's do this!"
I nodded as the two of us walked over at the edge of the cliff, seeing how far it was. Oh man...I'm starting to have flashbacks of the first time I jumped off a high-dive. Spike started panting heavily, having his fears nearly overtake him until I grabbed his arm and gave him a comfortable smile.
"Don't worry...like I said, we'll do this together." Spike soon started to calm down before smiling and nodding back at me.
"HEY! WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG?!" We looked back down to see Jack yelling at us. "HURRY UP AND JUMP ALREADY! IF YOU ARE A REAL DRAGON SPIKE, THEN DO IT!"
"Yeah! What my pal here said!" Garble shouted in agreement. "What's the matter Spike? Too chickened?" Okay, that guy is starting to irritate me and I think the others can agree on that. "And don't worry babe, I know you'll make a good splash than Spike here."
...You know what? Let's do it in order to shut these guys up for good.
Spike took a deep breath and formed a determined look as the two of us looked down at the lava crater and I felt anticipation from this. Okay Kaede, calm down. It should be simple enough. Now...by the count of three, we'll jump. One....two....three!
Before you know it, me and Spike jumped off the cliff at the same time and headed straight towards the lava crater. I created a good enough splash while Spike...uhh...let's just say...it didn't end up so good.
"Oooh...." The gang said, wincing upon seeing Spike making that splash. A very painful belly flop of a splash. I managed to pop out of the lava, breathing heavily while Spike popped his head out of the lava before spitting some of it out of his mouth.
"That was awesome you guys!" Ren cheered before rubbing his head bashfully with a sheepish grin. "Guess your splashes were more better than mine."
"Well it would seem so." Mason softly smiled.
"So...Was I...that bad?" Spike asked them, smiling nervously just thinking about how they're gonna take it. Fortunately...they smiled at him as Garble said "No, dude. That was awesome! No pony could live through a belly flop like that! I mean, you and the newbies were awesome!"
"Ha! Couldn't agree with that?" Jack grinned while Carrie chuckled and said "Well...I guess they weren't that bad."
"Yeah, same here." Mason nodded. "So now what?"
"Now..." Garble turned us with a smirk on his face. "I think it's time to officially make you guys honorary dragons!"
The teen dragons let out roars of approval as the rest of us smiled at each other as I gazed back at the cliff to see the others giving me thumbs-up for that. Well I guess that was quite something to enjoy. But boy...it sure was tough and I think Spike finally has some confidence build up inside him at least.
Soon after completing some of their activities, the teen dragons raised their tails and crossed each other as we walked past them.
"Hmm...it would seem like they're showing off their honorary appreciation." Mason guessed, gazing at the dragons while we walked past them.
"Well that was generous of them." I chuckled with a nervous grin before we made our way in front of Garble as he gave me a wink and smiled, causing me to gag on the inside. Sorry but he's totally not my type.
Soon, we heard someone snorting, almost like the sound of a kazoo as Garble cleared his throat with a serious look on his face. Huh, never thought I would see that in him.
"Spike, by belly flopping so hard, you have proven yourself worthy. I hereby dub you 'rookie dragon'." Garble announced as he used his tail and touched both of Spike's shoulders, much to his joy. "And will now perform the initiation ritual."
He grabbed Spike and gave him a noogie, causing Spike to feel dizzy after that.
"Now...Delta Rune, Burn, Torch..." Ren, Mason, and Carrie stepped up with serious looks on their faces. "Even you three didn't go through King of the Hoards nor did any tail-wrestling. Well...except for Rune getting his butt kicked so easily in it." Garble laughed while Ren chuckled nervously and flushed in embarrassment. "But overall, you three has some courage jumping into that lava crater with us. So I dubbed you three 'rookie dragons'."
"Yay!" Carrie cheered while Mason and Ren nodded with smiles on their faces. Garble gave Ren and Carrie some noogies while Mason narrowed his eyes at him, and Garble felt a little intimidated by that before patting him on the head.
"Right...anyway! Blaze! Jumbo!" Me and Jack stepped up as I held a nervous look while Jack had an overconfident look. "You two showed some courage. Jumbo, for making a huge splash and Blaze looking elegantly beautiful..." Oh god... "I dubbed you two part of our dragon brethren."
He did the whole touching our shoulders with his tail, almost similar to what a royal queen would've done for any royal knights. Soon, He and Jack bumped fists together before he turned to his attention to me as he gave me an air kiss, causing me to look away from that. Oh man...I'm starting to have second thoughts coming here to help Spike.
"Now let's party dragon style!" Garble announced, causing the other dragons to roared in agreement. Soon, the dragons began eating many gems from the giant pile we went through during the 'King of The Hoard' challenge. Jack and Spike were excited and impressed upon seeing them party like that.
