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// 33 - Here Be Dragons [2023.03 - banned story] 
// Story: Bad Dragon's Short Stories 
// by Bad Dragon 
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“Twilight, why did you bring me to the caves under Canterlot?”

“Look.” Twilight pointed to a portal in the world. “Maund found it this morning.”

“What does the inscription say?”

“It’s in olde tongue. It says, Only dragons may enter.”

“Well, isn’t that just straight-up racist…” Spike sighed. “Let’s get this over with.” He entered.

On the other side, he found himself changed. On the wings of paper, he glided around the box with the inscription: ‘Here be dragons.’

An enormous human child looked at him and said, “If you’re a dragon and you came out as a paper dragon, what will happen if I put paper in the box?” He proceeded to shove newspapers into the box.

Spike did not know what would happen, so he glided into the box himself to investigate.

When he came out of the portal, he saw black clouds shading the sun. A fiery piece of Canterlot building was shoved aside, and from the hole crawled Twilight.

“I’m glad you weren’t killed!” Spike exclaimed.

“Wait until Celestia finds out about this dragon invasion. I’m a dead mare walking...”