The One Dragons Fear 01
Everypony in the room knew something was up when with a loud pop and flash Twilight Sparkle and Rarity appeared on the middle of it accompanied not by one but by two dragons, all looking as if the end of the world was near.
“Twilight, what is going on? Did you find out what was happening with Spike? And… who is your other companion?”
“Celestia, you are still here?”
“Well, Luna and I thought that it would be good if I stayed to find out sooner, she flew back to Canterlot to take over court for today, but tell me, what is going on?” At that moment, the other dragon finally stood up, her face showing sadness and rage, at what? The pony princess had no idea.
“Please, allow me to tell you, Twilight says that you are the ruler of ponies” she said with aplomb and enough confidence that it was clear she had been born with power.
“Both my sister and I have been in power for almost as long as Equestria existed, but what does this have to do with Spike?”
“I am Ember, my father is… was the Dragonlord, it was my father that called every single young dragon to participate on his gauntlet, whoever dragon retrieved the Bloodstone Scepter would have become the next Dragonlord… but something went wrong” she said trying to hide her shame about the way they had lost.
“The dragon that had bullied Spikey-Wikey last time, Garble, he… he used Spike, telling us that he would kill him if we didn’t give up the scepter" Rarity said trying to contain her tears hugging Spike close to her, it had been too close for all of them.
“I suppose that could be bad, someone as inexperienced and immature could have problems with power”
“It is worse than that Celestia… he immediately declared war against all pony kind” Twilight told her old mentor feeling already the pressure of all Equestria in her shoulders, for her part, the older princess took a deep breath and maintained her usual calm in the exterior, in the inside meanwhile she was cursing a storm, she was old enough to remember all wars in Equestria, both against invaders and civil ones, it was a tragedy every single one of them.
“I see… guess I will have to tell the news to Luna and prepare our country for this tragedy, seems like the peaceful days are over” she said showing sadness and regret on her face.
“I’m so sorry Celestia, it is our fault, if we had helped Spike none of this would have happened”
“Sometimes we can do our bests and still fail, it has happened to me, now it happened to you all, this is not the first time that Equestria goes to war, although never against dragon kind, I will not lie Twilight, it will be hard, you know very well how hard it is to hurt a dragon with magic” All this time, while the adults in the room had been discussing and planning the next few days, Spike had been crying; he felt worse than the rest because he was the one who had the scepter in his hands and had failed, he also knew that everything that was going to happen would give him nightmares.
“Is not fair” he said to himself.
“What was that Spike?” or maybe it wasn’t that quiet because Rarity heard him.
“I said that it isn’t fair”
“Sometimes life isn’t fair, I’m so sorry Spike” Celestia walked closer to the little dragon, her heart was breaking just looking at him, he was like a son to her just like Twilight, she had seen both grow up, it was like Spike said, not fair.
“I know that, now they are all going to die!” they all turned to see each other, what was the reason for that outburst?”
“What are you talking about Spike?” Twilight asked being worried about her number 1 assistant; this adventure might have been too much for him.
“The dragons, they are all gonna die!”
“Why would you say that?” this time Spike left the little sanctuary he had amid Rarity’s fur to look straight to Twilight.
“Because I know it, this was the plan you had with Celestia! You are going to call her back to Equestria and kill all the dragons! Is what she does!” at those words the three ponies stood rooted while their eyebrows went beyond their mane line, they all remembered who he was talking about.
They had forgotten about that option in all the chaos that the news had brought.
“Do you… do you think it is okay Celestia? I mean, she IS good at what she does and has the forces to repeal an attack but…”
“But it won’t be easy, I know Twilight, she is one fickle ally you made beyond the mirror, but she will be the solution that we need if we are to minimize casualties on our side, I’m sorry Miss Ember, but what we are about to do will not be good for your kind”
“Is alright, the new Dragonlord saw it fit to declare me exiled, it was only because Twilight here teleported me along them that I am alive, besides, dragons do not believe in friendship”
“Except this dragon”
“And now me, thank you Spike, but they all decided on following Garble’s command, I know they think it will be a piece of cake, just coming here and scare some ponies, but Garble will want to destroy, maybe even kill and made ponies suffer… you all extended a claw in friendship to me so… I guess you have to do what is good for your own people, but please, I just want to know, what’s this plan you keep talking about?” the uncomfortable eyes in all the ponies said more than their words could.
“It is an old student of mine; she decided to leave this world and now resides in an alternate world, she is Sunset Shimmer, and judgment day will arrive for all dragon kind with her arrival."
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Garble could feel it in the air, the mighty of the dragon army flying towards their enemy, of course, he would have feel that or at least be awed if the power and the idea of making all ponies suffer haven’t gone straight to his head.
If he had thought a little he would have found weird that there hasn’t been any sight of ponies while they had flew in search of combat, but it was of no matter to him, he had only one target, Ponyville, he will finally be able to make that stupid little runt suffer, he and his little ponies will know what happened when you humiliated Dragonlord Garble.
“Dragonlord, we have reached the village” one dragon in armor said before Garble dismissed him, he didn’t even remember his name, he was unimportant.
“Alright, everyone, have some fun, att…” he never had a chance to finish the word.
“FIRE!” the order came from the ground, close to that weird crystal castle that looked yummy enough, but in one second the world around them changed, balls of fire flew and hit his soldiers, a thunderous explosion shocked more, a hail of arrows struck everywhere no matter if they had hide or armor and they fell, all of them fell to the ground.
