A little lost dragon decides to help two young ponies escape from two changelings.
(SLOWLY IN PROGRESS!!) A little lost dragon decides to help two young ponies escape from two changelings. But things don't get any better after they escape from their old home..
This story takes place in a alternate universe, where there's still some un-reformed changelings.
This story is heavily inspired from the fairytale 'Brother and Sister'!
A long time ago, there was Equestria. A land ruled by the two alicorn sisters, where almost everything is fueled by real harmony and friendship. But the thing is, that not every place in the kingdom has it's friendly and harmonious magic.
Somewhere even far from Griffonstone, there's a wide forest, where a small castle is build. In this little castle lives a dragon prince, with his dragon servants. They had everything in their small home, literally anything you can imagine that an Equestrian dragon needs.
But things can't be really said for one little dragon. Or a pony.. or even both. Anyway, there was this little 'dragon' that wondered around in the forest, searching for it's own home to take over and live in. Everything seemed hopeless for the little guy, until he noticed a house made out of stone. It looked like the regular house that a pony could use. The dragon decided to take advantage of the fact that there may live ponies, so he entered the house with to hesitation.
"Let's see what kind of ponies live here.." The dragon thought to himself. "..so i can peacefully take this house for me.."
When he entered the so called 'living room' that didn't even looked like one, the dragon kid saw two ponies, a mare and a stallion. They were both chained up to a wall with metal collars and they both looked miserable. That caught the dragon's interest and he came up to them a little closer, so he can talk to them.
"Hello there.. ponies?"
The stallion lifted up his head and shushed at the dragon.
"Please, it'll be better if you whisper!"
"Oh, sorry, i guess?" The dragon whispered back. "Why are you ponies chained up like this?"
"It's a long story, dragon.." The mare called.
Then, the three of them heard hoof steps. The stallion gave a quick sign to the dragon to hide somewhere. He did, but still made sure to see what's happening to the ponies.
Behind the mare and stallion, there was a big wooden door. It opened slowly, only to show the heads of two changelings. One of them looked like it had few scars on it's face, and the other one looked just fine as apple wine. The scarred one walked up to the ponies and shouted something at them that the dragon wasn't really able to understand. It sounded like a combination of a hiss and few words in ponish. Still, it wasn't pretty understandable for the dragon's standarts.
When the changeling was done shouting and hissing at the ponies, he shut the wooden door and locked it behind. The dragon then showed up after he realized that it's safe again. Feeling curious about the overall presence of the two changelings in the house, he asked the two ponies if they know anything about them.
"Yes! We know that they killed and ate our parents, so they can take over the whole house and keep us locked in here 'til the rest of our lifes!" The mare almost shouted and the stallion frowned when she said that. "And back then.. we were just foals.."
The dragon wasn't shocked by this, but still felt some pity for them. He kinda wanted to help the two ponies escape, but at the same time, he didn't want to go away from his targeted home.
"You know," The dragon finally made his decision. "i'll help you both. You'll finally go out of this house after all those years!"
The mare and stallion were visibly happy that someone wanted to help them. It was about time.
"Um, what were your names, again?"
"I'm Lighting Cloud, and my little sister, Dasher Cloud. Yours?" Asked the stallion.
"My name's.. well, you can call me Frighter." It was clear that Frighter didn't had an actual name, so he quickly made up one. Now, he had to find the key for the metal collars that they were wearing, he just had to ask them, "So, where's the key for those?"
"It's in the changelings's room, as far as i know."
Those words from the mare shocked the dragon. He didn't know how dangerous the changelings could be, but still, he got a little nervous about the following situation. Frighter quickly formed a plan in his head on how he's gonna steal the key, while the changelings are sleeping in their bedroom.
It was nighttime already, and Frighter had to take action. Slowly, he walked up on all fours to the wooden door. He carefully opened the door, careful enough to not make a sound. When the dragon finally entered the bedroom, the two changelings have thankfully fallen asleep, tucked together in their twin-sized bed.
