Journey of a Lifetime

by Oro_tharr


"My name... Is Arie'thorr"

0021 Discord's Rein (D.R.)


Stumbling through the door, she narrowly avoided hitting the door's frame as she continued her walk beyond the door and into a very green forest.
Her new dragon ears picked up something that reminded her off a female gang member that picked a fight with her a while back, strong, firm and challenging.

The memory made her grin, showing her razor sharp teeth for all the world to see.
"From what I heard she couldn't walk for a month after that."
"No surprise there, you twisted her leg in a unnatural angle until it broke."
"She kicked me on the boobs! She had it coming."
"No doubt she did, it's just you can get very violent sometimes.
"Yeah? So what, what do you know?"
"I'm you, remember?"

Yes, Shade definitely needed to make more friends.
Reaching a clearing she saw a dragon five times her size tussled up in a blue shimmering net.
"We got him! Pack him up, his head will be a nice tribute to Queen Celestia." The female voice said.
"Aye aye Captain." Came six different male voices surrounding the clearing, including slightly to Shade's left.
Looking there, she saw a small horse- No, Pony.

She saw the pony mutter something like "I don't get payed enough for this" as he walked into the clearing.
"Not so tough without without your magic, are you, Arie?" The Captain said as she approached him.

"We got to do something!"
"I agree, but what?"
"Wait... None of those guards seem to be wearing weapons, perhaps we can take them?"

"Death to Discord." The Captain said again as she and the other's began to drag and push the immobilized dragon to a giant cart.

"Worth a shot." And with that, Shade jumped out from the bushes and managed to slam the captain's face with the shield, it obviously came with more force than intended as a sickening crack echoed through the forest, loud enough for every single guard to drop the dragon and turn to the eight feet tall being in armor that seemed to be made out of fire crushed their captain in a single blow.
The soldiers turned to eachother, each trying to process that their Captain was defeated in a single blow.
Slowly they turned to face Shade again who had pulled her sword and approached the group in a relaxed manner, as if they didn't pose a threat.

A soldier wearing iron armor with two suns on it and one moon turned to the rest of the soldiers and shouted for all her could,
"Retreat! Get of the forest! Now!"
And just like that they ran for all they could in a single direction.

"Heh, how do a bunch of gay guys walk?" She asked herself.
"Dunno, I payed more attention watching your friends ass and boobs.
"You're perverted, you know that?"

"I'm you."
Shade grumbled a threat as she walked towards the giant dragon.

"keh, tepoha wux confn ekess sulta sia loerchik? algbo, gethrisj ahead, coi ui|ulph desta ekess loreat ini kin loupon ini nomenoi drevaba harroci." The dragon said as Shade approached, making her pause.

She tilted her head in confusing and managed to squeeze out a small sentence.
"What?" The larger dragon blinked in confusion at first, then shook his head.

"I see, you do not speak our old tongue, what I asked was if you were here to end my suffering, Dragoness." The elder dragon managed a dry chuckle.

"No... I came here to free you, they treated you like a animal." She giggled a little at the irony.
"Indeed they did, I was stupid and allowed myself to be captured... This blasted net is sucking my life force away." He nonchalantly said.
Shade's eyes became wide with shock as she rushed over and cut the rope open with the sword, and then stumbled in surprise as the larger dragon's wings shot up.

"It feels nice to be free, tell me hatchling, what is your name?" Shade slowly sheathed her sword and coughed a little.
"I'm Shade, but I fear I do not know your name." She considered reaching out her hand, but decided against it.
"Names hold power, Shade, remember that before giving it out again. But you may call me Eldros, in your tongue I believe it means 'Rose of Fire'"

"Right... that happened." She said, her mind was still having a hard time progressing that she were indeed talking to a dragon.
Said dragon winced as a cut on his side started bleeding again.

"Are you hurt, Eldros?" Shade asked as she slowly approached the dragon, helmet in hand.
"Nothing severe, hatchling, it will do nothing but annoy me until we can get to the nearest cave, away from here before they come back with reinforcements." Eldros frowned, his mind flashing back to his mate.

Shade pondered for a moment, she's sure she had seen a cave that should be big enough for the larger dragon to fit in without too much trouble, it was situated behind a waterfall.
"Come, I believe I saw a cave on my sprint here, it was behind a waterfall." A thought flashed through her mind, why was she trusting him so much?

"I don't know, he seems nice."

"He's a dragon! And he's huge! He'dd probably split you in half by sneezing too hard."
"Don't be silly, I saved his life, and if dragons here are like anything like the dragons in myth from where we're from dragons repay favors."
"And if they aren't?

