The Kobold of Ponyville

by Mr101


Chapter IX - Of Goddess and small reptiles

The Kobold of Ponyville

Chapter IX - Of Goddess and small reptiles

Tak looked up at Fluttershy a little confused. He scratched his head under his helmet as he tilted it slightly.

“Guardian? What’s that?” he asked.

“Well, it’s l-like a mother, or a father. Someone who looks after you.” Fluttershy replied.

Tak nodded softly, remembering the days of his youth. He couldn’t really recall who his birth mother was, as his clan hatched their young at the same time and simply raised them all together. So the kobold didn’t really know that much about mothers or fathers.

“Tak sees… but, why would you want to be Tak’s guardian? Tak isn’t that special. Tak is just Tak!”

Fluttershy scooped up the kobold in her hooves and gave him a scowling look, “Nonsense, you are very special. And don’t let no pont tell you otherwise!”

Tak blinked as he was held to her chest. He liked the feeling of her fur on his scales. It was soft, warm and he had an overwhelming sense of serenity fill him up, making him smile. Fluttershy put him down as he paced the floor a little, deep in thought which Fluttershy found adorable. The kobold came to a stop and looked up to the pegasus mare.

“Okay, Tak would like you to be his mother!” Tak said with a grin, his hands on his hips.

The three mares looked at the little kobold shocked. They weren’t expecting him to say that and Rarity and Twilight both looked to Fluttershy who stared blankly at Tak.

“Fluttershy? Dear?” Rarity asked, “Are you alright?”

Slowly, the pegasus’ mouth formed into a very large and happy smile as her eyes slowly became wider and her pupils shrank to the size of pin pricks. Suddenly, she tackled the kobold who had enough time to let out a confused yelp as the pegasus scooped him up into her body and snuggled him close to her, twirling a little in the air.

“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!” Fluttershy practically screamed as she cuddled Tak, “I’d be delighted to be your mother!”

“Can’t. Breathe!” Tak choked out.

“Fluttershy, you’re making Tak turn an interesting shade of blue,” Rarity said.

Fluttershy blinked before blushing and sheepishly giggling as she loosened her grip on the kobold, “S-sorry, Tak.”

“It’s okay,” Tak coughed as he smiled up at her, “Tak knows mother pony is only showing happiness.”

Tak yelped again as Fluttershy squeezed him again, squealing in pure delight as she held him close to her body again.

“Fluttershy,” Twilight coughed into her hoof, a little smirk hiding behind it.

Fluttershy sheepishly giggled again as she put the kobold down on the floor again, “Sorry…”

Tak simply smiled as he wrapped his arms around her as best he could and returned the hug, to which Fluttershy also returned it, albeit it more gently this time around. As the two hugged, Twilight nodded to Rarity and the white unicorn smiled as the two got up and silently left the the two alone.

After a while, Fluttershy smiled down at Tak and gave him a kiss on his head, “Come on, Tak. I think I should give you a quick rundown as to what to expect tomorrow.”

“Yes, Tak thinks that would be a good idea,” the kobold nodded with a smile.


The following day, the elements had gathered at Twilight’s home to await the arrival of the Princess’. The alicorn’s had made a mention to Twilight in a scroll that they were going to stop by the town hall to invite the Mayor to the talk as well as the local school teacher, Miss Cheerilee. They would then arrive at the library in the early afternoon to discuss their plans in more detail with the elements and Tak.

“Oh, this is so exciting!” Twilight squealed. “To think, we get to witness the historic second time event of a lifetime!”

“Uh.. Twi? They’re only havin’ a brief meeting with Tak, it ain’t that amazing. You know that, right?” Applejack replied.

The apple farmer suddenly let out a slight yelp as Twilight appeared in front of her, a huge grin on her face and her eyes sparkling.

“It is amazing! Only one incident in history has kobolds and another species acting peaceful! This meeting could lead us to have a better understanding of kobold culture, of how they live. Heck, it might even lead to our relations with the kobolds being dramatically altered for the better!”

Applejack blinked as she stared at the grinning unicorn, stealing glances to their friends as if to call for some kind of help. Rainbow Dash scratched her head as she tilted it at the unicorn.

“Yeah… whatever, Twilight. You should really calm down though…”

“But, why? There’s so many reasons to be excited!” Twilight squealed.

“U-uhm, it’s just, that… you’re kind of confusing and scaring Tak a little…” Fluttershy replied.

Twilight stopped and glanced over to the pegasus, seeing Tak peeking from behind one of her wings with wide eyes that held a mixture of confusion and terror about them. The unicorn sheepishly smiled as she chuckled softly.

“Uh… sorry about that, Tak.”

Tak lowered Fluttershy’s wing a little and shrugged, “It’s fine, though Tak still doesn’t get why purple horse is excited.”

Twilight,” Fluttershy corrected with a boop to his nose with her wing, causing the kobold to scrunch his snout, “is the student to one of the Princess’. Princess Celestia.”

