Draconic Payback

by Mystic Sunrise

Finally

Pearl walked up behind her friend slowly, the noise of his eighteenth birthday party still roaring in the background. Saw what you wanted, Pinkie knew how to throw a party.

A few steps behind him, she stopped and steadied herself. This was it. She had been holding this in for too long. She couldn’t take it any longer. Things were lining up too much.

Looking at him, her breath hitched. Kohaku had filled out quite a bit since she had known him. No longer did he have that slight fluffy appearance. he was now as sleek and sharp as a well-honed blade. She could see his thin, yet powerful, muscles flex under his plush fur. The goofiness of his face hardened, his round eyes sharpened, and despite her affinity for mares. Shivered excitedly when he looked at her with those bright amber spheres. Something she would never admit to him though.

"Some party huh?" Kohaku's voice had deepened slightly but overall was still the same.

"Yeah. I take it you had to get away for a while too?" Pearl nudged her friend with her shoulder.

"Yeah. Thanks again for the pendant, I love it." Kohaku lightly pawed the hoof-carved seashell with a silver pearl set in the center. Inside was a picture of herself and Kohaku.

"I have something I want to show you." Pearl took a few steps forward.

"Right here? What would Twilight say?" Kohaku smirked earning him a slap across the face with her tail. Despite the sting, he didn't budge.

“Not that you…” Pearl huffed, only to see him chuckle, the Dragon Princess joining in a moment later. How he always fooled her like this was still infuriating. “Not that. This is something Twilight told me to wait on because we aren’t sure how you’d react to it.”

“Oh just show me already,” Kohaku smiled. He watched Pearl nod slowly when she closed her eyes and focused. His eyebrow quirked as her form started to glow, then grow. One head quickly became five. When finished she was twice his height. Looking down with her Red head, her own settled just before the crest.

Opening her eyes, she smiled down at him. "Kohaku..." Pearl watched as her friend remained silent, his eyes twitching as she heard his breath increase. Bitting on her lower lip she feared she made a mistake when he fell over. But it was when he started laughing, that she started to feel a little more relieved.

"Oh my... This makes so much more sense now." Kohaku chuckled as he got up on all fours.

"In what way?" the five heads asked in unison.

"Because I doubt you gained a thousand pounds and never showed it several years ago. I saw you land and there was this huge divot in the earth." Kohaku smirked.

Pearl rolled her eyes and laughed with him. She felt better. no longer would she have to be afraid of killing her friend by showing this form to him? "Say Kohaku..." the White head snaked over and wrapped itself around his shoulder. "you know if you want... I can still show you that," the White playfully flicked her tongue against his cheek.

Pearl gasped and groaned as she looked at her friend who only smirked. “I didn’t say that! I don’t know where that came from!”

Her White head just smiled at her. “Oh, you know very well where that came from. I’m you! Don’t deny it.”

Pearl groaned before wrapping a claw around that mouth. “Ignore her. Whites aren’t known for being that smart,” she smiled sheepishly, trying to sound more confident than she felt.

“True, but they are honest with their feelings.” Kohaku looked at the White whose eyes sparkled as he looked at her. With a chuckle, he looked at the Black head who looked at him with narrowed and scathing eyes. The Blue and Green were almost as indifferent as the Red, the trio showing their friendship with a swift nod. “I always knew you had a split personality somewhere, I guess now you have a form that shows it.”

Pearl could only nod. Her other heads had begun to develop a mind of their own only a few months after coming back from that adventure. All of them were still hers, but they were now independent enough that even Twilight had commented on how different she was sometimes. “This isn’t all. I can’t hold this back any longer. Everything is happening too much the same.”

“And what would those be?” Kohaku asked.

Pearl waived a claw. “Everything. Me becoming an alicorn, gaining this form, even you and Sweetie Belle falling apart and you and Flury Heart spending so much time together. And a bunch of other things.”

Kohaku remained silent as he quirked an eyebrow, listening to his friend as she poured her heart out.

“That first night in Tiamat’s domain, I had the weirdest dream. I woke up a thousand years in the future. So much had changed, for both me and you. I thought it was just a dream brought on by everything me and Twilight had just gone through, but it wasn’t.” She sighed. “Your mom was a seer, right?”

“More than just that, she was an Oracle. She saw everything, all that was is, and could ever be. She was forever bombarded with knowledge of the future and how everything would turn out.” Kohaku stretched out and flopped down, resting his back up against her dragon barrel. Lowering his new cowboy hat, a gift from his Oneechan AJ who just whipped it off her head and down on his, down over his eyes. “So what are you pitching here? That mother had something to do with it?”

Pearl shook her head. “I don’t know. The night you let me meet her… ‘memory echo’ I think it was? Could some of her abilities have rubbed off on me? I’m seeing things I shouldn’t know about before they happen.”

