on one dismal day a lost pegasus filly stumbles apon scylla and scylla becomes smitten with it and treats it like her own young to the point of only eating  the veg/pony friendly bits of her food and mashing it up for the little filly to eat it from her mouth.
this goes on for a while as scylla cares for the lil filly, keeping her warm fed and safe until the filly is taken from her as ponies fear for its safety being left with a dragon
this make quite the upset scylla and tho she still does her main duty of keeping unwanted things out, she sulks and begins to stop eating, and as for this particular company to have a dragon of poor quality showcased as 'guard dog' is quite the no-go which ques the main poner as not quite satisfactory shown above
he dislikes seeing scylla in the way she is and tries different way to cheer her up, testing different foods, changing her metal collar  for one with abit more plush to the underside of it and even trying to stay close enough to groom her.
nothing seems to quite work until he remembers the little filly she had for a while and decides to try looking for where it was taken to whilst still doing his job and trying to get scylla from sulking, which she does start to take notice on the pony and begins to prefer having him giving her feed and moving her between the different locations before more guard dogs are brought in, in the form of diamond dogs .
in a last ditched effort to cheer this dragon up he takes her into his apartment thats within the building their in, choosing to try and bathe her in his bathroom compared to just hosing her down in a concreted area were shes heavily restricted with moving.
this does seem to work much to the other unicorn and ponies tasked with caring for her cheer, as scylla had begun to behave more aggressively so that the main poner was called on to help move/ attend her.
during this time of small success, the main poner does end up finding where the filly was taken to and begins to look into it further, as even though hes slightly lifted scyllas mood, she still is dropping condition as time goes on.
as the poner find more of where this filly had ben taken to, it had grown quite abit , now more in size of the cmcs, and he soon finds out that this still little pegasus filly is more dragon than pony in behavior; choosing to bite, kick and play rough to the point  of worried questioning but the staff of the orphanage she resides in.
 due to his nagging fear of loosing his job if scylla drops under his watch, he begins to consider adopting the little filly, but first begins with a few initial visits and researching into what he needs to go to adopt her.
when the day come when hes begun to fill out and get cleared to adopt this filly, he gets placed in an empty playroom with her.
the little fillies feathers left a mess as her wild demeanor keeps her from being groomed and handled properly, the pony tasked to rangle the little filly only just able to muzzle her to avoid her biting the only pony foolish enough to  consider adopting her.
the little pegasus begins to cause chaos in the empty room, bolting and bucking wildly around the main poner, head butting his leg before spinning around to kick up and bolt off again around the room.
when the filly gets close he lowers his head and grabs her in his mouth as he lets out a low grumbled growl,  the little filly stops its struggles as he lets go of her, only staring up at him in a daze with her ares pricked forward at him.
the other pony watches in amazement and fear as he places a folder from the table on the floor and lays down, keeping his fore legs apart as the filly calmly sits between them, staring at the folder before them.
so as the filly sits the the main poner, he makes a deal with her, saying if she can be a good girl here is a big surprise when hes able to take her home with him, that being reunited with scylla, as it was her that he remember that little trick to make her settle when she got too wild with scylla.
after hes finished talking with the filly and  get her to try and be a little more behaved, he removes her muzzle and goes to leave, but a tug at his tail stops him as the little filly holds up her folder.
he give her a little head boop and lets her know he'll be back in a few day before he exits, taking the items back and leaving with a copy of a photo of the little filly.
when he returns he begins to sort him home for the arrival of his soon to be daughter, sorting and rearranging items as he also looks for a frame for the photo.
it is not long until he starts to get knocks on his door, placing the found frame on his counter next to the photo he answers the knock with thoughts of it being something all to similar with needing to help with scylla, with to the panic of a new intern rapidly increasing knock, makes him see that its a high chance its that.
the young intern before him panicked and stress informs him of the dragons unruliness, scaring half the life from the intern, unsettling the new diamond dogs and her stubbornness to move.
with a slight chuckle and shake of his head he goes down with the intern and calms scylla with the cheers of the other around him. with him seeing scylla progressively more stressed, he decides that hed take back to his room, like the many other times before, ready to prepare her the tub to soak in or just to sit and listen to the radio with him.
as she a little too easily lead back to his room with no issues at all, he leaves her for a moment in the entry way.
scylla looks around the now messy room, boxes and various items stacked on each other, the once tidy and laid back apartment has a certain subtle chaotic feel to it. pictures and albums sprawled on the counter, one photo catching her eye in particular.
a scruffy looking little filly staring forward with a grumpy pout, but something about it seem to resonate, something familiar. the messy curls of her mane to the fluff of whats visible of her wings, stroking the photo, and trying to piece the emotion she feels for this image, is quickly stop as the main pony startles her, fumbling over himself  as she was not meant to see the photo just yet.
