Chapter 52: Ju-Long
Smolder panted, as she flew in the direction her friend was thrown. Tears trickled down her face, in part because of the throbbing pain in her arm and body, but mostly out of fear of what might have happened to Occelus.
She tried to keep up with her, she really did. As soon as that wave threw Occelus out the window, she flew after. However, she was still exhausted from the fighting and she soon lost track of her.
Why? she thought to herself. Why would they do that to her? After everything she did for them.
Of course, the logical side of her mind knew that the ponies didn’t know what she did, but logic wasn’t exactly in control at the moment.
Suddenly, her battered and weary body decided it had enough, and sent a sharp pain through her wings. It took every ounce of willpower to control her fall and not crash. She still landed hard, but the pain was minimal.
Well, the pain of the fall, anyway.
Her fear for her friend was excruciating.
Her mind kept showing her images of a broken, twisted body. Or a body impaled on a tree branch. Or some ravenous creature devouring Occelus’ helpless form.
She couldn’t stop the tears from falling as she curled up, hugging herself. “Please... be okay...”
I came too with what felt like the worst hangover of my life.
“What the hell happened?” I asked whoever might have been around.
“Luke!” Ember threw her arms around me. “You’re okay! Don’t you ever scare me like that.”
“How long was I out?” I asked.
“Only a couple minutes,” she replied.
I looked around and noticed the only other one in the room was Garble on the other side of the room where he sat still guarding the egg.
“Okay, but what happened? What actually was that?” I asked again.
“We’re not entirely sure, but it threw the invaders out of the city,” Ember said. “Sunflower left to try to find out what’s going on.”
“Wait, it threw the changelings out? What about Occelus?” I asked.
Ember grimaced. “They were thrown, too. Smolder went after them, but they were flying pretty fast. It was strange, though. When the wave hit them, they weren’t just thrown, they were pushed out windows and doors, even if they had to be pulled a little, first. It was like whatever it was purposely made sure they weren’t hurt before throwing them.”
“Except the jerk,” Garble interjected. “He was slammed into the wall a couple times before being flung out. Serves him right, threatening the egg.”
A part of me wondered how much of his protectiveness over the egg was just his instincts and how much was him. I could sense a little bit of self loathing and shame. Did he blame himself for the egg being in danger?
“I won’t let it happen again,” Garble declared. “As long as I’m breathing, this egg won’t even get a scratch.”
As soon as he said that, a faint ‘crack’ was heard.
Smolder didn’t know how long she had laid there, crying and praying her friend was safe. It had to have been at least a half hour.
Eventually, she managed to pull herself together. She knew she couldn’t just lay there, wallowing in self pity. She had to find her friend, no matter what she’ll find when she does.
She stood and stretched her wings. They were still too stiff to fly, but that wouldn’t stop her. She would run if she had to.
But why would she run when she had magic.
She had tried to use Ember’s magic claw spell and wasn’t that good at it, but that didn’t mean she didn’t learn from it. She focused her magic, just like Ember would when casting her claw spell, but instead of making a claw, she flattened it into a big, floating disk.
She slowly crawled up onto it, testing it to make sure it would carry her. When it held, she settled into the center and slowly tried commanding it. It jerked and jolted as she tried to get used to controlling it.
After a few bumps and nearly falling off once or twice, she got used to it enough to rise above the surrounding buildings. Without the obstacles of the buildings around her, she could clumsily fly off in the direction she last saw her friend flying.
As she flew, she noticed a single figure heading toward the city.
Huh... who would be coming here, now of all times? I might as well make sure they know what happened so they don’t freak out..
Sergeant Shine’s horn faded as the last of the magic soaked into the wards. They might not have had the resources to create a barrier like they had before, but at least they would be able to detect any creatures using illusion or transformation spells.
He looked over to see the other wards flaring to life, one after another, creating a ring of detection magic around the city.
“Let’s see those bugs get past us, now,” Corporal Bulwark said.
