Narrator
It was just another normal day at the Dragon Lands, dragons diving in lava lakes, fighting each other for dominance or just for fun and dragons who are simply guarding their hoards.
On one of lava lakes, one which was in a small crater with a few stone spike and walls, Garble and his gang had took over one of the best spots for resting, where the lava is hotter and more pleasant. Now they were discussing what to do after Garble becomes the Dragon Lord on the Gauntlet of Fire, which would be happening next year.
Lava lake 3º PoV
“So you’re really considering attacking Equestria and its neighboring countries Garble?” Asked a white dragon with a pinkish scale Mohawk.
“Of course! Those places have the best gems that you could find, and the ponies are so squeamish that they would flee the moment they see us coming down from the skies.” Answered Garble in his prideful voice.
“What about that princess of their? I’ve heard that she control both the Sun and the Moon.”
“Yeah, and I’ve heard that they have mind altering spells! What if they make us fight each other?”
“And what about…”
“And there is that thing…”
“They can…”
“ENOUGH!” yelled Garble, tired of the chatter. “What are you guys even afraid of?! We are dragons! Our scales are nigh impenetrable, we can swim on lava and breathe fire! Heck, we can slice iron bars in half as if they were paper and you are scared of little ponies?”
A few dozen meters away from them, resting against a dark obsidian rock outside of the lava was the Dragon Lord’s daughter Ember, or at least that was her intention, if the loud voices of Garble and his gang were not making that impossible.
‘Seriously Garble? War with the entire world? As if dragons hadn’t a bad enough reputation with being greed and malicious, now he wants to make us look like dictators?’ She thought.
“…then we will make those stupid dogs mine gems for us, and then…” Garble continued
‘Please, can something happen to make him shut up? I just came here to relax, not to listen to empty words of a megalomaniac.’ Then, as if the universe itself had listen to her prays, a huge, rectangular block of rock shot out of the lava, attracting the attention of the nearby dragons, whom watched as it arched its way to where Garble stood, hitting him right in the face, making him fall on his back, holding his hurting muzzle.
“ALRIGHT! WHO DID THAT?!” Garble yelled, looking around, but he noticed that the nearby dragons were looking at the middle of the lake, which had huge riptides and was bubbling quicker than normal. The bubbles started to move towards the edge of the lake, in the direction where Garble and his friends were, and slowly, something appeared.
The nearby dragons stopped what they were doing and stared, intrigued, as a massive pair of recurved horns, followed by an equally massive bipedal being, walked from within the lake, dripping lava from its body.
As the lava slowly retreated from the creature’s body, its features could made clearer. Its furless skin was a pale white, giving it an undead feel. Its eyes glowed in an ominous red light, it possessed no muzzle and, in the place where a nose would be, there was a hole, which, together with its jaw armor, which remembered an open maw, gave the being’s head a demonic skull like appearance. It also had two smaller horns, which extended from the back of his skull all the way to its face.
The being’s upper chest and arms were half-covered in a pale dark green armor, with the left chest armor possessing a circle that glowed red like its eyes, purple veins originating from it could be seen on its skin. Its right arm possessed visibly less armor than its left, and on its right paw (?), it wielded a long metal staff, featuring a horned metal skull at its tip. Its left arm, despite the strange rune on its shoulder and being completely covered in the same pale dark green armor as opposed to its right one, had no distinctive features. On its waist, it possessed a belt that featured the same rune as its shoulder, and on its hips, he carried an assortment of skulls of different sizes. Its strangely bended legs were also covered with the same armor, with heavy light brown boots.
As the strange creature as it walked from the lake onto its shore, its strange aura, as well as his heavy footsteps, attracted the attention of more and more dragons, which despite being huger than it, felt a wave of fear which almost completely paralyzed the majority of them, only the most stubborn didn’t felt it.
One of them was Garble.
“Hey dickhead!” He yelled, as he made his way to the smaller bipedal being. “Who do you think you are to appear on our lake? You don’t seem to be from around here, do you?”
The being didn’t gave him an ear as he calmly walked pass Garble on the direction of the block of rock, Garble grabbed its left shoulder, making it and slowly turn its head to look at him, its eyes burning with fiery.
“G-g-arble, I-I d-don’t t-think t-that’s a g-good idea.” One of his friends tried to say, stuttering with fear.
" You!” Garble said while looking at said dragon. “Don’t tell me what not to do, and you!” He said, looking back at the creature. “Do not ignore me when I’m talking wit...” *GURGLE!*
In the blink of an eye, the creature broke the hold that Garble had on it, and with its left paw, grabbed Garble’s throat, pulling his face down so that it could stare into his eyes, cutting his supply of air. Then, in a demonic voice, it calmly spoke.
“For a dragonoid so weak and small, you talk too much.” It mocked. “Don’t get in my way ever again, or you will suffer a slow and painful dead.”
“Hey! No one threatens a dragon if not for another dra..!” Yelled one of the nearby dragon that weren’t affected by his fear wave, before being shut up by a red energy wave, which came from the being’s newly formed energy double-axe, whom narrowly missed and exploded a rock behind him.
“Talk again, and the next one will not miss, lizard.” The being spoke, before effortlessly throwing Garble onto a nearby rock, resuming his walk towards the stone block.
*BOOM!*
A massive explosion resounded on the area, creating huge riptides on the lake and awakening the few dragons that still were asleep.
*BOOM!*
Another explosion occurred, this time with an energy shockwave that appeared to have came out of everywhere and nowhere at the same time, somehow breaking the induced state of fear of the dragons, some decided to stay and see what was going to happen, others flew away, then, the being spoke again.
“This place has a huge resemblance to the one I was before getting knocked out, just with a more... natural looking.” He said as he got down to one knee near the block of rock, easily cracking it in half with his fist and grabbing with his a strange metal contraption with two tubes that were as long as his forearms.
*BOOM!*
A third explosion occurred, this time in a more localized position, on the obsidian rock were Ember was resting, a spider-web pattern was started to appear on it, red and orange flames emanating from it, as if a seal had just been broken, their warm energy finally broke Ember fear state, whom promptly scuttled away from it.
“On the fortress where we battled, there were only a few beings that had power to make explosion this loud, and I don’t feel Their presence here, and as He wasn’t there, so it leaves only...”
*BOOM!*
...
*CRACK!*
...
“Him.”
...
*RAAARRRGH!*