//------------------------------// // Unexpected: Chapter two // Story: Dragon Princess // by King Condius //------------------------------// Pov: Princess aurora It's dark here. Oh, so dark and cold. There's no light here; only the emtyness. I want to go home, i dont know where i am, and i hear voices. Sweat voices, dark voices, but voices non the less. I sometimes hear noises i dont recognize, but they seem to keep me here. I don't like the noises. I don't like the voices. I need to get out of here, i want to see the light again, i want to feel to touch of my mare's. I don't feel safe here. "Hello?" i say into the darkness. Silence. Not just silence; absolute silence. No echo, no soft creaks: nothing. The darkness... it eats the sound, the air and everything. I dont like the darkness. I want to see my princess' again. My sun, moon, and my dreamer. I miss them. I feel a pulling sensation on my forhead, no, my horn. I try to ignore it, but the sensation only seems to get more desprate to get my attention. I finally relinguish to it and stand up to fallow it to, where ever its leading me. I stretch a little as i walk on the...ground? I'm not sure what it is, it's light and seems to swallow the darkness. I like it. I close my eyes and just let it take me by feeling, or tugging, to where it wants me to go. As it leads me, I feel myself changing, physically. I feel the muscles in my back and sides start to tear me open. I open my eyes and see my hooves are growing... appendages. They look like claws, almost dragon like. I felt my wings growing and growing and growing. My body starts to grow as well, getting bigger and growing, scales? I am used to changing, but it still hurts. I lay on the ground and wait for the pain to subside. Someone help me. I rest my head on the ground and close my eyes as a tear runs down my cheek. Princess luna: third person All the alicorn could see was darkness. She slowly trotted into the dark room and tried to will her eyes to see in the darkness. She then remembered that she had a horn and almost face-hoofed at her moment of stupidity. She lit her horn with the familiar light blue magic and looked around the now dimly lit room. It was a mess. There were books strewn across the floor, claw marks in the marble, and sheets torn from the large bed. She heard a noise, it was almost undetectable, but she heard it. She slowly turned to look in the direction of the noise and saw a large dragons tail. She fallowed the tail up to a body, no bigger than an adult dragons, and to the massive wings. They were shifting slightly, but remained at the sides of the large creature. She continued along the body up to the long neck, and eventually to the large head, almost touching the ceiling with it's spines and horns on its head. Her eyes shrunk slightly when she realized were the sound was coming from and only increased slightly as she stood there. She gulped and tried to back up, but she tripped over a book, and fell onto her rump. "Ouch! oh...that hurt." She rubbed her sore rump and froze when she felt breath on the back of her neck and slowly turned to face the massive dragon. The dragon was growling deep in her throut and did not like the intruder in HER space. She barred her teeth at the small pony and clacked them together in a mock gesture. Luna wanted to scream, to run, something. But she doesn't. She just sits there and stares into the dark silver eyes in front of her. Unblinking. Unmoveing. Unwelcomeing. She steels herself and, in a moment of bravery, stands back up. The large dragoness is stunned. Oh, so she wants to be brave, huh? Well, i can change that. The moon princess, with all her might, glared at the dragoness. "YOU WILL NOT SCARE US!" she said in a booming voice that she hoped the dragon would back down with. She's got heart, i'll give her that, but i want to try som- wait. Why does she smell familiar? The large dragoness leaned down with her powerful neck and took a sniff of the pony trying to intimidate her, and failing miserably. She let loose a low growl deep within her throut and the pony in front of her backed down. The moon princess was baffled. Why hadn't that worked with this dragon? usually when i do that, all the dragons would be too frightened to harm me in anyway. But this one is different. Somehow, but isn't aurora supposed to be in he- oh. The large dragoness kept sniffing the small dark purple-ish red mare and found a scent she recognized. This pony... she is my mate. which means that... Her eyes turned to slits and she looked to the now frightened pony with happiness and a twinge of confussion. Luna looked into the eyes of the dragoness and saw the eyes of her friend, wife, and lover. She was about to speak when, her mate aurora, gently licked her cheek. Princess aurora remembered who she was and regained control, if only slightly, of her feral body. She remembered why she went feral, it was instinct. When an animorph becomes pregnant, they take the form of their strongest animal so that they can protect their children. Aurora's largest form was a black dragoness with sharp horns, claws, and powerful jaws that could break diomand's. Dragoness' were large enough to destroy houses, burn down cities and towns, but they were the most maternal of all the other