“It’s been a while.” Trixie said looking around nervous on the edge of Ponyville. Ponies gawked at us as we went to the library. Twilight came out with Dash and Applejack, having saw us coming.

“You took your sweet time.” Dash said.

“Trixie.” I said and she went forward going to the groveling.

“I’m sorry.” They stared at her a little shocked. “I will never do anything to hurt any pony again. I beg for your forgiveness. I am from Seffron’s world, I did not learn friendship like you. I want to live with Seffron, he is everything I have left, no he’s the only thing I truly have left. Please let me live here, I'll do anything you ask to earn my keep.” Twilight went forward and looked at me.

“What did you do?” I sighed.

“I told her about what happen to AppleCran.” Trixie flinched. “I explained to her about how leaving in the middle of the single largest battle, that my world had ever seen lead to even worse darkness, and to so much more.”

“Is this true Trixie?” Twilight asked and Trixie got up.

“I wouldn’t lie about this.”

“I have sent the alicorn amulet to Princess Celestia, it’s not here, and never will be again, you will never see it again.”

“I figured, but I really do want to live with Seffron, he, he’s more than just a dragon, so much more than you could imagine. He was the greatest hero I know, please let me live with him. I'll do anything.” Twilight sighed looking at me.

“Fine, but you’ll have to buy a home, the library is too full as it is, it was only meant for one pony, not two pony and two dragons.”

“I have no money, that’s why I wanted the amulet.”

“I guess I'll figure something out.”

“I'll move out.” She looked at me. “I can sell gems, you said the big ones were rare, so I imagine they will sell for a lot, right?”

“Yes.” Rarity said walking over to us with Spike on her back

“Then I'll do that.”

“I'll buy it if you like,” Rarity said smiling a little. “In fact I'll buy all the gems you have to give me.”

“Rarity do you even have that much?” Twilight asked.

“Of course dear, I sell gems to gem dealers, do you realize how many ponies want gems, or how many dragons want them? They are a very good income, while I am able to easily support myself on my dress sells, I am a mare of only the best tastes, and that requires more than what I make on dresses.”

“Sounds good to me.” I said. I went inside and made all the gems float into the air and then go outside to her. I smiled and her eyes went big seeing a gem the size of me, in the center of a few hundred small gems and a few larger ones.

“My goodness,” she said taking it with her magic. “This gem will sell for a considerable amount. Come with me please, and I will get you your gold bits. With a stone like this you could afford any home you want.”

“And the others?”

“Oh yes.” She took them as well. Trixie and I went with Rarity too her home. “Wait out here for me.” I stopped with Trixie and she looked at me pausing.

“What?” I asked and she grabbed me hugging me.

“I’ve missed you so much.” I held back a growl, she was going to pay for this. I looked at Rarity which stared at us holding a large bag of gold with her magic.

“This isn’t.”

“You weren’t joking, you really want to live with him.”

“Of course, he’s, he’s more than you can understand. Spike will become so much more than you could imagine. Don’t let him go for anything, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life, only your tears will comfort you as you sleep.” Trixie smiled.

“Oh.” She looked at Spike on her back biting her lip. “I wouldn’t let something like that happen.” She set down the gold.

“Good for you.” Trixie said looking at me.

“Now I did fair price for the gems, the small ones were very common so they weren’t worth much. The big ones on the other hoof were worth twice their weight in gold bits, the biggest one three times. Now if I take into account selling them, and transporting them, I had to take off fifteen percent, because otherwise I wouldn’t make any money myself. This is business, it’s not personal.”

“And if it was?” I asked.

“I believe I have enough reason to make sure you are on the streets, of course a lady like myself would never go so low as to do something like that. Also you gave my Spike a large gem for free. So I have an unease about you, but I don’t hate you.”

“Thank you for this then.” She nodded going back inside. Trixie strained to pick up the gold bag. “What’s wrong?” She smiled a little setting me down.

“My magic hasn’t been anywhere close to my old magic. I’m rather weak, the alicorn amulet took even more of my magic, I’m not even as powerful as I was when I first got here, and my magic slowly leaves me as the day goes, I’m a sad excuse for a unicorn,.” I smiled.

