Of course I couldn't just find some random town, walk up to everypony there and expect them to accept me.
I needed a plan.
That's were the princess of friendship comes in, and maybe the elements of harmony.Twilight Sparkle, the most respectful pony I've ever heard of. The elements of harmony, some of the most understanding and accepting ponies I've ever heard of.
They always tried to help everypony, no matter who they are. If twilight and her friends couldn't help me I don't know who can.
....so Ponyville that's where I was headed, and It wasn't far away considering my cave was only a few miles away.
Even so, it felt like I've been flying for hours when I finally approached town.
I landed a little bit away so I could get a good overview, finding the best hiding spots.
I know what I said about hiding, but right now it seemed necessary.
Didn't want anypony to report me to the princess before I had actually talked to her myself.
So flying over probably wasn't a good idea.
I found a line of houses and bushes. I snook behind them all the way to the castle. But of course the area around it was full of ponies. So I had to wait until they left.
I waited, and waited, but at last they all disappeared. I stuck my head out of a bush, it didn't look like anypony was around. But I took an extra look just to be sure.
Left: nopony.
Right: nopony.
Forward: nopony there either. And behind me was just a house.
I jumped out of a bush and walked up to the castle doors.
"Knock,knock" I knocked on the door with my tail.
"Coming." I heard a kind, sorta childish voice say. Hearing footsteps, indicating they were coming to open the door.
The door opened and a little purple dragon with green claws stood inside of it.
"Who the heck are you?" The dragon asked tilting his head, looking confused.
"....is princess twilight here?" I asked, avoiding his question. I might have time to tell my life story, but definitely not to him.
The dragon starred at me in confusing.
I stumped my hoof into the ground.
"....oh...of course the princess, I'll find her." The dragon said, snapping out of his trance.
I put my hoof up, signaling I'd rather talk inside.
"Come in then." Then dragon said while moving to the side.
I hesitated, but at last I walked in.
princess Twilight Sparkles castle was beautiful, even just the hallways.
Glass doors with pillars beside them decorated with shiny delicious gems.
While the hallway itself was rather empty, just a few tables and chairs stuck against the walls, clearly there for travelers to leave there things on or just sitt down.
" twilight!" The dragon called.
"In here!" I could hear, declared from inside the big glass doors in the middle of the hallway.
The purple dragon signalized that I should fallow him as he walked in the big door.
I did so, nervously.
Inside the door I saw something I definitely wasn't expecting. The throne room.
it was even prettier than I've ever thought or heard.
With the six thrones representing each element and the map in the middle showing every part of Equestria. And the chandelier featuring all the memory crystals.
On one of the thrones a purple alicorn sat, with a darker purple mane and red streaks in it.
She looked over in my direction.
Princess Twilight Sparkel.
I froze.
Twilight looked at me first skeptical, then confused.
She got up from her throne and started inspecting me.
( not like that.)
Lifting my wings, thuching my scales, looking me up and down.
It all felt very awkward, she was violating my comfort zone.
Causing me to stiffen up like a dead branch.
"Hua......" Twilight took a big breath.
" oh my celestia, you're.....you're a longma!" She said with excitement.
" I thought you were extinct!....apparently not since there's a real life one standing here right in front of me, and she's an alicorn......iiiiii this is so exciting !" She screamed twirling and whaling around with excitement.
Twilight started flying around finding books and everything. It was clear that she was eager to show of her knowledge about my species, maybe even get some of her questions answered. But I didn't have time for that, at least not right now.
" what is a longma?" Asked the purple dragon.
Twilight stopped and turned around to face him.
" a longma is a pony who's half dragon, half pony. Spike". she said slightly calmer.
The dragon or "spike" as twilight called him shrugged.
I cleared my throat.
Twilight looked back at me and took a deep breath.
" oh pardon me....I haven't even asked your name yet" Twilight said a bit embarrassed.
" my name is Shivers Scales.". I hesitate.
"Why are you here....Shivers?" Twilight asked.
I froze, I knew she would ask questions but I haven't yet though about how to answer them.
"I...I'm here because I need your help." I said.
She looked at me confused.
"You see being a hybrid ain't easy, especially not one that's half dragon. It causes everypony to fear you." I continued. " I want this to stop....I want..." I took a deep breath.
" I want you to present me for the town. Tell them that I'm not dangerous, mean no harm. All I want is a house, respect and the ability to be loved and help others, maybe even earn some bits." I said, proudly.
Twilight looked at me, judging my request.
