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// More Questions 
// Story: A Draconic Meeting 
// by Mystic Sunrise 
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Pearl looked up at Twilight, visibly confused at something. "So is there a book about being an alicorn I should be reading or something? I have no flipping idea how to use any of this!"

Twilight shook her head, just barely able to contain her giggles at the question. "I'm afraid not, Pearl. No matter how hard I looked, I could never find one. In Canterlot, the Crystal Empire, or the Castle of the Two Sisters."

Pearl frowned. Damn it. "What about the princesses?"

Twilight shrugged. "It's been so long, that they have forgotten their childhoods past a certain point. You must also remember that they were born alicorns. As was Flurry Heart. Only you, Cadance, and I have ascended to become one."

Pearl snorted in annoyance and watched in shock as a jet of flame came from her nostrils. "What the? Since when could I do that?"

Even Twilight was shocked. That shouldn't have been possible.

Tiamat only smiled wider. "It is part of what it means to be the Dragon Princess. And that is not all you can do. Do you feel anything inside of you, Pearl? More than just your new magic," the White head asked.

Pearl blinked, before feeling inside herself. She did in fact feel something new, and not just new magic. It felt like an entirely new body, just waiting to be revealed as it slowly grew inside of her, becoming a part of her very essence. A very familiar body in fact. "How? I haven't felt like this since Nightmare Night."

"For one so young, you adapted to that body quickly," the Red head replied.

Pearl rolled her eyes. "Yeah, and look what happened. As awesome as it was to be you for a while, I had no idea what I was doing. Just going off a hair-brained idea. I don't even know what was going to happen to me if I continued, and frankly, I didn't care. Part of me still doesn't."

Twilight tapped her chin. The thought had occurred to her as well. Kohaku had been rather silent on what would have happened to Pearl if she had completed what she had started. Whether because he genuinely didn't know, or because he was protecting his best friend, she didn't know.

Tiamat nodded. "Had you finished, your transformation would have become permanent. You would have become a new me. Unable and unwilling to change back into your pony form even if it had been possible. Your memories would have remained. But you would no longer have cared," the Green head added.

Pearl tapped her chin, wondering what that might have been like. It sounded rather awesome if she was being honest. "So, what. I can do that now? How? I didn't bring my costume, and it's kinda a pain to put it on if I wanna try that body out again. Which does sound awesome though."

The Black head nodded. "Indeed. You need only look inside of yourself, Pearl Rose, and concentrate on that feeling from that night. It will do the rest."

Pearl and Twilight shared a confused look before Pearl shrugged and closed her eyes, trying to find that feeling from Nightmare Night once more. For a moment, nothing happened, and she feared this whole thing was some kind of sick joke.

And then she found it. Knowing not what to do, she let herself let the power flow freely, relaxing as she did so.

Twilight watched in shock as Pearl's body began to glow, before transforming into a familiar shape. She couldn't believe it.

Opening her eyes once more, Pearl looked down in surprise at her now taller body. Her draconic body in fact. Looking around, she felt her heads do the same. All five of them. Her Green and Blue heads looked down at Twilight with a smirk, who could only shake her head in shock.

This was it. This was the same power she had felt that night. Gone however was the anger and hatred. Now Pearl felt as she had when she had faced down the shadow fox. Her mind had been split into five, each independent, but still her at the same time. She could look out from any of her heads, or all of them at the same time. "Sweet," her Black head hissed.

Twilight felt her mind crash. That had been Pearl's voice. Perfectly the same as her pony form in fact. How?

Pearl also felt her breath weapons were fully charged. Remembering what she had been told that night, she breathed out from all of her heads. Fire, lightning, corrosive gas, acid, and cold. Even the filly face in the neck of the Red head added her own breath of lighting.

Twilight squawked in surprise as she dodged the acid from the Black. "Will you please be careful where you point that, Pearl? You're going to hurt someone like this!"

Pearl cut off her breaths. "Sorry!" Her Blue head said sheepishly. "This was a lot easier in that damn graveyard. I can get used to this though."

Tiamat chuckled. "And that is not all. Your breath weapons are always available to you, no matter what form you may be in at the time. As is this form you are in right now. With time, you will only get stronger as well. On top of what you possess as an alicorn. I'm sure Princess Twilight can teach what it means to be one," the Blue head said.

Twilight nodded. "It will not be easy, but I know you will be fine, Pearl. This is going to cause quite a stir in Ponyville and Equestria however. I'm not sure how we will handle that."

Pearl snorted, retreating back into her pony head as her other heads all turned and smiled at her. Like she needed Equestria's permission to do anything. She hadn't cared before, and she didn't now. 

At that moment, however, thoughts of all the things she could do to get back at Kohaku for the months of torment he had put her through filled her mind, and she smiled widely. Best friends or not, he had them coming.

Pinkie Promise.