Flying the small airship was rather fun. Luna told me if I was going off course and after awhile, she took back the wheel.

"That was fun," I say and look around. We've been flying for about four hours now I think and we're just about to reach the Ocean.

"Tis rather enjoyable, and thou did well for thine first time," Luna tells me.

I look to the right and see a beach with a nearby woodland area. I squint as I see something making the trees rustle a little.

"Luna... what's causing that?" I ask her while pointing to the trees.

"Hmmm?" she hums and looks. "We art not sure, could be a large beast," she says.

After a few seconds a head pops up over the tree line. Well, she's right, it's large... but it's a red dragon. Though this one is only half the size of the one I killed in that cave in the Everfree.

"Err, Luna... can this thing go faster?" I ask her as the dragon looks up at us.

"We art afraid not..." she tells me while also staring at the dragon.

"Maybe he'll ignore us?" Cadence says now looking over the side as well.

The dragon roars and then takes flight... straight towards us. "Not likely," I reply.

Luna's horn glows and I'm in my armour with my sword and shield.

The dragon comes to a stop in front of us. "What do we have here? I was just hunting for lunch and now it just shows up for me," he says wickedly. "Oh! And it's three alicorns, two changelings and..." he says before trailing off. "So... you're the Creature who killed Dracalian and took his hoard?" he says to me.

I just remain silent, how did he find that out?

"Where is his hoard?" the lizard asks me with a stern stare.

"You don't need to know," I tell him with a frown, my shield pointing right at him.

"Oh but I do. I'll need to know it's location, for when I kill you, I can claim it as my own!" he replies and snorts a bit of fire.

"Unless you want to end up like the last dragon that threatened me and those I care for. I suggest you leave, now," I warn him darkly, which just makes him laugh.

Luna and Celestia take on their aspect forms and the dragon looks surprised. I then take on my aspect's combat form, which covers my shield with a layer of bark and my sword to be wrapped up in an ivy like plant with thorns.

I cast my air wings spell but the result is different. Two bark limbs sprout off the back of my bark covered shoulders and long leaves in the shape of feathers grow from the limbs. 'Well, that's new.' I think to myself while looking at the new limbs.

'Depending on our form, spells may have a different effect. The air wings in our magic form stayed the same due to the nature of that form. This time it's more physical due to the nature of this form, but in both forms, you cannot cast fire or arcane based spells. Also, the ivy on your sword contains a potent paralysis extract that gets into the wounds caused by the thorns,' Gaia tells me.

'Huh, learn something new everyday,' I think and look at the sword.

"Shella, Cadence. Go inside the Cabin, we'll teach this pest a lesson," I tell them.

They quickly nodded and head towards the back.

"You think changing your appearance will help you? If anything, you've made yourself more flammable!" the dragon roars and breaths fire at me. I cast a shield spell in front of us and the fire gets deflected.

Celestia then casts a thin beam of light at the dragon's right eye. The UV rays quickly burn through his retina, blinding the eye.

The dragon roars in pain as Luna silently flies up behind him and grabs his head. "Thou shalt suffer for attacking our herd," she whispers to him and shrouds his head in a shadowy mist, deafening him to all sound. It also appears that the mist is slightly constricting his head, if the expression of pain on his face is any indication.

The dragon seems to panic now with only one good eye left and no hearing or speech. He doesn't seem as dangerous as the last dragon I fought, Just a lot more boastful... or would it be prideful?

After a thorough examination of the corpse Celestia brought back from the Everfree, a weakness in their scales was discovered. When they get wet and then electrified they expand and have a high chance of breaking off. leaving the soft muscle beneath exposed. She said it explained why no Dragon was ever seen out or flying during a storm.

I cast a water spray at him on his chest and then a spray of lightning. He convulses and his wings lock up as he plummets to the ground. He can't even roar due to Luna's shadow spell. His scales flake off his chest as he falls, until he finally hits the ground.

