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// Chapter 10 
// Story: Ambassador 
// by THOSEideas 
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Mockin ran into two poines and sent them flying into the backs of the other ponies, he then turned around and broke the shackles on the nearest dragon with one swipe of his claw. The rest of the ponies turned towards Mockin now and sneered at him. One unicorn summoned an enchanted net to capture him but Mockin just looked up at the falling net and set it ablaze with his breath. Everypony was stunned that the net had burned but Mockin wasn't. He ran forward and picked up a pony and threw him at the others, some dodged out of the way of the pony but others were hit by the speeding projectile. Mockin was then surrounded by earth ponies which did little to impede him as he just flew up into the air where some dragons were still brawling with pegasi and went to help them out. He flew up to the nearest Pegasus, grabbed his tail and swung his body like a club at another Pegasus, causing both ponies to fall to the ground. Mockin took a break by looking down at what was going on in the cave mouths. Most of the caves were still protected and holding steady but one was quickly falling to the hooves of the ponies. Mockin flew as fast as he could to the cave and slammed his body on top of five ponies, crushing them but not killing them. The other ponies were shocked at what happened to their comrades and looked in fear at Mockin as he walked forward and stared at the twenty or so ponies there.

"Run..."

With that the ponies ran out of the clearing and would never return to face the dragons again. Mockin looked at the very old dragon who was the last line of defense until the ponies got to the babies and she sighed with relief and slumped down. Mockin backed out of the cave and went to the next and instead of dive bombing them he breathed fire over their heads which was hot enough to burn their manes. The ponies looked at each other in confusion as their fire proofing spell didn't work, but then some screamed as they faced the source of the fire. Mockin was standing on his hind legs and was looking down on the ponies as they ran forward to attack. Mockin waited until he was surrounded then spun in a circle with his tail extended and knocked the legs out of ten or so ponies. The dragons who had been protecting the cave ran forward to help the lone, stranger dragon. They ran forward and grabbed the ponies who hadn't been knocked over and threw them to the ground or started to beat them with their fists. Mockin was satisfied that the dragons had these ponies covered and flew back into the sky to help the airborne dragons fight back. Now that eighty or so ponies were dealt with the dragons felt that they might actually defend against the invasion of angry ponies. Mockin flew up to a couple of pegasi who were harassing a dragon from both sides. Mockin blew a jet of fire at one pony and caught its mane and tail on fire, which made it scream and fly towards the entrance to put it out. The other pony was grabbed by the dragon and slammed against the ground. This was a very bloody and gruesome battle, and Mockin was unsettled with the death that had occured already and wanted it to stop. Thier was a very bright flash and Celestia and the elements of harmony appeared in the middle of the clearing and everything stopped as the elements worked thier magic by blowing all the ponies outwards from the center.

"STOP!!"

Celestia cast a spell and eveyone froze including the elements of harmony. But Mockin was still able to fly, he wasn't affected. Celestia turned towards the strange, still flying dragon that had approached her slowly, why hadn't he been effected by her spell?

"Who or what are you?"

"That's what I was hoping you could tell me."

Celestia looked at the bipedal dragon in front of her with utter confusion, what was it talking about?

"What is your name?"

"I think it was Mockin."

"Pardon?"

"Yeah it was Mockin...but I was a pony...is this a dream?"

"You are making no sense, how could you have been a pony? And for that matter, Mockin?"

"Oh! I was the ambassador for the dragons! I was watching the battle take place and I felt something change inside of me...and that's when I-I..."

Mockin bent over and heaved, throwing up a black and very hot liquid onto the ground. Hos conscious caught up to him as he realized what he did to the other ponies.

"Sweet Celestia what have I done?!! What am I?"

Celestia looked at the puking dragon and saw that it had a cutie mark, It was Mockin sleeping. This was clear proof that the dragon in front of her was Mockin but a different form of him. Celestia had never seen this before, a pony changing into a dragon? Or even another species? Unheard of.

"Mockin if that is really you then explain how we first met."

"I was sitting in the middle of a road and you grabbed me with your magic. Wow, things have changed haven't they?"

"Do you feel different besides physically? Do you have different thoughts or instincts?"

"Well what I think triggered this transformation was seeing all the dragons being hurt and hunted and the last thought I had was that they were my kin."

Celestia cast a spell on Mockin's new body and found something very frightening. This was the REAL Mockin, apparently he was blessed as a little colt and granted a special gift. He was able to become a highly magical being, he was incredibly strong, smart, resistant and fast. He was blessed with the gift to protect. The question was, who blessed him? And how were they powerful enough to give a pony such an incredible power? Mockin was lost as he thought about what he had done to the ponies and almost threw up again. Celestia brought herself back to the world and brought all the attacking ponies towards her and surveyed them. 

