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// Chapter 3 - Two Insidious Allies 
// Story: The tragedy of Sacanas 
// by Leondude 
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Sacanas just stared at the dragon smiling at him. Since there was no sight of Snuff anywhere, plus foalnapping a local shopkeeper would arouse suspicion, he assumed that the freshly cooked meat the dragon was gorging on was Snuff. While taken aback by the horrific conclusion he made, he realized that the dragon perched before him could be a most powerful ally.

"You're Sanies, aren't you? Son of a noble dragon who holds you a grudge"

The dragon stared at the cloaked pony in front of him, how in Tartarus did he know who Sanies was? The pony chuckled.
"Oh ho ho, I know more than your name, Sanies" Sacanas said with a smile on his face "It's one of the many beauties of being taught mind-reading magic, speaking of which, you want that big blue crystal to enhance your power, don't you?"
Sanies looked at the crystal and then looked back at Sacanas. Clearly he was impressed with how accurate he was, and then he came up with a statement of his own.

"And you know that this perfectly tendered slab of meat used to be your pet, is it not?"

"I had my suspicions and I am both mortified and intrigued by the sight of someone eating their own kind"

"Better than gems, that's for sure"

Sacanas just smiled at Sanies. "I think you and I are going to do great things together". While Sanies smiled back, he then frowned.

"We would if my father allowed me"

"Ah yes, your father, an aspirational dragon I assure you (or at least that's what Snuff told me anyways)"

"Personally, I hope he chokes on those aspirations"

"Is your father a skinny green dragon by the name of Serpentine?"

"Yes and he believes he can be the new Dragon Lord through cheating. An admirable strategy, I assure you, but being Dragon Lord requires physical strength that he severely lacks"

"And yet he found love in your surprisingly butch mother"

"Up until we were practicing for the Gauntlet of Fire and she crash-landed into a volcano"

"I'm sorry for your loss"

"Don't be, I was the one who scratched one of her wings so hard it caused her to lose balance and fly into a volcano"

"And your father knew of your treachery?"

"No, but he knew my mother wouldn't have been taken from us if she wasn't so busy nurturing me and training me to be my father's successor, which was unlikely unless the both of them knew the yak sorcerer Yaksputin"

Sacanas laughed in joy, as he never expected Sanies to have knowledge about Yaksputin the Undestroyable. Legend has it that he fought a great battle with Celestia until Celestia got fed up and exiled him into the sea. There were even rumours that he survived getting burned, getting turned to stone, getting poisoned, and getting thrown about like a rag doll. I doubt even throwing him in the sea would finish him off, even if he apparently couldn't swim. And so Sacanas and Sanies headed off to see Sanies' father and try to convince him that having Sacanas teach Sanies about various forms of magic wouldn't sound like a bad idea.