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Secret of the Silver Dragon

by The Psychopath

Chapter 3: Attempt to communicate

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Twilight felt greeat chills and warmth flowing throughout her. This creature didn't seem to be all too friendly, nor did it seem to care about everything it fell through. The only thing going through Twilight's mind were:

What is this thing? I need to stay away from it.

Whatever this creature was, it was staring directly at her, and it started to move forward. Twilight couldn't help but move away on instinct. The creature waved it's hand, causing the dust in front of it to blow away in all directions, causing some ponies and a certain baby dragon to cough as they inhaled the thick particles. Twilight continued to back off, but the creature continued to stare at her seriously. It did NOT have any good intentions.

It was very tall actually, certainly surpassing Celestia by atleast two heads. It was silver in color, except for the eyes, that seemed to have an opposing color scheme to eachother. Around the eyes was a portion of the same symbol that was carved on the whistle. It had a dragon-like face, although it was more round, and it's teeth did not poke out randomly. Two horns adorned the head. They started near the forehead, but as they reached the back of the skull, they suddenly curved upwards for a few centimeters. It had no real details for the rest of the main body, but it's configuration was the strangest thing yet. On the outer parts of it's forearms rested what looked like blades. They started near the wrists, and extended to the elbows of the creature. They were extremely shiny and looked very, very sharp.

The fingers seemed to be only claws, as the "nails" started at nothing, but were cylinder shaped and seemed flexible enough to actually be called "fingers". It had ten digits in total on both hands. Strange, as Spike only had eight. The feet were even wierder. Even though it had three "toes" (also mostly claws) on the front, and one in the back for balance, it also had one on each side too. What were those two extra toes on each foot for? It's tail was the strangest part yet. Even though it was rather long, it was of basic length. It was the END that freaked everypony out.

Imagine a claw with four fingers, and these fingers were placed on each side, as to form a type of pyramid. That was what was so disturbing about the tail. The silver creature seemed to adore swaying it's tail around and to constantly open and close the end. Another trait about that thing was the spinning. The creature seemed capable of spinning that portion infinitely in both the left and right directions. It would occasionally stop it then start spinning it around in the opposite direction again, giving off a "clank" with each stop. The silver being did not seem to have any wings. So, if it was a dragon, it was a wingless one like Spike.

It lift it's right arm and opened it's hand, as to grab Twilight Sparkle. However, Spike gathered his courage and stepped in front of the giant while holding a piece of plank that was blasted off the wagon that Applejack had been pulling.

"Y-y-you st-stay away fr-fr-from her! I-I won't let you hurt Twilight!"

The being lowered it's arm and stared at Spike in confusion.

"Spike, what are you doing? Stay away from it! You don't know what it can do!"
"Ah'll help ya there,Spike" said a familiar country pony.
"Thanks Applejack."
"Now listen here, you. Ah ain't 'bout ta let somepony hurt Twilight, especially with what ya did when coming here."

The creature continued to stay silent, but grabbed Spike with incredible speed. The screaming of the baby dragon and his attempt to hurt the creature by hitting it on the head with the wooden planks were pointless. It seemed to be analyzing the reptilian creature it was holding. This "aggression" angered Applejack:

"Hey! Let go of him! Take this! *THWACK* AHHH!"

Applejack tried to buck the creature in the legs, but she fell back in sudden pain after hitting the Silver creature's stomach.

"What's it made of?" she yelped, while trying to figure out what had happenned.

Twilight became furious and yelled at the creature:

"Hey! Let go of Spike, or else." Twilight's horn started to glow wildly. The dragon looked at her for a brief moment, then back to the "lizard" it was holding.
"I warned you!"

A purple bolt flew from her horn and was going directly for the dragon's head. It lowered Spike and, with a back-handing of it's left, the bolt was deflected towards the ground, leaving everypony who knew Twilight quite well to be left in shock. The dragon lowered it's "specimen" gently towards the ground. Spike shielded himself, expecting to get smashed, but the creature ignored him and went directly towards Applejack, whose orange hindlegs had now turned into a swollen purple.

"Stay away from me! Tryin' ta get a mare while she's down?"

It ignored her words and, before Twilight could react, had already grabbed hold of Applejack's broken legs. She yelped in pain as the contact hurt her tremendously. The dragon hummed a tune that indicated frustration. It's left arm started to glow in a mixture of yellow and white as an aura started to surround both the arm and farm pony's legs. She winced a bit, but the dragon soon finished and removed it's arm. To the cowpony's surprise, her legs were no longer purple or wollen. She hesitated to stand up, but did so anyway with the silent insistance of the creature she attacked. Her legs had never felt better.

"Wow. Ya got a great trick there, but ah still ain't gonna let ya harm Twilight."

