Drake's Empire

by Pentel123


*Chapter 7: Entry Two

Chapter 7: Entry Two

“If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.”
- The Innocents Abroad
(Entry one would cover most everything you already read.)

Adventure Log: Day Two

Today is my second day of keeping this record. I hope that later entries will be more interesting than this one. We woke up early, and this time I learned to get up quick, avoiding another unexpected swimming lesson. We did a little bit of what Drake called “classroom time”, where we went over how he has been catching fish and getting other food, and I showed him how I breathe fire and how the Equestrian alphabet worked. After that, we finally sent the stuff we didn’t need back to Twilight and set off into the sky.

Before we took off, he asked if I had always been able to send stuff to Twilight. I asked what he was talking about, and he said I always talked about using my messaging abilities to send reports to Princess Celestia but never anypony anyone else. I stood there slack jawed. He was right. I know instinctively that I was sending things to Twilight, same as when I first learned to send messages to Celestia. I told him that I just knew I was, and he said he would file it away for future reference.

While we were flying, he started talking to me about all kinds of crazy, impossible sounding things. Handheld devices with the entire an entire races knowledge in them, medicine that could replace failed organs, machines that do the work ponies do, and other things both amazing and horrifying. Then without warning he flipped over and dropped me. As I was falling he showed up next to me and told me he would only catch me if I could stabilize my fall, and then started walking me through how to accomplish this. How he knew how to do this was beyond me; maybe he learned as he figured out flying for himself. Once he caught me, Drake said it was “to help develop my flying skills”, but I think it was just because he is a little bit loony. I keep asking myself what I have gotten into, but then I remember what he is offering me; a chance to learn about dragons, and a chance to harness my greatest fear, my greed, as my greatest strength. There is just too much here to pass up.

After a few more free falls he went back to talking. I asked when he thought we might be coming back to Equestria. He laughed and said we hadn’t even left yet. When I asked again, he said we would arrive “in time for a wedding.” I asked what he meant by that but he wouldn’t say; just threatened to drop me again.

We stopped when the sun first started to touch the horizon, and found a large cave to stay in for the tonight. This place has a weird feel to it. When I brought it up with Drake he dismissed it, saying, “If you can’t figure out what is causing that feeling, best just be on guard and ready of anything.”

We entered the cave and found a bunch of old skeletons. They were wearing some armor and weapons. There was a minotaur, a griffin, a pony and a something that looked somewhat like a diamond dog, but a little different. We rifled through the bones, looking for anything we could use. I was against it. It felt like we were desecrating a grave. Drake insisted saying there was a chance we could learn something from it. In the end all we could use was some strange gold coins and glass vials with an odd glowing liquid in them. Drake said they were probably an adventuring party from hundreds of year ago. I think that they might be even older, preserved by whatever is giving me the heebie-jeebies.

Drake surprised me when he said we were going to bury the bodies, and bury them we did before sparring for about an hour. Once we finished sparring, Drake went off saying it was time to find food, and that I was on my own for that tonight. I managed to find some berries to eat. While they were filling I was still pretty hungry, when a bunny burst out in front of my path. I am not sure what came over me but I breathed fire at it as soon as I saw it. I hope it died quickly, but I did find it surprisingly satisfying.

Drake came back to the cave fairly late with a boar in his claws. I offered to cook it for him, but he said that if he couldn’t cook it himself the he “ain’t getting no bacon tonight.” It was kind of sad to watch in all honesty, but after about an hour of trying he gave up and ate it raw, probably the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. He said it was surprisingly delicious. I hope he never meets Fluttershy--that could only end poorly.

Tomorrow we continue our journey. If we are on course then it should only be another two or so days before we leave Equestria to explore lands no pony has explored before. Nothing left to say for now aside from good night, and I hope tomorrow is more eventful.
-Spike

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