Chapter 45

“Is that it?” Odio groaned in disappointment, “I was expecting something better”

“I am going to be used to kill Celestia and Luna?” Dave stepped away from the massive eye

“I’m afraid I can’t allow you to simply leave Dave” the elder sighed “But I can offer two choices”

Dave stopped and grabbed his head as panic set in “What do I do?” Dave looked frantically around the room “How long do I have until this… storm gets here?”

“Hard to say” the elder blinked “Now the choices”

“I have to run! Hide!” Dave began to pant heavily “something I mean I could…”

“SILIENCE!” the elder roared and the cave shook, rocks fell from the ceiling and landed heavily on the floor, Dave froze and looked at the dragon “You have two options and I suggest you listen” the elder’s voice sounded annoyed his eye frowned

Dave took a few deep breaths “Fine what are they?”

“You need protection, you can stay here amongst the dragons, we will protect you and treat you like one of our own” the eye turned sympathetic “and the other…”

“Let me guess” Dave rolled his eyes “If I am killed then they can’t use me?”

“No, they will probably use your corpse” the eye looked at the floor in thought before returning to Dave “The other is I send you back to Celestia”

“Wait, send me back?” Dave scratched his head “To the beings I am supposed to kill?”

“They are the supreme beings, they can protect you” the elder chuckled “everything knows it would be foolish to attack the princesses head on”

“But unless they have me first, they can’t do anything” Dave’s new smile was short lived “How am I supposed to get back there fast enough if you think this is an immediate problem?”

“WOAH WOAH WOAH!“ Odio blurted loudly “Don’t go back! Stay with the dragons, Celestia doesn’t want you!”

Dave frowned at the floor “So how am I supposed to get back fast enough? Is Adamas going to fly me?”

The elder chuckled “Actually, I can think of one faster way” the ground shook violently, the cracks around the room opened up as the elder’s claw came free and the eye moved away

The outside of the mountain cracked, the dragons quickly gathered their loot and took to the air and rested on some of the neighboring mountains

Dave and the other dragons under the elder’s guidance remained where they were as the ground they sat on turned into a palm of one of the dragon’s massive claws

The eye was attached to a large rocky head, it cracked loudly as its jaws separated and it breathed fresh air for the first time in hundreds of millennia

The mountains outer shell unfolded, various rocks fell to the ground below and they began to stretch outwards

Dave ran over to the edge of the palm and held onto one of the sharp claws as he looked over the edge

The elder had been curled up like an infant, the ground shook and the air filled with noise as the rocky body broke free from itself, releasing legs and a large pointed tail

The wings continued to expand and each one dwarfed the nearby mountains and shadowed the ground beneath

As the elder shook his head, rocks crumbled from him and long serrated spikes snapped out from underneath

“What the fuck?” Dave gawped as the dragon stretched its back with a snap that forced Dave to cover his ears

The dragon flapped his wings once, sending small rocks the bombard the ground and a gust that sent the storm clouds away

“By your measurements I have a wing span of two miles, height of three and a half miles from snout to tail” The elder smiled “and an internal digestion system that would take you three of your lifetimes to walk through”

“Show off” Odio snorted

Dave gawped at the ground that was literally a mile away “so you curled into a mountain, not to hide, but to give other dragons a home?”

“Essentially… I also give these few guidance so they may do things as I have done” the elder smiled at the dragons and Adamas “As thanks for what you have done, I present you a gift”

Dave smiled as the dragon’s free claw stretched to his chest “So what is the AWW SHIT!” Dave’s smile faded as the elder scrapped away the rocks and tore some scales from beneath

The elder dropped the flake of scales next to Dave “There is enough there” he smiles satisfied

“Enough to cover a bed” Dave gasped as he held up the dark green scales “What am I supposed to do with this?”

“I offer you protection, my scales are strong enough to survive rocks from space” he moved a claw close to Dave and the scales “I hope it serves you well”

“Yeah the boogieman will never get me now” Dave sighed sarcastically as he wrapped it around himself

The stone dragon chuckled “I see that you would prefer it like this” the claw touched the scales and they floated around Dave, forming links and breaking away as they move into a new positions

Dave looked down at the large trench coat that stretched almost to his ankles, the sleeves ran up his arms to his wrists, a collar rested gently along the back of his neck

Odio wolf whistled and Dave nodded “Now that is what I am talking about!” Dave cheered “Thanks!”

