I am The Elder of Flames, King of Dragons, Lord of Volcanoes, Bringer of Ashes, Titan of Fire. I. AM. YOLSTRUN!
For four thousand years a legend has been told of how the first dragons got their fire. Little did they know the legend is true. Five thousand years ago a being took residence in the Draconian Mountains. It called itself Yolstrun, a Fire Elemental. Dragons tried to drive it out, but failed. The Elemental seeing as they had no defense mechanism for protecting themselves pitied them and gave them the gift of fire. With this new found ability they were feared throughout the land. The Royal Sisters, Celestia and Luna, leaders of the ponies have had enough of them and used the Elements of Harmony to seal the Elemental inside the Volcano of Goraag, Capital of the Dragons. With their leader defeated the dragons were scattered throughout the lands and turned into mindless beasts, except for those who remained faithful to their leader and stayed in the mountains. Now the seal they put on the volcano is weakening and the monster they thought was gone forever is returning.
Hey guys Draco here. Other tags include Sci-Fi(You'll see why). Here's a new story for you guys and this time it's part of a series of books I'll be doing in time. So enjoy the story guys. If anybody wants to be my editor just PM me and we'll see how things go. Constructive criticism is allowed, but no hate comments
For four thousand years a legend has been told of how the first dragons got their fire. Little did they know the legend is true. Five thousand years ago a being took residence in the Draconian Mountains. It called itself Yolstrun, a Fire Elemental. Dragons tried to drive it out, but failed. The Elemental seeing as they had no defense mechanism for protecting themselves pitied them and gave them the gift of Fire. With this new found ability they were feared throughout the land. The Royal Sisters, Celestia and Luna, leaders of the ponies have had enough of them and used the Elements of Harmony to seal the Elemental inside the Volcano of Goraag, Capital of the Dragons. With their leader defeated the dragons were scattered throughout the lands and turned into mindless beasts, except for those who remained faithful to their leader and stayed in the mountains. Now the seal they put on the volcano is weakening and the monster they thought was gone forever is returning.
The Draconian Mountains, where dragons stay during migration and breeding season. Every kind of Dragon comes here during migration. Though they were mindless brutes that wanted nothing other than gems for themselves, there were the oldest of Dragons, the Dragon Elders, the First Fire Dragons that lived for thousands of years. Most of the newer generation of Dragons thought they were just a bunch of crazy old coots foretelling the return of The King, a being of Fire itself.
Inside Goraag Volcano, 3rd POV
Inside the Volcano in the center of these Mountains lies what looks like a throne room with a giant creature sitting on a throne, eyes closed with what looks like a giant snake curling around the throne with ever watchful eyes guarding the being. On first glance it looked like a cobra, but when seen closer it had a flaming hood, black colored scales as hard as dragon skin , a tail as sharp as a spear made of mythril, fangs tipped with a deadly incurable poison that made your body burn on contact, various scars that told stories of battle and eyes that burned with an inner fire that rivaled the sun. The floor around them trembled and it quickly uncurled itself and slithering in front of the being waiting for it's master to wake up.
The pair of eyes on the giant creature opened for the first time in five thousand years and he rose from the throne and said "I'm back my little ponies and you will rue the day for locking me, Yolstrun, here. Muahahahahahaha"
His whole body was made of flames with two bracers on his arms etched with strange runes, eyes that burned white with rage, armor made of obsidian and enchanted with the strongest spells in the Dragon Kingdom and his lower body was a tornado of fire that scorched the rock they were on.
Canterlot, 3rd POV
Princess Celestia, an Alicorn who controlled the day, Co-ruler of Equestria, she had pristine white skin, pink, blue and green hair that moved on it's own as if in an invisible breeze and a cutie mark of a sun. She jolted up on her bed with a scream and the two guards outside bedroom doors came rushing in.
"Princess are you alright!" the first guard said.
"It's fine Light Wing it was just a bad dream. You may return to your posts. Also tell Feather Pen to send a letter to the other nations for a meeting in the castle in two days time." she said to them.