“Not in public the great and powerful Trixie.” She smiled. I picked it up with my magic easily. We went to town hall and the mayor let us buy a house on land on the edge of town close to the Everfree forest with everything already inside.

“This is nice.” Trixie said jumping onto the bed smiling.

“It’s a cottage, it has no running water, electricity, heating, cooling, lighting or is in any kind of condition.” I set the gold bag into a chest and shut it. I looked around, the cottage was rather small, a single box, no bathroom, or any other room, just a bedroom basically.

“It’s a fixer upper.” She said cheerfully. I closed the door with a slam. She hid under the blankets making me chuckle a little.

“Please I was good, you wanted to earn trust right?” I stopped. “Well you just earned a point with Rarity. Not only that, but with the buying of land you’ve just made it noted that you want to stay, not leave.”

“True.”

“So, um are you going to punish me?” She asked sad.

“No, you did good, but this place does need to be fixed up.” I snapped my claws and everything repaired looking as good as new. Lights appeared above us and stairs appeared off to the right of the bed.

“I'll be back, I need to start remolding this house, I'll go mad without plumbing.” I went into the new basement and it was four times larger than the house above it, with columns holding everything up nicely.

I stabbed into the ground, a boiler and pipes came out of the ground forming plumbing and other amenities. The upstairs extended adding a bathroom and kitchen with everything I would need, but just not food.

“Wow!” Trixie shouted. I went back up stairs and smiled at the upstairs, it was now made of new wood instead of rotting wood, and the kitchen was completely made of stone so it looked very nice.

“How do you like it? A bit of home right?”

“Yeah, I’ve missed this all so much.”

“We have a few decades ahead of them right now, but this should do us wonders while we’re here.”

“So I can stay?” I looked at her staring at me.

“You want to stay?”

“Yes.” I went over to her and I rubbed her belly. She was softer than I thought she would be, and warmer. I buried my face into her belly.

“Hey Seffron.” Twilight said walking into the house. We both looked at her and she paused. “Oh sorry.” She backed out.

“That probably didn’t look good.” I mumbled. “Come back inside.” She came back inside giggling a little.

“So you two were friendly.”

“I wouldn’t say giving my friend a hug, was friendly in a bad way, and she’s really soft, come and feel. Oh wait, you can’t.” I chuckled a little. “You’re a pony, so this in all mine.” I rubbed my face into Trixie’s belly making both of them blush a little.

“Right well I need some help with spells.”

“Over on the table.” She went over and opened the book seeing a few hundred spells, a different one on each page detailing the effects. “I don’t believe you know many of those spells, or any of them.”

“Will this one really turn lead into gold?!” She looked at me.

“Yes.”

“This is going to take me a while to learn all this.”

“Call me if you have a problem.”

“I will.” She mumbled as she walked out of my house reading the book.

“That looked like a lot of spells, if you’re going to take over the world, wouldn’t it be better not to give her those spell?”

“No, it’s fine to give them to her, none of them could really make her a threat to me if she knew them, and it’ll take a few days for her to learn them. I literally have tens of thousands of spells that I could teach her which have no real use.” I chuckled.

“That’s smart, but didn’t you say you were going to teach me spells? Or are we going to be doing something else?”

“First locks.” I went over to the door opened it and looked around. We were pretty far from any pony, so we could be pretty loud and no one would notice.

I closed the door and snapped my claws making locks appear on the door. I picked up a metal board and set it across the door. Even magic wouldn’t be able to open this door on the outside. I clapped and the walls glowed reinforcing themselves to be sound proof and very strong.

“So is there anything I should know?” Trixie asked smiling.

“Just don’t talk about the past to the others, or if you have to tell them, then tell them that you haven’t been there for over three hundred years, so you don’t know any current events, time here and there go at very different speeds.”

“I see.” I went over to her and laid down next to her. She pulled me close wrapping the blanket around us.

“Don’t wake me.” I fell asleep.