The moment Garble opened his eyes he couldn’t believe it, it was an image directly from one of his nightmares, dozens of his kin splayed on the ground, charred to cinder, others being felt by arrows that apparently were stronger than dragon scale, others had spikes made of ice impaling them and the others had arcs of lighting shake their muscles even if they were already dead.
And then… then he felt pain and fear like he had never felt before.
“JOOR-ZAH-FRUL” a scream came and with it pain and confusion, the Dragonlord had been hit and he was unable to fly, he struck the ground and felt several of his bones snap.
The dragons that hadn’t been hurt by the first wave of attacks were in confusion and fear, none of them had lived through something like this, their leader struck down as if it were nothing, by a simple female scream, they all fell a wave of fear like no other, as if someone had an incredible power over them.
And then, they all saw it, a figure like no other walking in the direction of the fallen leader, her long red hair falling along her back, and there was no mistake, that could only be a female, her armor the darkest of all blacks, the very sight of her made them all move backwards and those flying felt like if this was a good moment to run.
“Well, when Twilight told me what you decided to do I couldn’t believe it, I mean, such a perfect little gift to little ol’ me, the only thing missing was a bow” she said grinning and showing a long line of pearly white teeth making Garble shiver in fear and pain.
“Come on Sunset, finish with that varmint, I still have things to do back at the farm” another female said with a deep grey steel armor with fur on it, a hornet helmet on her head and a long two handed sword over her shoulder.
“Geez AJ, this is her home turf, let her do what she wants, besides, a little gloating is nothing bad” the other female had long multi colored hair spilling under her steel helmet with a weird Mohawk on the top, her armor was grey too but with touches of red, a shield on her back and a bow on her hands.
“I must said that is true, just like our little Sunset here when we all finally backed Trixie up on a corner in Winterhold” the woman with deep indigo hair said, she, unlike her companions, was not wearing armor but instead robes of the purest white, a circlet on her head and heeled boots.
“Well, it would be nice if we could all go back now” the soft pink haired woman said behind them, like her friend she was not in armor but instead of a simple yet pretty dress, what was really impressive was the fire, ice and storm atronach protecting her.
“But still, this is an amazing opportunity to study another type of dragons… I wonder if Sunset would allow me to take one of the corpses for study back to the College” the girl said looking closely to one of said dragon corpses among the battlefield; she, unlike the other combatants was wearing what seemed to be the most simple of all robes, this time of color purple but they seemed more utilitarian than a fashion statement, that alongside the hair bun and glasses confirmed her as completely focused on studies.
“I don’t know, that one was funny… and ironic, I mean, she killed Trixie the same way she killed Sombra, by shouting! I mean, I usually annoy people and wake people up when I start shouting but I suppose Sunset’s shouting is much more annoying” the last of the warriors said taking off her black and read coal, that alongside the very clingy leather suit made everyone admit that if it weren’t because her usual antics she would have no problems getting a date.
“Will the peanut gallery finally quiet down? I’m still in the middle of something” Sunset turned around to look at them before sending a kick to the fallen red dragon, this one was trying to get a cheap shot but instead was send back down to the ground with several teeth missing this time “okay, look buddy, I didn’t even present myself, I am Sunset Shimmer, the Dovahkiin, but since you are probably stupid enough to not know what that means, is very simple, I hunt dragons, you are a dragon, guess what happens next” she said unsheathing a knife that seemed to pulse with a purple energy on it.
“Wait, wait! I learned my lesson, okay? You win!”
“Oh, really? What if I say I still don’t think of this as victory? What would you offer me then?” she said making him get to his knees”
“Anything! I just want you… to die!” Garble said expelling his flame right in the face of Sunset but next thing he knew he was back on his back with star on his eyes.
“Guess we should have told him that Sunset is like, completely immune to fire by now” the rainbow haired warrior said to the rest of the girls making them grumble in acknowledgement.
“You just don’t get it, there is only one thing I want, your soul!” she said before plunging her knife right into the chest of Garble and this one didn’t felt pain… it would never feel pain again. Meanwhile, a dark energy seemed to have left garble and resided now in one of Sunset’s pockets “well, seems like Equestria’s dragons don’t have souls like those back home” she said checking her new filled black soul gem.
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“Is everything okay Dragonlord Ember?”
“Please, do not call me by that title Twilight, I do not feel worthy of it, your friend won it by combat, she should be the one leading the other dragons right now… although I’m curious, how was she capable of using an artifact that can only react to dragons?”
“Sunset is a woman with many abilities, but I think she should tell you herself, how’s everything out there?” Twilight said turning to the doors of the throne room where a tired Sunset walked in their directions.
“They are fine, seems both the pony and human versions are taking some time to get to know each other… you don’t seem so well Ember, although considering what just happened is understandable” the warrior said sitting down in one of the thrones, her two legged form seemed perfect for them.
“That’s right, this is not the first time I have seen death, my own father had to beat other dragons that wanted his title of Dragonlord but this was beyond any experience I could have had before”
“I know what you mean, I was part of a war not too long ago and it never gets easy” Sunset wanted to put her hand on the shoulders of the small dragon but knew that she shouldn’t invade her personal space.
“Thank you for your words, it seems that Spike was right about all this deal about friendship”
“Don’t I know it? I wouldn’t even be here if it weren’t for those six crazy gals out there, they helped me become who I am right now” Sunset said with a smile on her face.
“That has to be quite the story, something about a parallel universe? How does that one go?” If there was one thing Ember was, was a sucker for a good story, she horded those as much as good jewels and gold.
“It has to do with the continent of Tamriel and the country in which everything started, a country that was in the midst of civil war, Skyrim”