"Ha ha! I'm already liking these guys!" Jack laughed, crossing his arms. "You know, I'm proud of ya Spike for finally getting used to being a dragon. It's kinda cool actually."
"Thanks Jack!" Spike smiled brightly. "And I want to thank you guys too for helping me out of the activities here."
I smiled softly and nodded as Ren said "Hey, that's what friends are for!"
"Well come on! Let's enjoy this party while it lasts!" Spike insisted while the rest of us looked at each other in worried. I mean, can we even eat gems? Will that be difficult for us in case we ever go back to being humans? "What's wrong?"
"Well we're not sure if we can eat the gems because of...you know." I explained, which Spike fully understood what I meant.
"Oooh...right." He rubbed his head bashfully before saying "Well either way, you should at least try it."
"Yeah, quick being wimps and let's party at least." Jack laughed before running over towards the gem-filled pile as he grabbed as many as he could before taking a bite out of them and before you know it, he formed a large grin on his face. "See?! Told ya these taste good!"
"No you didn't." Mason sighed.
"Well, I guess we can try them out! Come on, let's go!" Carrie insisted, which we nodded in agreement before walking over and passing some dragons eating tons of gems while I picked up a ruby from the ground and hesitantly took a bite out of it...
...Huh...not so bad.
"It really does taste good?" Ren asked incredulous.
"Yeah! It ain't so bad!" I said with a light chuckle before taking another ruby and eating it.
"I already said that, didn't I?!" Jack exclaimed before taking some more gems and stuffing it into his mouth. We all rolled our eyes while we continued to eat the gems.
"Well I trust you Kay and Jack, so why not?" Ren shrugged before taking a bite of an emerald, satisfying him. Mason, Carrie, and Spike grabbed some emeralds, diamonds, and pearls before taking bites of them, satisfying their stomachs as we continued to have some fun over by this party. You know, who knew being a dragon was quite cool. Well at first I was having doubts, but now I'm starting to like being one.
Later
"Ooh..." Ooh, I don't feel so good. An hour past since we celebrated the initiation of us being accepted into the Dragon Migration and we all were enjoying our time being here and eating most of that gems. Soon, we all were laying on the ground with stomach aches...
"Man...I don't feel so good..." Ren rubbed his stomach before holding back his vomit. Mason comforted his sister from vomiting by patting her on the back. Jack let out a loud burp, spitting out some fire.
"Ha...kinda awesome to do that." Jack chuckled.
"Yeah, you can say that again. I've never been this happy in my entire life..." Spike sighed in relief. "Man, was that a great party or what?"
"You can say that again." Ren chuckled before burping, letting out a small patch of flames shot out of his mouth, causing him to quickly covered him. "Umm...excuse me?"
"Great? Huh, maybe by Ponyville standards." We all looked up to see Garble and his gang walking towards us with smirks on their faces. "Stick with us, you guys. We still got plenty to teach you about being a dragon."
"I'm not going anywhere. The way I feel right now, I could hang out with you guys forever." Spike grinned, causing us all to widened our eyes in shock as we exclaimed "Forever?!"
"Yeah! I don't need to go back to Ponyville and just be ridicule by the others by letting them call me 'cute'." Spike stated, crossing his arms with a smirk on his face. "I rather be here with my own kind and be who I am!"
"But Spike...what about the others?" Ren asked in worried.
"You must understand that everypony back home is waiting for you to come back." Mason added, which Spike scoffed.
"Oh please, like that matters. Besides, would I rather go back to my friends for keep calling me 'cute' or telling me that I'm not 'any other dragon'." We all gave him shocked looks while Garble himself just laughed.
"Ah ha ha! See that? Looks like our friend is almost ready to be a dragon. He's already thinking of those ponies as losers." Garble laughed, alongside with his crew.
"What? But...I thought you guys were friends with ponies?" Carrie asked with a worried look.
"Please, ponies there are just full of stupid boring namby-pamby ponies who thinks that 'friendship is magic' or whatnot. It's so frigging annoying." Garble scoffed with a smirk on his face. "We're dragons! And us dragons should be manly! Not go over to play with some party games and do some girly stuff."
I glanced over where Twilight and the others were in their little disguised dragon, where I saw the girls and Jamie either having scared and worried looks, along with annoyance by what Garble stated.
"But why are we talking about stupid ponies?" Garble chuckled before nudging Jack and said "We have better things besides thinking about some stupid ponies. Why not we do a little raid?"
"A...raid?" Jack asked in confusion.
"Yes, a raid." Garble nodded. "There's a nest full of phoenix eggs nearby, and we're gonna swipe them."
"Phoenix eggs?" Carrie asked curiously before turning to her brother and whispered "Are they like Philomena?"
"It would seem so." Mason whispered back before glaring towards Garble. I don't get it, what's he up to?
Jack looked at him for a while before glancing away from him and asked "Well...alright then. But...why do we need eggs? What? To cook them or something?"
