~There had always been some tension between the ponies and the dragons. Then, one day, Alduin, the leader of the dragons rose up against the pony race. There was a great war that obliterated most pony cities and after the war was over, they were forced to rebuild from scratch. All hope seemed lost until a mighty band of ponies with the ability to 'shout' or use the draconic language in war to bend creatures and nature to their wills, invented their own shout to bring the dragon down before supposedly banishing him and the other dragons with the use of ancient relics called the 'pony scrolls'.~
Hoofgen
Fluttershy screeched as she felt the cold, painful talons of a dragon rake through her back. Instinctively, she folded her wings over to protect herself only to remember that they were still bound together. Seconds later, she found herself slammed between a scaly, fire breathing, jagged toothed, monster sized beast and the brick wall of one of the city towers and the creature did not look happy.
Infact, it was charging up its throat for a blast right now.
Fluttershy squeaked and shut her eyes tight, reflecting on how all this had happened. It had been just earlier that morning at about seven or eight and the morning fog was still around. Lines of carts, all in single file had rumbled through the gates to Hoofgen just so, ultimately she and three others could be banished to the everfree.
The first three, including her were pegasi. They had been caught trying to cross the border into unicorn territory without permission and so, as they were obviously winged, they had been taken and stuffed into the smelly cart with no questions asked. The unicorn's crime was simple. He was a lowly thief.
Only one criminal had actually been banished, however. The thief had run for it prematurely and been shot down by unicorn magic and a random prisoner had been exiled. She had been in the middle of receiving her own banishment (it wasn't fair! One of her little rabbit friends had crossed the border and she just had to get him back!) when suddenly, a roar had distracted the proceedings. Passing it off as nothing, they'd continued and then, just her luck.
Out of one pit fall and into another.
It had been a dragon! A dragon! The one thing Fluttershy was afraid of more then the everfree and it was a dragon! Those things were supposed to have been wiped out ages ago!
Fluttershy turned back to the scaly beast in front of her. "W-why are you doing this?" She squeaked. "P-please just let me go. Your hurting all these people!"
The dragon let out a little growl, even unfased when Fluttershy hit him with 'the stare'. He rolled his eyes and got ready to put a fire ball into the yellow pegasi's face when suddenly, a pegasi swept down and knocked her out of the way. There was a splitting noise and then the dragon belched flame onto the empty wall, blinking in surprise. He looked to see his target getting to her feet, cantering shortly behind another brown stallion.
Fustrated, he prepared his throat for a shout that'd send her and her friend flying, quite without the need for their wings. "Fus ro DAH!" He yelled. A transparent ball of what seemed like pure power flew at Fluttershy at what had to be one hundred miles per hour. The pegasi squealed and ducked her head, just in the time and ball of live energy sailed over head, crashing into a nearby tower wall.
"Come on, we can escape Hoofgen through here." The brown stallion said. He ran through one of the paths. As he cantered along, the cobble brick path devolved into dirt and the composition of defensive walls became a lot more common. A heavy wooden door was on one side of a tower and the stallion bucked it open, galloping through it at full force. "In here!" He called.
Fluttershy squealed and practically rolled into the tower just as the dragons flame scolded the area where her feet had just been, causing a red glow around her hooves. She recognized the inside of a keep and almost screamed at what looked like a corpse at the other end of the room.
She prodded it with a hoof to make sure.
It was a dead corpse.
The yellow pony recoiled in shock, her bottom lip shivering. "T-the dragon killed him?" She screeched.
The brown stallion scratched the back of his head nervously. "He was an honourable pony." He sighed. "But it just so happens we've got a ten metre tall monster on our hands armed with jagged teeth and claws designed for ripping live flesh apart, not to mention impenetrably thick scales and the power to bend the world to his will, particularly fire. His strength isn't exactly you know, meek either and just to put the cherry on top of the cake, the fucker can fly!"
Fluttershy squeaked, brimming on the edge of tears. "Yeah. So?"
"So, if you want to survive, you'll take that pony's armour and weapon and follow me through this keep and out of this... this place!" The stallion groaned. "Let me see if I can get your wing bindings off." He reached up to the expertly tied knots around her wings and studied them for a little while, frowning. Suddenly, he grinned and pulled a strand of rope, loosening the whole knot. The bindings slid off like jelly after that are Fluttershy flapped her wings a few times to resurrect them, not realizing how stiff they had gotten.
"Thanks for that." She sighed. Fluttershy reached down to the body on the ground, slowly at first. She kept eyeing it as if it was going to spring up and claw her face out. Giving a small cry, she grabbed the leather cover the corpse was wearing and slid the boots off, sliding them onto her own skin. She felt uncomfortable, taking somepony elses belongings like this, especially items belonging to a dead colt.
"Do I need to take the sword, also?" Fluttershy asked meekly. She apathetically stared at the broad weapon. She could care less for violence, so she doubted she would need it any time soon anyway.
"Would be nice if you don't want to get your throat torn out. There are a few monsters in this place." The stallion sighed, adjusting his own weapon. He picked it up for her as if it were nothing more then a feather and Fluttershy impulsively held out her hooves. He then dropped the weapon, the weight of which pushed Flutterhy to the ground. She stood up, teetering and then, somehow managed to regain her balance.
"You okay there?" The stallion asked Fluttershy, who was now using her wings as extra muscle support.
"Peachy," Fluttershy murmured, her jaws closed around the handle of the sword.
The stallion shrugged. "Okay then, lets go."
Fluttershy followed slowly, staggering as the blade kept slipping from her jaws. Hey, at least her armor was light, right?
You are carrying to much to be able to run...