//------------------------------// // alpha and omega // Story: Wolf-Dragon: Draca's story // by Toa Coy //------------------------------// This shall be the last part in my prequel for my story Wolf-Dragon's pain. There will be killing in this part. Blood only no gore. Enjoy ~Toa Coy~ Draca's eyes dilated as that one voice echoed through her mind. The voice that she thought she would have lost forever. The voice of a friend, a sister, and...a mother. Draca stayed there to, what seemed to her, years reliving her memories with Angel. A groan snapped Draca back to reality and saw Angel started to move like she was going to stand up but fell down. Draca turned to Magic and gave a pleading look. "Magic can you heal her?" The dragoness asked as a tears formed in her eyes. The unicorn stallion nodded and neon green aura appeared around his horn and Angel's body. It took ten minutes to heal all of Angel's minor cuts and lessen the deeper on but it wasn't long before Magic started to pant from exhaustion. When the energy dissipated Draca pleaded for Magic to keep going, but Magic argued that if he continued there would have been two ponies to carry back instead of just one. While the dragon and unicorn had a heated discussion Leather trotted over to Angel. She smiled at him and he smiled back, but Angel's face cause him to tear up. Her once smooth and normal looking face was now dressed in matching black eyes and whelps. Leather tried to hold them but his tears flowed like rain from a dark rain cloud. Angel knew that was in rough shape, but when she saw Leather start to cry like a foal she felt like she was in trouble. When she first started hanging out with him after some bullies were picking on him for having his dragon like wings instead of the feather ones that pegasi normally had. Leather was in rough shape, not as bad as Angel was now, but the bruises were hard to miss even in his dark coat. He was a little cold to her at first but she never saw a tear appear in his eyes, pain yes a tear not at all. Angel put on a brave face and started to raise up but her legs were weak and she fell only to try again. Leather rushed to her side and helped her up. Angel nudged him and thanked him for his help with a kiss on the muzzle. Leather blushed hard and heard a fit of laugher from his left where Draca and Magic were. Angel didn't care she wanted to let her feeling known to Leather but just as she was about to say it her world started to grow black. Leather used his wing to catch Angel before she even hit the ground, but one of her wounds opened and blood started to flow from it. Draca moved next Leather, who was in mild pain from holding Angel up, and tried to lifted Angel up. To her surprise, and horror, Draca lifted Angel easily and this cause the young dragoness to run towards town leaving the two stallions in the dust. When the group got to the hospital, Leather caught up to her first then an exhausted Magic, the doctors and nurses took Angel to the intensive care unit. The group waited in the waiting room for a hour waiting for the news. A nurse pony came up and asked if any of them were her related to Angel. Draca said that she was adopted daughter since Angel hatched her egg. When Draca entered Angel's room she saw that Angel was still out cold but she had a smile on her face. Draca noted on how many cast and bandages that she had on. It took thirty more minutes for Angel to wake up and the first thing she did was hug her now lager dragon with tears in her eyes, tears of joy. Ten minutes later Leather and Magic came into the room with a relief look on their faces. Unfortunately for our group the one eye stallion started to round up all of the old dragon hunting families to get Draca out of the picture and so he can continue his fun with Angel. He never had the same victim twice, oh it would just make his fun better the pain would be fresh and the scars from their last meeting would be there. A week has pass and Angel was doing better she now only had a cast on her right front hoof but the doctors said that she need to stay there while they check for any latent disease that they might have missed. Draca almost never left her side, if only to excuse herself. Leather wanted to do the same but the staff said that only family could stay there. Magic offered him room and board Leather agreed and stayed with the unicorn. Magic went to the law-enforcement and told them what transpired, now the one-eye stallion would be on the run. During the eight night Draca awoke to a chanting, thanks to her new hearing that her maturing gifted her a few days ago, it sounded angry like a mob. Draca was confused by this since nopony had seen the one-eye stallion for almost a week, so why was there a mob? Then she heard the chanting and ice formed in her veins. The chanting was "Get the Dragon! Kill the dragon!". With her hearing the mob could be a few feet away or a mile away, as she had yet to determine distant with her new hearing. Draca thought of what would happen if the mob saw her with her friends would the mob turn against the ponies that stood with her. If they wanted her then they got her, the ticked off dragon that might be what they wanted. Draca's wings grew stronger and larger during the week, so she got a running start and jumped allowing her to glide a few pony strides then landed and started the whole process again. It took Draca a few of her "gliding" to get to where the mob was at and, much to her annoyance and horror, the one-eyed stallion was up on what looked to be a stage. The stallion's acid tongue wove lies on how he saved the mare in the hospital from a horrible dragon that used the mare as a save, and how he saved the mare from the "beast". Then sent his two "friends" two take her to the hospital when a dragon-winged freak pegasus and cowardly unicorn got to her first and said that the