"Okay, I can do that." she said after a while.
I sighed. finally somepony who understood me.
" any more?" She asked in curiosity.
" I....I want to meet your friends." I said nervous. " the elements of harmony....if the town somehow don't believe you, it would help having them on my side."
She gave me a puzzled look.
" Oh and before I forget...I want you to tell all the poor ponies in town that I have a giant cave full of treasure.and I'll be willing to part with it if they're willing to follow me too it. And give me some respect and acceptance afterwards, and use the money wisely of course". I said holding my breath.
" well that shouldn't be to hard to fix... At least not the first part." She turned over to spike. " Spike can you go and find my friends?" She asked him.
" yes ma" spike said as he ran out of the door to do so.
It didn't take long before Twilights friends were here, actually it only took about 5 minutes. All Spike had to do was find Pinkie Pie, and she ran around collecting the rest. She's fast.
We were all standing in the throne room now.
They all looked at me skeptically.
".... Hi...I'm Shivers." I said with a nervous smile.
Apparently my smile was more terrifying than welcoming since it caused Fluttershy to start shivering and hiding behind a pillar.
" I'm not here to hurt you. I promise." I said trying to calm her down.
well this is going great.
I sighed. This was not the first impression I was hoping on.
Twilight saw my struggle and came to the rescue.
" Shivers here is a longma, there half pony, half dragon and known to be extreme jerks." Twilight said." But She doesn't want to be that. She wants to be good and help ponies instead. But since her race has such an awful reputation she came too us, wanting us to take her side and present her for the town as the lawful citizens she is....right?" Twilight continued, putting her hoof around me trying to make me feel better.
I nodded.
Now they looked even more confused.
The orange earth pony with a blond mane wearing a Stetson hat, Appeljack I think her name was, took a step forward.
" are you sure we can trust her?" She asked twilight.
" well.... She did go trough all the trouble of asking twilight to help her." Pinkie Pie pointed out.
" I'm promise I won't and have never hurt a soul." I said trying to fix the situation.
Pinkie Pie walked up to me getting so close I could feel her breath. "Do you Pinkie promise that?" She said angrily.
I stuck my head out left of her giving the everypony else a confused look.
" oh. Pinkie Promise is when you promise something, only breaking it has consicvenses." Rainbow Dash answered.
I went back to looking at Pinkie, scared how how close she was to me.
I nodded not knowing what horrible mistake I was making.
Pinkie moved back.
" well then." She said while judging my features. " I trust her." Pinkie concluded.
" she hasn't done any bad yet so." Said Fluttershy while walking out from behind the pillar.
I sighed in relief.
" well it's nice to meet you Shivers. May I say your scales are simply gorgeous." Rarity said pointing at my back half.
" really?" I answered looking around myself. I've heard many remarks about my scales, but never that there gorgeous.
" oh yes, I would love too use them as inspiration for my next line." She added flattering me more.
I blushed.
" I think you look awesome! I mean look at those wings and that tail wish I had that." Rainbow said flying over me. " I bet cha its gonna be even better when we see her fly or use magic or...or breath fire!" Rainbow added with excitement.
oh about that....
I started walking backwards, getting more and more nervous.
They all looked at me expecting me to do something extravagant.
" is everything okay there, Shivers?" Appeljack asked me confused.
I wanted to run, but I knew it wasn't time.
" I.....I...I don't really know how to do all that." I said rolling myself into a ball.
I heard them starting to mumble.
I was too afraid to look at them, I've never told anyone the fact that i barely even know my full potential.
Laid there for a while just waiting for them to do something.
I felt a hoof on top of my scales.
" it's okay darling" I heard somepony say.
I rolled out and stood up again, finding out that somepony was Rarity.
I took a deep breath before speaking again.
" I've never fully learned everything I needed too." I said. " my parents died at a pretty early age so I never really learned how to breath fire or fly very well." I continued.
" that sounds horrible." Fluttershy said.
I nodded, thinking back to that day.
An awkward silence now surrounded us.
" well do you wanna learn?" Twilight said, breaking the silence.
" huh?"
" I mean...We do know a thing or two about stuff like magic and flying. And we do have a friend who knows how too breath fire." Twilight continued, noodling towards Fluttershy at that last sentence.
" I'm sure we can learn you lots of other things too." Pinkie added.
I was overwhelmed at their request, never thought anyone would help me like this.
" okay" I said.
" well that settles it! Tomorrow we present you for the town, and after that's done we start training you." Twilight answered.