Frighter searched quietly around the room, trying to find the key that would free the poor ponies out of their misery, but for some reason he couldn't find it anywhere in the room.
"Oh goodness, what if the key's not even here?!" Frighter thought in a angry tone. Then all of his sudden anger disappeared when he noticed the key he was searching for.
The key was just laying on the drawer that was placed close to the bed. Quickly, the dragon grabbed the key and carefully ran towards the door on all fours again. While all of that was happening, Frighter was trying to hold his laughter, because of his succees of finding one simple key.
And now, that he was out of the room, he carefully placed the key in the lockers of the collars on the ponies's necks. After few seconds of trying to unlock the lockers, the two pony siblings were now free. The three of them opened the front door and the dragon told them to run away in the forest with him, because he remembered the presence of the small dragon kingdom, and that they could possibly help them all.
Once the tip of the sun showed up, the scarred changeling woke up and quickly got out of the twin-sized bed. He looked at the other, better-looking changeling with an angry expression and gritted teeth. He pushed his parthner out of the bed with no hesitation, only for him to wake up in shock.
"OW!!" The changeling woke up, feeling slight pain in his back. "What the f-?! Where-!? What did i do now, Thyro?!"
"Nothing. I had to somehow wake you up faster so we can check on the ponies, make them somehow feel positive and feed eachother for Chrysalis' sake!!" Thyro growled. "If we just keep them in misery forever, we'll die! And they will make their escape.. you don't want that. Right, Andro?"
Andro scratched the back of his head, then nodded. He got up and opened the near window, to catch some freash, morning air. Thyro, on the other hand, went to check the ponies if they're doing somehow alright. Yes, they were gone. Their collars were unlocked and the key was nowhere to be seen in the room, probably Frighter took it with himself and the pony-siblings. Enraged, Thyro screamed, catching Andro's attention.
"Hey Thy? What happend this time!?"
"The damn ponies escaped.." Thyro walked towards the drawer, where the key was lying before, opened it and grabbed a dark green, almost black colored beetle with his magic. He then went to the kitchen, specificly, the dining table, where he placed the weird beetle. "C'mon, show me the ponies. I want to know where they are now!"
And right this instant, the weird looking beetle spread it's wings and started to glow in a eyeblinding light that was colored green. Then, an orb appeared and showed a picture of the running ponies and their dragon friend. Thyro quietly stared at them, following them without their knowledge.
Meanwhile, the pony siblings were starving. Frighter was feeling surprisingly fine, even though he haven't been eating in a week. Dasher Cloud then noticed a small pond, that looked like it had clear water. He immediately ran towards the small pond, in attempt to drink from it, to at least satisfy his thirst. Frighter and Lighting Cloud ran after him.
Frighter ran faster than both of them, and when he was just about to take a sip from the clear water, he jumped away screaming,
"What is that?!"
When the pony sibling caught up to him, they both looked at the water and backed away, feeling a little creeped out. There was a white deer in the pond, with glowing green eyes and a third horn, very similar to a unicorn one. The mysterious deer slowly rised from the water and said to the three creatures,
"Do not even try on drinking from my ponds, all of them may seem clear and fresh to try.. but their water hides an old curse that'll turn you into a different creature, which will bring you bad luck!" And just like that, the deer disappeared. Frighter looked at the pond's water again, to check if the deer is still there, but he got disappointed when he saw the reflection of a crazy dragon with bloody scratches all over his body, growling and roaring. This weird vission of the dragon terrified the siblings.
"Hey Thyro, what are you planning so much, that you're just starring into the magic screen for almost an hour?" Andro asked, feeling a little.. bored. The changeling then sat beside his friend, to see what he's watching. On one side, he got a little shocked that Thyro is stalking the ponies and possibly planning to catch them again and milk the love out of them forever, but on other.. Actually, that was it. There was no other side to Thyro's actions and Andro's reaction to them.
Thyro licked his lips from slight hunger.
"We will get our special ponies back, Andro.. We just have to wait for the perfect moment.."