"Then we're so fucked we'll just hope he dosen't rape us first."
"It's not like you to swear, Shade, what happened?"

"I stopped caring somewhere between the talking ponies, the azure blue dragon and me burping fire."
"And what stops us from killing him if he turns violent?"

"Oh nothing, just the fact that he's so big he'dd murder us in the blink of an eye."
"Comforting."
During her internal monologue she was leading Eldros to the cave, her memory guiding her.

----Fifteen minutes later----

" 'Tis a nice cave, Hatchling, is it not yours?" the azure dragon asked Shade, whom was leading him into the cave.
"Nah, just found this when I was in a silent sprint towards you." Shade informed him as she entered the cave, leading to a massive chamber with a lot of different minerals on the walls.


0082 Discord's Rein (D.R.)

"Sister, are you sure this is a good idea?" A blue unicorn asks her bigger sister.

"Yes, we must do this, if this Dragon Smith decide's to join Discord, we have no chances of winning." The elder sister explained, leaning down to muzzle her little sister.
The muzzle was received and returned as they took a sharp breath and entered the cave through the waterfall, revealing several long tubes holding the water.

"Now that's strange" the elder sister thought to herself as she continued into the cave.
The navy blue unicorn seemed to have other plans as her patience grew slim, she boomed into the cave.
"Show thyself, Dragon!" The voice echoed within the entire cave.

Slowly, a clicking sound could be heard as the two sister's rounded a corner, several wooden bolts suddenly stuck out around them and a group of Catizen's stood before them, all griping some kind of metal and wood item and most of them had some kind of sword around their backs.

"What is the meaning of this!?" the unicorn shouted towards the group, only for a bolt to lightly glaze by her eyes and almost hit her horn.
Her eye's became wide as she realized that they were completely at these creatures mercy.

"We might want to leave" She whispered to her elder sister who nodded and turned around to walk out of the cave, but were met with nothing but a solid stone wall.
"Name, authority and / or reasons to come here." One Catizen, wielding a very long and slim metal item with wood here and there, there seemed to be a lever of some kind it were it were holding it's claw around.

The elder sister took one step forward and stood with as much composure as she could.
"We are the leader's of the Dawnstar Rebellion, Celestia and Luna, we seek to talk to the Drake Smith, if he is available for a meeting?" Celestia asked, scanning over the Catizen's.

The one with the slim, shiny object turned to a Catizen with two black daggers with green edges and spoke in a strange language.
"Aro, telk ti Bleak, esk geri ufn geri eviably gar i neating." It said, gesturing towards the smaller Catizen.
The smaller Catizen saluted "Effir, Violander, syx foru neinie." And with that, he was off.

"Now, we wait." The obviously high ranking Catizen said and aimed the shiny object dead at Celestia.
After two minutes of tension the smaller Catizen came running back, not even out of breath.
"Kerpison, kantierg. Koda Aczury Kauetuion."

With that, the larger Catizen holstered the metal object and gestured for Celestia and Luna to follow.




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Second Author Notes: Wow, finally done with this chapter, i'll admit it took me a lot longer than i'dd wanted it to.
Now for a translation, there is none online since I came up with this language on spot, but here's a basic translation: Aro, telk ti Bleak, esk geri ufn geri eviably gar i neating.

Aro is the name of the small Catizen (Cat people, basically.)
Telk means Speak, talk, command or inform, depends on the form it's spoken in.
Ti mean To, in all forms. Easy.
Bleak means Pearl, Bleach, White, and Shadow.
Esk means "Ask", "Check" or "Force" Depending on the situation and/or form it's spoken in.
geri means "She" "Her" and "Female" depending on the sentence build.
ufn means "If" "And" or "Or".
eviably means "Available", availability or "Is <Geri/Gime> Free?"
gar means "For" and in all forms it come in.
i means "a".
neating means "meeting" "gathering" "convention" and / or any other form of the word for social gatherings.

Direct translations: Aro, telk ti Bleak, esk geri ufn geri eviably gar i neating. > "Aro, talk to Pearl, ask her if she's available for a meeting."
"Effir, Violander, syx foru neinie." > "Affirmative, Commander. Six four nine."
"Kerpison, kantierg. Koda Aczury Kauetuion." > "Permission, granted. Code Azure Caution."

And for the reason my writing's been delayed... Shade's grandmother died less than a week ago, and she's been in the hospital for a while, Shade is practically the only family I have, so I was sad too.