dragon was the one who saved the mare. The mob cheered for the lies and booed the truth. Draca was fuming as this rally went on until a small blue flame licked her lips and a pony saw that and raised the alarm to the others. The one-eyed stallion saw who it was and sent the mob after Draca. Draca made an arch of flames that blocked most of the ponies but the unicorns in the mob snuffed out the flames. While her flames failed in stopping them it let Draca do her "gliding" trick to allow her to enter the trees. In the trees she used her legs and wings to jump from tree to tree to stay ahead of the mob. Some pegasi followed her up there and started to throw stones at her. Draca was hit by a heavy stone in mid-jump which sent her falling into the hard ground. She didn't hear a snap or felt any pain so she could still run. When she leaned on her arm she felt liquid running down her right arm. She dared not look at it and putting it at the back of her mind and ran. Draca tried and keep her arm from moving, but this slowed her down. Her wings were so sore from the evasion of the mob and locked against her body. She still had her fire but that would drain her strength if she used it, so all she could do is run. Deeper and Deeper she went into the forest until she fell on her good arm gasping for air. Try as she might the mob was nearing her. Most of them have a murderous tint in their eyes, none more then the one-eye stallion. Draca felt as if this was her end. She was going to die by a mob of mislead ponies. She silently thank celistia that Leather could keep Angel safe from the monster in front of her. She made her peace with herself and wait for her world to fade to black for the final time. The one-eyed stallion saw that Draca had given up and he just smile, a creepy smile that would cause Draca's scales to crawl if she still had not shut her eyes. A black aura appeared around his horn and started to form a sword. He commanded the magical blade to fly straight and true, but as the blade near Draca a wolf's howl was heard and that was enough to cause the stallion to lose focus. Many of the others were shaking for the howl sounded like a timber wolf. The one-eyed just scanned the forest for where the howl came from when a brown blur ran from one tree to another. The stallion thought it was just somepony afraid of their shadow and paid it no mind and started to reform his blade. Before he could fully form the blade he was tackled by a sandy-brown wolf. The wolf snarled at the stallion as it moved closer to Draca. The stallion started to get ticked off and started to charge up a powerful spell to end this meddling wolf and dragon so he could get his prize. The wolf saw this and charged the one-eye stallion with his jaws wide open. Then a wet snap was heard by Draca and the mob. The wolf released the stallion and backed up to where Draca was still laying with her eyes locked on the wolf. The mob started to back away from the wolf, if that "mighty hero" was killed by that wolf then what chance do they have. The mob ran leaving their dying leader alone with the wolf and dragon. The one-eye stallion spoke his last words for this world. "Wel...done you w...won, b...but you lose. They will hunt you down and make it so...so you can't sneeze with...out them being there." The stallion said and then laughed his creepy laugh that was slowly died away. The area was quiet for a moment; no mobs, no crashes, and no howling. The world stopped for one moment then the creatures of the night began their nightly song that few listen to. The wolf walked over to Draca and started to walk around her like he was checking for wounds. The wolf stopped in front of her and spoke. "Did that mob hurt you?" it said in a deep tenner voice. "Not to bad, but I landed on my arm wrong." Draca said lifting the arm. The wolf saw the wound, which was still bleeding, and shook his head in disapproval. "You need to get to that healing place in the pony's settlement." The wolf said as he started to sniff the air. "Your right, my sister might have woken up by now." Draca said as she got up using her good arm to do it. "So there is another dragon in the settlement?" the wolf said as he followed Draca as she started to head back to the town. "No she is a unicorn." Draca replied to the wolf. The wolf waited a few minutes to speak up that they were going in a circle. Draca huffed and said if he knew the way then led. The wolf took point and it took a five minutes for the pair to make it back to town. By now it was early dawn, some of the village ponies started to head to their jobs; be it a merchant, a police officer, or a member of the city counsel. A pony walked by them and stopped in its tracks. Draca wasn't paying attendance to that pony she and the wolf just kept walking to the hospital. When they got there the staff saw Draca's arm and started to bandage it up. During that time, a nurse finally noticed the wolf and screamed. The wolf just faced pawed and asked the nurse to please be quite since most of the patiences were sleeping, he doubted that any would be now. But him talking just made the nurse scream. The wolf just rolled his eyes and walked over to were Draca was. As he was about to enter the room the physician that was bandaging Draca's arm came running out to see what the screaming. The pony just ignore the wolf and went over to the nurse. The wolf just trotted into the room and looked at Draca. "So hows the arm?" He asked seeing that the bandage was covering the top of her forearm. "The doctor said that it should heal up in about two weeks." Draca replied looking at the bandage then to the wolf. "So what was the screaming all about?" "A healer finally noticed me and started screaming, then I tried talking to her but she just kept screaming so I came here." the wolf said laying down on the floor. "They tend to do that