//------------------------------// // Staying in the hospital and relevations // Story: Ten'nō ryū Dragon Soul // by Soldragonis //------------------------------// When he woke up he felt something soft on top of him and below him, why was he lying in a bed? Running through his mental check list he noticed three things. One: He still had hooves, so it was not just a dream. You can't sleep in a dream. Second: He felt like his inner flame rose up into a inferno, he felt stronger than ever before! And three: His legs have been healed! He felt the traces of magic on a really high level. So he was most likely in a hospital. He did the same thing that he did everytime he was in a hospital: search for food. When he looked to his right he found a table with flowers, hay, a glass of water and no apples, which made three fourths of his overall diet. 'Sigh' Opening his mind, he reached out to find the one that cast this healingspell, to thank him, or her, and ask for some apples, only to feel nine different auren just outside his room, appearently they were waiting for him to wake up. He felt concern, curiosity and happiness coming from them? Why was one of them happy? Whoever it was, he or she seemed to be on a constant sugarrush. 'You may come in now. I'm awake. And could I get some apples?' He heard some clearly female shrieks outside and mentally facepalmed. They didn't know about his telepathic abillities! That would need some explaining. Hearing the door open he looked up. There were the four ponies he saw before, the knight, the purple pony and the two megamis, but there were also five more ponies: A marshmellow colored unicorn mare with a styled purple mane, a cyan pegasus with a rainbowcolored mane, probably called 'Rainbow' something, another timid looking pegasus with a pink mane that hid her face and fur in the color of butter, a orange pony that looked like a farmer and a pink grinning pony with hair like cotton. He instinctively knew what she was about to ask, surprising himself, and spoke up when she bounced towards him. "Ok, in order: Hi, I have no name, I would love a party, but no loud music, I don't like loud music, and I only eat apple-flavored Cupcakes." All ponies looked at him with their jaws hitting the floor. "You have no name? That's awful!" He frowned at the pink ones response. "Everyone has two names: one name is chosen by the person itself, while the other name is the name others give that person, or the title they bear. I have none of those, as I lost my name in the flow of time and my title lost its meaning." He noticed the confused looks of the ponies, except the two megamis, which looked at him in surprise about the wisdom hidden in those words and smiled. ***********************earlier************************************* When Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash heard what happend from Spike, who got the information from a letter of the princess, they immeadiatly took the next train to Canterlot. Spike had to stay at the library, because somehow the ponies of Ponyville developed a deep interest in books, a brown stallion with a hourglass as a cutiemark being the main customer of the month. That strange stallion somehow managed to lend at least three books per day and he never answered the question what his name was, only replying that he was a doctor. After meeting Twilight and the princesses they went to the hospital where the stallion they found was lying. Waiting before his room for him to wake up, they discussed what they should do with him. "I would like to know who he is." Twilight seemed very interested in this stallion. "I hope he likes parties!" Pinkie bounced around and blabberd about what that stallion could like, what his name could be and something about what draconic forms he could have, earning confused looks from everypony, but it was quickly discarded as Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. "Ah don't know, he could be dangerous." "You say that everytime AJ, but you are right. He could be a spy!" Rainbows response caught nopony by surprise, she said that often, it nearly became cliche. Just then they heard a masculine voice, but it didn't sound right, like it was coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time. 'You may come in now. I'm awake. And could I have some apples?' They all shrieked in fright and surprise, except Pinkie, who rather shrieked out of joy, Princess Celestia and Shining Armor, who looked at each other, wondering why this voice sounded like the one they heard when the dragon spoke to them, while Luna just looked puzzled, she knew that telepathic abilities were reserved to those with a strong mind and strong magic, meaning this stallion was at least a archmage in rank. After calming down they went into his room to talk with him. When Pinkie bounced towards him, he answered her questions without her even asking them, making everypony look at him with their jaws on the floor, how did he knew that? It took them a moment to realise what he just said, he had no name! That had to be an awful feeling! Luna and Celestia, on the other hoof, just looked at him, surprised of the wisdom of this pony, as he seemed to young to have such life-experience. "So... could I have some apples now? And don't worry, I will get myself a name when I know the structure of names around here." The orange one looked at him and started speaking. "Good ta know that ya like apples." "Course I like apples, I eat only apples, golden apples and some other stuff!" "What in tarnation are golden apples? Are they like zap apples?" "Oh, you have other kinds of apples around here? Thats interesting, I would like to try some!" More apples to eat! Best Day Ever! He did a little mental dance, laughing at the pathetic things that were pears, while in a even