species. She was no eception. The large dragon closed her eyes and physically moved her throut to allow her vocal cords to connect with her mouth. "I know you, you are the father of my children, arent you?" Luna was shocked to hear her speak, but closed her eyes and nodded. "Yes, yes i am." The large dragoness took her wing and used it to pull her mate closer to her. The dark alicorn was startled at the sudden gesture, but looked up at her beloved lovingly. "I must say, i can see your spirit in our duaghters, i chose right when i took you as my mate." Luna looked up at her wife suddenly and tilted her head to the side. "Duaghters? there's two?" at that the dragoness nodded and moved slowly to the far corner of the large room; wife in tow. She stopped at the corner and gently lifted the torn sheets from the sleeping figures in the makeshift nest. "Are they not beutiful? come; see your new daughter's." Luna hesitantly went over to the corner of the room the dragoness was at and looked over the shoulder of her mate. What she saw made her heart flutter with joy, for in the makeshift nest, slept two foal's. The larger of the two was dark red with red and purple hair. When she opened her eyes slightly, she saw light silver eyes, like her loves. The smaller of the two was pure white with red and hot pink hair and her eyes were open and looking up at her large mother. Her eyes were light blue. She giggled and reached up to the dragoness who, with great care, picked up her youngest duaghter in her arms. "I still have not named them yet. Would you like to?" she looked at her mate and smiled genually. Luna could barely believed what she had heard. She wants me to name them? She looked at her wife, her daughter, and smiled. " i know the perfect name for our youngest daughter." She trotted over the short distance to her mate and kissed her on the cheek. "How does serion sharptooth windcloud sound to you?" the large dragoness pondered the name i her mind for a moment before she nodded and looked at her newly named daughter who was playing with her hair. She kissed her duaghter on the cheek, careful not to hit her horn, and looked over at her eldest daughter. "What about her? she still need's a name." Luna walked over to the larger of her daughters and pondered what to name her. To help her think, she picked up the foal in her magic, and gently lied down with her in her crossed hooves. "What shall i call you dear?" the foal stared at her mother and yawned, "poor filly; need to sleep don't you." The foal sniffed and closed her eyes and unexpectanly started to whimper slightly. Luna's eyes widened before she realized just what the foal needed from her. She picked up the foal in her magic and shifted her position so that her teats were acceptable to her foal. she set the foal down next to them and the foal quickly found her way to the nearest teat and, with what could be assumed as care, latched onto it; sucking it gently. Luna winced at the sudden contact, but relaxed when she felt her daughter suckle on her teat. She looked at the foal again and noticed how quick she was at finding the source of food. "Swift dawn windcloud." she said out loud to her wife. "Swift? that's a wonderful name darling." The two mother's sat in content silence with the occasional hiccup of their eldest daughter suckling. That silence was broken, however, when their youngest started to cry. Aurora rolled her eyes and started to sing a lullaby she heard her own mother sing to her long ago. She sang in a sweat voice, quite unlike a dragon's. "Hush-a-bye, dont you cry, go to sleep, my little filly. When you wake, you shall have. All the pretty little horses." Luna was rocking her foal in her arms, just listening to the sweat voice of her lover. "Dapples and greys, pinto's and bay's, All the pretty little horses. Way down yonder, in the meadow. poor little filly, crying mama." The princess of the night set her foal into the makeshift nest, sound asleep. "Bird's and the butterflies, Flutter round her eyes. Poor little filly, crying mama. Hush-a-bye, don't you cry, go to sleep, my little filly." The great dragoness continued to sing to her dreary filly with her wife next to her, watching her filly calm down and start to drift to sleep. "When you wake, you shall have. All the pretty little horses. Dapples and greys, pinto's and bay's, All the pretty little horses." The dragoness hummed the song for a few more moment's before getting up, with the filly cradled in her massive arm, and set her next to her older sister with a kiss before she pulled the tattered covers over the sleeping pair. She watched them sleep for a few more moments before she turned silently to the massive bed and walking to it. She got on and possitoined herself to accomidate her mate before lifting a wing to allow her love up onto the bed. The princess of the night smiled and trotted up to the bed, took off her regalia with her magic, and settled into the arms of her love. Aurora layed her wing protectivly over her lover and kissed her forhead. She watched her wife and foals fall asleep before she lowered her eyelid's to greet the bliss of sleep. Contentment, happiness, and joy. Those are what the dragon felt wrapped around her wife with her foal's within reach of her. She was happy.