"Yes Princess." He said as they left the room.
She walked out on her balcony and pondered on what she saw.
'If he really is coming back we need to be ready. I must contact the other Elemental Lords... Or the ones that will help.' she thought.
Dragon Council Room, 3rd POV
In a massive city that circled the volcano a giant castle was built there. The city around it looked dormant except for a the guards that were patrolling the city. Inside the castle was a giant room that held a huge table and seven chairs.
In the first chair was a giant red dragon with an orange underbelly, a single gold horn, spiked red scales on the top of his neck, a barbed tail, arms that developed into huge leathery wings and three clawed feet, his name was Drago.
On the second chair sat a medium sized orange dragon with a cream colored underbelly, a flame on the tip of his tail, a long neck with a rectangular head, two small fangs portruding from his upper jaw, two blunt horns at the back of his head, the horns had a ring each with two stones, on the left was a blue stone with a blue and black shape in the middle, on the right was a dark brown stone with a red, yellow and orange shape in the middle, he had two large wings with teal undersides that sprouted from his back, with tow small arms at his sides with three claws each and stocky legs with three claws each as well, his name was Charizard.
On the third chair sat a long snake-like dragon with a sail going from his head to the tip of his tail, a fish-like fin at the tip of his tail most likely used for swimming, a beak with a sharp tip on the top and the bottom of it, four stubby legs with four claws each, bony spikes on the sides of his body and what looked like hardened lava on his body, his name was Agni.
On the fourth chair sat a medium sized red orange dragon with dark red spots, four legs with three claws each, two large wings sprouting from his back with a crem underside, a long tail with axe shaped spikes on it, a medium length neck with medium sized head with four horns and fins oh his head and a cream underbelly, his name was Ignitus.
On the fifth chair sat a giant bloodred dragon with pure yellow eyes, with a spiky ball at the end of her tail, two red wings that were the almost the size of her body with a claw like joint at the tip, a light purple underbelly, her head had six horns with gold jewelry on them, an amulet with a purple gem in the middle that was attached to a gold chain on her chin, four legs with gold jewelry and three claws on each, bony ridges going from her neck to her body and a long fin going from her chin to the end of her neck, her name was Alexstrasza.
On the sixth chair sat a red orange dragon the size of a building with nearly black wings and dark red webbing and three claws on the middle joint. On his head were six large horns and his eyes were a fiery orange. He had a shiny golden underbelly as if gold has merged with his body. On his back was a row of spikes ending at a barbed tail. His name was Smaug of the Goldenclaw brood.
Although on the seventh chair nobody sat on it.
"How long must we wait for our king Ignitus?" Charizard asked.
"It won't be long now and when he returns we shall plan our revenge." Ignitus answered back.
At that moment a giant arcane circle in a corner of the room lit up with Draconic symbols floating around as a two silhouettes formed, on the left was a humanoid figure with a flaming tornado as his lower body and on the right was a figure of a snake with a flaming hood flared on. When the arcane circle's glow died down Yolstrun and his snake appeared. When the council saw him they immediately bowed.
"Rise my faithful followers." Yolstrun said.
They rose up.
"How has my kingdom been while I was gone?" Yolstrun asked.
"Our army is in bad shape after your defeat at the hands of the ponies and the other dragons won't listen." Ignitus said.
"Our scientists have been developing new weapons and armor for your army." Drago said.
"There have been reports of robbery from the vault by a group of young drgons." Charizard said.
The ponies took some of our decoy artifacts when we actually hid the real ones under the castle, only one with a high magic level can get in the vault." Alexstrasza said.
"Our resource quantity has been low due to the war and lack of workers" Smaug said.
"I have Uroktor spies in every city and town in Equestria occasionaly bringing reports about the ponies." Agni said with a hint of malice in his voice when he mentioned them.
"Looks like we have a lot of work to do." Yolstrun said.