"Oh you're gonna enjoy it Jumbo my dragon friend!" Garble laughed, patting him on the back while the rest of us looked at each other in worried.
"What do you mean? Just why a raid on some eggs?" Mason questioned.
"I told ya already till we swiped them! Now come on!" Garble said as he and the other dragons began flapping their wings and soon flew into the air.
"Oh no...this is bad." I muttered in shock.
"I know right?" Ren nodded before turning to Spike and said "Spike, we have to go back home now."
"What? What do you mean?" Spike asked with a smile. "Isn't this great? I'm finally being treated like a dragon!"
"But what about the eggs?!" Carrie asked in worried. "I...I don't wanna steal a bunch of eggs. What about its parents?"
"Oh you're worried for nothing Carrie." Spike waved it off. "Besides, this might my chance to officially to be a part like them!"
"No Spike! It can't!" I shook my head with a serious look, confusing Spike and startling the others. "I understand how you felt upon having these self-doubts of who you are and why you were born, but we know who you really are when all met you for the first time when we arrive in this world. We saw a helpful, kind, excited, and a lovable friend that will always help us. You got Twilight, Jamie, Rarity, us and the others waiting back home to Ponyville for you! Twilight told us that she encouraged you to come here to find answers, but she did it because she believes that once you find the answers, you'll come back home! The reason why we cared about you Spike was because we know that you aren't like them, you aren't a jerk like Garble! You're Spike the Dragon, Twilight's Number #1 assistant and a good friend to all of us."
Spike looked at me with a shocked look until Ren nodded in agreement and said "She's right. This isn't you Spike. We know that you're better than this! You would never do any harm to some phoenix eggs, right?"
"Indeed." Mason agreed before turning to Jack and asked "Jack...are you really sure about this as well? I understand that you respect them, but you're going too far here if you do this."
Jack clenched his fists in anger with a low growl and said "W-well...what does it matter? I know what's right and what's wrong and I'm not afraid of stealing eggs. They're probably gonna return those eggs. Besides, it might just be a prank, that's all."
"B-b-but...we're practically stealing them." Carrie pointed out. "And what about the parents?"
"W-well..." Jack blushed, rubbing his cheek in embarrassment.
"Jack!" We looked back to see Rarity coming out of the costume with a frustrated look on her face. "How could you?! Of all the stupid things you would have done, this is gotta be the new low you've ever done!"
"R-Rarity..." Spike gasped, which made the white unicorn widened her eyes in realization upon being exposed.
"Oops..." She muttered as Spike looked at her in shock before looking back at the fake dragon and walking over to it and unfolded it, revealing Twilight, Jamie, and Rainbow Dash.
"You guys?!" Spike exclaimed in shock and anger.
"H-hi Spike..." Jamie greeted with a nervous smile, but flinched upon seeing the angry glare from him.
"You guys followed me, didn't you?" Spike questioned. "You guys thought that I couldn't do it, huh?
"No Spike, that's not what we-"
"That's it! I had it!" Spike cut off Twilight as he exclaimed "I told you that I need to do this alone and yet you guys followed me!"
"W-well..." Twilight looked away, feeling guilty about this.
"Spike, we were just worried about you, that's all." Rainbow explained, but Spike scoffed and said "Yeah right, you guys just probably came over and thought that I couldn't handle it, that's all because I'm not like the 'other dragons', right?"
"N-No! Not at all!" Jamie shook his head but Spike ignored them before turning to us and demanded "And you guys were in it, weren't you?!"
"W-well...yeah." Ren sighed.
"We are sorry if we lied to you." Mason apologized. "It's just that-"
"No! I get it! You all thought that I wasn't capable of handling this myself!" Spike exclaimed in anger.
"No Spike, that's not what we thought!" Carrie retorted. "We just wanted to check up on you because we care about you!"
"You know what?! Forget it! I'm out of here! I'm gonna go to that raid and prove to you that I'm a real dragon!" With that, Spike took off and ran ahead, leaving the area while the rest of us felt shocked by this.
"Spike, wait!" I called. "We're sorry! We didn't mean to hurt your feelings! Please!"
But Spike ignored us and kept running, probably to meet up with Garble and his friends outside for the raid.
"Spikey-wikey..." Rarity cried out, feeling heartbreak by everything Spike said while the rest of us looked at each other with worried looks. But the silence broke when he spoke up...
"Tch...for a small dragon, he sure got a big mouth." Jack scoffed, much to our confusion.
"What?" Ren asked. Jack turned to him with a serious look and said "Seeing him this upset reminds me back in the day. I can't let him just stand around and just do something stupid. That's something I would've done..."
"Jack, are you saying that you're feeling what Spike is feeling right now?" Twilight questioned. "Do you...understand what Spike meant by all those words?"
