The dragon ran miles from his cave until he hit the edge of the everfree. Bolt wasn’t watching here he was running and he tripped falling down an incline in the dark wood. Bolt gave a grunt and Fluttershy gave a shrill scream as the two rolled down the hill until a tree in their path stopped them. Bolt quickly flipped to his feet and shook Fluttershy off with a crack of his tail. A white bunny hopped up to the dragon and Bolt’s smile soon returned.
“Buddy!” He exclaimed racing over to his friend. Ducking to pick him up he gave the rabbit a cuddle before setting him down. “Crash It’s good to see you. I’m being hassled by this crazy pony dame.”
Fluttershy got to her feet watching the dragon talk with the rabbit she gave a small smile. “Aww.” She let slip as she approached. “Bolt who is your friend?”
Bolt giving an annoyed pout snaps his head around giving a glare. “What so now you’re nice to me, because bunnies are involved.” While the two were talking the little bunny hopped up just a few trees over. A gruff looking stallion with a crossbow had emerged with the shrubbery. The huntsmen aimed his bow locking the bolt into place with the white rabbit in his sights. Bolt was in the middle of being told off by Fluttershy as her hoof was pressed against his chest. The hunter took a deep breath and steadied his crossbow. He pulled the trigger and fired the bolt for the rabbit’s head. Hearing the snap of a bowstring Bolt leaps into action. In the blink of an eye he had caught the deadly projectile in his hand. The dragon crushed the crossbow bolt in two turning a deadly gaze towards the hunter. The huntsmen lowered his weapon looking puzzled. Bolt gave a mighty roar that shook the hunter right to the core. He dropped his crossbow and fled deeper into the woods. After watching Bolt protect the tiny bunny Fluttershy placed a hoof upon his shoulder moved by his kindness.
“Come with me.” She instructed taking his claw in her hoofs. Sometime Later Bolt was sitting in Fluttershy’s cottage at the edge of the everfree forest. The two were having tea as Bolt explained why that rabbit was so important to him.
“You see he’s not really a rabbit. Well he didn’t used to be. He used to be a Draconequus named Crash. He was a pain in my ass always pulling stupid jokes trying piss me off, but he was still a hell of a friend. Somedays we’d play cards and others we’d be dropping heavy objects on one another.” Bolt’s tone grew harsher and somber as he was finding it harder to talk. “I knew him for a long time. He was the only person I knew that was as powerful as I am. He had this brand of chaos magic he’d always use for tricks……Dragons live for thousands of years, by chance so do Draconequus. After my girlfriend passed away he was all I had. He was the only friend who would live as long as I would. I thought I’d be able to endure eternity with a buddy at my back. We had many adventures but I wasn’t there for his last. It’s funny you know. I can be anywhere in the world whenever I want but I couldn’t be there when it really mattered. The Everfree was facing some kind of threat so naturally Crash went to confront it. Whatever he did look up the last of his magic. He couldn’t hold himself together anymore. He vanished and split into the various animals that made up his body. A deer, falcon and yes one of them was that little bunny. Those creatures are all I’ve got left of my friend I couldn’t bare to loose them.”
Fluttershy smiled placing her hoof on his claw speaking in a gentle tone. “You’re not a bad dragon. You may act snide and scary but you’ve got something special inside of you. It may not always be visible and others may not notice it but it’s there. I know it is. That’s why I’m sharing my tea with you.” She told her guest offering a warm and reassuring smile.
Bolt pulled his claw away from Fluttershy and gulped down the heated water before him. He placed the cup down and stood turning to face the door. “Something special you say? I’m afraid I lost that a long time ago.” He told his host in a hurt raspy voice as he left the cottage. Bolt sped off into the everfree to take care of some unfinished business. The next day the same hunter was found dead outside his house skinned with his head stretched out over his mailbox. His decapitated head had letters shoved in it’s mouth among them was a note from Bolt reading. “You picked the wrong rabbit.”