Tak nodded as Spike snickered and nudged his side, “Yeah, and she always gets over excited when she comes to visit.”

“I do not!” Twilight huffed.

“Not to be a downer, as the foals say these days. But you do get awfully excited.” Rarity said.

“Yeah, but—” Twilight began.

“You sure do! I think you get just as excited as I do when I throw a party! Just like how I’m super duper excited about the party this evening!” Pinkie giggled as she bounced on the spot.

“I mean, the last time they were coming down you made me help you in literally making the library spotless. You even teleported the furniture into another dimension so you could clean everything on a microscopic level.” Spike said as he tapped his chin.

“Oh! Oh! Don’t forget when she freaked out that one time when they had a meeting with that skinny wizard and the Prince was there!” Pinkie added as she flailed her hooves.

Everyone looked at the pink mare confused. Pinkie simply tilted her head back at them.

“What?” she asked.

Twilight shook her head and coughed into her hoof, “Okay… maybe I do get a little excited to see the Princess.”

The girls giggled as a knock came from the door. Spike walked over and opened the door to reveal Mayor Mare with both Princess Celestia and Luna behind her, as well as Miss Cheerilee followed by a few guards of both the solar and lunar branches.

“Good morning, Spike. May we come in?” Celestia asked with a warm smile.

Spike smiled back and stood aside to allow the mares in. Two of the guards remained outside as the other two followed the Princess’ inside. Tak saw the newcomers and immediately hid behind Fluttershy and started to tremble, the alicorn’s height intimidating him a little bit.

Celestia smiled as she saw the Kobold’s tail from behind Fluttershy and she smiled softly, “So, this is our new citizen is it?” Celestia tittered.

Fluttershy gently used her wing to scoot Tak out. The kobold was visibly shaking but had a nervous smile on as he waved.

“H-hello…” he mumbled.

Fluttershy giggled as she nuzzled his cheek, before smiling proudly, “Yes. This is my colt. Tak.”

Celestia smiled and leant her head down so she was level to Tak and smiled, “Well then, hello there little kobold. My name is Princess Celestia. I’m very happy to finally meet you.”

Tak mumbled something as he held his tail in between his claws.

Celestia giggled softly at his shyness and looked over to her sister, who walked over to be beside her sister.

“And I, little one, am Princess Luna. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Again, Tak mumbled something before he suddenly took notice of both their manes. His eyes suddenly widened and his pupils expanded like a cats as he stared at them in wonder.

“Pretty…” he said.

Both alicorn’s paused for a moment then began to giggle as the kobold seemed to lose all sense of shyness and slowly made his way over to Luna, his arms outreached with his claws extended. Luna watched with amusement as he gently grabbed her mane and began to examine it, making chittering sounds of bewilderment and curiosity as he did.

“He’s certainly a curious little fellow, isn’t he?” Luna smiled.

Fluttershy giggled as Tak pushed his head into Luna’s mane and his tail went rigid before he emerged, his eyes seemingly wider than before and a look of awestruck on his face, his body lightly shaking.

“Are you okay, sweetie?” Fluttershy asked, her hoof to her mouth as she held back a giggle.

“Tak saw things that no kobold has ever seen… such wondrous sights.”

The pegasus shook her head as Tak made his way back over to her and sat beside her, using her body as a pillow as she lay on the floor.

“I know why the Mayor is here,” Rainbow began, “but why are you here, Miss Cheerilee?”

“You’ll soon find out,” the mare smiled.

Celestia tittered before she and Luna joined the others and sat down, “Now, Tak. Do you know why me and my sister are here?”

Tak wiggled his body as he got comfy, Fluttershy smiling as she watched him before the kobold looked up and answered.

“Well… purple horse—Twilight,” He corrected himself quickly, “said something about improving kobold pony relations.”

Celestia nodded, “That’s right. I don’t suppose you know of the history between ponies and kobolds do you, Tak?”

Tak shook his head, “Tak doesn’t know much…”

“Well, to keep a story short,” Luna began, “There isn’t a history between our species. The only time on record that , hat kobolds have ever, that we know of, interacted with civilized—”

Luna was nudged in the side by Celestia who gave her a scowl, Luna glared back before she continued speaking.

Other cultures, is over eight hundred years ago when kobolds and griffins made a trade pact for resources as well as food supplies. Though, it only lasted a few months, it was a historic moment.”

Tak nodded slowly as he took on the information, looking back and forth between the two alicorn sisters who had opted to lay on the floor as to not intimidate the kobold.

“Usually, as I’m sure you’re aware, towards ponies and other species kobolds are somewhat….”

Luna twirled a hoof trying to find the right word that would hopefully not upset or offend the kobold.

“Aggressive, vicious and pretty much animalistic?” Tak offered, tilting his head.

The two alicorns looked at Tak in surprise before he shrugged.