I look up after smelling something burning. Shit... the balloon caught fire. "We need to land Quickly!" I tell the others and Luna teleports back to the wheel. She pulls a lever and we rapidly descend to the ocean below. Just a few metres above the water, the balloon pops with a loud bang followed by a rush of air as it deflates.

The airship now turned ship splashes into the ocean and floats there, fortunately the water from the sea put the fire out as well. Celestia and I land on the deck where the cabin door opens and the others come out where Mavis is now crying her eyes out. I look back to the dragon to see it angry and looking at us, the mist around his head now gone.

"You will pay for this humiliation!" he roars at us.

So... he's going to continue threatening us, even in his current condition? "I'll be right back," I tell my lovers.

"What are thou going to do?" Luna asks me, barely above a whisper.

"End a threat," I reply coldly and take flight over the dragon.

"If you think I'm done, think again!" the dragon shouts and breaths fire at me.

I easily avoid the attack, It would seem he lost his depth perception when Celestia blinded his eye.

I charge at him and slam my shield into the side of his head making him stumble but doesn't go down. I then move to his exposed chest and thrust my sword into the muscle.

"Arrrghh!" he roars in pain. I quickly pull it back out and get some distance between us. Now let's see if this ivy extract does its thing.

"That all you got? I barely felt that," he says and spreads his wings. He flaps them and lifts off the ground... only to fall seconds later. "What!?" he says confused.

"What's the matter? Where's all that bravado?" I ask him.

The dragon then collapses onto his claws as his legs give out. "What did you do to me?" he demands.

"I paralysed you," I reply. "You thought you could attack us and not suffer any consequences? If it was just me you attacked, I might have let you live after a solid beating, but you put my family in danger and made my daughter cry..." I tell him coldly as he falls limp to the ground. "From what my wives and history books have told me. You dragons are an arrogant lot who think they're top of the food chain and more powerful than any other race," I say and walk up to him but stay two metres away.

"That's because no other creature can stand up to us! Everything is ours for the taking!" he shouts at me and tries to get up.

I frown and thrust my sword into his remaining eye. I pull back as he swipes at me with a roar, the tips of his claws ripping off the bark on my shield.

"Not anymore," I tell him as he thrashes on the ground.

He wildly swings his claws, legs, and tail randomly in an attempt to hit me. I just take to the air again as I cast four earth elements and rip a large rock out of the ground. I then feel Gaia's mana flow out to the rock floating in front of my shield as bark starts to form around it, turning into a spear like tip.

'I can feel anger coming from you. Why?' I ask Gaia.

'He has no regard for the lives of others. I have no love or respect for those who think they have a right to decide if they can just take life whenever they want or think of them as property,' she replies.

'Alright,' I say and aim for his exposed chest.

"WHEN I GET MY CLAWS ON YOU! I WILL RIP YOU LIMB FROM LIMB! THEN I'LL DEVOUR YOUR WHORES SLOWLY! STARTING WITH THE HATCHLING!" the dragon roars at me.

My eyes widen at what he just called my lovers and threatened to do to them and my children. I can also feel Gaia's anger rise as well as her magic fills the rock some more, making the point longer and sharper looking. I then grunt in pain as I add a fifth element, an ice element. Small spikes of ice protrude the bark tip now as my left arm feels cold due to the extra strain.

I wait and charge the spell fully as he rolls onto his back while clutching his face. Now that I think about it, I can't let him live. He could tell other dragons which might bring them to Equestria looking for revenge, or to remove us as a threat to their position.

I see my opening and cast my spell.

The bark covered rock launches at him and quickly impales his exposed chest. He roars in agony and the ice expands as six long spires of ice come out of his sides and back.

He coughs up blood for a few seconds before going limp. I grunt in twisted satisfaction as he bleeds out over the shore. After a few seconds of looking at the corpse, I flap my wings and head back to the ship.

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I frown sadly as Adrian flies back to the ship. Tia and I dropped our aspect forms when he launched his attack, but when the dragon insulted us. Adrian's eyes turn black and red again...