deeper part of his head, a chibi-version of himself, in his original whelp form of course, was running around, giving happy cries as apples rained from the heavens. Smiling he added: "I still have some golden apple seeds with me" pulling some out of his personal subspace-pocket, he added, "I think you are a farmer, right? I will give you these, if I can get some of the golden apples when they are fully grown, deal?" The farmer-pony nodded. "Deal." He 'hooved' over the seeds. (He inwardly wondered how he could hold them, as his hoof wasn't reaching around the five seeds, but then he remembered one of his favorite phrases: 'It's magic, I ain't gotta explain anything.' "By the way, whats your name?" "I'm Applejack, mah family owns Sweet Apple Acres." The others looked at each other. "How rude of us, I am Rarity, designer." "I'm Pinkie Pie! Soooo what theme would you like for your welcoming party?" He didn't even need to think about the theme of a party in his honor. "Dragons, please." The timid looking pegasi gave a small 'eep' noise and then whispered: "My name is Flutter..." Noone seemed to catch the last part. "Pleased to meet you, madame Fluttershy." He tilted his head. Again everyone looked confused. "I am Twilight Sparkle, librarian of Ponyville and how did you catch that? I didn't even understand one word." He started to laugh. "I have very good ears." -he flinched- "Unfortunatly. And that pegasus has very poor flying skills, I wonder when the wall will...", they all heard a loud crash, "...break. *sigh* Looks like that question answered itself. So where were we?" "I'm Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer in Equestria!" The pegasus with the rainbow mane responded, getting a laugh from him, like he thaught! That's funny! "What is so funny?" Rainbow Dash sounded angry. "Nothing, really! It's just: when I first saw you I thought: She's probably named Rainbow something." At that everone in the room started to giggle, that was true, you could tell her name just by her mane. The white unicorn gave a small nod, "I am Shining Armor, captain of the royal guard." He could hear how proud this Shining Armor was about his job. "I think I should at least give you my 'profession'. I am the last of the Brood." The megamis looked at him and then asked: "Care to explain what a Brood is? In all our years as ruler of Equestria we never heared of a group of ponies that called themeselves 'Brood', you seem like a high rank mage, but other than that we don't know anything about you. What were you doing in Everfree Forest?" "To be serious... I don't know. All I remember is this big meteor coming out of nowhere, how I tried to stop it and broke my legs while doing so, a bright white light and then I woke up in the center of a crater in a forest I didn't know and then I heard screams for help, you should know the rest." Princess Luna looked puzzled, the meteor that crashed in Everfree was not ordered by her to do so, which was the reason they went investigating. But that stallion WAS the meteor? How was this possible? "Wait, thou did not notice the great dragon?" If he didn't, then when did he end up on the battlefield? "I would rather talk about this with only you two. Ni~Tsu no megami, Naito no megami, I will explain as much as I can." Luna looked at her sister, still puzzled, he used another title for her. Similiar, but different, could it be that he actually called them princesses? Or was it something similiar? She linked her mind with Celestia to discuss it, 'He is interessting right sister?' 'He certainly is, but he still could be dangerous.' They both winced when they heard his real voice, "So you don't trust me?" they looked at him, feeling a bit insulted. "It's alright. Trust is something that should be earned, not granted." He smiled at them, startling both even more, he actually smiled at them for distrusting him! What was wrong with him? That was when they noticed something glowing in his eyes: When the princesses looked into them they could 'see' a painful memory flashing through them, a memory of being betrayed by one he considered a friend, a memory of being stabbed in the back, a memory filled with sadness. Then he closed his eyes as if he noticed them looking into his very soul, shutting the memory of. He never had somepony he could trust, but he wanted to save them? He put their lives ahead of his own without even knowing them. 'We could trust him for now, right Tia?' 'We should give him a chance, but he seems uncomfortable about his past.' "We shall grant thous wish, but thou shall not try to harm us." Luna locked eyes with him, he smiled at her, "I would not attack a megami of your rank, I would only attack a akui no megami, but you both seem like yoi megamis, so an attack on you would go against my gensoku of only harming akui seibutsu, would you attack me I would defend myself, though." Celestia was relived, he openly stated that he won't attack them until they attack him. With a grin on her face Luna answered him, "So thou won't attack us if we don't attack thou? Thou seem friendly, but careful, we shall talk now." Everypony looked at her sister, waiting for her response, which came swiftly, "I think we can take care of ourselves... Yes, we shall talk to you alone." When she said the last words she looked at Twilight and the others, "You should go now." Twilight and her friends nodded, this seemed important to the princesses, so they should leave them alone, Shining on the other hoof was not happy about this, but had to obey. "So why didn't you want the others to hear about this?" Princess Celestia simply knew there had to be something behind his strange and nervous behavior. "Mostly because I am still failing to process what excactly happend, but I will tell you what I was able to figure out: I am