scylla places the photo back on the counter and stares longingly at the main poner, a small soft smile forms on her face before she pounces and tackles him onto the ground, he lets breif yelp out as they land on the floor, scylla ontop of him, her tail flicking from side to side as she smother his faces with little kisses.
his yelp had alerted a passer bys from the hallway, a unicorn and pony, both also fellow dragon keeps like him, bursts through his door and pulls scylla off from him.  using his magic the unicorn manges the strength to take scylla to their holds and the other pony checks to make sure main poner is ok.
his fellow pony is stunned to see him unharmed, but is worried as his reactions to the ponys calls go un answers until the main poner goes completely red-faced.
after a short time and a hot brew later, his fellow pony comforts him, the sudden affection he had gotten stirred complicated feelings within him,  he had always been drawn to dragons as a young colt, but his reflection and actions make him question if he was really trying to cheer this dragon up or was he subconsciously trying to court her? the new items he had gotten her, the fear and guilt of her health dropping causing him to venture on obscure quests, leading him to adopt a child of all things!
he sat with his friend for what seemed like hours, trying to make sense of himself.
it cant be true, these feeling must be more shock than anything... how could he gain feeling for a creature that cant communicate with him through anything but basic needs?
but her reaction? how could it be from something of more or less an exotic animal? her eyes her face... it was just something not of a pet.
he jumps slightly as hes drawn out of his deep thoughts.
agreeing that hes been over worked, hes put onto rest days, not of choice but after the incident had been reported he had been put on mandatory vacation .  although this gave him the time to sort what he had started out, his thought still went back to scylla.
a few days pass until he gets call on by the unicorn that pulled scylla from him. as hard and consistently as he and the rest of the keepers tried, they had all failed to gain and condition back onto scylla. her call echoed through the lower levels of the building, rasped and almost unending, and refused to eat, he had no choice but go behind orders and get help from the main poner.
 
the unicorn takes him to where theyve be holding her, relocating her to a more reclusive are  to give the diamond dogs ears a break from her cried bellows.
going through the tried and failed attempts to  silence her roars, the tired unicorns ears are met with the beauty of a quiet room as they entered. the only sound that was heard was the scraped slide of the metal bowl, flung from the bottom of scylla's cage, her coughed chirps and dancing claws only grew louder to their approach.
removing the makeshift covers from the cage, the main poner takes a long look at her, her rich purple scales dulled and she showed more ribs than what had been classified as healthy for the kind of water dragon she is. her eyes lay heavy but overjoyed to finally see him again.
he stayed with her by the cage for a while, feeding her and encouraging her to drink and try for rest, but she pushed her tired frame to stay awake, leaning against the bars to be close to him.
 
looking back the unicorn, they both knew that they could leave her like this. choosing to take her back to where she settled best, they made the small trek back to the main poner's apartment, setting a pile of piles and blankets for her to lay on as they both watched over her, the main poner laying next to her as she begins to fall asleep.
scylla sleeps for most of the next couple days, resting long enough for him to do a few more check ins at the orphanage where the final bits of documents are almost complete.
after his last outing he returns home, scylla groggily waking from her sleep and the unicorn looking up from his book as the main poner puts his saddle bags by the counter.
the unicorn puts his book down and makes his way to the door, with a cracked stretch he goes out for his errands, confident that hed be fine on his own with scylla.
with a big yawn scylla gets up from her soft pile of pillow and blankets and maker her way toward the main poner, nuzzling herself under his neck.
her tired soft voice spooks him as she speaks, she begins to thank him for the care he has given her, the hours of lost sleep to ensure her well-being and she apologizes for what trouble she had caused him.
he stands stunned for a moment, trying to take in the sudden world of this dragon, her giving nothing but growls and roars to a soft and elegant voice.
his face flushes as she walks down towards the bathroom. all the times he had washed and bathed her suddenly felt wrong, dirty even, if this wasnt just some sort of dream or hallucination.
before his next thoughts could take their place he finds himself by the bathroom door, auto pilot had  kicked in before he knew what was what until the sight of not scylla in the bathroom hit.
a slight panic set in before her voice called from his room, she sat by his bed as she watched him sheepishly enter his room.
his voice trembled as she climbed on his bed and gestured him to join her.
a few hours had passed and the unicorn returns from his errands, curiosity claims the unicorn as the sound of a female voice is heard from other side of the door.
the unicorn enters, following the voices puffing and panting as comments are purred out on between moans, as he quickly looks around the room, he fails to find scylla and ends up following the voices the  bedroom.
 scylla sprawled on her back, her arms clenching the sheets and her hind legs locked around the main poner as she mewls at him not to stop as he fucks her on the edge of his bed,  her tail curls over itself as her claws  open and close with each thrust.
the unicorn watches on in horror, his friend  locked within the embrace of a dragoness and the uncertain discovery of dragons possibly being more sentient than initially though if  his ear weren't just playing nothing but a trick on him.