He lands on the deck and drops his form. He sighs and looks back at the corpse. "Could you and Tia drag it into the ocean? Let the depths claim his remains. It'll also stop any other dragons that might fly over see one of it's kin dead in Equestrian borders," he asks me and Tia.

Tia and I look at each other before looking back at him. "Alright... are thou okay?" I ask him.

He smiles weakly and nodded. "Yeah. I just need a lie down, I've got a bit of a headache," he tells me and walks into the cabin.

"I'm going to keep him company... he looked a little tense," Cadence tells us and enters the cabin as well. Shella is sitting on one of the lounge chairs trying to calm Mavis down.

I sigh and look at Tia. "Come, sister. Let us do as our mate said, hiding the corpse would be a wise decision," I say to her.

"I agree. Let's get it over with so we can all figure out on what to do next," she replies and we take to the air.

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It didn't take long to tie some large boulders to the corpse and levitate it into the ocean where it was stained slightly red.

Once done. Tia, Shella, and I enter the cabin where Adrian is sitting up on the bed out of his armour with Cadence giving him a shoulder massage behind him.

"How art thou feeling, our love?" I ask him.

His smile looks warmer and bigger now. "Much better. I'm just getting tired of all these threats and people attacking us, can't we go for at least half a year without something trying to maul, maim, stab, eat, and or blast us to kingdom come?" he asks and sighs.

I giggle slightly and sit to his left while Celestia takes his right and Shella sits right in front of him holding little Mavis out to him.

Adrian smiles as the little filly holds her arms out to her father. He picks her up and nuzzles her gently, getting happy babbling out of her.

"And how’s my little girl aye? Is she happy now? Did the big mean lizard scare her?" he asks her in a cute tone.

"Ahaaahaha Daddy! Hehe dada!" Mavis replies to him and pulls on his hair.

"Ow! Oh? So you want to play do you?" he says and blows a raspberry on her tummy. The little filly squeals happily and tries to push him away. The sight makes me smile and I actually cannot wait for spring to arrive so I can get ready to have my own foal. "Luna," Adrian says looking at me. "What do we do now? Are we stranded in the ocean?" he asks me.

"Nay. The propellers are designed to work in water as well. We'll just continue to our destination by sea while we repair the balloon," I tell him.

He sighs in relief. "I see. Well I wouldn't be any help there, I can't sew to save my life," he says with a chuckle.

I lean over and kiss him. "Worry not, love. As Cadence and Tia are quite adept with a needle," I tell him with a smile. "but we now shall return to the wheel and make sure we stay on course," I say and get up.

"Alright, I'm just going to take a nap and hope this headache goes away," he replies and hands Mavis back to Shella.

I walk to the door and open it, but turn back to look at Adrian. "Could thou let us speak to our parents tonight?" I ask him.

"Sure, anytime," he replies.

I smile wider and head up to the wheel and alter our course for Haywaii.

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I yawn as I wake up from my nap. Celestia and Cadence are cuddled up beside me sleeping peacefully while Shella is sitting on a couch with Mavis on her lap and trying to teach her new words. I'm guessing Luna is still at the wheel.

The gentle rocking of the ship makes me yawn and lulls me back to sleep.

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I'm suddenly awoken by the boat shaking violently. "The hell was that?" I say and notice Celestia not beside me anymore. Cadence wakes up screaming and clinging onto me.

"What was that? Are we under attack again!?" she asks.

I just groan and untangle myself from Cadence. "Stay here with Shella, I'll go see what it is," I tell her and head for the door. I don't have time to put my armour back on, but I do take my sword and shield.

I step outside to see it's almost sunset. "Tia! Luna! What's going on!?" I call out to them. The ship then shakes again.

"Adrian! We're being rammed by a bull shark!" Luna tells me. I run over to her and look over the railings as a large shadow passes under us. It looks like a fish half the size of our ship but with long horns like a minotaur.

"Has the ship suffered any damage?" I ask.

"Not yet, but it's only a matter of time before the protection spell on the hull breaks," Celestia tells me.