The elder managed a sly grin that caused the dragons to flee “Do you wish to witness how protective it is?”

“Umm… Sure!” Dave chuckled nervously as the elders jaws opened “Are you going to breath fire?” he readied the coat around his face

“No no… I’m not young, I’m an elder!” The elder said proudly “I breathe lava!”

“Wait… WHAT!” Dave gasped as he felt a surge of heat and force, push him across the palm of the dragon’s claw

As Dave peeked out slowly, he gawped when he saw he was surrounded by bubbling lava, the only spot untouched was where he stood

“Impressive” Odio managed to say “But I still could have healed you”

Dave laughed as he looked at the undamaged coat “This is awesome!”

“Glad to see you enjoy it” the elder smiled “You may say goodbye to your friend”

Adamas landed behind Dave, the flapping of his wings cooled the lava “Goodbye again Dave, I thank you for getting me into the enlightened”

“I thought you said ‘don’t say I was ever nice… it would ruin my reputation’ and now you are grateful you were?” Dave folded his arms and smiled victoriously

“I learned that to overcome ones own imperfections is to gain a new chance at life” the dragon held out a claw “I thank you for giving me new purpose”

“Don’t mention it” Dave shook one of the sharp points “Will I see you again Adamas?”

The dragon shook his head “I doubt it Dave, but don’t be afraid to come find me”

“I won’t” Dave smiled sadly as the dragon flew away and he turned back to the elder “I’m ready to go!”

“Good, also I gave you that coat for a reason” the elder chuckled “beyond the fact that everything is done for a reason”

“Yeah I have began to notice that, if I hadn’t have been brought here” Dave looked over his shoulder to where Adamas once stood “he wouldn’t have been able to join your enlightened”

“True” the elder nodded as he brought his other claw up to his palm, his middle claw held behind another “We wish you luck Dave!”

“Thank you” Dave smiled but slapped his hands over his ears as the elder roared to the sky, his claw released and he flicked Dave from his palm, Dave’s screams were drowned out as he burst through the sound barrier in a loud bang

Meanwhile…

Celestia sat in her bedroom, she looked down at Dave’s watch and her silver bracelet “I’m sorry I couldn’t have realised sooner” she sighed sadly “when you first arrived, you were so… strange, you never left your friends and you did ridiculous things like climbing the side of the castle”

Celestia smiled weakly as she replaced the watch and bracelet back into her small wooden box “The day you kissed my cheek was a shock, not that you were a different species but… because you did so with nothing but kindness and love”

The white alicorn smiled as she stepped out onto her balcony, the moon was almost about to hit the horizon “That night you open your heart to me and I welcomed you, even if you were drunk at the time”

Celestia sighed sadly as she looked east “And that day of bliss and pleasure was the greatest in my entire existence, and it broke us apart after that stupid hospital scan”

The horizon glowed gently, Celestia frowned as the small silhouette of a dragon appeared, she levitated her telescope out and in front of her, and she adjusted the focus and zoom until she saw the dragon roaring at the sky

“Luna!” Celestia’s horn glowed as she cried out for her sister

Luna appeared beside her “What is it?” she asked in a hurry before Celestia motioned for her to use the telescope, Luna gasped as she saw

“Its east” Celestia frowned “I am not waiting anymore, are you with me?”

Luna nodded “For the good of Dave, you and all Equestria” she spread her wings wide “Shall we teleport?”

“No” Celestia also spread her wings “It’s been a while since I made a sunburst and you made a moonbeam”

“I take it that you want to make this reunion memorable?” Luna smiled briefly as they began to fly “I admit the sonic rainboom that the Element of loyalty makes is more colourful”

“But ours is just as grand” The princess of the night lowered the moon as the princess of the sun raised her bright orb

“Morning glory?” Luna smiles as her mane begins to get swept back by the increasing speed

“Morning glory!” Celestia cheers as they push the forming air barrier aside and two glistening explosions grace the sky, a ring of gold coated by bright silver stars form as they lunge forwards towards the horizon, the sun revealing their path

Meanwhile…

“AHHHHHHH!” Dave screamed loudly as he saw the ground slowly approaching

“WOOOOOO!” Odio cheered loudly as he sae the ground slowly approaching

“This isn’t going to be gentle is it?” Dave asks in a plain tone as he flew over the Everfree forest

Odio chuckled “Oh no, it isn’t”

Dave slammed through the top of the town hall, breaking the metal flagpole and sped towards Sweet Apple Acres

Meanwhile…

“I gotta do this mamma!”

