//------------------------------// // The Legend of Corro // Story: My New Life // by Ark125 //------------------------------// My New Life Chapter 21 - The Legend of Korra Corro Corrosive's POV "It's him!" My sister squealed, causing me to chuckle slightly. "Indeed. It is I, your brother." She hugged me around the neck. "Oh my gosh! This is so cool! I thought you were gone forever!" She began to lightly cry on my shoulder. "Shh, it's okay. I'm here now." I rubbed her back to console her. "No need to cry." She began to ease off the waterworks and looked me in the eyes. I wiped her tears away and smiled at her. "There. Feel better." She nodded and wiped her nose with her foreleg. "Yes. Thanks." She stared into my eyes harder. "Your eyes. They are so cold and unforgiving. You have changed so much." "That is because he is no longer a pony." The Princess said, cutting into the conversation and catching our attention. "At least, not entirely." Rainbow looked back at me and said, "What does she mean?" I sighed and rubbed the back of my head. "Well, you see... I am still a pony. But I am also part soul splitter dragon." "Soul what-er what?" The Prince said. "Soul splitter dragon. It is the rarest dragon in the world. There are few documented encounters with it and even fewer that lived to tell about it." Princess Luna explained. "Yes. And I am one of those few." I said in confirmation. "But how?" Rainbow asked. I sat back on my haunches and began to recollect the events of that fateful day. "You may want to get comfortable. This will be a long story." "Well then, let us retire to the study. It will be more comfortable in there." The Prince offered. I got back onto my hooves after we all agreed and we all walked to out of the court and went to the study. Upon arrival, there were four ponies already in the study, lightly sipping tea. "Princess Celestia!" Rainbow Dash and Applejack both said and bowed quickly. Rainbow looked at me and motioned me to bow. I did so and then stood back up. "Please rise." She said. They rose and Rainbow quickly turned her head and yelled, "Dawn!" She jumped on top of the black pegasus. "Yep, it's me. Please get off, I am still sore." "Oops, sorry." She grinned and sat next to him. I turned to the Prince and said, "What are they all doing here?" "I wanted Princess Celestia and Dawn to hear about this and so I asked Vapor to escort Dawn here after his checkup and Death wanted to come as well." He said. I shrugged and sat down on a cushion. A maid walked up and gave me a glass of what I supposed to be iced tea. I thanked her and promptly took a sip of the delicious nectar. After everypony had settled and introductions were made, Princess Luna beckoned me to begin my story. I set down my glass on a nearby coaster and tapped my chin. "Let's see, it all started about three years ago." Three Years Earlier "Hey, step off my sister!" I said to Soarin. "Oh yeah, what are you going to do about it?" "Corro, please don't." Rainbow pleaded. You see, colts were always hitting on my sister, especially an older one named Soarin. Out of all of them, I liked him the least. "What? You think I am gonna beat him up? I wouldn't do that." Soarin said grabbing her chin and lifting her face towards his. "I said leave her alone!" "Why don't you make me?" He said with a grin. "Okay, I will!" I charged at him and he quickly side-stepped me and kicked me in the side. We began to duke it out and eventually I won and he walked away with a few broken ribs and a shattered ego. "Thanks bro." "No problem. Now let's go home." We lived in a regular house with just the necessities with our step-mother, Sunny Skies. She didn't treat us very well. She married our dad after our birth mother died of unknown reasons. A couple of years later, our father died of unknown reasons as well. Surprisingly, when his will was read, it left all his assets to the two of us instead of her. Our dad was a wealthy pony from investing. When he died, we were left in her care. She knew that we could not access the money until we were of the right age. So she waited until the time was right to make the right move. Anyways, that night when we got home, I had just put my sister to bed when Sunny asked me to help her with something in the kitchen. When I walked in, I was hit from behind and knocked unconscious. When I woke up, I hurt all over. I found bruises on my body and one of my wings was torn. I had a few broken ribs and one of my legs was shattered. I looked around and knew I was in the Everfree