The ship shakes again and the shark comes back into view. I frown and point my shield at the shark as I then cast four lightning elements and spray the water near the shark. It spasms for a few seconds before going limp, I'm so not in the mood for this shit... it's supposed to be our honeymoon for crying out loud!

The shark's corpse surfaces and floats there. It's got brown scales with a large set of razor sharp teeth and two bull horns on the sides of its head. We packed a lot of fruit and veg for our trip... but my stomach rumbles at the thought of frying up the shark.

"You got any rope?" I ask them.

"Rope? Why would thou need rope?" Luna asks.

I grin and look at her. "I'm going to haul that shark on board and cook it," I reply.

She looks at me a bit queasy. "Well... we could just levitate it out of the water," she tells me.

Oh... yeah. "Alright," I say and watch her lift it out of the water and carefully place it on the deck. I waste no time in stabbing it in the head just to make sure it's dead.

"So... who's up for a fish fry?" I ask.

"I'd like some please," Celestia replies.

Luna looks even more unwell. "No, that is okay. We art fine," she says.

"Cadence! You want some cooked fish!?" I call back towards the cabin.

The door opens and she pokes her head out. "Erm... sure. I've been getting a bit of a craving for some... meat... again," she says. Although she said she likes the taste of fish and bacon, I still think she doesn't like the idea of needing to eat it for her baby.

"Okay, I'll gut and prepare this then. Tia, can you levitate it up over the side of the railing?" I ask Celestia.

"I'd be happy to help," she replies and lifts the shark up with her magic.

For the next ten minutes I gut and clean the large fish. I even cut the horns off for trophies.

"Alright, can you make it spin around on its side?" I ask her next.

The fish starts spinning and I channel a single fire element in my right hand and spray the fish slowly with the flames.

The smell of the fish makes my mouth water as Cadence brings out a container and a large kitchen knife. It took about ten minutes to cook the fish well and Celestia places it on a table in the middle of the deck.

"Thanks. Now then, let's carve this sucker up!" I say and start cutting strips from it. I fill the container with a good eighty-six strips and throw the bones overboard. "Take as much as you'd like, should last a couple of days," I say and put three strips on a plate and begin eating.

Celestia, Cadence, and even Shella take a piece each and begin eating as well. "We still find it disturbing that ye can eat that without throwing up or even gagging," Luna says, sipping on a glass of water.

"Changelings can break down both plants and meat to make the gel in our stomach. As long as it is biological, it can be converted," Shella tells her and takes another bite of her fish.

I raise and eyebrow at Luna. "Why? It's not a sapient creature. It can't talk, read, write, or even express emotions. I think your view of eating meat has been tainted because of the gryphons, dragons, and diamond dogs eating other sentient races," I say to her.

She frowns in thought. "Perhaps, but it is still a disturbing thought, eating the flesh of a once living creature," she says and shakes her head.

"Then what about plants? Gaia told me they are alive and can feel pain just like us. I can only control plants because I found out I have to ask them to move, but I think their intelligence is very basic and primitive at best. What do they feel as you pick or eat them? Are they still alive for long after you've picked them?" I ask her.

Luna looks wide eye. "We have never thought of it that way before," she says.

I cut a very small piece of fish and hold it out to her. "The fact that Celestia and Cadence can digest meat without any nasty side effects means you ponies can eat meat. I believe you're omnivores like us humans and you just don't realise it. I think that your teeth are flat from centuries of not eating it. The Thestrals have teeth more akin to a human's I've noticed," I tell her.

"But there are no sentient omnivorous species on Equus," Cadence says.

"Then how do you explain that you can eat meat without it making you ill?" I ask her.

She opens her mouth, only to shut it when she can't think of an answer.

Luna looks conflicted as she looks at the tiny piece of fish on the end of my fork. I wait for a good minute before she reaches out and hesitantly takes the fork. She cringes a bit and quickly opens her mouth and puts the fish in. She pulls the fork out and slowly chews while trying not to think about it.