“I know son, I’ll miss ya”

The teary mother waved to her son as he climbed over the fence and free of the mud, he cheered and he hopped happily into the air

The mothers smile disappeared as a dark green blur shot through where her son once was

Meanwhile…

“Huh?” Dave looked at the large pig in his arms “Where the hell did you come from?”

The pig looked confused at him before squealing loudly as it saw the mountain that sat outside of Ponyville approaching rapidly

“3... 2... 1” Odio counted down as Dave slammed into the mountain, a large spray of blood signalled a sudden stop “You have reached your destination”

Dave pushed his face from the rocks, Odio healed the various broken bones as Dave looked down at himself

“Aww shit we hit a pig” Dave sighed as dropped his arms to his side, he snatched his hands up as he realised the dragon-scale trench coat was still hot from the lava exposure

Odio gasped happily “At least something good came from it!”

Dave looked down and saw a perfect strip of bacon sizzling away on one of the sleeves “Oh… yes” Dave’s eyelids dropped seductively as he slowly licked his lips “OW!” Dave rubbed his eye that suddenly screamed in pain

“Meh it’s probably nothing” Odio reassured Dave as he reached for the juicy meat

Meanwhile…

Twilight awoke from the shaking table, she had fallen asleep downstairs talking to Pinkie, but Pinkie was now shaking violently

“NOPONY BREAKS A PINKIE PROMISE!” She yelled demonically as she shot out a window and flew to Sugarcube Corner, she broke through her bedroom window and ran over to her closet

She dragged out a box labelled ‘Promise Breaker Punisher XPAINX’ she opened it up and equipped the worst weapon imaginable

She sniffed the air before charging out the room again like a bolt of lightning, she shot past Twilight that had just opened her front door

“CAN’TSTOPGOTTOGOMAKEDAVEPAYFORTHINKINGABOUTBREAKINGAPINKIEPROMISEWILLRETURNSOONANDPREPAREFORWELCOMEPARTY” Pinkie yelled at the speed of light as she raced down the path towards

“Umm… ok? Wait did you say Dave?” Twilight gasped as she teleported after the pink missile

Meanwhile…

Dave sat relaxed against the mountainside, the blood had seeped down onto the grassy floor but Dave held a perfect strip of bacon in his hands

“This has made everything worth while” Dave sighed as his tongue rolled out his mouth and he held the meat in the air

“STOPRIGHTTHEREMISTER!” Pinkie screamed as she stopped instantly in front of Dave, she stood on her hind legs, a large brown bandolier loaded with cupcakes was strapped to her chest

“Oh yeah the pinkie promise” Dave rubbed his eye “forgot about that”

Pinkie removed one of the cupcakes and threw it at the bacon, it stole the meat from Dave and slammed against the rock wall, the cupcake hardened and encased the meat

“Aww…” Dave moaned sadly “wait… is this the destroying part?”

“No… you didn’t break the promise” Pinkie pulled another cupcake out and held the giant pink iced bun high in the air “So I’m gonna leave you with a reminder not to get this close again!” she scowled and Dave began to sweat nervously

As Pinkie’s hoof came down Dave covered his eyes using his new trench coat, after a few moments Dave peeked out to see Pinkie eating the cupcake

“Wait how is this bad?” Dave raised an eyebrow

Pinkie snarled “I’m gonna eat all these tasty cupcakes… and you can’t have one”

“OH MY GOD WHAT A MONSTER!” Odio gasps sarcastically “How is this bad?”

Dave watched Pinkie eat and he stomach rumbled, “Can I have one?”

“No” Pinkie glared as she chewed

“Please?” Dave begged

“No”

Dave folded his arms but he began to sweat “Please?” he attempted

“No” Pinkie licked some icing from her hoof

Dave began to cringe in pain as Pinkie got down to two cupcakes “Ok I’m sorry!” He cried, “Just let me have a cupcake!”

Pinkie smiled victoriously “Apology accepted” she glares into the distance “Nopony actually breaks a pinkie promise and lives to tell about it”

“What?” Dave looked up with a raised eyebrow

“Nothing”