with new things." Draca said remembering when Angel first introduced her to her friends and laughed from it. Draca then looked at the wolf and asked a question that slipped her mind in the forest, "I wanted to thank you for saving me back there...will this is awkward I never got your name." The wolf lifted his head, looked at the sweat dropping dragon, and replied, "Your welcome and my name is Lobo, which means wolf. Kinda redundant if you ask me." Draca started to laugh from the last part. Lobo didn't understand and just stared at her. Draca saw that look and she explained that she was named to mean dragon but draco was a boy's name so they changed the o to an a, and that was how she got her name. Lobo understood and started to talk about his life and in turn Draca told her story. As Draca neared the end of her tale a nurse came in to see if she was okay. Again the nurse fail to notice Lobo, much to the wolf's relief. "Ms. Draca have you seen a wolf walking around." The nurse asked still not noticing Lobo. "Miss do you not see my friend next to you?" Draca said with a quizzical look. The nurse turns and screams, yelling "Security! Security!" as she runs out of the room. The wolf and dragon exchanged looked of disbelief as the nurse hurried back with two stallions in covered security gab. "Draca I think you might want to tell them that I'm not here to cause trouble." Lobo said with a slight growl in his voice. "Wolf we are here to remove you by force if we have to." One said narrowing his eyes. It was a stand off between the stallions and the wolf. Then Draca step between them still wearing a confused look on her face. "Excuse me gentlecolts but why does Lobo have to leave when he is not as potentially dangerous as me?" She asked looking between the stallion and Lobo. The stallions looked at the nurse, who was hiding behind them, and one of them asked her. "She is right ma'am, why do we have to do that?" The nurse shifted her eyes left and right with a sheepish look on her face. "Well...I noticed the wolf and thought it was going to harm the patients then it talked and I freaked out." The nurse replied backing out of the room. As the nurse she bumped into Angel,who was in a wheel chair. "Excuse me nurse but have you seen a dragon about this high?" Angel asked the nurse and used her hooves to show Draca's current height, or at least as close as she could get with her sitting. "In there miss." And with that the nurse ran off. Angel shrugged it off and rolled into the room the nurse came out of. Once in the room Angel took noticed of the security officers. "Is everything alright officers?" "Everything is fine ma'am, come on Mowgli." One of the officers said as he and the other officer left the room. "Hey D what was that all about..." Angel started to say as turned towards Draca, but stopped when she saw the bandage on Draca's upper arm. "What the buck happened to your arm!?!?" Draca scratch the back of her head and chuckled a little. "Well you see..." Draca started to recount everything that happened since she left the hospital. During which Angel summoned a frying pan and hit Lobo when he moved to quickly. After two more weeks; Angel was discharged from the hospital, Leather and her started dating, Lobo started dating Draca, and Draca grew another head. Angel went back to Canterlot with Leather, while Draca stayed with Lobo and went looking for a cave in the north as near to Canterlot as they could. Unfortunately they found that other dragons had claims there so they were pushed back to "an area that was cover with ice half the year. Draca sent Angel a map so she and Leather could come and visit them. A few months passed and blessing were abound for Angel and Draca. Angel had married Leather and a little to much fun on the honeymoon. While Draca was expecting her and Lobo's first and only child, since at her current rate of growth might dictate that she could not gravid when she got older. It was around Hearts and Hooves day when Lobo and Draca got some unexpected guests. Draca was alone the cave when she heard the clip clop of hooves. This troubled Draca, since Angel and Leather always sent her a note, so these noises made her under easy. Draca went to the smallest space she could squeeze into. She had her wings locked against her body and her breath ready. It might be her dragon instinct, as well as mothering, that is causing her to hide herself as she would normally be near the entrance of the cave ready to fight. She just waited and listen to the voices as they drew near. "Would you look at this cave Just it seems like a place we ponies would live in." a deep voice spoke in amazement at the state of the cave. Draca took pride in the complement the pony gave her home. "What do you mean dad?" a younger lighter voice asked quizzically. "Simple wild dragons normally leave their kills remains on the ground in a heap. While here we have a tidy cave with decor as this it is simply amazing." The father replied. "Then where is the dragon?" The father snapped out of his stupor of the cave and started to shift his eyes left and right. At this point Draca deiced to move from her hiding spot to the ceiling to get a better look at the pair. From above Draca saw a red maned and white coated colt and a white maned and red coated stallion with a kanji for honor on his flank. Draca wondered where they came from then she heard a cracking, and the stalactite that was supporting her snapped and fell. The second she felt the pull of gravity on her body one thought appeared in her mind, "I must protect my baby!". Her wings unfolded from her body and caught the air. She turned over and landed on her fore and back legs. Due to her parental mind concerned over keeping herself, there for her baby, out of harms way she forgot that there were others there. Draca heard a gasp, then she snapped her head to the