Andro felt annoyed at this answer, like, what in the name of Chrysalis did he ment for "perfect moment"?!
"I'll take advantage of the cursed ponds." The scarred changeling spoke up again. "If one of them forgets about the curse and actually drinks from one of them, they'll turn into another beast, then, their love and friendship for them will increase, we'll follow the scent of their love and catch them!" Andro was a little confused at his parthner's plan, but he still nodded in agreement. "And if that little dragon with them tries to harm us, i'll just trap him in a cocoon. It's that easy!!"
The pony siblings and the dragon continued on their boring walking thrue the empty forest. Surprisingly enough, there sure were no animals around. No bears, wolves, birds... nothing but them, and this other pond. Pond.. this made Lighting Cloud gallop towards the water hole, forgetting about the curse that the deer told them about.
"Lighting, no!!" Both Dasher Cloud and Frighter shouted at the starving stallion, but it was already too late. His strong, but still tired hooves succesfully carried him to the pond, and then.. he took one sip from the clear looking water. Then, the stallion looked up and saw the same white deer from before. He was staring, infuriated and disappointed at the pony infront of him.
"You forgot what i said, didn't you?" Lighting backed away from him. "You are not gonna get away from what's coming next."
And right at this moment, the pond deer sank back into the cursed water, leaving the three creatures alone. Then, out of nowhere, a few storm clouds formed. A small tornado formed from the sudden wind too. This scared the three creatures and made them run away in the forest. Unfortunately for them, the storm clouds and the tornado followed them at full speed. The howling wind wasn't helping on recovering the situation, it made it worse. It's sound made the creatures shiver and slow down, making them feel cold. Then, the wind caught Lighting Cloud, who floated up in the sky. Frighter tried on putting him down, but the wind prevented him from doing that. It just made the dragon fall on the ground and bruise both of his knees, elbows and the tip of his barbed tail.
After few lighting strikes and more howls from the screaming wind, the sky finally started to calm down. Dasher and Frighter were hiding behind some bushes, then showed up after they stopped hearing the sound of lightings and howlings. But, the thing that made them downright upset, especialy Dasher, was her brother, Lighting, lying on the ground, his head and back covered in slight bruises and dead leaves and his curvy horns... horns? That's what made Dasher Cloud almost tear up. Her brother was turned into a bull. That cursed deer turned the earth pony into a bull, just because he forgot about the cursed waters.
"Lighting.." Dasher spoke up. "I.. I told you to stop!!"
"I did too..?" Frighter said, but got cut off by the now angry mare.
"This isn't about you, dragon! It's about me and my brother!! And you.. Lighting.. why you didn't listen to us?!"
Lighting was clearly feeling sad and scared about the situation. He just got turned into a bull for being starved, his sister is mad at him and they're on the run from two changelings. And Frighter.. he was laying on the ground, behind the mare, shivering from fear.
"I.." Lighting was on the verge of tears. "I'm.. sorry, Dasher.. I couldn't help myself!"
Dasher sighed, "What are we gonna do NOW?!"
"A bull?"
The changelings were still watching the three creatures thrue the magic beetle.
"Yes Andro, a bull." Thyro said in a neutral tone. "Out of every creature that this deer could have turn him into, he choose the most underrated creature."
"Hey Thyro? When we.. somehow get them back to us.. are we gonna catch the dragon with them too?"
Thyro looked at the other changeling, then laughed.
"What a dumb question! Of course we'll catch him too!! I'll just turn the dragon into a mouse. It's fun experimenting with ordinary unicorn spells, you know?!"
As Thyro continued laughing at his own ideas and words, Andro just stared at him, continuing on feeling bored.
And just as the three creatures thought that they were lost in the empty forest, they found an abandoned little house. It had like two bedrooms and one bathroom. Everything on one floor. The house was made out of oak wood and for the roof was used wood from a cherry tree. Basically, the perfect house for a homeless creature to live in. And in this case, for Frighter, Dasher and Lighting.