“This won’t stop them,” Shine said. “It’ll just detect them and, hopefully, strip their disguise.”
“Hopefully? You don’t know?” Corporal Crosshair asked.
“We don’t really know how their disguises work, so no. Not completely, anyway,” Shine said. “That means stay vigilant. If a crowd approaches, we have to make sure they pass one at a time.”
“Well, we’re going to get to test it out, already.” Crosshair said. “We got somepony coming.”
“If they’re a pony it won’t be much of a test,” Shine said.
As the pony approached, Crosshair called out, jokingly, “Hey, you wouldn’t happen to be a changeling, would you?”
The three Guards chuckled.
“Actually... yes. I am.”
They stopped laughing. “What was that?”
The ‘pony’ sighed. “I am a changeling, and I’m here to surrender.”
Crosshair lifted his crossbow while Bulwark readied his spear.
“Is this some kind of joke?” Shine said, accusingly.
“No sir,” the supposed changeling said. “I’m a changeling.”
“Step through the ward,” Shine commanded.
The changeling did as he was told and sure enough, the ward flared red, but his disguise didn’t fall.
“Drop the disguise,” Shine ordered.
The changeling did as he was told. His fur burned away in green flame, leaving a black carapace.
“So much for taking away their disguise,” Bulwark said.
“I can help you fix that,” the changeling said. “As a show of good will.”
“Not a chance,” Shine said.
“What the heck’s going on here?”
The ponies and changeling looked up to see a dragon on a disk floating toward them.
Smolder looked on in confusion at the small group, confused as to what was going on.
“Miss Smolder,” the changeling said, looking at her with a smile. “I’m glad to see you. I have a message from Occelus.”
Smolder lept from the disk and ran over to them. “Is she okay?! Where is she?!”
“She’s fine. Most of us are,” the changeling said. “For some reason those of us that followed her weren’t thrown as far as the others.”
“Aren’t you the dragon empress’ aide?” Shine asked. “How do you know this changeling?”
“Well, I don’t really know him, personally,” Smolder said. “But Occelus is a friend of mine.”
“Quarter Staff said a bunch of changelings saved him and his squad,” Crosshair said. “I didn’t believe him, though.”
Shine groaned. “This is above my paygrade. We’ll take you to the upper dungeons and let someone else figure it out.”
Smolder growled. “What do you mean you’re throwing him in the dungeon?! I just told you, he helped save a lot of you ponies.”
“We’re taking him to the upper dungeon,” Shine said. “Those cells are actually rather nice. They’re used for ponies that need protection more than potential criminals.”
“It’s okay, Miss Smolder,” the changeling said. “I figured this would happen. Though, I was expecting the regular dungeon.”
“Yeah, well, thank Smolder for that,” Shine said. “Put your disguise back on. I don’t want ponies freaking out. If you try anything funny, we’ll put you down. Bulwark, stay here. I’ll send a squad to relieve you soon. Let’s move. Miss Smolder, I’m sorry, but I’ll have to ask that you not accompany us. Your familiarity with this changeling could cause complications.”
Smolder knew what he meant. They couldn’t know she hadn't been brainwashed.
“That’s fine. I could use a nice long walk to clear my head,” Smolder said.
“Where will you be, in case we need to speak to you?” Shine asked.
Smolder thought for a moment. “I heard something about a mega spell being let off near the university. I might go check that out.”
“Alright. Stay safe,” Shine said.
We all froze, like deer caught in the headlights.
“W-was that...” I tried to say, my mind failed to grasp what we heard.
Then, as one, we all rushed to the crib.
I stared, unable to comprehend what I was seeing. I knew what it was, but I couldn’t believe it.
I stared as the crack in the egg grew.
“Come on,” Ember encouraged. “You can do it.”
A part of me wanted to help, but I somehow knew that doing so would be bad.