sound, and had blue flames lick the outsides of her mouth. The colt ran behind his father and was shaking at the sight of her. While the stallion had a look of amazement on his face, more so then when he saw the cave. "Just, this is by far the most extraordinary sight I have ever seen. A dragoness gravid at this stage of development ." The stallion slowly started to move towards Draca, who still wear an aggressive look on her face. Then the sound of padded feet echoed through out the cave. That snapped Draca out of it just enough to let logic command her mind. She noticed the stallion moving closer to her. She lifted up her hand and said stop. The stallion listen and then spoke. "Miss, may I ask you a few questions?" the stallion asked in a clam voice with not a hint of fear but of amazement and wow. "Sure but nothing to personal." Draca replied in an aggressive tone. "First I would like to know your name and the name of the sire of your eggs that you are carrying." As the stallion pulled out a tape recorder. "My name is Draca and my mate is out hunting." "Alright Draca, who is your mother and sire?" "I was adopted so I don't know who my real." The stallion was amazed then asked, "So who were your adopted parents?" "Well," Draca said while looking toward the entrance of the cave hearing the sound of Lobo's footsteps get closer, "a unicorn filly hatched me at the gifted unicorns school in canterlot." "So you were one of the last ones to be hatched at the entrance exam?" The stallion inquired remembering when he and his fellow members of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons lobbing to stop the school from using dragon eggs as a part of a test. Draca just shrug her shoulder and shook her head and replied, "I don't know that was almost ten and a half years ago, but my mother saw a young dragon grow to a large size when that crazy rainbow thing happened a few months ago." Before the stallion could ask his next question a howl was heard from behind Draca. The two ponies had expression that said what the hay was that. "Ah my mate is home, if you would be so kind to excuse me." Draca said with a gleeful tone but still had the aggressive look on her face. Draca left the father and son looking fearful and picturing what Draca's mate would be like. The stallion saw the other dragon as a little older then Draca, but knew that the only thing that was more dangerous than an angry male dragon was a female protecting her eggs or children. The colt on the other hoof was seeing a giant creature that would dwarf the dragon that just left the room. A few minutes passed with only the sound of the two ponies breath and the sound of the cave's two occupants, when Draca came back in with Lobo walking by her and had their tails intertwined. Both the father and son went from fearful to confused in ten seconds flat. Draca turned her head toward the two confuse ponies and said, "Sir I would like you to met my mate and father of the child that I'm carrying." The colt's jaw dropped while the stallion looked dumb founded by this development. "Wait until the other RSPCD member hear that a dragon mated with a wolf." Stallion thought to himself. Lobo looked at the stallion in front of him and sized him up. A few minutes pass and the silents was broken by a rumble. Draca blushed and excused her self to the food that Lobo had caught and dragged home. When Draca left that part of the cave the men stood there in silence until Lobo spoke. "So what does the RSPCD stand for?" "It stands for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Dragons." the colt said still hiding behind his father. Lobo looked at the colt and asked the stallion, "So why did you bring your son to a dragon's cave?" "Well," the stallion started and looked down at his son and then back to Lobo, "My studies of dragons and draconian lifestyle make it so I don't spend much time at home. Since your cave was close by and it is the weekend, I brought him to not only spend time with me but also so he can interact with such amazing creatures." After the stallion finished he looked at his son with a smile, but Lobo saw a bit of sadness in the stallion's eyes. That made Lobo think of how, comparatively, animistic his life was to this stallion's and that got him thinking of his unborn child. He knew that hunting and survival would be things that were needed to taught, but other things such as reading, writing, and math could be just as good. Lobo was deep in thought when a crashing sound was heard from the left of the room. When Lobo looked he saw that the colt knocked over a small bookcase the Draca filled with books that she read as a younger dragon. The colt had an apologetic look on his face. The stallion just shook his head. "I'm sorry for that sir my son wasn't looking where he was going." The stallion said with an embarrassed look to Lobo. Then he turned towards his son and said, "Just you know that you are to tread lightly in other's homes." "I'm sorry dad." Just, the colt, said with his head hung low and then turned to Lobo. "I'm sorry Mr. Wolf for knocking over your bookcase, I would like to help you pick up the books and the case." Lobo just grinned and said, "It is fine, Just was it, I have to get use to this type of thing. And my name is Lobo, not Mr. Wolf." It took a while to get the books and the bookcase, Lobo having to be gentle so he did not damage the books he handle. At the end Draca came back into the room and saw Lobo sitting with the ponies chatting. The two ponies left after awhile leaving the pair curled up together and sleeping and think of the future. The good and the bad times to come and the joys of having a child. ------ Alright that is the end of this part and the beginning of a new one. I have only two things to say I do not OWN Just or the RSPCD they belong to the author of "It Takes a Village" Determamfidd.