First order of business was getting back the gems those young dragons stole and one of Agni's Uroktor spies found them in the lava pits. Yolstrun went there disguised as a blue teenage dragon with silver spikes and horns and blue wings with yellow membrane He saw a group of dragons wrestling when a purple whelp with green spikes and a yellow underbelly interrupted them.
"H-hi I'm Spike." he said meekly.
Then the other dragons started teasing him about being different and living among ponies.
"*sigh* What ever happened to the honorable and respected dragons of old." Yolstrun said dissapointed.
Then the red dragon who looked to be the boss saw him and said "Hey! Who are you? I've never seen you around here before neither."
"I'd like to ask the same thing and why are you picking on a whelp. Have you no sense of courage?"
"Grrr I'm Garble and this is my turf nobody tells me what to do."
"I'm Yolos and you wanna know why?"
"Yeeaaah."
"Because of this." Yolstrun said and then his body burst into flames.
"Eh that's a mediocre trick, but let's see if you can handle some dragon games unless you're like this shrimp here who grew up among namby pamby ponies." Garble said gesturing to Spike who was shivering in fear.
"I accept your challenge" Yolstrun said.
"Alright then first up is a belching contest."
'What has really happened during when I was gone. The respected dragons reduced to nothing but rude brutes.' Yolstrun thought facepalming.
Up first was a white dragon with light pink spines, eyes and spikes and pinkish white underbelly and wing membrane who belched a light blue flame. Next was a thin purple dragon with golden hair, underbelly and wing membrane with nearly black spikes who belched up a green flame slightly bigger than the last. Then came a fat brown dragon with blue horns and red wing membrane belching a giant orange flame that went past the group of spectators consisting of Garble, his two other lackeys, Spike and a weird looking dragon with burning eyebrows. Then came Spike who tried to shoot a flame, but instead he shot out a small green jet of sparkling flame that turned into a letter that had Celestia's royal seal on it and Garble took in his claws and read it before laughing and throwing it in a lava pit and teasing Spike some more. Finally Yolstrun stepped forward and prepared to belch, if one looked closely his spikes were giving off a faint white glow.
"What's that dragon doing?" Twilight murmured.
"I don't know whatever it is, but it looks cool, except not as cool as me though." Rainbow bragged looking through Rarity's eye holes.
Yolstrun finally let loose his flame and came out a pure white burst of fire as if alive snaking out of his mouth and shooting up straight into the sky, before fading in a beautiful shower of sparks.
"Not bad, but I wanna see if you can handle tail wresting" Garble said.
He first paired a fat purple dragon with a scrawny looking black dragon which the purple dragon won sending the black dragon to the ground with his tongue sticking out. Garble raised up the purple dragons tail and everybody cheered. Then the weird looking dragon challenged Spike next.
"Who's this weirdo?" Garble said.
"I think it's Crackle's cousin." the thin purple dragon said gesturing to a similar looking derpy dragon on a cliff with its tongue sticking out and acting like a dog.
The weird dragon was trying to put it's tail on Spike and when it was on Spike was struggling to try and pull down the dragon when it just suddenly dropped down.
"Spike's the winner!" Garble said raising Spike up by his tail.
Then he paired Yolstrun up with the white dragon from earlier. Both of them locked tails and when Garble gave the signal they started to push against each other. Both of them equally well fit, but Yolstrun had thousands of years of experience in his blood which gave him the upper hand and defeated the other dragon in a matter of seconds. To add to the pain Yolstrun grabbed the dragons tail in his claws and lifted him up and slammed him into the ground on his left and right side before leaving him on the ground trying to scream, but instead came out a broken sigh.
"Puny dragon" Yolstrun said going back to the group as the other dragons moved away from him in fear.
Spike was still feeling cocky after his last fight and Garble chose his next opponent. Out of the crowd of dragons he chose a short blue dragon with orange hair and yellow horns, but when the crowd moved away they revealed that his neck was connected to a hulking mass of a body with a tail three times his size and then spikes came out of it.
