Dragon in the Cold
Chapter 11
Twilight Sparkle woke up; it was her first day of being free from house arrest. Applejack told her and her friends to meet them at Sugercube Corner. She also said to bring whatever supplies you would need. Twilight packed some romance novels, a couple Daring Doo books for Rainbow Dash, 5 ounces of hay and bread separate. She packed a purple sleeping bag, boots, and a coat in case the weather gets chilly. She opened the door and stepped outside, breathing in the fresh spring air. She locked the door and started trotting towards Sugercube Corner.
When Twilight reached to the bakery, it seems all of her friends were already there. They were gathered around the map. Twilight immediately joined the conversation.
"Okay, I saw Spike at the top of Scup Mountain, he casted that spell, and ran through the meadow. We should head back there, but go around the mountain, to get to the meadow. They are probably camping somewhere like a cave. And if we need to-"Applejack tried to finish.
"Wait, wait, did you say Spike casted a spell?" Twilight asked
"Yeah I suppose so, we all saw him do it. It seemed he shot an oval to the ground, then an another oval in front of him, he jumped through, and he was at the ground, safe and sound." Applejack replied
"I remember teaching him that he can cast spells, he never got the hang of it. I guess he just figured it out, and he is doing the same technique, just thinking about different things." Twilight said
"Well, like I was saying, Spike now has these powers, so he is a threat to all of us. If he is threatening to hurt any of us, I don't like it, but, we will have to proceed with defense." Applejack said
All the ponies nodded in agreement, except for Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, they didn't like the idea so much, and no pony did. But it was the only thing they could do.
"Well let's head out! Let's go find Spike and his, uh friend!" Rainbow Dash said enthusiastically.
"Oh yeah, what about his new, friend? What will we do with her?" Applejack asked, looking into all the ponies' eyes, when she met Twilights it looked like she had an idea. "Do ya have an idea Twi?" Applejack asked.
"Well yeah, we need Spike, and I'm afraid this female dragon might turn out to be a problem."
"Well how do you recommend we get rid of her?"
"I can teleport her away, and then erase Spike's memory of her teleporting away."
"You sure Twi?" Applejack asked
"Yes I am, unless there are any other plans."
There were no more. "Alright, well that's the best we got, everypony, let's get saddled up and start heading North. " Applejack said, all the ponies gathered up their supplies and put it in there saddlebags, the six left Sugercube Corner. The mares trotted the same path as they did, Applejack led the group. They reached Everfree forest. They continued to trot for hours, when they saw the mountain where Spike had casted his spell.
"Alright, we just need to go around this mountain." Applejack said
"No problem." Twilight replied instantly. She was gone in a flash, where had she gone? Soon the other 5 ponies were at the other side of the mountain, joining Twilight.
"Wow Twilight! What did you do, exactly? Rainbow Dash asked
"I used a teleportation spell, then teleported you guys here." Twilight replied answering RD's question.
The 5 ponies found the meadow quickly, and started to trot through it, night had fell quickly, and the ponies had to stop and make camp. They started a fire and they all sat by it, telling stories and eating warm bread. Then they heard a noise, like a, explosion, Twilight looked in the direction, and saw fire, going 200 feet in the air.
"What in tarnation is that?" Applejack asked, all the ponies stood agape at this, and then, it looked like, a pony was running up the fire, a blue unicorn with a light silver mane. Was it, Trixie? All the other ponies looked at it, theirs mouths agape.
"Well, I think I know where Spike is…" Fluttershy said. The ponies stomped out the fire, hoping whoever was up there did not see them.
Spike woke up randomly, he was lying on Endeen's chest, and he quietly got up and walked to the cave entrance. The burnet body of Trixie lay in front of the cave. He thought about her, he never liked her, but not enough to kill her. But she wanted to skin them alive! Self-defense was the best way. He leaned against the cave side, looking up in the starry night sky. It had been about 4 days since his last encounter with his old friends, but he couldn't help it, he missed them dearly.
Something caught his eye, about 2 miles back was a fire, he stared at it for about 30 seconds, and the fire suddenly went out. What was going on? He knew that there were some goats that would camp out a lot of the times here. It was probably just goats. He stared at where the fire used to be, he felt something tap him on his back. He fell forward in surprise. It was only Endeen.
"Did you have a bad dream?" Endeen asked
"No, I just, woke up I guess." Spike said, he left out the part about the fire, Endeen would probably jump to conclusions and thought that someone was coming for them again.
"Well, I'm going to go back to sleep." Endeen replied as she walked back into the cave yawning. Spike got up, and leaned against the wall again. Once he was sure Endeen was asleep, he was going to find out who these people were, just to make sure. With his good vision in dark, he was able to navigate easily towards through the rocks. He continued to walk towards were the fire was. There were some bushes, but he did not need them, he used his invisibility spell, and walked quietly towards were the campfire was. He walked the 2 miles invisible. He found Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Twilight? What was she doing here? Had it been three months already? They all sat quietly around a burnt campfire.
"Fluttershy, do you really think Spike is up there?" RD asked
"Well, who else could it be, this is where we last saw him." Fluttershy replied
"Well, am I the only one who thought they saw a pony soul in that fire?" Twilight asked
All the ponies shook their heads; apparently they saw a disembodied pony soul. Spike wondered, how long have they been here? He must have only been asleep for ten minutes, they couldn't be her long. He needed to go back to the cave, he needed to get Endeen and run, but when he tried to back up, he stepped on a twig, it snapped under his wait. Shit, he thought.
