JonnotheHedgehog

Draco Flash stared down at his near-empty glass of apple cider. The night before Hearth’s Warming Eve day, and he was spending it alone at the Thunderwing Rock Club. Even though it was the bat pony’s favourite place to hang out in Manehattan, he didn’t exactly enjoy the notion of spending Hearth’s Warming alone in a bar. Or alone at all, for that matter. Nopony seemed to pay him any mind, considering he had a bit of a reputation as a lone wolf these days. His potential crush, a pegasus mare named Comet Rain, was dating Firestorm, which wouldn’t be all bad if the latter wasn’t a huge ass who ruined Draco

Draco Flash was laying upon a small cloud just over the small village of Ponyville, facing up at the mostly clear blue sky. He had his large black bat wings outstretched and his legs were spread out like a starfish, with a face that just screamed "I am bored out of my mind somebody help me or kill me". Absolutely nothing interesting was happening that day, nor had anything interesting happened in the last few days. Or weeks. He sighed up at the sky, praying to Celestia above that SOMEthing interesting would happen in his life right this minute. A changeling attack? Discord returning? Anything. Just get him off this cloud and doing something p

"Nero, your mother and I will be going on a mission tomorrow." "Huh? Where're you going?" "We're going to Oblivion Forest, to look for some Pokémon that've gone missing." "Oooh, can I come? Pleeease?!" "I'm afraid not this time, son. Oblivion Forest's really dangerous. But we'll leave you enough money for food and Uncle Jarod'll come over every day to see you're alright." "Awww, okay..." "Don't worry, we'll be home soon." The last proper conversation Nero had with his parents ran through his mind the second he regained consciousness. Was he dead? ...no, he could feel himself breathing. Shakily and roughly, but still breathing. The pan