"Go!" Garble shouted and Spike was thrown into the air and landed on the side of a cliff where a gray dragon was sitting on and Spike slid down painfully.
"Next game... KING OF THE HOARD!" Garble shouted.
The moment he said those words every dragon tried to get on top of the pile of gems Garble was on. Yolstrun approached Spike who was trying to climb up the pile. The moment Spike saw the shadow that covered him he shakily turned around and said "Uh... H-hi I'm Spike."
"No need to be afraid whelpling I won't harm you." Yolstrun said in a fatherly tone.
"So you won't bully me like the others?"
"Why would I ever do that. That is not what a true dragon does. A true dragon has honor unlike these brutes. How about this when we're done here let me show you what it means to be a true dragon."
"S-sure."
"Just promise you won't tell any other soul of what I'll show you."
"I promise."
"Now then let's conquer this hoard."
Spike hopped on Yolstrun's back while he pushed down other dragons trying to reach the top and Spike jumped down and sneaked up behind Garble and pushed him down the other side.
"KINGS OF THE HOARD!" both of them shouted.
Next game was to see who can create the biggest lava splash. The others went in first creating moderately sized splashes, then came the fat brown dragon who jumped in creating a column of lava sending it flying in every direction.
"Spike it's your turn." Yolstrun said looking back at Spike who was backed up against a rock in fear.
"I don't think I can do it." Spike said.
"Hey it's alright Spike we'll do this together." Yolstrun said helping Spike onto his back "Just be warned you might feel dizzy."
"Why's tha-" Spike said before Yolstrun jumped and started spinning and when he landed he split the pool in half creating so much force that the other dragons were blown out of the pool and the rest of the lava with them. Yolstrun stood up with a dizzy Spike beside him.
Garble looked over the edge and said "Okay you guys are now dragons."
Then a mini ceremony started with the other dragon raised their tails as they passed under them.
"Spike and Yolos by the stunt you pulled in the lava pits I dub thee both dragon recruits. Now let's party DRAGON STYLE!" Garble shouted and the other dragons started eating the gems from the pile and while they were eating Yolstrun and Spike flew away to the city. While on the ground the weird looking dragon was searching for something.
"Where did Spike go?" Twilight asked.
"Uh Twi I think I know where he is." Rainbow said pointing to Yolstrun flying away with Spike flying away on his back laughing all the way on the horizon.
"If he dare hurts my Spikey-Wikey~... I'll tear of his beautiful scales and spikes and use them for my new dress." Rarity said.
Rainbow and Twilight looked at her in shock as Rarity rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.
"Well all we can do now is wait for him to return safe and sound, and besides Spike said he wanted to go alone and that dragon seemed nice enough to him. I need to send a letter to the Princess and since Spike is gone I need to use my new spell." Twiight said.
"Well let's hurry up and get home cause this costume is staring to chafe my back." Rainbow said.
And so the went back up the mountain and on their way back to Ponyville.
"Umm Twi why don't we just teleport back home I don't want to walk all the way there." Rainbow said.
"Oh umm sorry here." Twilight said charging up her horn and the disappeared in a flash, but what they didn't know is that an uroktor was tunneling beneath them listening to their conversation. When they were gone it tunneled in the general direction of the castle and along the way it clicked it's beak in a pattern telling the guards of the location of the dragons who stole from the vault.
2 hours later
When Garble and his gang woke up from their nap after eating all the gems, they saw that they were surrounded by a group of dragons wearing guard armor pointing their weapons at them and accompanying them was Guard Captain Charizard.
"All of you are under arrest for robbery! Get down on the ground!" Charizard shouted.
"Whoa whoa whoa! Who said that we stole anything anyway?" Garble asked.
"Don't play games with me boy." Charizard said "I'm smarter than you and stronger than you. I've been doing this job for a thousand years and you think you can throw me off with just that?"
Garble was getting more nervous by the second 'Crud how do I get out of this...' Garble thought.
"Run!" Garble shouted as he and his gang took flight.
"Oh this'll be fun." Charizard said as he and the group followed suit.