"Do you guys think that this'll be the perfect former shelter?" Frighter asked. He didn't recieve an answer from the other two creatures.
One other thing about the abandoned little house was that it barely had any actual furniture. There was mostly hay, just thrown around the place. Frighter thought that it'll be a good alternative for beds, sence there were two big piles of hay in the bedrooms. Dasher didn't see any good in this and Lighting, he just wanted to take a break from all of those spells, curses and walking. All three of them needed a break.
Dasher's eyes slowly opened when she felt like someone was missing. That made her almost jump from the hay bed where she was laying, then she realized that her brother was up. Dasher went to check on him, incase he's feeling down or sick.
Lighting was all fine, he was just looking at the empty window. At the forest and it's trees with slowly dying leaves.
"You feeling alright, Lighting?" Dasher asked, in a still worried tone.
The bull-turned-stallion looked at his worried sister, with frowned eyebrows and overall sad expression.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine, sis." Lighting was clearly feeling something negative, and Dasher frowned, begging for a proper answer. The bull really had no other choice, but to answer honestly. "Alright! If you really want the truth, then here it is!" Lighting sprinted towards the door and opened it. "I want to run for a bit in the forest all by myself! I just can't stand here anymore."
The earth mare wasn't surprised in any way by the things her brother said. She knew that his wild bull instincts were starting to kick in, which was making him want more freedom and space to move around. So she let him go for an hour.
"Make sure not to get lost, brother!" Dasher informed, but Lighting didn't seem to bother listening, so he kept running around like crazy.
After three hours, Dasher was just about to prepare dinner by placing three small piles of hay, sence both she, her brother and Frighter were able to eat hay, the mare noticed that it's been a little more quiet than before. She went outside to check.
When she stepped outside, she saw that her brother was nowhere to be seen, so she shouted his name, hoping that he'll arrive immediately, but no. Maybe he got somehow lost in the forest, while Dasher wasn't paying much attention to him while he was carelessly running around like crazy.. Whatever the reason was, she had to find her brother.
"Frighter!" Dasher entered the bedroom full of hay, where the little dragon was still laying and napping. "Frighter, wake up! This is serious, Lighting got lost, we need to find him!!"
"Can we... like, go later? 'Cause i don't... want to get up.." Frighter was feeling too sleepy to even speak normally, which quickly got on the mare's nerves. She slammed her hooves onto the ground loudly enough to make the young dragon jump and wake up. "OKAY!! Okay, let's go and find our bull!"
And just like that, Frighter hopped on the mare's back and she galloped at full speed into the forest. Both carefully looked around, hoping to spot Lighting somewhere in the woods.
Meanwhile, two other creatures were trying to hunt, on the other side of the forest, which was close to the small dragon kingdom. These two creatures were a young, chubby cat from Panthera, named Milo Hearthe, and a middle aged dragon, who went by the name Seran Celestine. Both creatures were wearing surprisingly fancy clothes, like any civilized citizen.
Today they were out, to hunt something for Seran's hometown, but.. things weren't going well for them.
"Mr. Hearthe, you promised me that at least this part of the forest is full of life.." Seran said to the cat, "What happened, Hearthe? The animals flew to south?! Or a new animal virus banished them from existence-?!" And just as the dragon was about to finish the sentence, Lighting galloped right infront of the creatures, without noticing their presence.
Milo immediately reacted when he saw the fast galloping bull.
"Here's one!! I told you that there's something alive in this place, and i didn't lie!"
Immediately, both creatures started chasing the running bull. Milo jumped on Seran's back and he flew after the animal. Meanwhile on the other side, where Frighter and Dasher were, they still searched for their cursed stallion. But they didn't see him anywhere. Until they started hearing hoovesteps from somewhere nearby.
Frighter moved his ears around, then said to Dasher, "Over there!"