It ignored this and "faded" out of existence. When it "fades" a strange vibrating noise is heard, and three images of it appear. Two of them move slowly to the sides while the central image blinks rapidly, almost unnoticably. When the dragon reappears, the images recentralize in another location, and it did just that, but right in front of Twilight Sparkle. It didn't move, but it noticed the whistle near her hooves. Before it could do anything, Pinkie Pie yelled from the roof of the bakery:

"Twilight, look at his eyes!"
"What about his eyes?!"
"Just look!"

Twilight didn't understand at first, but upon closer inspection, the symbol that was etched on the whistle was on it's face, more specifically, around the eyes. Twilight lift the whistle with her magic and looked back and forth rapidly as to try and understand the current situation. The creature before her extended a hand out. This confused Twilight Sparkle even further.

"What are you? A dragon?" she asked.
The dragon nodded.
"Are you evil?"
It shook it's head.
"How can I trust you on that? You nearly crushed Applejack and almost smashed Rainbow Dash and the other pegasi."

The dragon tilted it's head slightly in confusion. Twilight pointed to the sky, and as the silver dragon looked upwards, it seemed to joly back in shock. It had obviously never seen pegasi before. It "hmmed" in interest, but looked back at Twilight and insisted on having the whistle. Twilight refused.

"No. Until I know who or what you are, you won't have this thing."

The dragon slowly turned it's hand into a fist and squeezed, causing a crackling noise, but it decided to just leave them be. Besides, it's not like they would start again, right? The dragon turned around and started to walk towards the Everfree forest. By curiosity, Twilight followed it. She wanted answers. So did Pinkie Pie, but she had to help the cake babies, and Applejack had to deal with her destroyed wagon. Leaving Twilight with that thing felt like a bad idea, but it didn't seem hostile.

The dragon walked past a bridge and went slowly towards the school of Ponyville. Twilight was galopping closely behind him, with Spike on her back.

"Wait! Hold on! I just want to know who and what you are."
"Forget it Twilight. I don't think he can talk."
"Of course he can. He understood me earlier. Are y-oomf!"

Twilight hit her head against the creature. It had stopped to look at the little ponies playing in the school yard. It was recess apparently. It took a few minutes, but everypony stopped what they were doing and stared right back at it. A few back away in fear, while others yelled "cool" and tried to get closer to the fence, but before they could, the creature moved on, a small smirk on it's face.

"Wha-? Why won't you talk to me? I could help you with whatever is wrong."

The dragon stopped, turned around, and looked at Twilight frightingly.

There we go. I got his attention. Now to convince him.

"Yeah, I can help. I work at the local library. Perhaps I can help you find what you are looking for? Or help you deal with a certain problem?"
"Yeah. Twilight's REAL good at organization."

The dragon put it's right claw on it's chin and started to think. The other smaller ponies were on the fence. Some were hanging on the bars of this blockade, while others just looked at the silver being through the holes. The creature stopped pondering and stook his hand out. Twilight knew what this meant, and slowly backed away with a "are you serious?" look on her face.

"I told you no. You won't have it until I learn more about."

What happenned after slightly disturbed everypony around. The dragon clenched his teeth as he squeezed his fist in anger. The entire right side of body became covered in an aura of darkness which spun wildly and rose high into the sky, but only for a few seconds. It calmed down and continued it's path in the opposite direction of the lavender pony. Twilight followed.

"I'm not going to leave you be until you tell me atleast WHO you are."

The dragon sighed. He stopped suddenly. He seemed to be trying to push something out, as he was stretching his back. Two lumps started to form right near the shoulder blades.

"What is that? What's he doing Twilight?"
"I don't know."

Two giant wings flung out and stretched widely. The sudden appearance of these wings threw Twilight back and caused Spike to roll on the ground.

The wings looked like any normal dragon's wings, except for the feathers on what should have been the "fleshy" part. Underneath these feathers stood even more scales. Twilight was now sure that this creature was a dragon of a yet unknown species. It deployed it's wings and threw itself high into the air. The "WOW"s and "AWESOME"s started to fill the air. Twilight got back up and insisted that Spike get back on her back.

"Come one Spike! We'll never catch him if you stay there on the floor!"
"Do you mind Twilight? You tossed me on the floor and had me rolling all the way to Ponyville." complained Spike as he struggle to get on Twilight's back. The mare rolled her eyes.
"Don't exaggerate."
"Shouldn't you be following him? He's getting away!"
"Oh no!"

Twilight galopped as fast as she could, but the dragon was a fast flyer. It didn't seem to be overexerting itself, especially with it flying at such a low altitude. Certain ponies on the path either stared or ran away from the dragon as it flew in their direction.

"C'mon Twi! We're losing him."
"I know. But I can't go any faster."
"*sigh* If only I had wings."
"Wait...that's it! We'll go get Rainbow Dash. She is a really fast flyer after all. "
"Um...Twi...I don't think you'll need to call for her."
"Why are you say-? Uh-oh."

Spike had been staring a what look like a rainbow colored laser. The laser was coming down like rocket and slammed with full force against the dragon, causing it to fly into the ground and throw much dust and dirt into the air. It had fallen further away, and Twilight was going to see what had happenned exactly.

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