"Why would you wish harm against another species? Tell me."

A unicorn who looked like he was the leader of the group.

"Because they are fowl and unclean, they should never have been born."

"Shame that you think that, because I think you just earned yourselves a one way ticket to Tarturas."

The ponies stared at Celestia with pleading puppy dog eyes, to bad Celestia was a cat person. With a poof they disappeared and all the dragons were given control over their bodies once again. Celestia then turned towards the recovering dragons. 

"Is Granite here?"

"Yes...I am here, thank you for helping us. Same to you stranger, you are welcome here anytime."

"Ha! I already am! Its me, Mockin."

Granite turned from Celestia and Mockin trying to figure out what was going on.

"What is going on?"

"You cannot tell anyone that Mockin can change, you hear? Not until we figure this out. Twilight? We are going back to the castle so prepare the girls again. Mockin you are to come with us to Canterlot so we can figure out how to help you."

Mockin just nodded, but a small voice in the back of his head said good job Mockin, you are finally following what is in front of your nose. Who was that? It sounded familiar but Mockin couldn't quite put his hoo...claw on it. Also how the heck was he going to get out of this body? He liked it but he liked his pony body more. As Mockin was looking himself over more carefully because he didn't have much time before he heard a flash and looked up. 

"How did we get here?"

"We teleported, duh."

"Oh...wait what about the dragons that were harmed and killed? What about Crash and Arrow?"

"Crash and Arrow have been told where you are going and will help out the dragons at the clearing do not worry about them. Now I will go and get Luna while you settle into your new room, and yes it is only temporary. We will get you back to the tribe as soon as we figure out whats going on here."

Celestia walked out of the room leaving Mockin alone in a familiar position. He had major déjà-vo as he looked around the room he had thought was moderately sized before, now it was barely enough room for his enlarged body. He couldn't sleep on the bed out of fear for breaking it and he had to be careful where he stepped, in case his claws scratched anything. This was very awkward. After trying to find a comfortable place to sleep for half an hour he grumbled and flew out his door and out into Canterlot's streets. He was confused and depressed, was he going to be like this forever? How were things back at the clearing? He sighed and just enjoyed the feeling of flying. Which was something that he liked about his new body, he could fly, almost instinctively too. All good things have to come to an end though as his wings grew tired and soared down to the road where he first met Celestia. As he landed some ponies flinched at his presence but recovered by smiling nervously at him. He didn't notice any of it, he just walked into the middle of the street and did something instinctively, he blew on the ground beneath him until it was very hot and laid down on the hot spot and fell asleep. In te middle of the road, oh how things have changed for Mockin.

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Mockin woke up to a small voice and a jabbing pain in his side. 

"Go awayyy.."

"But  mister your in the middle of the road and you are blocking the traffic of the ponies."

Mockin looked up at a young unicorn filly with bleary eyes, he blinked away the fuzziness and looked at his surroundings. There were ponies surrounding him and the filly and all of them were staring at him in bewilderment. That's when Mockin remembered that he was a dragon and laying in the road completely blocking it.

"Oh...right, you're brave or very stupid to walk up to a dragon you don't know and wake him up. What's your name?"

"My name is Sweet Juniper but I go by Juniper."

"Where are your parents?"

"Um well I don't have any, I'm an orphan!"

This filly sounded WAY too happy about that.

"Riiight...do you want to go for a ride then? I won't drop you."

"You mean it? Cool!"

Juniper jumped up his side and scrambled up his back until she was sitting at the base of his neck where his spine wasn't sticking up.

"You good? Well then lets go."

Mockin jumped vertically, spread his wings and took off at a medium speed.

"Whee! This is fun! I wish I could fly."

"Heh I wish I could too."

"What do you mean? You're doing it right now."

"Oh nothin', just a joke..."

Mockin kept on flying around making Juniper squeal with delight, until he decided to surprise her by taking her to Canterlot Castle. As he flew closer he heard her gasp on his back.


"Wow! I never thought I would get to see Canterlot Castle up close like this, this is awesome!"

"Want to see something even cooler? Cover your ears."

Mockin waited for her to do what he asked and let out the biggest roar he could, which surprised even himself.

"Wow! That was awesome but I heard it I didn't see it."

"Just wait."

Mockin landed in front of the guards outside of the doors leading into the Castle and soon after the doors burst open revealing Princess Celestia with 10 guards behind her all looking terrified and worried. Mockin and Juniper burst out laughing, which made juniper cover her ears from Mockin's deep throated laughing. Celestia and her guards looked at Mockin and the filly in utter bewilderment then some of the guards started to snicker as they realized they had been pranked. This carried on for about thirty seconds until Celestia herself lost it and burst out laughing. Mockin could get used to living like this.