Prologue: The Life of the Guardian
Wryn was drenched with sweat as he pulled himself atop a hill that overlooked the town of Ponyville, he wiped the sweat from his eyes so he could get a better look of the town. It was near ten o'clock at night and Wryn hoped that he would have gotten here before sundown so he could meet the locals.
"Seems that I'll have to find a place to camp until tomorrow," Wryn sighed as he began to light a smokeless fire using his hands, "I wouldn't want to appear as the bad guy now would I?" Wryn's thoughts were cut short as he heard voices through the dense cover of trees that surrounded his camp site.
"But Twilight! Can't you stay a teensy-weensy while longer?" exclaimed a bright voice from the other side of the foliage, "We haven't even brought out the cake yet!"
"Pinkie, I need to get some rest, I have been at every single one of your parties since the beginning of this week! And I'm pretty sure you will have another one planned for tomorrow, so I promise to stay for the next one," came an exasperated groan from Twilight. This whole time Wryn was stock-still as he didn't want his presence to be known until he showed up in town the next morning, otherwise who knows how these two ponies would react? Wryn let out a sigh of relief as the two voices retreated into the distance.
"That was a close one" Wryn murmured to himself as he continued to set up his tent that he would sleep in for the night. Wryn was caught unaware as he suddenly heard the sound of somepony approaching through the trees. Great, just what I was trying to avoid, Wryn thought to himself as the rustling of the leaves grew louder. The pony was oblivious to all around her until she ran face-first into Wryn.
"Yeowch!" Wryn shouted in pain as his forhead collided with the horn of the purple unicorn. A likewise reaction was experienced with her, until she noticed what she ran into.
"Pardon- wait, who are you?" she inquired, "I've never seen a dragon like you before."
Wryn was stunned, Did she just say 'A dragon like you'?, apparently this pony wasn't phased by his appearance in a secluded part of the woods, he had expected anypony to turn tail and run. "Ahem," Wryn began, "I am one of the last survivors of my kind, the Divine Dragons, we were nearly wiped out due to the bloodlust of some crazed human, I was going to wait until dawn to show myself so I wouldn't intimidate anypony in town" Wryn explained.
"But why are you here is my question?" Insisted Twilight.
Wryn took a deep breath, "If you really want to know, I'll tell you everything."
End of Chapter One