“Tak isn’t offended about the truth, it’s just how kobolds are. Why would Tak be offended about something that is true and everyone knows about?”

“That’s very mature of you, Tak,” Celestia replied with a smile.

Tak grinned up at the alicorn as Celestia continued to talk.

“Anyway, because of this the relations between kobolds and ponies have always been rough. Resulting in times where pony caravans are raided by kobolds. Sometimes with… gruesome results.”

Tak nodded in understanding. More often that not kobold attacks on caravans, weather it was ponies or some other race, often resulted in injury or death to both parties. It was why kobold raider groups always went in huge numbers as to try and overpower the enemy with sheer numbers alone.

“Gruesome… ?” Rarity asked, looking a little green.

Luna nodded, “Indeed, death more often than not can occur during these raids.”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash snickered as Rarity’s cheeks turned a shade of green as she brought her hoof up to her mouth.

“Hey she looks like me after I’ve eaten too many sweets!” Pinkie giggled.

The group shared a small laugh as the unicorn struggled to keep her breakfast down before Celestia continued to talk.

“When Twilight first told Luna and I about you, Tak. We were honestly surprised that a kobold was being this friendly towards a species they often attack and had to come and see you for ourselves.”

Luna nodded, “Admittedly, one of the reasons for our visit is to confirm you are indeed non-hostile and a threat to our little ponies.”

“Tak understands,” the kobold replied as he stretched his limbs.

“However, I hope that by making you a citizen of our kingdom is a big enough gesture that shows we both believe you are indeed not a threat to our subjects,” Celestia finished.

Tak nodded as he smiled up at Fluttershy, receiving a nuzzle to the top of his head in return.

“So, what happens now then, Princess?” Fluttershy asked.

“Well,” Celestia began, “Luna and I think it would be a good idea if Tak was more involved with the activities in town, that’s why we asked Mayor Mare to bring Miss Cheerilee with us today.”

“Would you like to explain our proposal?” Luna asked the teacher.

Miss Cheerilee nodded and coughed into her hoof before talking, “Well, one of the things that we discussed to help Tak with being more involved with the town, is to show him how the school works.”

“That sounds like a wonderful idea,” Fluttershy smiled.

The teacher nodded as she smiled, “And personally… I was wondering if Tak would like to join my class?”

“Class?” Tak asked, tilting his head.

“Mhm,” Cheerilee nodded, “If I was to help you study about our society, history and everything else, I feel that it would benefit everypony in the long run. But only if you want to, Tak. No pony is forcing you to join.”

Tak stroked his chin as he thought about the idea, “Would Tak’s friends be there?”

Cheerilee nodded, “Of course! They’re all students in my class.”

The kobold tapped at his chin with a claw as he mulled it over before he swallowed a lump in his throat, “O-okay… Tak will give it a go. If it helps ponies and kobolds be friends then Tak can try it.”

“That’s my brave boy,” Fluttershy whispered with a smile as she nuzzled his head.

Cheerilee clapped her hooves together and smiled, “Excellent! I’d better go relive the substitute teacher and inform my little students about what’s going on. May I be excused please, your majesties?”

Luna and Celestia nodded back to Cheerilee who smiled and turned back to talk to Fluttershy.

“Fluttershy, could you bring Tak over when you are finished here? I’d like to properly introduce him to the class before tomorrow.”

Fluttershy nodded to the mare, “Okay, I can do that. I don’t think we have much left to cover.”

Cheerilee beamed as she got up and exited the building. Celestia smiled as she ruffled her wings a little and got comfy again.

“Okay, now we have that out of the way. We will be monitoring your progress over the next couple of months, Tak.”

“Why?” Tak asked with a tilt of his head.

“All of this is to show our little ponies and the world that kobolds are not savages. That they can easily live in peace alongside any other race,” Celestia explained. “If everything goes well, then we can open up the ideas of trying to come to a truce between not just kobolds. But other races who are somewhat on bad terms with ponies. Such as diamond dogs, the dragons and even the changelings.”

Tak noticed the elements faces turn a little sour at the mention of changelings as Celestia continued.

“Tak, what you have done by simply being friendly to ponies and accepting them as your friends, you have single handedly started of a chain of events that could one day bring true peace to all creatures on the planet. No long would ponies look at other races and feel fear or disgust!”

Everyone looked at Celestia as she now stood where she was originally lying down, her head looking up with a look of determination on her face and a hoof on her heart. Luna gently coughed into her hoof as Celestia shook herself out of her stand and then laid back down, blushing a little.

“What my sister is trying to say, Tak, is that this is the start of something that can change how ponies and other races see things,” Luna said.

Celestia meekley nodded and gave a sheepish smile.

“Well… Tak’s on board!” Tak grinned as he stood up, using Fluttershy’s body for support as he looked up at the two alicorns with determination.

“This will be Tak’s greatest adventure ever!”