"All I know is that he's gonna do something stupid....and he has to stop himself before it's too late." Jack said before he began flapping his wings, much to our shock.
"Wait Jack!" Ren called as Jack soon exited out of the volcano as we looked at each other in shock. This is terrible, now I feel so afraid on what Jack's planning to do.
"Now what's fatty up?" Rainbow wondered.
"You don't think he's gonna join Spike and the others on...stealing those eggs?" Carrie asked in worried until Mason held her hand with a soft smile and said "I don't know what's on his mind right now, though I know Spike didn't mean those words. He'll eventually learn his lesson and realized what he said to us."
Carrie smiled at her brother, feeling encouraged by them until Jamie started panicking.
"W-what are we gonna do?" Jamie asked in worried. "W-we can't let either of them do anything that they'll regret!"
"I know that Jamie, but I just don't know what to do..." Twilight shoo her head, looking down on the ground with a guilty look on her face. "I shouldn't have come and followed after him..."
"No Twilight, don't blame yourself Twi." Ren shook his head with a soft smile as he said "It's no one fault. But right now that we should stop them!"
"Agreed, Jack might not be the brightest and I have a feeling that he'll do something that we'll all regret." Mason nodded. I looked at the ground with an extremely worried look. I want to help Spike and Jack because Ren would've done the same, but...can I even convince them from joining with Garble? I...I just don't know anymore.....No, I mustn't say that! Sure I haven't been that useful to this group, but I just don't wanna be left out! That's why...I gotta do something!
With that, I spread out my wings and took flight, startling the others.
"Kaede!" Rarity gasped.
"Kaede, what are you doing?!" Mason demanded.
"I have to do something! Just meet me at the Phoenix's nests!" I yelled back before I continued to fly through the skies to search out Spike and Jack! Ooh, I have to do something before those two do something stupid.
Jack's POV
Tch...that idiot brat has to go and run his mouth like that because he's having problems on what he is. Tch, how pathetic. Now where is that brat?
"Jack!" Huh? Wait, was that the red haired chick's voice? I looked back and saw the pink dragon coming after me, much to my irritation as I let out a scoffing sound. "There you are! I thought I wouldn't find you so soon!"
She smiled over at me with a relieved look on her face.
"Yeah, what you want?" I asked irritably.
"I'm coming after you to make sure Spike doesn't try anything nor you!" Kaede explained, causing me to scoff.
"Great, so you don't trust me yet again?" Kaede shook her head and said "No, it's not that I don't trust you. It's just that we're worried about you. Jack...I don't know what's in your mind, but I know that you're probably gonna stop Spike from doing this raid, right?"
"W-what?" I asked, a little startled by her guessing what I was doing. To be fair, yes, I'm gonna stop Spike from doing this raid because...what he's about to do is just gonna be plain stupid. I have a cold feeling by the way Garble said about stealing those eggs. I just felt nervous because sure they acted like other bikers from the Yamaki gang, but...I just have this feeling that they're gonna do something more than just 'steal' those eggs.
"It's just a hunch. I just...thought that maybe you needed help." Kaede stated before looking down from the sky with a sad smile. "...Well maybe I can't be of help since most of the time I just stand in the sidelines. Though I wanna help as much as I can for a friend that's all. I've seen Ren helped us out by encouraging the others by saying the right words. It's like he knows how to make them feel better and know how they're feeling. I just wanna help out and after seeing Spike like that...I wanna help out how he feels. Trust me, I sorta understand that feeling..."
"Huh..." I muttered, feeling quite surprised upon hearing that. "Wow, I gotta say...that I didn't expect to hear all that from you."
Kaede blushed in embarrassment before saying "W-well...I just wanna help out, that's all."
"Well..." I gaze towards the mountain as I said "I just want the brat to stop acting like he doesn't know who he is. I just want to make sure that he can't do anything stupid. I may have done stupid things in the past but...this might be one of the stupidest things I'm about to do."
"Well...count me in as well." I looked at the pink dragoness chick as she gave me a soft grin and said "I'm willing to stop Spike as well, so let's do it together Jack."
I gave her a satisfied snort before saying "You know, you're crazy...and that's what I like about people."
Soon enough, we saw a large flash over by the forest nearby as we looked at each other as Kaede said "Something tells me that we should go check that out."
"You think?" I gave her a deadpanned glare before we flown down towards the scene. Why do I have a bad feeling that's something is about to happen?
Kaede's POV
We surely arrived to the scene and landed on the ground as we looked around, hoping to find Spike. We looked around till we saw a bunch of orange colored birds wrapped around in flames flying away.
"What the hell? What kind of birds are those?" Jack questioned. I narrowed my eyes to get a closer look till I let out a gasp upon realizing what they were.
"Those are Phoenix's! I recognized them anyway!" I pointed out.
"Wow, those guys weren't kidding about Phoenix's." Jack blinked in surprise before seeing them leave. "Huh...looks like they're running away."