Her chewing slows down and her eyes slowly open. She then swallows the fish and licks her lips. "That was... surprisingly delicious..." she says with a frown.

"See? If you couldn't digest meat, I don't think you would even like the taste of it," I tell her and hold out a plate with a strip on it for her.

Luna then takes it from me. "But if we start eating meat... what would our subjects think? The guards and kitchen staff alone are sworn to secrecy about Tia and Cadence eating fish and this bacon for their foals..." she says looking at the plate.

"It's up to you if you wish to eat it or not, I'm not going to force you to change your ways," I reply and finish off my second strip.

She sighs and cuts off a bigger piece this time. She chews it slowly again, just this time without the cringe on her face. "We shall start to eat it if it will help prepare us for when we bare our foal..." she says after swallowing.

I just smile and pat her thigh. "It'll be fine, we could always have it brought up to the privacy of our room by Silk Sheets," I tell her.

She smiles in return and we all resume eating. Once we've all had our fill, we head back into the cabin. Cadence said she'll take first watch at the wheel while I let Celestia and Luna talk to their parents.

I'm sitting on the bed with Mavis in my lap and both Celestia and Luna to my sides, Shella is sitting next to Celestia and gently stroking her pregnant stomach. Luna's horn glows and the mirror is now on the bed where she then levitates it over to me and I grip the handle. I channel my mana into it and the mirror shows Galaxia and Solaris in a rather intimate position.

"Oh my," Celestia says while I just cover Mavis's eyes, unfortunately I couldn't look away myself.

Galaxia is sitting on top of Solaris naked with her back to us. "Huh!?" she yelps and turns around to face us.

I blush as I get a full view of her rather impressive chest. Luna's hand then slaps itself in front of my eyes to block my view.

"By the heavens!" Galaxia says as I hear magic being cast. Luna removes her hand and I see Galaxia dressed with a heavy blush. "Hello, my little fillies," she says while Solaris doesn't look embarrassed at all.

"Hello, mother," Celestia replies with a giggle. "Did we catch you at a bad time?" she asks her mother.

"Oh no, it's alright. We were just, erm. Spending some quality time together," Galaxia replies. "but enough about us. How are you doing?" she asks us. Mavis giggles and holds her hands out to the mirror. "Hello, little one. How is our granddaughter today?" Galaxia asks the baby changeling.

Since Shella is married to their daughters, She's considered their daughter as well and Mavis is technically their granddaughter. I'm also their son, which is weird having two god like alicorns as parents in laws.

For the next hour we talk to Solaris and Galaxia about what's going on and where we're going.

"So... the dragons are getting bolder. You may need to put on a show of force if they continue to edge deeper and deeper into Equestria," Solaris says.

"I'm still learning to control Gaia's power, but once I've done that, I'll be learning some of the others as well," I reply.

They smile at me and look to their daughters. "And how has your training been progressing?" he asks them.

"Very well, father. Lux and Umbra are good teachers and wonderful friends," Celestia replies.

"That is good to hear, we wish you the best of luck and hope to see you after your Honeymoon," he tells us.

Galaxia then giggles. "Just go easy on Adrian at night. He might start having trouble if you all ravish him every night," she teases.

"MOOOOOM!" Luna and Celestia squeak out making me chuckle.

Solaris then looks at me. "Take care of them son, make us proud," he tells me. I couldn't help but smile.

"Heh, don't worry dad. I'll look after them," I reply with a smirk.

He returns it and looks at Galaxia with a grin. "Now then... where were we?" he says and rolls on top of her.

I cut my mana flow just as Galaxia giggles. "Well... that wasn't awkward at all..." I say as Luna magic's the mirror away.

Celestia giggles as Shella takes Mavis and puts her into a crib next to the bed. "I believe we should get some rest. You're taking the next watch, my love," she tells me and cuddles up to me.

I hold her and Luna close as Shella climbs on and spoons up to Celestia's back. After a quick yawn I fall asleep in their embrace.

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