Forest. I limped around for a couple of days, trying to find some sign of life that wouldn't kill me. A week passed and I thought I would never find help when I heard coughing. I walked as fast as I could towards this sound and to my horror, I found I had stumbled upon a gigantic sleeping dragon. At least, I thought it was asleep. "Who's there?" Said the beast in a shaky voice. "Um, my name is Corrosive Dash." I said with fear. "Ah, a pegasus, huh? I haven't talked to a pegasus in a long time." It licked its teeth. "How do you know I am a pegasus?" It rumbled in what I supposed to be laughter. "Trust me boy, when you have been around as long as I have, you tend to pick up subtle details like the smell of down from a pegasus. Now then, why are you running around in the Everfree at night?" The dragon opened it's eyes revealing yellow irises with red pupils. "Well, um to tell you the truth, I am lost." I said. "Really? You have no idea where you are going?" It smiled slightly. "No, I am going to get out of this forest and get back to Cloudsdale so I can find my sister." "Well you can't go anywhere with that broken leg and torn wing." Before I knew it, the dragon whipped it's tail around stabbed me in the back. "Gah! What was that for? And why do I feel so woozy?" I then fell over and saw the dragon get up and walk over to me, its jaws wide open. In terror, I then passed out. When I woke up, I tried to lift my head but found myself paralyzed. I decided to just lay there. When my blurry vision finally cleared up, I saw a fire going and found that I was in a cavern. Then I saw the dragon on the other side of the fire. "Well, well. Look who finally decided to wake up. You had me worried there for a while. I thought I had injected you with too much venom and killed you." I tried to move again but found I was unable. "Whoa there. Take it easy. I am not going to hurt you." "Says the dragon that stabbed me in the back and then tried to eat me." "Eat you? Why would I want to eat you? I don't even have any teeth. See?" He open his mouth and sure enough, it was nothing but gums. "Fine, but what about stabbing me?" "That was just so I could give you my gift." "You call hurting me a gift?" I scoffed. "Hey, that is a mere pinch compared to what other soul splitter dragons would do." "Soul splitter dragons?" "Yes. I am a soul splitter dragon. The rarest and deadliest dragon in the world. Our venom is so potent, that a drop could kill a hundred ponies. We have fire that immediately turns things to ash. And our roar is so fierce, that is scares the pony of death away from our victims to bring them back to life." "Wow. So why am I not dead?" "Because you were brave enough to approach me in my last hours of life." "Wait, what?" "That is right, I am dying. I have lived long a life and now I must pass on my power to make sure that my species thrives." "You are the last of your species!" "No, we are just really rare, so I have never met another one." "Oh, well okay. By the way, what is your name?" "Thorn." We talked for a couple more hours before he finally passed away. He gave me instruction to burn his corpse after he was gone. After I left him as nothing but ash, I walked out and began to walk towards Cloudsdale. "I was unaware of the changes that had occurred during the time that I was paralyzed, but all of my broken bones and wounds had healed in that time. I grew scales underneath my fur and my wings grew larger. My teeth sharpened and my vision was enhanced. Finally, I began to produce fire." "Wow, that explains a lot." The Prince said. "Except, why did it take you so long to find me?" Rainbow asked. "Well, I did go back to our house afterward, but I found it was up for sale and no one was there. Plus, I couldn't exactly go out in public like this. I had to look for you under the cover of night. I searched all of Equestria for you." "Hmm. Makes sense." Rainbow said. I walked over to her and said, "I am just so glad that you are safe." I hugged her and she hugged back. I turned towards Dawn. "Sorry about burning you alive." "Don't worry about it. I think it was an experience to be dead for a couple of minutes." We shook hooves and then I pulled him forward. "If you ever do something to hurt my sister, I will do it again and make sure you stay a pile of ash." He nodded his head and I let go of his hoof. "So, now what?" Death asked. "Well now that I know that my sister is safe, I can go on to my next task." "Which is?" Applejack asked. I walked over to Applejack. "Ask you out on a date."