"It's probably Garble, Spike, and the others!" I pointed out, remembering about their plans. "Come on, let's go!"
"Right!" Jack nodded before we began flying into the air and looked around the forest till we noticed Spike and Garble hanging out in the forest. We flown down and landed in front of them, gaining their attention.
"Spike!" I called in worried.
"Kaede? Jack!" Spike called back in relief while Garble and his two goons felt confused on what he said.
"Kaede? Jack? What a weird bunch of names, Spike. You know it's Jumbo and..." He gave me a goofy grin and said "Blaze..."
"Eww!" I looked away from him, not wanting to be near him at all.
"Hey, what the hell's going on here?" Jack questioned before noticing a red shiny egg in Spike's arms. "And what the hell is that?"
"O-oh...well..."
"It's one of the Phoenix's eggs that Spike found!" Garble explained with a grin before patting him on the back. "He was busy distracting the parents while we tried the nest, but apparently they all hatched, so we decided to take them too but they got away, along with their parents."
I covered my mouth in shock, my expression turning a bit pale while Jack widened his eyes, thinking what he said was wrong.
"W-what...did you say?" Jack questioned.
"Did ya hear, Jumbo my friend?" Garble laughed. "We all were gonna smash those eggs, but since they hatched, we changed our own plans and tried to eat them, but now that Spike here has the egg, we can just smash it into pieces!"
"Are you frigging stupid?!" Jack exclaimed. "You're gonna smash those damn eggs?!"
"How could you?! Why in the world would you do that?!" I added, glaring angrily at them.
"So what? That's what we do!" Garble laughed before high-fiving his friends while Spike sweated nervously while gazing at the egg. "Well what are you doing Spike? Smash it!"
"S-S-Smash it?" Spike asked nervously. "Smash the egg?"
"Yeah!" The brown chubby dragon nodded.
"Yeah, throwing it on the ground as hard as you can!" The slim purple dragon added.
"Spike don't!" I begged. "You wouldn't do this! Twilight, Ren, Jamie and the others know that this isn't you!"
"Kaede..." Spike muttered.
"Spike..." I looked at him, tearing up a bit. "I understand how you feel right now, okay? Back then when I lost my dad, I felt so alone and didn't know if I really belonged with my step-mother and my step-sisters because we weren't related by blood. But then I realize that just because we aren't related by blood, doesn't mean we can't make bonds, right? Besides...you have us."
Spike gasped a little, realizing that I had a point.
"Blah blah blah! Who cares about all about this emotional stuff?" Garble scoffed, upsetting Jack a bit and Spike. "Come on Spike, smash that egg!"
"Why don't ya piss off?!" Jack stepped in and pushed Garble away and stood in front of Spike.
"W-what? Jumbo, what are you doing?!" Garble asked in confusion. "We're trying to have fun!"
"No, all you frigging idiots want to harm something that didn't do anything at all! You think messing with lives is something to enjoy! Killing things is just...wrong! Sure my family are known for doing crazy and stupid stuff, like I do but we would never do something like this! You're all frigging sadistic!"
"Come on, now you're just-"
"No, he's right!" I stepped in front of Spike with a glare as I said "You guys made fun of Spike because he was raised by ponies, so what? Maybe it was destiny for him because Spike would never turn into a killer like you guys!"
"W-what?!" Garble asked, his anger boiling up inside.
"You heard the chick, fudge off bastard!" Jack clenched his fist, his face showing off his anger. "At least the puny dragon has a heart and would never kill anyone!"
"And you know what? I think we learned one thing about you guys...you're monsters!" I added, snarling at them. "Spike is unlike you guys! He's kind, helpful, always believe in us and would never hurt or even eat us because he's the type of dragon who we call our friend!"
"You guys..." Spike whimpered, letting out a tear upon hearing what we said.
"Whatever! I don't know what's up with you two, but if I don't see something get destroyed, then I'll-"
"No!" Spike yelled, glaring angrily towards Garble and his gang as they looked at him with incredulous looks. "I won't do it!"
"What did you say?" Garble asked, narrowing his eyes towards him.
"I said no! It's just a defenseless egg, like I was!" Spike said, looking at the Phoenix egg with a soft smile before nuzzling his face against it and said "And I'm not gonna let you hurt it."
"What?!" Garble scowled, but Spike stayed on his ground as he shouted "You heard me! I won't do it! I remember something happened to me when I was lusted with greed and I remember nearly killing my own friends and that I instantly regret ever doing, but they soon forgive me and I swore that I would never harm a soul again!"
"You little bastard...no one says no to me!" Garble growled as he charged towards him until Jack came and punched him in the gut, causing him to wheeze in pain.