Spike and Yolstrun have been flying for half an hour in silence when Spike spoke up.
"So Yolos where do you live?" Spike asked.
"*sigh* Spike there is something I have to tell you." Yolstrun said.
"Sure what is it?"
"Do you know the legend of the Dragon King?"
"Yeah. The legend says that the King was a being made of literal flames and that he tried to conquer Equestria to expand his kingdom and rule forever, but Celestia and Luna stopped him with the Elements of Harmony sealing him in the Volcano of Goraag for all eternity."
'Great the ponies think I'm some evil overlord... Which I was for a bit, but I was just trying to protect my subjects.' "Spike the legend is both right and wrong in different ways. The King was a being of fire, the Sisters did seal him in Goraag, but he didn't want to conquer Equestria. He only wanted to protect his kingdom from the ponies. Their crimes against dragon kind include egg stealing, assault, and others I cannot mention."
"Wait how do you know all this?"
"Because I am The Dragon King"
"Pfff-hahaha-" Spike stopped laughing when he saw Yolstun's serious face.
"Oh wait you're not joking... You're The Dragon King?!" Spike shouted, "Aaaaahhh get away from me!" Spike shouted backing away from his head and falling off his back and plummeting to the ground.
"Oh come on!" Yolstrun said before flying down to catch him.
He caught Spike in the nick of time. Right before Spike hit the ground Yolstrun grabbed him by the tail and put him safely on the ground, yet Spike backed away again and into a wall before tripping on the way there and landing on his butt.
"D-don't hurt me please!" Spike said raising his hands in front of his face.
"Look I don't want to hurt you, Spike." Yolstrun said kneeling.
"You don't... Wait how do I know this isn't a trick?"
"A true dragon would never lie. I speak from the heart that I want to stop all the crimes Equestria has done against dragonkind and to return my kingdom back to its former glory."
"Why do you need me for that?"
"Because you are one of the handful of eggs that Celestia and her ponies have stolen from the Dragons."
"What?!" Spike screamed, "B-but Twilight told me my egg was found abandoned in a cave somewhere."
"They probably found you when we were evacuating the egg chambers when they attacked us and tried to rob us of our treasure and children." Yolstun said sadly "They came out of nowhere managing to defeat the guards and take a handful of eggs, but to stop them one of my council members consort, Korialstraz, sacrificed himself and the remaining eggs to stop the ponies from getting a foothold on us. That event will be etched into my mind for all eternity."
Narrative 1st POV
Korialstraz and I were overseeing the evacuation of the hatching chamber after the first attack of the ponies at one of our outposts near the border between Equestria and the Draconian Mountains.
"Quickly! We don't know when the ponies will attack again! We need to gather all the eggs and place them in the city." he said.
The dragons were carrying all the eggs they can and placing them in containers going to the city. Suddenly a hundred Solar and Lunar guards suddenly came bursting through the walls, somehow being able to drill through the obsidian caves. The ponies immediately started grabbing eggs and putting them back in the hole. The two Goldenclaw guards retaliated by breathing golden fire which turned a few of them into gold statues. A group of ponies tried to stab them with their spears, but both of them coated their bodies in gold making them harder to damage.One of the Goldenclaws grabbed a pony and bit of his head then throwing him to the floor and going after another one. The other held up a pony and held its mouth open then breathed down it turning its insides solid gold. The pony died before hitting the ground bleeding liquid gold out of his mouth.
A two-headed Imperial dragon burst in, clad in bronze and silver armor that was glowing orange came charging straight the group of ponies running away from the Goldenclaws, tossing them into the air before breathing fire at them from both its heads turning them into charred corpses.
But what they didn't notice was that a unicorn guard was charging up his horn covering it in a blue glow. Then he reared back his head and shouted "FUS RO DAH!"
The shout sent all the dragons in the room flying into a wall.
"They know Thuum!" a Goldenclaw shouted.
Then the unicorn guard shouted "Krii, Lun, Aus!"