I woke up a while later, being awake enough to feel around and not feel a warm pony, then waking up completely. I sat up and looked around, Trixie wasn’t anywhere insight. I got off the bed and went to the shower starting it and feeling the hot water wash over my scales soaking pass them.

“Seffron?” I heard Trixie yell. I paused, I had been careless, far too careless. For all I knew she could have started running, and she was a master runner, I wouldn’t be able to follow her again if she ran.

“In the shower!” I shouted out to her.

“Set them over there, I'll get to them in a few minutes.”

“Yes madam.” Another pony’s voice which I didn’t recognize said. Trixie came into the room setting her cape to the side and hopping into the shower with me. I backed up a little as dirt washed off her going down the drain.

“Oh that feels great.” She said wetting her mane. I hit a switch and the shower stopped becoming a bath. I plugged the hole so the warm water couldn’t leave. She looked at me sliding down and I went on top of her, compared to my baby dragon form she was rather large, but that just meant she was like a large pillow to me. Mixed with her coat and water, she was more comfortable than any pillow I had ever owned.

“Where’d you go today?”

“Food, we don’t have any, I know you’re a large dragon, so you need to eat.”

“I won’t feel hungry for a few days. Gems really fill me up, and I had a bunch of them yesterday.”

“You might want to stock up on them.”

“Then we’ll have to go today.”

“It’s the middle of the night.”

“Fine you can stay home and rest for a while, I’m going to go stretch my wings and fly around, I’m getting a little sick of this baby form.”

“Why not just change to your normal form?”

“Makes ponies see me as less of a threat.”

“I see.”

“Though while I’m here, I don’t need to be a baby, though it’s nice laying on you like this, imagine if you had a foal of your own.” She chuckled a little bit.

“I would never, I wouldn’t be able to raise a foal, I couldn’t stand the thought of letting any pony touch me, let alone have one grow inside of me.”

“Madam we’re done.”

“Tips on the counter!” She called out to them. I stopped the bath water.

“I hope you got something good at least.” I said licking her chest.

“Only the best, we live rather far from town, any way to get a teleporter to help? I mean I know you don’t care, but, it would be nice.” I kissed her.

“It’s a great idea, but why can’t you teleport?”

“The spells are too much for me to do anymore.” I touched her horn and it shocked me a little bit. “Are you alright?”

“You have a pretty strong anti-magic spell on your horn, where did it come from? I would love to meet the caster.”

“I don’t know.”

“Anyway it’s, oh probably the lich when you jumped world. That would make the most sense.” I grabbed her horn and my body tensed as lightning went through me, she yelled in pain, it stopped after a minute and I sighed. She looked at me in pain. I pulled off my forearm and tossed it into the trashcan.

“That hurt.” She whimpered.

“I had to get rid of that spell, if that infected any other pony, it would be serious here, but I got rid of it.”

“Your arm.” I smiled as my arm grew back shedding the dead parts off into a small trashcan. I got up and wash the blood and muck off into the sink. My scales grew back and I went back over to her getting back into the bath.

“All fine, and.”

“Seffron!” I groaned hearing Dash shout. She came over to the bathroom and opened the door looking at us.

“What?!” I snapped at her.

“Get out of the bath, we got other things we need to do, remember you’ll do anything we ask you to.” I sighed getting out of the bath and my body steamed dry. “So come on, we need your help.”

“I meant anything you ask me in the day, not in the middle of the.” I paused so I didn’t curse. “Night.”

“It’s not that far pass sun set.” I paused and looked at Trixie. “Now come on, don’t make me drag you.”

“I'll be back soon.” I followed Dash outside and she picked me up flying into the air. “I will ask once to set me down, I’m faster than you.”

“Oh? You wanna bet?” She let go of me and I changed to my miniaturized dragon form making her fly back. I grew to about her size, giving me a wingspan of easily one and a half times hers.

“Yeah.” I growled. “If I win, then you’ll have to do anything I ask, one thing.”

“Okay, and if I win, um, I want a large gem.”

“Don’t have any on me, but I can get you one.”