"Step away from the brat or else! You think you're gonna hurt my friends, then you got another thing coming." Jack threatened while me and Spike looked at each other in surprise upon seeing him act like this. Was Jack...defending us? I mean, he doesn't seemed like the type to hurt others unless it's necessary, but still!
"W-what the? Jumbo? What do you think you're doing? You're a part of us, remember?" Garble asked in shock before turning to me and asked "A-and...I thought we had a connection Blaze! I thought we had something."
"First of all, gross. Second of all, no we don't have a connection. We never had a connection." I pointed out. "And besides, after seeing how a sadistic monster you and your friends are, I rather not date someone like you...ever!"
"Damn straight!" Jack nodded. "And besides, after seeing how you don't give a damn about frigging killing someone or something, I rather be with them, my real friends."
He gave me and Spike a soft yet cocky grin before glaring angrily towards Garble and his friends, who scowled back at him.
"You...you traitor!" Garble yelled before turning to his friends and said "Come on! Let's get these little traitors and be rid of them for ever betraying their own bloodline!"
"Yeah!" The two teen dragons roared before charging at us till they were knocked out by a blur and shot in the back by a powerful blue blast.
"What the?!" Garble yelled before seeing a familiar black dragon landing in front of him with a cold look on his face while the others managed to show up with Jamie nervously holding the Hacking Gun in his hands.
"W-whoa...so that how it feels like, huh?" Jamie asked, feeling hesitant on wielding it.
"Yeah, you get used to it. It's a pretty neat weapon, wouldn't you say?" Ren chuckled before looking at me, Jack, and Spike and asked "Are you guys alright?"
"We're fine." I chuckled while Garble scowled at them and said "You too?! Are you guys all friends with these namby-pamby ponies?!"
"Yeah!" Carrie nodded. "We're all good friends with each other unlike you meanies!"
"Yeah! Nopony touches our friends and gets away with that!" Rainbow exclaimed.
"Indeed." Rarity stepped up and stood next to Mason as she glared sternly at the red dragon and said "Although fighting's not really my thing. I'm more into fashion, but..."
She formed an enraged look and yelled "I'll rip you to pieces if you touch one scale on his cute little head along with any of my friends!"
Garble blinked in confusion before he started snickering and then laughing.
"Ooh, scary, hehe!" Garble scoffed with a smirk on his face. "Can't believe that you guys are friends with these namby-pamby ponies."
"Well at least they're much better to have friends with unlike you." I scoffed as I walked towards him with a stern look on my face. "I hope I would never ever see you ever again in my entire life!"
"Oh come on, you don't really mean that." Garble chuckled nervously before I let out a scoff of disgust and turned my head away with him, but not until I turned back around and gave him a quick hard punch in the jaw, causing him to fall unconscious on the ground. "Owie..."
With that, he fell unconscious on the ground while I winced in pain upon feeling that impact I gave to him. Oh man, who knew punching someone would be this painful? Hm? I looked over and saw my friends giving me shocked looks on their faces, which I noticed.
"Umm...what?"
"...What the fudge was that? You just gave him the cold-hardest slap I've ever seen!" Jack exclaimed.
"Indeed, that was quite...surprising for you to do that, even for him." Mason nodded, shocked by what happened.
"Yay Kaede! Way to go!" Carrie cheered. "You showed that bully a lesson he'll never forget!"
"Quite indeed." Rarity nodded, also shocked by me punching Garble and knocking him out.
"I-I can't believe she had in her." Jamie muttered loudly, his expression turning pale.
"Yeah, who knew she could deliver such a punch." Ren nodded with a gulp before smiling and said "But at least you showed him a thing or two and thank god that we arrived to the scene quickly as possible, am I right?"
"Yeah, you sure did." I chuckled with a light smile before frowning a bit. "Listen...sorry about leaving you guys behind."
"It's okay Kaede, just don't do that again." Twilight smiled before turning to Spike and said "And Spike, I'm so sorry for ever following you-"
"No Twilight, it's alright. I understand if you were so worried about me." Spike softly smiled at her, causing Twilight to walk over and hugged him tight, along with the rest of us.
"Yeah...we're glad to have you back in the group, Spike." Ren smiled. "We thought you were gonna live and stay with these guys forever!"
"Are you kidding? After they tried to make me smash this egg into pieces, there's no way I would do that!" Spike smiled before we gaze at the unconscious bodies of Garble and his friends. "And I think it's best if we leave before they wake up."
"Agreed." Mason nodded. "But I hope that we'll never see the likes of them ever again."
"Same here." Jack scoffed at Garble as we began to walk away until I nudged Jack, causing him to look at me in confusion till I gave him a knowing look, which made him remember something. "Oh...right..."
"Hm? Yes Jack?" Mason asked in confusion.