Shaking his head he sighed. “Not possible. Not for the brief moment, you had with her.” Pulling an apple out of thin air he took a bite. “It takes months if not years of constant contact with a seer to even see so much as a shadow, and even then you need a personal connection with the individual in question.” Using one of his five tails he lifted the edge of his hat. “Unless you’ve been alive for thirty-plus millennia, there’s no chance of it happening. An echo wouldn’t have such abilities.”

“How do you know all this?” Pearl’s Blue head grumbled loudly. “Even after a few years you still don’t strike me as a creature who should.”

“Well for the last year I’ve been reading my mother’s personal journal. She goes into detail about all this. I was worried I might be able to read it, but I am her son after all.”

Pearl scrunched her nose. There went that theory at least. “Then I don’t know what else could be causing this. I shouldn’t know any of this."

“That’s for sure. In the dream, you didn’t even know how you became an alicorn. I’m sure you asked about half a dozen times during the six years you spent there.” Kohaku kept munching on his apple as all five heads looked at him as if he had grown a second one himself. Pearl’s own was open. She was so shocked that she poofed into her Alicorn form causing Kohaku to fall onto his back. But didn’t so much as twitch as he rested one foreleg behind his head and continued to munch on his snack.

“How do you know that?!” Pearl huffed. “Only Twilight knew anything about this before now, and I made her Pinkie Promise not to talk about it. And you know how she is with those.”

“Well I didn’t hear it from her, it just sounds way too similar to the dream I had the night you first contacted me with that Pendant. I just assumed I told you and forgot.” Kohaku sat up as his hat fell to the ground. His eyes widened as he turned about and looked at Pearl. “Oh buck me…”

“What?”

“Pearl… I am my mother’s son, I may not be attuned to the spirit realm or have any control over time and dreams as she did. But despite all that, her blood DOES flow through me. My markings are proof enough. I’m the last heir of the Lunaria Clan.”

“Huh?”

“The one with seer blood you got that dream from… was me.” Kohaku bit down on his lower lip and exhaled loudly. “Whoa.. talk about a head spinner.” shrugging he flopped back down. “Oh well, ce la vie!”

Pearl’s own head was spinning as she flopped down beside him. “Your fox fire saved my hide that night. Saved me more than you’ll ever know.

“From the horns of the Brass Citadel, I take it?” Pearl’s eyes widened again. As if her headache could not get any worse. She nodded slowly.

“Honestly, I’m not sure why I gave you the foxfire pendant. Something in me was just telling me to do it. And mother and father always told me to listen to those feelings.” Kohaku pulled his friend close. His tails formed a blanket over his friend, shielding her from the cool pre-winter winds. “But I am glad you found a use for it.”

Pearl smirked. “Well, it did give me a heads up on a few things that I would’ve missed otherwise probably. Why do you think me and Twilight are dating? That wasn’t supposed to happen for another century or so.” She poked him. “And if you did have what I did, then I won’t spoil anything for you.”

“Well, it’s not like I remember every detail from it. So I won’t bother asking.” Kohaku purred deeply as the wind blew across his body. “I dismissed it then, I’m doing so now. After all, it’s not like mother made a prophecy.”

Pearl just smiled. She couldn’t just dismiss it as easily as he could. She remembered it all, and she was going to enjoy this in the years to come.

“Just think.” Kohaku’s voice pulled Pearl from her thoughts. “All we experienced these last few years. And we have thousands upon thousands more ahead of us.”

Pearl just looked at him. The thoughts of thousands of years ahead of her were still too much.

“I once thought I’d live out my life here losing all my closest friends to the stillness of age.” Looking over, Kohaku leaned in and nuzzled his friend’s cheek. “But here we both are. Best friends who are Immortals. Almost family to each other. No matter what happens to the others, we’re always going to have each other. I think that alone is the best birthday present I have ever received.”

Comments

[Teikan]

transhumanism? Noice

[Herald of Opera]

11328479
Minus the "human" bit. >_>

[Mystic Sunrise]

11328490
Trans what now? I don't know what that is .

[Teikan]

11328490
Transponysm!

[Teikan]

11328504
these are detergents
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[Mystic Sunrise]

11328568
That explains nothing 😑.

[Sigmacipher]

11328586
Transhumanism is for a lack of better way of putting it, the idea of taking humanities evolution into ones own hands.

[Teikan]

11328586
translation error. I thought you were being ironic and kind of didn't understand because of the prefix "human". http://yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified/

[NicLove]

p.s. if you want to do a next part with Kirouac

he is... an somewhat an Alicorn ?
He is when he is on a Story-Vers that does have alicorn

edit: So... are Twilight's and Pearl's daughter going to be part-dragon
If so that could be something that Kirouac talk her about !?

[Grand-Galvatron]

Is the dragon in this story supposed to be some kind of Chimera-like creature?

[Mystic Sunrise]

11499486
No? No idea where you got that idea.