not from anywhere around this lands. I was, like I said hitten by a meteor and tried to stop it, but ended up here. At first I thought this place is the afterlife, but the pain told me otherwise, also my body shifted its form, I wasn't originally a unicorn. But back to the point: When I heard the screams I wanted to help, but when I saw this foul beast swatting Miss Twilight away and her brother screaming in fear, I kind of lost it, it brought some rather unpleasant memories back, I transformed and destoyed this akui seibutsu, and healed Miss Twilight, I shared one of my memories with you, Ni-Tsu no megami, so you could heal you sister. Those actions drained to much energy, so I could not keep my draconic form up and collapsed. To the other question: Brood is the name of my kind, the magic running through my veins allows me to create various forms, one of the dominant species, and many draconic forms. Now, are there any other questions you would like to ask me?" Luna and Celestia looked at each other and then asked in sync, "What are those titles you used for us?" He facehoofed, that was their question? He was thinking they would question him about his kind and not really believe him, but he liked this more. "You don't want to know more about my kind?" They shook their heads,"No, or at least not now, and we belive you, your Cutie-Mark is a dragons head after all, so that thought is not so far of." He decided to show of a bit and transformed his tail into a long draconic one without spikes, then he grabbed the glass of water on his right with his tail and brought it to his mouth to drink, that startled the mares a bit, their reaction making him chuckle mentally. He finished the glass and returned it to the table. "I just called you goddess of day and goddess of night, megami means goddess, and before you ask, akui means evil." Princess Celestia nodded, he was foreign after all, so it was clear he would use different words from his tribe or land. "We understand, so if our guesses are correct, you said you would only attack evil beings, so yoi means good, am I correct?" He smiled, "You are correct, still... could I know your names?" Luna looked surprised, he did not know their names? Well, he was foreign, so she could not hold it up to him, "We are Princess Luna, and we are indeed the ruler of the night." Celestia started to giggle slightly before she responded. "I am Princess Celestia, and I watch over the day. But we should come up with a name for you, shouldn't we?" He looked at her and grinned, revealing that his teeth were those of an omnivore, again startling them, 'They should have figured that out, Dragons are omnivores after all' he thought and spoke with a much softer voice. "I think the name Dragon Soul has a nice ring to it, what do you think, your majesties?" Dragon Soul could barely contain his laughter when he saw Celestia's surprised face, appearantly the name was perfect. "It is a nice name, but how did you come up so fast with it?" "It was obvious he would think of a name as fast as possible, sis, no being likes being nameless." At this, the stallion started grinning, 'I like her. But that aura... What has she been through?' Soul's grin fell when he spoke the next words, "If I may be so bold, what happend to you, Princess Luna? I can feel sadness, pain, grief and last traces of darkness coming from you." Luna winced and looked at him with wide eyes. "Y-you can feel it? How?" "Darkness has it's own feel to it. It's the same with sadness and grief, when you know them good enough, you can sense them in others." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight her friends and her BBBFF were waiting outside, talking with each other about the recent events, when they heard Princess Luna shouting in the Royal Canterlot Voice. "SISTER! WHAT DO THOU THINK THOU ARE DOING?" When they came rushing in they saw a bizarre scene: Luna was blushing and glared at her sister, which was also blushing. It would have been a bit less bizarre if there wasn't a certain stallion holding his sides in mad laughter. 'Should I share those memories with them, Princess?' 'NO!' "Care to explain, Princess?" Celestia looked down and muttered something like "I guess I overreacted a bit...", after that she went silent, her cheeks now colored deep red, 'must have been really embrassing.' Twilight figured. -CRASH- "Ouch" She looked over to Dragon, who was now lying on the ground and rubbed his head, appearently he fell out of his bed laughing. "Now that that is over, I am so happy you have a name now!" Pinkie jumped to hug him, which Soul tried to dodge, but failed, somehow. He was a bit stunned at this, she was to fast for him to dodge! He dodged swords, arrows, hell... he even managed to dodge a lightning once! But this mare was to fast for him to dodge? "What just happend?" He looked at the others as, for the first time today, he was confused. They just shrugged. "Pinkie Pie" 'So they have no clue either, huh?' "Nope, they don't." He looked at Pinkie, stunned. Did she just read his thoughts? A unicorn guard with no sense for timing choose this moment to rush in. "Captain! A group of griffins is rampaging in South-Canterlot. They are wearing anti-magic armor and took Captain Flashwing as a hostage! We need your help!" The guard looked positively paniced. Shining sighed, "What could I do against anti-magic armor? I would be helple..." A loud crash was heard and they all looked towards the window, the broken window above the cliff, and a single thought ran through Shinings head, 'Did Dragon Soul just jump down the cliff?' He looked around and indeed, Pinkie was hugging air and collapsed forwards. "Ouchie" Twilight ran towards the window when a pony formed shadow rushed upwards in front of the window, barely more than a white-red blur.