After some more trotting and galloping from Dasher and Frighter on her back, they finally found Lighting, who was now surrounded by the two unfamiliar figures. Dasher was just about to pounce at them and attack them, but she stopped in shock, when she saw that her brother was already on the ground. Hurt and unconscious. This made the poor mare faint in shock. Milo heard the sound of the pony's faint and turned around to see who's there. Frighter knew that he had to do something, so he showed up from the bushes, where he was hiding with Dasher.
"Guys, please," The little dragon then paused when he recognized the larger dragon infront of him.
"Wha- What could you possibly want, little guy?" Milo asked, completely surprised by the fact that Frighter is the second dragon he's ever seen.
Frighter looked over his shoulder for a second, then he continued talking.
"I want you guys to leave my friend alone!" The dragon pointed with his finger towards the unconscious bull. "Do you have any idea on how hard i tried protecting those ponies?" He paused again, waiting for an answer, but he got only confused stares.
"Excuse me," Seran began his question, "but what do you mean by 'ponies'?" He walked towards the young dragon who just stepped away from him. Frighter knew that it'll be the best if he just answers the question from the older dragon.
"I ment.." The dragon looked away for a second, then he continued, "This.. 'bull' that you two got over there!" He pointed towards his friend, "He.. uh.. used to be a pony who got cursed! So please, let me just take the cursed stallion with me and never see each other again. How's that?"
The tall, fancy dragon raised his scaley eyebrow in a.. rather confused manner.
"Hey, Seran." Milo whispered to his dragon friend. "Seriously, why don't we just hand the bull to the little guy? I doubt it that he's the only feral animal in this forest-"
"You know i can hear you, right?" Frighter called, with frowned eyebrows and crossed arms. "Lighting is not a feral animal!"
"Whatever, kid!" The cat then began whispering again. "Anyway, Seran, really! Let's get out of here. And.. i don't like this kid.."
Seran looked at the chubby cat, then at the bull, then at Frighter.
"Hm. Milo, the dragon and the bull are coming with us!"
After the cat heard the dragon's words, his eyes widened from surprise.
"What? Wait, wait! What exactly made you think like this? Seran, wait!" And despite Milo's protests, Seran just held the cursed bull up his shoulder and took Frighter by his hand. "Seran, seriously! What in the name of Abyssinia are you thinking?!"
The taller dragon didn't say anything to the cat and continued walking with the tiny dragon and the bull.
"Oh i almost forgot!"
Seran and Milo then turned towards Frighter, who ran towards the bushes. The older dragon and the cat looked at eachother in confusion.
"Dasher! C'mon Dasher, wake up." Frighter said to the still passed out mare. Then Seran walked up to the little dragon and asked Milo if he can pick up the mare on the ground. At first, the cat hesitated, but eventually he shrugged and picked Dasher up. "Where.. are we going again?" Frighter asked the two older creatures.
"You're from Small Kingdom, right little dragon?" Seran asked the youngling. "We'll take your friends there and.. possibly try and help you three."
Frighter's eyes sparkled in hope.
"Really? Like, helping from wounds or.. getting a home-?"
"Depends."
With that answer from Seran, Frighter was only left confused.
"Alright! This is dumb, Thyro!" Andro shouted at his parthner, who was packing some stuff from the ponies' old house.
When the scarred changeling was done packing up the stuff, he looked at Andro with a deep frown on his face that was making his face scar look like a crack on his skin.
"What's so 'dumb', Andro?" Thyro asked in a calm yet angered tone.
"I mean, why are you packing up stuff from a house, where we're obviously never gonna come back?!"
"Don't you get it yet, you empty-minded crab? We're going for the ponies, and the dragon!" Thyro then got all of his bags full of random items on his green shelled back. Andro did the same, sence he had nothing else to do. "Oh, if you're wondering on how i know where they possibly are, i remember the location i saw from the black beetle thing. Plus, ponies have a specific scent, that makes them easy to find. Which is, if you still remember, the reason on why we and the whole hive were able to almost take over Canterlot so easily!"
"Alright then! Whatever you say."
The two changelings then flew away, where they would soon see the two cursed ponies once again..