“Deal, Twilight needs us at the library, GO!” She shouted speeding up. I chuckled a little bit. I sighed flapping my wings easily over lapping her in seconds and landing in front of the library. She landed a minute later.

“I win.”

“How?” She paused. “You cheated!”

“What, how did I cheat? You said just fly there and it did. My wing span is considerably larger than yours, I can fly faster than you because I can move just as fast. It’s your fault for not knowing I’m a dragon!”

“What are you two doing?” Twilight asked and I sighed.

“He cheated in a race.” Dash said.

“Fine you want to go again pony? I'll really cheat this time, you’ll never have a chance to beat me.”

“Why you little.” I changed to my full form and she backed up scared. I grabbed her and pulled her close to my face.

“Little what?” I growled and she shook scared. “I’m a dragon! Did you expect me to be slow?!”

“SEFFRON!” Twilight screamed. “PUT HER DOWN THIS INSTANT!” I sighed and set her down shrinking down to my baby form. She fell back scared.

“Crap.” I grumbled.

“What is wrong with you?!” Twilight asked going in front of me.

“What is wrong with me? What is wrong with her?! She had no reason to call me a cheat, and I screwed up.”

“You think?!”

“I, um got to go.” Dash said flying off quickly.

“Dash!” Twilight said and then sighed. “That was not good, she looked really scared. I want you to go an apologize to her. After what happen with the last time a dragon attacked, she’s still terrified of them.”

“You guys fought dragons?”

“I wouldn’t say fought would be the right word. More like nearly got crushed, eaten and killed.”

“What?” I said rather shocked, that didn’t make any sense, surely they could handle a single dragon easily.

“What do you mean what? Dragons are nearly impossible to handle without magic, and even then it has little affect on them. It took almost everything I had to bring him down, apparently he didn’t like Ponyville being here.”

“Really? But Celestia seemed really powerful, surely she could.”

“Oh yes easily, but I’m no where as powerful as her or Luna. We all have our own strengths, wait why am I telling you this? Go after her and apologize!” I teleported appearing on a cloud next to her.

“Dash.” She fell back, then got up turning to fly away. “WAIT!” She stopped and looked at me. Tears were running down her face, her whole body was saying run. “Please I didn’t mean to scare you.”

“Yeah well, you, you.” She looked around not able to find the right words.

“I’m sorry, I, I just have a hard time controlling my anger, in my world if you didn’t stand up for yourself, you died, only the strong lived, and I’m sorry. That’s no excuse, please I’m sorry.” She wiped her face.

“It’s fine, I shouldn’t have called you a cheater, I just didn’t realize you could move so fast.”

“Of course, and you can move faster than me.”

“What?”

“In my world Rainbow Drop was the fastest, she would leave any challenger in the dust, she only stopped because Luna blow off her wings while she saved millions of ponies. We were never the same after losing her.” She looked down.

“That’s your friend, not me.”

“I can teach you.” She looked at me.

“What?” I walked over to her and touched her wings. They glowed lightly, then shined as if made of metal glass.

“Just a little bit of magic and fixing.” She groaned and her wings spread blowing me back a little bit. “She could only manage two sonic rain booms without enhancing her wings. I came up with the idea in the middle of battle. She crushed so many armies with it.” I chuckled, I felt my face, I was crying again, it was weird.

“I’m, thanks.”

“I can’t lose my temper any more. I could hurt you guys, or some pony as well. Now then can you feel your wings?”

“Of course.”

“You need to think like your condensing your body, your cutting through the air, the edges are blades, your hardened and sharpened to a fine blade. Like there is nothing you can’t cut through. Just think that, again and again.”

I changed to my miniaturized dragon form and I flapped my wings making the cloud disappear. She hovered barely needing to move her wings.

“Whoa,” she said. “I’m barely moving, but I’m not falling!”

“Yep, now then, go up, I want to see how fast you can go.” She flapped her wings shooting through the air sending me flying back from the pressure.

She shot into the air and the sky lit up as she easily caused a sonic rain boom and a few seconds later she caused a second sonic rain boom sending out a ripple of air making it hard to keep flying. The night sky changed to light as if the sun was out for a few seconds.