"Listen..." He rubbed his head bashfully. "I'm sorry for my attitude earlier again...I didn't mean to run...or fly off like that. I was just upset about what Spike was planning to do. Sorry for my rash nature..." Jack looked down with a sad sigh. "When those guys were acting so immature and tough and cocky-"
"Like you?" Rainbow grinned, causing Jack to smile back at her.
"Yeah...someone like me." Jack chuckled before saying "When I saw them by what I said, I thought I could hang out with them a lot, but...after hearing about smashing that egg and don't care about what they would do...I realized that they were bastards that didn't care about the rules."
"Sorry if that didn't work out for you dude." Ren patted him on the back with a soft smile. "But at least you have us, right?"
"...Yeah." Jack grinned before giving him a noogie on the head, making Ren laugh while the others smiled softly. "You guys are okay in my book!"
"Thanks!" Ren grinned while Jack toothily grinned until he was whacked in the head by Mason as he hold it behind while Jack growled angrily at him and exclaimed "What the hell man?!"
"That's for being too rash and flying off like that." Mason stated before smiling at him and said "And...while you are immature, at least you did the right thing."
Jack glances away from him before replying "W-whatever..."
"So Spike..." Carrie turned to Spike and asked "What are you gonna do with the egg?"
Oh right, I almost forgot about that. Now what are we gonna do about it?
Spike gaze at the egg before letting out a smile and said "You know what? I'm gonna take care of it and raise it like how Twilight raised me."
Twilight smiled at him, along with the rest of us as we felt such a heart-warm moment about to happen.
"Well...until we f-find it's family, that is." Jamie stated with a soft smile. "But overall...I-I guess it'll be nice for you to take care of it Spike."
"Thanks Jamie." Spike smiled. "And thanks you guys for helping me out against those guys."
"Of course. What are friends for?" Twilight smiled.
"You're more than friends. You're my family." Spike chuckled before we all gave each other hugs while Mason noticed he was hugging both his sister and Rarity, causing him to smile softly at the two while Rarity squeaks in embarrassment and excitement as I noticed the blushing from her face.
"Well glad that's over." Ren sighed in relief as Jamie handing him back his Hacking Gun. "Oh, thanks James."
"A-anytime R-Ren..." Jamie nodded with a meek smile. Jack ruffled Spike's head and said "And you know what? Take good care of hatching this chick, Spike! You know, if you wished to be a better dragon than those clowns back there, why not train with me and Mase? You might enjoy it."
"R-really? You really do that for me Jack?" Spike asked, feeling enthusiastic about it. When Jack nodded, Spike felt pumped up about it as he said "That's awesome! Thanks you guys!"
"Training? With you and Mason?" Rainbow asked in confusion. "Since when did I ever see you exercise, fatty?"
"Hey!" He shouted in offense before clearing his throat with a light blush in his face and said "Y-yeah...I was training for many reasons."
"We've decided to train ourselves to get stronger." Mason stated, crossing his arms with a serious look on his face. "But if you are worried if we ever hurt Spike, then we promise to go easy on him."
"Well that's a relief." Rarity sighed in relief.
"Same here." Twilight nodded.
"Well, I'm glad that we've all learned a lesson here." I chuckled while Spike nodded and said "You bet! I even came up with a great message to send back to the princess!"
"Really?" Carrie asked in excitement. "What is it? What is it?!"
"Well...I guess I can explain it." Spike cleared his throat before he began explaining what the lesson we learned today.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Seeing the great Dragon Migration made me wonder what it meant to be a dragon. But now I realize that who I am is not the same as what I am. I may have been born a dragon, but Equestria and my pony friends have taught me how to be kind, loyal, and true! I'm proud to call Ponyville my home, and to have my pony, animal, and human friends as my family!
- Yours truly,
Spike
"Wow, that was so beautiful Spike." I chuckled with a soft smile. "I think Princess Celestia might enjoy it."
"Thanks." Spike nodded before turning to Jamie, noticing him writing something down in his journal. "And I bet you've already written it down in your notebook, huh?"
"Y-yes..." Jamie nodded with a small smile before noticing something on me with a confused look. "Kaede? Guys? What's with the flashing?"
"Wait what?" I asked in confusion until I looked at my body and saw that he was right, I was flashing until five seconds later, a bright flash came out of our bodies and soon it died down as we felt nausea from what we just experienced. Oh man...that really felt so sickening just doing all that.
"Whoa! Guys, look at yourselves!" Huh? We overheard by what Rainbow Dash shouted as I looked down at my hands, and it turns out...they were back to the way they were! They were human hands! I looked around at my body and saw that I was back in my clothing, and the others looked at themselves and found out that we were back to normal as well.
"Hey, we're humans again!" Ren exclaimed in joy. "I don't know how, but we're back!"
"Thank goodness for that." Mason sighed in relief.
"Huh..." Jack looked at his back with a smirk on his face. "I'm gonna miss my strength. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted."
"Yeah, I'm gonna miss being a dragon." Carrie sighed sadly. "It was so awesome doing all those dragon challenges."