All the ponies' heads turned.
"Who's there?" Applejack said angrily, Spike of course didn't answer Applejack used all of her years of apple bucking to kick the bush, her hoofs connected to Spike's chest, he got knocked back, the wind was knocked out of him. Being kicked in the chest by the best athlete in Ponyville, it's going to hurt. Spike heard cracking, she broke some of his ribs. Son of a… he thought.
"Well I definitely hit something." Applejack said to her friends she went around the bush to see, nothing. Spike was still invisible. But he was gasping for air, Applejack rushed over and pinned him where she thought he was. Spike turned visible again, he finally got some air back into his lungs, he opened his eyes. Shit, he was surrounded by ponies.
"Now I was only doing what was necessary Spike." Applejack said. She was going to attempt to knock him out, so it would be easier to carry his body back to Ponyville that way. She started to bring her hoof down, but adrenaline shot through Spike's body, he caught her hoof.
"I don't think that's…" Spike coughed "a good idea…" Spike said. Applejack was stunned, a small dragon just held up the strongest athlete in Ponyville. Spike was still holding up AJ's hoof, no matter how hard she tried, Spike always got the best. He casted a fire spell, and started to hurt Applejack.
"Ouch, what the hay Spike!" Applejack yelled her voice echoed through the forest.
Spike backed up quickly, he was now 15 feet away from the ponies. He was about to speak when Rainbow Dash flew over and pinned him to the ground, his adrenaline had worn off, and he couldn't move, he couldn't even cast a spell.
"Where do you think you're going?" RD said harshly
Blood was coming from Spike's mouth, his eyes rolled back into his head, but he was still breathing. Rainbow Dash hit him too hard, and probably knocked the living daylight out of him
"Rainbow! Did ya get Spike-"Applejack saw the body of the dragon, at least he was still breathing, barely.
"Oh my! Rainbow Dash! Why did you do that?" Twilight yelled, with tears running down her cheeks.
"Um, well, you see. I don't know I thought this is what I was supposed to do!" RD said
"Twilight and Rainbow calm down, good news is, we can take Spike back, bad news we probably broke some of his ribs." Applejack said, trying to bring their spirits up. It didn't work, they didn't know in what position Spike was in, he could be in a coma, or just passed out from pain. All they knew that they had to get some sleep.
Applejack woke up, the sun was rising, she stuck up her hoofs stretching, she walked over to the other sleeping ponies, and she woke them up. Twilight was sleeping next to Spike, he had dried blood on his mouth, and at least his eyes came back into position. She felt bad for him, but she knew this was for the better. She shook Spike gently, he didn't respond, she just wanted to make sure he didn't wake up. She then shook Twilight awake. Twilight blinked many times, she looked up at Applejack. She didn't say anything; she stood up, and stretched, letting out a moan.
She sighed seeing Spike in his current position. She felt bad for the little guy, but she knew this was for the best.
"Well, I just figured something out Twi." Applejack said
"And what's that?" Twilight replied
"Well, since Spike is now 15, you can have a relationship, if you want. It says that no pony can have sexual encounters with a youngling, fewer than 14. Spike's 15." Applejack watched as Twilights expression grew with happiness, she could have her Spike back, finally.
"Ready to head back?" Twilight asked, putting Spike on his back.
"Yeah sure, come one everypony!" Applejack said
The ponies continued towards Ponyville, the made their way back, they went through the forest, they traveled for hours, but they finally made it out of the forest, they saw Ponyville, only about 2 miles away. They all agreed that they had to put Spike on a table, and strap him down so he doesn't escape.
"So Twilight, when Spike loses his memory, where will it go?" Pinkie asked
"Well, the memory will still be there, the only way he regains the memories, is if he encounters the other dragon again. Simple as that." Twilight said
"I feel kind of bad for the other dragon." Fluttershy said
Endeen woke up, her friend was gone.
"Spike, where are you?" Endeen said, but she looked for hours, she couldn't find Spike anywhere, she assumed the worst. Those ponies must of took Spike, her eyes went red with anger, she had love, she thought she could live happily again. No, she was going to find him, in any way she could.
She walked out the cave, and walked around in the meadow for hours, crying a river, she then saw a black pony, flying in a carriage, which was this. The pony was taller than most, and she had a black coat, a purple and blue main, swaying in the wind, her tail was too. She had a moon cutie mark, her voice was beaming, and she was very intimidating.
"Hello, dragon, I am Princess Luna, I request you to help me." Princess Luna said
"Um, in what way?" Endeen replied, her eyes still red.
"My sister, Celestia has been taking advantage of me lately, basically, a civil war will break out, will join me to help fight for Equestria?" Luna said
"Well what I get in return?" Endeen asked
"Well, I, what do you want?" Luna replied
"I want that one day, soon, that I will cross paths with my dearest friend, Spike the dragon." Endeen said
"Well, sure of course." Luna's horn glowed, a small beam shot out of it. "The deed is done. Please, step in my carriage."
Endeen stepped in the carriage sitting next to Princess Luna, Luna told the guards to go, the Pegasus guards took off. Endeen and Luna started flying towards Luna's camp.
Until next chapter…
A:N Hey guys, I am going to separate this story, and continue it into another story. It will still be a Spilight, but that might change. Look out for my next story: "The Equestrian War". It will continue the story, Spike will still have the same skills, Endeen will indeed pop back in, but there are still some chapters that I will put in this story. Stay tuned!