“YEAH!” Dash shouted appearing next to me glowing brighter than the full moon above us. Dozens of ponies looked up at her. “I can’t believe I was able to do two of them!”

“Yep, and a third one if you train, just make sure when doing the third one, that you’re in an unlivable area.” She looked down realizing she had caused some damage to loosely strapped down things, but everything else was fine.

“Whoa, wait if I did that much damage that high up in the air with two.” She went a little pale and she stopped glowing slowly.

“I told you, she wiped out entire armies. The air pressure is so great that you could flatten entire cities with one well placed shot. She did a lot of good, more good than anyone ever thought she could.”

“And did you see me? I was glowing!” I chuckled.

“Yeah, can we go back to Twilight?”

“Race ya.”

“Wait.” I grabbed her. “Careful, like really careful, you may not realize it, but you’ll be able to easily do sonic rain booms. You can’t exactly turn it off, you’ll go faster than you realize going straight or straight down.”

“Oh.”

“And now I can’t beat you without magic.” She chuckled. “So just be careful alright, I don’t want you getting hurt.”

“I won’t.” We flew back and she landed a bit hard in front of Twilight causing the ground to shatter under her hooves. I landed softly next to her. “I got to adjust the landings, put way too much power into that.”

“OH MY GOSH!” Pinkie Pie screeched and all of them were giddy talking to Dash, Pinkie Pie talked so fast her words became gibberish. Even Fluttershy was a jitterbug asking her things.

“Stop, stop,” she said grinning. “I was only able to do this because of Seffron, he made my wings better, it’s only because of him that I was able to.” I smiled. “But I have a feeling that I might be in a lot of trouble, those sonic rain booms really cleared the weather.” They all looked up realizing that there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

“Don’ worry about it,” Twilight said. “I'll make sure it gets sorted out, but do you still think Seffron is bad?”

“Heck no!” I smiled a little bit. “Once I am able to do three of them, I'll never be able to get beaten!”

“Actually.” She looked at me. “While nothing was faster than you, and you were basically a huge weapon, you weren’t that hard to beat if someone was able to get close enough to you.” She appeared behind me.

“Really?” She asked with a smirk.

“Really.” She looked at me realizing I was on her back.

“Whoa.” Applejack said.

“I told you she was a weapon, not a warrior, she never slowed down long enough to get caught, that’s the only reason why she wasn’t killed off sooner.” I hugged Dash making her blush a little. I jumped off of her. “Ah sorry, I forgot. You just act so much like her, I couldn’t resist.” She smiled.

“It’s fine.”

“You’re world was skilled in war then?” Rarity asked. “It’s a scary thought, you must have refined everything to an art. To the absolute best it could be.”

“Something like that, but if you have problems with a single dragon, you wouldn’t have lasted a single day on the front lines.”

“So I was a leader of an army?” Applejack asked smiling.

“Not just an army, you lead the entire pony army, millions at your command.” I shook a little bit. “You weaved battle like a symphony of music, it was so beautiful. Even forces millions larger fell in single nights to your might. It was wonderful.” I smiled and stepped back.

“Okay that’s enough,” Twilight said frowning. “I don’t think this party got off on the right hoof.”

“Party?” I asked.

“Yeah silly!” Pinkie Pie shouted coming over to me and throwing me onto her back lightly. “You saved Ponyville! We wanted to throw a party!”

“Really? But I didn’t do anything.” They all stayed at me.

“You lead three Ursa Major away,” Rarity said. “And that’s nothing to you?!”

“Well no, I mean if there was like twenty of them, that might have been a small task, but just three is.” I paused realizing they were all staring at me. “I’m guessing three of them is a big thing here.”

“OF COURSE!” Twilight shouted and paused clearing her throat. “I had trouble beating an Ursa Minor, and I only put it to sleep. You beat three of them, maybe not in battle, but you saved Ponyville, that’s huge. Not many have even stood a chance against them, I was one of the first to beat one without dying.”

“Oh.”

“So um,” Pinkie Pie asked. “Before I killed ponies, did I do parties?”