Finally, a piece of egg fell away and we saw the first glimpse of our child. A little claw peeked through the shell before tearing away a larger chunk. The egg rolled a bit as a tinny form forced its way out.
My breath hitched as I took in the sight of my child for the first time.
Ember, more calmly and gentlely than I’ve ever seen her, reached into the crib and lifted the child. She pulled it to her chest as she started cooing. “There’s my strong boy. Momma’s so proud of you.”
“A... a boy? I have a son?” I asked. “How can you tell?”
Ember rolled her eyes. “Yeah, you’re daddy’s kinda dumb. Males are born with spines. Females aren’t.”
“Oh...” was all I could say.
“Here. Why don’t you meet your daddy,” Ember said, offering him to me.
I was terrified as I took the tiny thing in my arms. He was a dragon, alright, though he kinda looked like me. He had the same blue shade with a black stripe across his eyes and a cream colored belly.
He looked up at me and smiled.
<“My son,”> I said. <“My beautiful boy.”>
“What are we going to name him?” Ember asked?
“You want me to choose?” I asked.
Ember shrugged. “Unless you want him to be named Bone Shatter.”
I chuckled as I thought. What would be the perfect name? I smiled as I looked down at him. “Ju-Long. It was my grandfather's name. It means ‘powerful dragon’.”
Ember hummed as she tested the name. “Ju-long... Ju-long... Powerful Dragon.” She leaned over to nuzzle our son. “What do you think? Do you like Ju-Long?”
Our son laughed before hiccuping... and shooting a little aura blast at the ceiling.
Garble just laughed. “I think that’s a yes. Ju-Long, huh... Yeah, I gotta admit, I kinda like it, too.”
<“Welcome to the world, Ju-Long. I think you’re going to like it here.”>
What?! Luke's egg hatched?! Bet you never saw that coming, did you?! Unless you read Equestrian Eeveelution. Damn Sym, spoiling my story 
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ARTISTS GET DRAWING!! I WANT TO SEE THE LITTLE TIKE BEFORE THE NEXT CHAPTER IS OUT!!
Aw, so cute! But in all seriousness, canon has definitely been thrown to the curb at this point, because of the renegade changelings.
Also, will Luke be practicing his vocal speech again? I know he tried to do that in an earlier chapter (I don't remember which one) because he thought there would be trouble with communication development with his child if he couldn't do it. At least, i think that's the reason, I could be remembering wrong.
All hail Ju-Long! We need more of him!
10937354
It was explained that Luke determined that there was no way for a pokemon to actually learn how to speak (we're following mostly game cannon, not the anime). That's why he contracted Lyra (a linguistics major) and Vinyl Scratch (an expert in arcane technology) to create a translator.
10937354
Who knows what'll happen? From what we've seen here, Ju-Long will be able to use telepathy once his abilities develop a bit more, so I see no reason why he can't learn to speak Equestrian and Lucario too.
If anything, the end result of this will be an episode where an older Ju-Long tries to get Luke riled up just so his friends can hear him go off in broken Equestrian. It'll be great fun.
At least, until Luke finally has enough of their crap. Everypony gangsta 'til Ju-Long's pop grabs a slipper....
aww a grate chapter.
10937396
Pity. I suppose that means that in the pokemon world joined to this storyline, pokemon will never be able to testify in court. I'm sure that makes a few individual humans quite happy.
Then again, this is Pokemon, and we, the audience, generally aren't supposed to think about what it would be like to try to live in society from the perspective of a Pokemon.
10937420
Have you read Equestrian Eeveelution? There's a character that actually addresses that.
10937423
I have, but it updates so sporadically, and the gaps are wide enough that I have forgotten most of the smaller details, even though I still remember the overall story. Can you give me a chapter number where that happens?
10937433
It's over several chapters. Eros was abused in the poke-world. It's never made clear what kind of abuse she suffered, but it messed her up pretty bad.
10937464
Sweetiebelle is helping her though,
10937464
what i read about her abuse was a pokemon/pokemon and or pokemon/human breeding ranch thing.