When he shouted those words the dragons in the room felt themselves growing weaker. Then the guard shouted "Mid, Vur, Shaan!"
The ponies weapons were suddenly covered in an ethereal blue glow. The dragons continued to fight but when the ponies hit them their weapons didn't simply bounce off of their scales. Instead, they struck with great power and was able to cleave through leaving deep wounds. A pegasus guard flew into the air where a Goldenclaw was hovering raining down golden flames and slashed at one of his wings cleaving it clean off which caused him to fall flailing to the ground and then the other guards swarmed him and ended his life in mere seconds.
"Brother!" the other Goldenclaw shouted.
He then was filled with rage and charged at a group of ponies in revenge for his brother, but they too defeated him leaving a bloody mess of dragon parts.
"This ends now!" Korialstraz said.
Then the ground started shaking and came in Korialstraz killing ponies left and right. The ponies managed to get good shots on him and an arrow hit him in the eye causing him to recoil from the pain. Then an earth pony guard wearing Lunar armor wielding a massive battle hammer charged at Korialstraz hitting his legs and a loud breaking sound came from where he hit and Korialstraz roared in pain.
"Seal the cave!" Korialstraz shouted to me.
"But-" I said.
"NOW!" then I hit the walls and the cave entrance came crashing down.
'I have to end this now. Even if it means sacrificing myself and the remaining eggs.' Korialstraz started glowing green and rose into the air'I guess this is it. Goodbye Alex.' Korialstraz then opened his eyes and they glowed even brighter than before. as he harnessed his life and fire essence and as he was being wounded by the ponies he managed to smile a bit. Then in the blink of an eye, there was nothing left in the room. Only the ponies who got the eggs out in time survived the blast.
Outside I felt what happened to him and the eggs. I felt like I failed him, but he gave us a fighting chance against the ponies and he gave a future for the eggs we saved.
"We need to go to the city. Pack everything up and go!" I shouted.
3rd POV
As Yolstrun finished his story. Spike was in shock.
'Was everything I told as a child just a lie' he thought.
"Spike, now you know why I must bring you to the city and prepare you for what's coming." Yolstrun said raising his hand towards Spike
In his heart, Spike was filled with rage for what had happened. He took Yolstrun's hand immediately.
"Good. Now get on my back." Spike got on.
They shot into the air once again bound for the city.
Spike and Yolstrun landed outside the gates of the city where a guard post was set up. The guards let them in once they saw Yolstrun. Spike was amazed by the city and the numerous guard patrols milling about. Every time they passed by one they would bow at Yolstrun before going back to their patrol.
"I like it here." Spike said.
"I'm glad you do." Yolstrun said.
They continued on to the castle, while Yolstrun transformed back into his original form along the way. They were greeted with the sight of Charizard waiting for them.
"My king." he bowed.
"Rise. Have you arrested those dragons yet, Captain?" Yolstrun asked.
"Yes my king, they're in the dungeons right now."
"Good. I wish to speak with them."
"Yes my king, come with me." Charizard said.
He led them to the lower part of the castle where cells filled with teenage dragons were being held, making a hell of a racket.
"Hey! it's the shrimp!" Garble called from inside a cell.
As soon as he said that every single dragon in the cells glared at him.
"He probably sold us out to the guards!" Garble shouted.
"Hah! Don't forget about me!" Yolstrun said turning into Yolos.
"What the- When I get out of here, I'm gonna tear off your heads!" he roared.
"I don't think so. Those bars are enchanted to be strong enough that even a fully grown dragon can break them." Yolstrun said turning back.
Garble growled at them, to which Charizard responded by knocking him out with the hilt of his sword. Then, all the dragons backed away from the bars fearing they would be next.
"Disrespectful trash..." Charizard spat.
"Better down, here than up there, eh?" Yolstrun chuckled.
Charizard led them back up and to the Engineering Bay, where dragons ran/flew around working on different machines. A Fire Fury was supervising, occasionally barking orders at random dragons.
