The Mane Six and Spike entered into the Castle being escorted by the royal guards. As they made their way to the main room of the castle the guards halted and knocked on the gigantic twin door that lead to the room in which the princess' resided.

An angelic voice spoke from the other side of the door, "Enter". The guards nodded to each other and both pushed opened the doors for the young ponies and dragon to enter. Standing in the middle of the room stood Princess Celestia herself along with her youngest and only sister, Princess Luna.

"Twilight," Princess Celestia smiled elegantly with joy as she spotted her student and her friends. "How great it is to see you all again."

"Princess." Twilight and everyone bowed and then stood again. "It is great to see you as well your highness, but I only wish that it was under more pleasant terms." Princess Celestia looked confused as did Princess Luna. The Princess' exchanged glances at each other before Princess Celestia asked the question that was on both their minds.

"What is troubling you Twilight?" Twilight was a little nervous to reply for she did not want to trouble the Princess if it turned out to be no big deal, but something happened to Spike and Discord must be behind it.

Twilight took in a deep breath and then replied, "I believe that Di-." Suddenly a burst of smoke appeared between the Princess' and the young ponies. "Well hello there! I didn't know my favorite ponies would be here! It's so great to see you all again."

Everyone looked a bit surprised by Discord's entrance but Princess Celestia remained calm and appeared not to be alarmed of his sudden appearance. "What brings you here Discord?" The Princess' looked at Discord who only seemed to have his eyes set on one specific person, but averted his eyes and looked at the Princess.

"Well, your highness, I was just enjoying the morning breeze while walking in the garden when I suddenly got the feeling that someone was talking about me so I decided to POP in for a visit!" The once evil-being laughed a little at his own joke. "So, what was it that you all were saying?" Discord's eyes went from Pony to Pony looking at each of their expressions. Some of them looked angry, others scared, then his eyes landing on one lonely dragon.

Spike stood behind Twilight with one hand on here back leg slightly shivering, but trying his best not to show it. "Oh isn't that little Spike? My how much you've grown…" Discord let out a loud laugh which made Spike and the others flinch just a tad.

Twilight looked back at Spike who was shaking with nervousness. Seeing this made Twilight step in front of Spike so as to show him some comfort. "That's enough Discord. We know what you did back at my library!" Discord stopped laughing and looked down at Twilight who was in a protective stance right in front of Spike. "You came to Ponyville, trashed the library, and then hurt Spike!"

I small smirk formed as Discord spoke. "Moi? Why would I do such a thing? I am reformed now." His smirk grew as Twilight became noticeable irritated.

"Princess, I am telling the truth." Spike then came out from behind Twilight and stood next to her. "I know what I saw Princess and I know what I felt." The baby dragon rubbed his side where the bandage was.

Princess Celestia pondered the situation that was taken place. She then turned her head towards her sister, Princess Luna, and they both nodded in agreement.

"… Discord, would you excuse us for a second." Before Discord could say anything Princess Celestia teleported him outside the room and closed the doors.

"Twilight, I will most certainly look into this, but I have to tell you that when Fluttershy and the rest of you had helped reformed Discord I made sure that once he was at the Palace he would not be able to leave. I put a spell over the Palace to ensure that he would remain within the Castle grounds."

Spike pushed past Twilight and approached the Princess' with his hands together and head slightly cast down. "But… your highness'…" Princess Celestia raised her hoof ever so slightly and said, "Do not worry Spike. I will look into every detail too make sure that if he did slip out that it will not happen again."

Spike looked up at the Princess, "Yes, but there was more to it. He… I… I had a dream, and that dream showed all my friends… and they all… left."

The group looked at Spike questioningly as they waited for him to finish. "What do you mean Spike?" AJ walked forward to stand next to Twilight and the others.

"What I mean is… Discord gave me a dream and you all vanished into thin air! He said he was going to try and destroy the Elements of harmony once and for all!" Spike looked back and forth between his friends.

Princess Luna was the first to speak. "If what you say is true young dragon then why is it that he has let you pass this message on without bothering to take action on the elements?"

"That is because I wanted him to pass the message." An eerie laughter erupted in the room and the lights were suddenly extinguished!

"What's going on?" "What is happening!?" "Stay calm every pony!" Voices ran out as panic and surprise filled the room. The laughter grew as the girls tried to turn the lights on.

Spikes POV

The room is so dark I can't even see my hand in front of my face. "Twilight, guys, where are you?" I turned around to try and find the others but all I can hear is them talking frantically. Rarity's angelic voice broke through all the noise as she spoke, "What's happening?", and I immediately start walking in that direction.

"Rarity? Is that you?" I held my arms out in front of me hoping to find some pony. The talking started to quiet down and then I heard nothing.

I stopped in my tracks hoping to hear the sound of my friends talking, hoofs hitting the glass floor… just anything! I began to breath heavily as adrenaline ran through me. It felt as if it had been hours before…. "Ahhhhh!"

"GUYS!" I ran in the direction of the screams. 'How in the world did they get so far away? They were all standing right behind me…'

Suddenly a blinding light obstructed my vision which made me clamp my eyes shut as I was flung backwards to the other side of the room by a burly wind.

"I told you Spike… you won't be able to stop me. The fun is just getting started." I could hear Discord's voice echoing off the walls of the room, but as I opened my eyes he was no where in site, none of my friends were either!

"Twilight! Rainbow Dash! Any pony!" They were all gone… Discord, what have you done to my friends?

My goodness... I can't believe how long this took me to put up! I am very sorry for that guys! I did not expect there to be so many people interested in this story! :) But this isn't just going to be any ordinary story anymore. ;) I won't reveal much but I hope to have the next chapter up by this week or next week.

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