“I don’t know, I didn’t know you before the war really, in fact before things started happening, I didn’t know any of you. It wasn’t till I helped create the, um elements of, harmony that I actually met you all.”

“WHAT!” They all shouted making me a little nervous.

“Please don’t yell at me.”

“You created the elements of harmony?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah, but they were destroyed in the battle with the lich, we were never able to make them again, at least not without AppleCran. She, was very important.”

“Oh yeah, your Princess Celestia was evil.” Dash said and I looked at her a bit confused.

“Well queen, not princess, but so?”

“Well our Princess Celestia made them with Princess Luna,” Twilight said. “As a matter of fact we all have them still.” I stared at her as my heart dropped. “We’ve won many battles because of them.”

“You still have the elements of harmony?”

“Yeah, I’m laughter.” Pinkie Pie said.

“Magic.” Twilight said.

“Honesty.” Applejack said.

“Generosity.” Rarity said.

“I’m loyalty.” Dash said.

“And I’m kindness.” Fluttershy said a little quietly.

“Really,” I said. “That’s not the same from my world, mine were madness, power, leadership, intelligence, pride, and cruelty.”

“Cruelty?” Fluttershy asked and I paused.

“Um, yeah.”

“Wait you never told us about Fluttershy,” Dash said. “Or at least not more than she was a leader.”

“She was the next great leader after AppleCran, but she was known more for being able to get intelligence from anything. She was the most cruel thing I ever laid my eyes on, she even made the dragon king cry like a baby at the sight of her.” I chuckled. “She was wonderful, she always loved skinning me to wake me up. It was nice.” I looked around, all their jaws were dropped.

“What?” Fluttershy asked almost too quietly as if she couldn’t believe her ears, in fact none of them looked like they could.

“I don’t understand?” I said a bit confused.

“You were in love with some pony that hurt you every morning?” Applejack asked shocked.

“Well it wasn’t just morning, we played around all the time. She loved chasing me, I always thought she was too nice to me though, I still miss it.” They were all silent. “What is wrong with you all, you act as though you’ve never been in love.”

“Not with someone which hurts you!” Rarity shouted.

“I don’t understand, how else do you show love?”

“By being with them, telling them you love them, hugging and kissing them. Not hurting them or doing anything bad to them!” Rarity said sternly with a little bit of panic in her voice, I looked at them all. They weren’t joking around.

“That’s cute, I guess?” I chuckled lightly.

“Okay it’s over, no more, we are here for a party!” Twilight said stomping her hoof having also been caught in the conversation.

“Yay!” Pinkie Pie shouted and walked in first. I stared at a cup of apple cider after a while. The words party animal came to mind seeing Pinkie going crazy.

It wasn’t just Twilight and her friends either, it was actually a large gathering of over twenty of the town’s well known ponies, or I should say well known to this world. I only really recognized a hand full of them from my world, and even then they weren’t the same color or had the same name.

“Seffron,” I looked at a concerned Twilight. “Are you not enjoying yourself?” I thought for a moment.

“I’m enjoying myself quite a bit, I’m just not used to this.” That was more true than I wanted to admit. I wasn’t used to being around ponies any more, at least not ones that didn’t fear me.

“I see.” I smiled.

“That’s not exactly what I meant, I’ve never really gone to a party before. We never had time for it, but it feels nice seeing them all like this. You’re all so happy, it’s been over a hundred years since I’ve seen a real smile of happiness.”

“Oh.”

“It’s nice.”

“Seffron,” Pinkie sang. “Come dance with me.” She pulled me out of the chair and to the dance floor, the music went up. I danced with her. She was nothing like the one I knew, she was actually enjoying ponies without eating them.

The party went by almost too fast and I headed home at day break. I walked into the cottage and Trixie turned over on the bed yawning. I closed the door and locked it behind me going over to her and changing form. I wrapped my arms around her.

“What happen?”

“They threw me a party, I don’t think they wanted to invite you.”

“That’s fine, did you enjoy yourself?”

“Yes.” I said honestly.

“Good.” She said as we fell asleep.