//------------------------------// // Dinner, and Some Clubbing // Story: Dark Scales, Soft Stripes // by MrPancakeMan //------------------------------// Chapter 2 - Dinner, and Some Clubbing We sat down to eat on the stone bench and slab arrangement, which is what I presume to be the dining table. And today I learned something about certain species, such as dragons and drakes. Our species along with some others, can eat certain minerals! With that, the cobble surprise consisted of cobble stones, ruby chunks, and shredded sapphire. To get the rubies and sapphires as they are now, Roxy taught me how to use my claws to carefully cut and shape the gem bits. The rubies were cut into small squared, and had the edges rounded. While the sapphires had the same process done, but were shredded after that, into flakes. I took the first bite and it was amazing! The cobble stones tasted like ranch dressing, the rubies tasted like watermelon, the sapphires tasted like blueberry, and I noticed that there was some fish in the salad. So we were about to eat a fish fruit salad... yummy yummy. It was once again, as the name depicted, a surprise! "So, you wanted to talk?" I asked with my mouth full (screw manners). I was still a little nervous about what it was she wanted to talk about. "I wanted to tell you something about my family. I've never told this to anyone before." YEP! That's what I was nervous about. A teenage girl with family issues. Albeit, she was about one and a half times my size, but she explained to me how the males are smaller than the females (and there goes natures female dominance rule). But when I pointed out that I was way too small, she explained that Tiger Drakes, being the hybrid offspring of a tiger and a drake, have become smaller thanks to the tigers side of the family. Anyway I'm getting way off track. Back to the conversation at hand. "When I was just a whelp (a baby drake/dragon), my family was captured and enslaved by diamond dogs. After a few years, my family and a griffin family helped each other to get me and their daughter out of the mine. Our mothers stole keys from the guards to unlock our shackles. And after that, our fathers helped us sneak out of the mines, showing us how to tread lightly and stick to the shadows. But near the entrance, our fathers were caught, beaten, and later, killed. From within the fray, we escaped, and the griffin, who I later found out her name, immediately fled." She now had tears dripping from her cheeks, and a regretful look on her face. "I should have just stayed in the mines! If I did, our fathers wouldn't have died, and our mothers either, or so I assume" The flood gated had burst, and taken the townspeople with it. (One of my own metaphors, stating: She was now openly crying, and she didn't have the mentality to attempt to console herself, only harm herself even more.) After eating, she was still lightly sobbing. So when we got up, I did the first thing that came to mind to console someone, a death hug. But before I knew it she had swept me up, and was now proceeding to crush the life out of me, while sobbing into my shoulder. After my instinctual panic was done, I began to return the hug. When our death hug competition had finished, we went to clean the dishes. But when I saw the sink filled with lava, my reaction was similar to when Scooby Doo would jump into someones arms with his trademark "YIKES" ... only, with me, there was no one to catch me, and so I fell on the floor. "What was that all about?" She deadpanned "Nothing, anyway, how are we supposed to wash dishes with lava?" "Simple. The lava is cooled enough, as to not turn it to rock, and as to not melt the dishes." After explaining this, I still had no idea how it worked. I then came to the conclusion: It's magic, I aint' gotta explain shit! After dipping the dishes (that's exactly what we had to do to not allow them to melt) I heard a scream from outside, female judging by the pitch. "Did you hear that?" I asked, when my: grab weapon. take action, instincts took over. "Hear what?" She asked. "Ok, that confirms that the tiger side gave me better hearing. Now what to use as a weapon." I spotted an oddly shaped stalagmite on the floor, just as I heard another scream. It looked like a stone club, with ore spiking out of it. I think I like it. I break the stone club from the ground before dashing outside on all fours, holding the club in my mouth. When I had finally reached the mouth of the cave, I spotted the source of the screams. A colorful assortment of ponies, who many of you readers will probably recognize. "HEY! Stop breaking the forth wall, and help us!" I heard the pink one in a net shout. I didn't delay at all when I saw one of those damned dogs, that were the source or Roxy's pain As I rushed towards it, I heard in my head 'That's my job. Anyway, go get em'!) I was now only about 10 feet from the dog when I switched into a pounce instead of a dash, and grabbed the club in my hands, and brought it down on his head, turning it to mush. The second dog, who had a belt lined with chemical vials, tossed one towards me and I instinctually hissed at him, because he was the one dragging away the pink one who was mentally cheering me on even though she looked horrified. What happened when I hissed though surprised me. A liquid flew from my mouth and into his eyes, making him scream with agony as he dropped the netted pony and ran off into the brush. The third charged at me full on, while the other two took their leave along with who I had just figured out, must have been their leader. The top of the club hat a point to it, and so I dropped onto all fours and as he came close enough, rammed it through his lungs, causing him to choke on a mixture of stone, and blood. Once the dirty work was done, I turned to see that the 5 ponies were huddled behind their pink friend, who had quite a large smile. "Thank you for saving us. I owe you one it seems." She was making a deal I had already accepted. At the mouth of the cave I noticed Roxy "Where did you learn to fight like THAT?" She looked sincerely amazed. "When your running from your family's mob and you've been cornered, you learn to find the nearest weapon, and take action!" Next chapter will be another back-story tale. Thanks for the support, as this is my 1st story. I also took you guy's advice, and made the chapters a little more detailed. And as always, leave your constructive, or destructive criticism!