In the earlier chapters, I thought that the reason the eggs weren't hatching was because there was something to do with a shadowy hand (I bet its Darkrai) so im wondering, what happened to trigger Luke's egg to hatch?
Are you ever going to add more to the mature version of the story?
10937396
But the games just have animal cries, not them saying their species name, as far as I remember.
10937519
Dragon egg base not pokemon.
Great chapter. Interessting topics!
Surprising how nice this part of the aftermath was.
Im surprised the spell had intension and this level to detail!
Nice to see Luke become a Daddy ♡
His sons foalsitter will have a difficult job
10937354
Shall be doubeld 
Also diblings are more fun than only children/hatchlings 
Is Ju-Long pulling a Pokemon and Speak with his name?
10937396
Nice. Star Trek style multi species translator?
10937380
The dawww and awww and
10937401
That image in my mind looks funny. A Dragon hatchling using a slipper as a club
10937420
Depending on the holder/owner/slaver/caretaker it might be world difference in between individuals!
10937423
Reminds me of Cats in Independents, Dogs in co-operational learning & Angel Bunny from Fluttershy because they do there own thing all the time
10937464
Wasn't it a team rocket breeding program?
10937507
Of a criminal background. Probably team rocket or worse...
10937538
Children dont negate horny adults
10937551
Tech limitations.
10937850
That would be better than the alternative, particularly since this chapter basically confirms that Luke is of east Asian descent:
When Ju-Long grabs a slipper, it means you're going to play a game. When Luke grabs a slipper, it means you're going to meet Jesus.
Perils of shared fics
10937519
Luke wasn't an intended part of the plan, so the various restrictions don't apply as strongly to him as they do to the Pack.
10937507
That, if I remember right, was just a theory the Eevees had, and wasn't confirmed.
10937519
10937775
This 10938159. Luke's inclusion was accidental. Chaos magic, by its very nature, can't be controlled, as chaos is randomness and control is orderly, thus even Discord doesn't actually have control over it. Even the show supports this.
10937538
Probably. We'll see.
10937551
That's why I said 'mostly'
10937850
Not so much. It's just a poke-speak translator, worn by pokemon. It doesn't let them understand other languages they can't without it and it only translates it to Equish.
See above.
Boi it happened!!!
Not sure if I asked, do you have an update schedule?
10938536
Not really. The closest thing is that I won't publish more than one in a two week period.
All hail Crown Prince Ju-Long! Glad to hear that Ocellus et al. are unharmed.
Why don’t you both get in synch to publish at the same time so there’s no spoilers?
10939417
Because it wouldn't be fair to the people reading his story to have to wait so long just because I had writer's block.
its took you Ju-long to get this far of the story out XD
get it?
10939490
No! Bad Seth! thumbs.gfycat.com/SpanishGorgeousIcelandgull-max-1mb.gif
10939494
yes spray me daddy
> : D
10939476
True also I just realised your name on here can easily be made into a bad joke
10939555
That's it. I'm taking you to the vet.
10939583
Oh? Do tell
aura breath
a dragon analog of Twilight has been born.
10939824
I could but where would the fun be in that m m m my shirotoa
Winces at cheesy it is
10939476
Wait shouldn’t you both tag each other’s fics as sequels and side fics
10941062
I don't tag it as a sequel because it isn't one, and there is no 'side story' tag, but I already have a link in the description that says this takes place in the same universe.
10941330
Just saw it
The perils of cooperation between stories LOL dragon who uses aura barely 10 seconds after hatching? Good lord... new breed of dragon is approaching
This was a fun rap up chapter.
Ps the baby sounds adorable 🥰🥰
10937551
Pikachu and Eevee (and probably a few orhers) do use their names in some of the games. 'Vee are apparently French.
Wooooo....it's flurry heart all over again.......e-...no...this is probably going to be worse based on being half dragon half Pokémon huh?