Chapter 2 – Nothing Special

Authors Note: Eh. So, I'm attempting to set into play the mold for the darker things to come on later in the story. Hope you enjoy it :D

Twilight woke up with her head on the desk, the book still open. She groaned, and slowly lifted her head off the desk, feeling very tired. She rubbed her eyes with her hooves, and she twisted her body to see over to where she could hear and smell everything going on in the kitchen. Obviously Spike was cooking breakfast.

"Oh Spike... you're up already?" Twilight asked Spike, yawning shortly after.

"Yeah, uh Twilight, not meaning to pop your bubble or anything, but..." Spike was careful with his words, he knew how sensitive Twilight was when she was missing her schedule.

"Just tell me what time it is." Twilight groaned, stretching and attempting to get up from her chair.

"You sure? I mean, really, you're not going to be happy."

"Come on Spike, just say it." Twilight was getting very frustrated, and her voice directly displayed that.

"Are you sure?"

"TELL ME!" Twilight yelled at Spike. She felt terrible at yelling at him, but she was tired and frustrated, and Spike knew that.

"OKAY, OKAY! Geez, you get so angry some times." Spike said in retaliation, "It's... 11:30." Spike instantly knew what would happen. Twilight's mouth gaped open. She nearly fell out of her chair.

"E-e-eleven thirty!" Twilight got up and started to rant, waving her hooves and pacing herself around the room, "I MISSED SO MANY THINGS! I NEED TO COLLECT THAT ENCHANTED GEMSTONE, AND THE CHALK, AND THEN I NEED SOME OF THOSE EMBLEMS- I mean, uh, well..." Twilight faltered. It wouldn't have dawned on Spike unless Twilight had faltered, but because she did, Spike realized that all those strange items she needed had something to do with the book. His realization of this didn't help Spike's curiosity, it made him wonder even more what was so important that she had to keep it even a secret from him.

"Anyways, uh... I need to get a lot of stuff done. Spike I'm putting you in charge of the library while I'm gone." Twilight said slowly, and carefully, like she was afraid she was going to accidentally spill something, "Anyways I'll be back later Spike, bye." At that, she quickly grabbed a bag from the kitchen and rushed off to make up for lost time. Once he was sure Twilight was gone, Spike grasped at the opportunity to finally see the book.

As Spike began to scour the shelves, he began to think, and thought about the reasons he was searching for the book, more or less, why he was so curios. Searching for the book with a black frame (which was all he saw of it yesterday) he pondered if this obsessive curiosity of his was natural, such as if every pony had such a curiosity as him. 'Maybe It's just 'cause I'm a dragon, since we appreciate treasure so much? Hm...' Spike pondered, scouring. 'Certainly something to think about.'

Finally Spike managed to come to the only book he could find with a black cover. Eagerly, he grabbed it off the shelf, running over to the desk Twilight had studied on the night before. There was no name on the front of the book, but instead an a strange red eye. It was entirely leather, the eye appearing to have been painted on, and it seemed quite weathered and dusty.

Spike had begun flipping to the first page when he realized something, he hadn't payed attention to page Twilight was studying. Spike hit his head on the desk realizing he had made such a careless mistake. Spike lifted his head up from the desk, and began to flip again, knowing even though he wouldn't be able to find exactly whatever she was studying, at least he could find what general subject she was studying.

Many of the pages appeared to be worn away or blank, but Spike kept flipping until he found the first page with a spell. The spell had a hand drawn picture of a floating ball or orb of some sort, with lines coming out of it. It read, The Orb of Light, this spell will summon an orb which will illuminate the area around you, and only you, this-' Spike stopped reading, having gotten the basic idea, and flipped again until he found another page which contained a spell. On this page there was a picture of a giant diamond and it read, The Jewel, this spell will call forth a beautiful jewel, by-' Spike stopped reading this too, having gotten the basic idea. Each of the examples he had read were only descriptions of the magic, it seemed more to be a field guide then instructions, and because of that Spike still couldn't narrow down which one Twilight used. As he closed the mysterious book, he could already tell what Twilight was studying, summoning. To Spike, it didn't seem like the book was about dark summoning either.

Spike grabbed the book off the desk and went back to set the book back in it's appropriate place on the shelf, wondering to himself. 'If Twilight was studying normal summoning magic, why would she want it a secret?' he wondered, 'It could be that she's summoning something special for someone, and wants to keep it secret. Maybe she's summoning a gift or something... yeah, that's probably it.' Spike hoped he had come to the conclusion. He couldn't be sure, as the book had only contained descriptions as of what he saw. Spike knew he could always ask Twilight, but he was sure that this would affect their friendship. Spike knew that however he handled it, what Twilight was studying wasn't (or at least seemed to be) anything special compared to her other studies.

Authors Note: Yeah, I know these chapters are short. This chapter was more of a chore chapter, but... I got it done. May not be my best work, I revised it though. REMEMBER, point out my mistakes if you see them.