"Arkas!" Yolstrun called.
"My king. It's been too long." the Fire Fury said then noticing Spike, "Who is the whelp?"
"That it has Arkas and the whelp is Spike. I helped him earlier when I went to look for those teenage dragons."
"Ah, that's good. I have to show you something we have been working on in your absence." Arkas beckoned for them to follow him.
He led them to a separate bay, where a bunch of dragons was working on a giant mech suit with Drago wearing it.
"Woah..." Spike said amazed.
"How do you like it?" Arkas asked, "We made it from Draktanium plating, some Fire Rubies to use as energy sources, weapons from our armory and various circuitry manufactured here."
The mech parts uncoupled themselves from Drago and landed on the ground along with Drago.
"These mechs shall be a fine addition to our army when the time comes." Drago said patting the back of the Dark Hound which elicited a happy bark.
"They're so cool!" Spike said.
"I'm glad you think so Spike. Now then... CAN SOMEBODY GET ME SOME WAFFLES!" Arkas screamed to which a dragon immediately gave him a bag of waffles.
"Thank you." Arkas replied sending the dragon away then taking a bite out of a waffle.
"What's wrong with him?" Spike whispered to Yolstrun.
"Don't know. Just never insult his inventions. He will go crazy." he warned.
"Okay." Spike replied scared.
"Brother! Are you threatening others for your waffles again?" another Fire Fury said coming over.
"You know I have a problem Arkus!" Arkas retorted.
"Just stop shouting so much! You're gonna make somebody go crazy at some point."
"Let me take you to the armory, my king." Drago said as the two brothers argued.
"The farther the better." Yolstrun muttered, "Very well Drago."
He led them to the armory, passing by the barracks where the soldiers were training along the way and opened a large set of doors as they entered the armory. Weapons and armor lay on racks everywhere, ranging from spears, swords, and shields to the newly developed fire cannons and shield generators. A few training dummies were set up in a makeshift fighting ring.
"Wow..." Spike said.
"How about you try some of the weapons out Spike?" Yolstrun said.
"Ummm. I'm not sure, Twilight always said to not play with dangerous things."
"Do not worry young Spike. We are here to make sure everything is safe." Drago reassured him.
"A-alright." Spike said nervously.
He approached a weapon rack holding an array of swords. He grabbed a short sword of the rack. He struggled to lift it a bit before getting his balance back. He tried swinging it around but managed to fall on his back in the process.
"Hahaha. Let me help you there Spike." Drago said approaching him.
He grabbed the sword and muttered something then the sword seemed to shrink down enough for Spike to hold it properly. He gave it back to Spike who then tried swinging it again this time without falling.
"Cool thanks, Drago." Spike said.
"You're welcome." he replied, "Try it out on the dummies."
Spike approached the dummies and swung it at one which he managed to take a chunk out of. The chunk flew back into place after a few seconds. He took a swing again, this time making an even deeper wound in the dummy. He swung many more times and reduced the dummy to pieces.
"Very good Spike. You will be a powerful warrior someday. Now try a fire cannon." Drago said handing him one, "Press the trigger on the bottom to fire it."
Spike aimed at a dummy and pressed the trigger. A concentrated bolt of fire at the dummy going right through it leaving a burning hole in its wake.
"You can adjust the power setting to either make it rapid fire or burst shot." Drago advised, "Just flick the switch on the side."
Spike did as he was told and flicked the switch to set it to rapid fire. He pulled the trigger sending a barrage of fire bolts into the dummy.
"Cool. Can I keep these?" Spike asked Yolstrun.
"Yes." Yolstrun responded, "Just make sure to not play with them."
"Alright! Thanks Yolstrun!" he exclaimed jumping happily.
"Nice kid you found Yol. He's gonna be a big help someday." Drago said.
"Yes Drago, but I hope it won't happen too soon. He's still a whelp. I don't want him to be too involved in this war." Yolstrun said worriedley.
"Let's hope so. For now let's enjoy the good things."