"H-H-HOW?!" Jamie yelled in shock. "How is that possible?!"
"Amazing!" Twilight exclaimed in excitement. "How on Equestria did you guys do that in the first place?!"
"I-I don't know..." I shook my head before looking at my hands and clenched them. It's so weird...I don't know how we were turned back to normal...but I hate to say it, but I'm gonna miss being a dragon. Oh well...I don't know how we were turned into dragons in the first place, but that thinking more about it just gonna confused me. That's just another part for our little list of mysteries here in Equestria...
"Hey, can I see a mirror for a sec, Rares?" I asked curiously.
"Sure thing Kaede, darling." Rarity nodded before taking out a mirror and showing my face, and it was back to the way it was before I was transformed into a dragon. Hmm...my hair looks fine, and so does my face. So I guess nothing's wrong...Huh? Suddenly, for a second there, I thought for a second there I saw a glint of flash on each of my cheeks. Strange...I guess I was imagining things. "Something wrong, Kaede?"
"...Nah, it's nothing. Just wanted to make sure." I assured with a soft grin before handing back the mirror to her. Rarity nodded while the others discussed by what we've experienced, but overall, I was still confused by what I saw when I was looking at myself. I was sure that I wasn't exactly seeing things, right?
Later
Soon, we all headed our way back home to Ponyville and it was quite easy to get back there what with the shortcut Twilight and Jamie found out while they followed after Spike.
So with that, we said our goodbyes and headed back to our respective homes. Soon, me, Ren, Carrie, Mason, Jamie, and Jack were heading back to the home-ship to enjoy a peaceful sleep because we needed it.
"Man, despite those guys trying to smash that egg and planning that raid to make Spike smashed it, it was pretty fun what with doing all those crazy things and eating some rubies." Ren chuckled. "I'm surprised that when we got transformed back into humans and such, I was thinking that we might've felt sicked from eating all those gems."
"You can say that again." Jack nodded before rubbing his gut. "You know, being a dragon felt so fun, including fighting those suckers in the King of the Hoard game."
"Of course you would like that." I rolled my eyes, remembering that dirty little trick he pulled on me and Spike.
"Well...at least we're back to normal and everything went alright with Spike." Mason smiled.
"You can say that again, big brother! I'm so happy that Spike finally accepted who he is." Carrie chuckled, which her brother nodded. Soon, we arrived to the front of the home-ship where we encounter him.
"Ah, I was wondering what was taking you guys so long..." We all gaze at Rantaro, who was leaning against the wall as he tilted his head a bit. "You know, I was feeling bored what with you guys not showing up for the whole day."
"Umm...thanks?" Ren replied with a somewhat soft smile.
"What do ya want now?" Jack questioned with a growl.
"Oh nothing...just thought I told you guys about a little surprise I encountered." We all became confused by what he said. A special surprise?
"W-what sort of surprise?" Jamie questioned hesitantly. "D-did you find something?"
Rantaro glanced away before turning around and opening the door for us, much to our confusion. He gestured us to follow him inside as we did so and entered back the place and into the living room.
"Well...what is it?" Mason questioned. "What did you find?"
"Well I can say that it wasn't something..." Rantaro pointed to what was in front of us. We looked up and just like that...silence shunned us as we bore witnessed into something...no...someone in front of us.
It was a woman, presumably in her early 20s sitting down on the couch as she scratched Kodiak, Rosy, Jo Jo, Gizmo, Nate, and Maddy as they were sleeping next to her. Well Kodiak and Rosy were still awake as they were enjoying their time being with her.
"Ooh yeah, that's the spot." Kodi sighed happily, letting his tongue out while the woman simply just continued to scratch before replying "Okay..."
We all just stood there in shock while we stared at the curious woman. She had emerald green eyes and short unkempt auburn hair with two long ear-like hair locks that stick up on both sides on her head but must be kept up like that with several hair clips. She wears a pair of round black glasses.
She wears a yellowish-orange long-sleeved loose maroon pullover sweater with a light pink ruffled strap almost covering her shoulders, two braid-like embroidery flowing down her sweater, a black tie with an blue lower half on it, and tight blue shorts that reaches only the uppermost part of her thighs. Underneath her sweater, she wears a deep raven back collared sleeveless shirt. She also seemed to be wearing two mismatched slippers because the one on her right was crimson color with a puppy face on it while the one on her left was yellow with a kitten face on it. I'm not so sure if she would noticed that or not.
Also, what I also noticed that she had a violet colored iPad with her. Soon, she slowly took noticed of us while Kodi and Rosy felt too happy and relaxed to see us as the girl looked at us with a look like she didn't care at all. No smile, no disappointment, no annoyance, nothing. Her expression was just...boring.
"....Hello there."
...Just what's happening here?
To Be Continued