7.00 AM
I have just sent a letter to Twilight Sparkle. I didn't make anything up this time. I just put it straight to her, and put her straight to task.
It is simple. The Dragon is sleeping there, and because he has been recently ravishing the local tobacco fields, is now exhaling a large quantity of foul black smoke.
Twilight needs to get rid of him for the sake of my garden.
I will tell her to form a team of trusted companions to bring along with her.
No doubt she will bring the regular crowd, which of course, includes the Scourge.
Either way, perhaps one of these two problems will help to rectify the other.
This is what you call creating a win-win situation, and every good leader should know how to use their enemies against each other.
3.00 PM
Goodness, that thing called Fluttershy is rather timid, isn't she?
I have been watching them from my castle through my spyglass. Their long trek up the mountain was, well, long. It was made even more lengthy due to Fluttershy deciding to take the scenic route. Why did they even decide to take her along, anyway? Does Twilight know something I don't?
3.15 PM
Twilight enters the cave.
3.17 PM
Twilight has exited the cave, apparently unsuccessful. She simply just needs to unleash her full powers without fear of ramification. That's what being a leader is about. Was last week's test for nothing? Well, I can't judge. She's still young. I just hope I don't have to go down myself. Ponies will start to question why I just didn't in the first place.
3.18 PM
Rarity enters the cave.
3.19 PM
Rarity exits the cave, and immediately starts to pout over a rock.
3.20 PM
I don't even know how to describe this.
It appears Pinkamina has gift-wrapped herself up for some kind of Pony sacrifice. This will be interesting to watch.
3.21 PM
No surprise.
3.22 PM
Rainbow Dash heads in face first.
3.24 PM
Well... something happened.
I am unsure as to what Rainbow Dash did in there, but I will hazard a guess that it had something to do with either flying around or shouting obnoxiously, or some mix of both.
The Dragon is enraged and furious, no doubt because he too is tired of the incompetence of this band of Ponies attempting to eject him from the mountain cave.
He is belching all over them.
3.25 PM
Interesting.
The thing named Fluttershy seems to have a special ability previously unnoticed. It appears that her persuasion over small animals that have about the same level of intelligence as she does can be extended to large creatures as well, Dragons included.
This ability of hers to influence animals directly might prove useful to me in the future.
This is what I mean about the Cutie Marks. How am I supposed to get all this from butterflies? What happened in her youth that caused her to develop such an awkward and dismal hind-mark?
4.40 PM
Well, regardless, it seems that the problem has been dealt with, although not in the way that I had intended.
What worries me the most is that the Scourge did not have a hoof in the Dragon's departure, which once again causes confusion about the situations in which she can use her abilities. Hopefully, there will be a clear, observable example of her powers soon which can be documented and studied.
Twilight's letter suggests that the Fluttershy thing's ability to make Dragons cry is generally acknowledged by the local Ponies, and it was merely her confidence holding her back. I might want to have her on my side, but she needs therapy to increase her bravery.
I shall enrol her in my 30-day Cloven Hoof enrichment course that the palace guards go through.