"Sweet Celestia..." Twilight quivered, her face like Rarity's, was noticeably full of fear. Both didn't utter a single word, as they listened to the intruder's footsteps, echo throughout the library. Shelves were being knocked over, and Rarity could feel tears welling up in her eyes but quickly rubbed her eyes, keeping her composure.
"Twilight... What do we do?" Rarity whispered, wrapping her arms around herself for warmth, even Twilight lightly shivered, feeling the brunt of the sudden drop in temperature. It had gotten a lot colder ever since the intruder entered the library. Twilight frantically looked around the room they were in, before spotting a candle on a small table to her left; using her magic, she picked up the candle, as a dark purple aura surrounded the candle. Twilight then motioned for Rarity to follow her upstairs.
"Rarity, to my bedroom." Rarity nodded, and followed closely behind Twilight, as she continued to hug herself, in an attempt to keep herself warm. As they walked up the stairs, the footsteps became more faint as they proceeded up the stairs... Up until they got to the bedroom door, they stopped for a second, as the footsteps and various other sounds, just came to a sudden stop. Suddenly, the atmosphere became more eerie, and it was as if, the air got thinner. Twilight put her hand on the door knob, and ever so slowly turned the knob, until a faint 'clicking' noise was heard, signalling that the door was locked. Twilight usually locked most doors in her house, because of the constant thought that someone could break in and steal important information, on magic, the princesses, and the elements. Twilight cursed under her breath, which was a rare thing for her. She was basically the equivalent to what us humans would call, an honour role student. Twilight's eyes widened to the size of plates.
"... I left the key on the floor below us..." Which happened to be the floor that the intruder was currently walking up to. Rarity's eyes widened also, although not as wide as Twilight's. "I left it on the shelf next to the stairs, the flight we're on." Twilight looked back, it was nearly pitch black. It was very intimidating.
Sigh* "Twilight.. I shall go and get it, okay dear?" Twilight gave Rarity a look of uncertainty, Rarity never really came to the library all that often, so she didn't know the layout of the property all that well.
"Are you sure, you can get them quickly AND quietly?" Twilight asked quietly, to which Rarity nodded, she had a look on her face that a mix of confidence, and worry. Although the look on Rarity's face was an instant worry for her, she did not further question Rarity and allowed Rarity to venture down into the darkness. As she watched her friend walk slowly down the stairs, she muttered a prayer under her breath, hoping that her friend would come back unscathed. "Celestia, please may no harm come upon Rarity; and may she come back safely."
Rarity, uneasily walked down the stairs leading to the second floor of the library. The footsteps from before could once again be heard, this time. As Rarity got off the final step, she could locate the steps to the very floor that she was on, which only scared her more. She just wanted Sonic, to come back soon... She felt so safe around him, and honestly found him to be good looking. But as she was picturing Sonic in her mind, she was woken up to reality as the sound of a door slamming filled the floor, as she ducked behind a couch right in front of her. The sound of a door slamming came from only twenty five to thirty five feet in front of her, as she peaked over the couch, and to her horror... It was was the exact same figure from behind the boutique... Rarity almost screamed but put her hands over her mouth as she instantly became more frantic in her movements. She waited until the figure went into another room, but instead the figure walked up to a window facing the town, and put his arms behind his back. Seeing this as an opportune time, Rarity quickly located the keys, and sneaked up the stairs.
Twilight continued to look into the darkness, until she could make out the shape of a female anthropomorphic pony slowly coming towards her. A huge wave of relief came over her as she let put a sigh of relief, and a smile formed on her face as Rarity was only a few more steps from her. Twilight reached her hand out for the key, and Rarity was reaching her arm out to give Twilight the key until.. CREAK! It was as if time stood still, as Rarity and Twilight had horrified looks on their faces. Rarity slowly walked closer to Twilight, but they could hear the sound of footsteps coming up the stairs fast. In a state of panic, Twilight snatched the key from Rarity's hand and hastily unlocked the door, and grabbed Rarity's arm and pulled her into the room. Locking the door behind them. They were breathing heavily, as they heard the figure let out a growl, before heading back down the stairs. After a few moments of them being in a frozen state, Twilight and Rarity embraced each other in a heartfelt hug, they stayed in that position for several seconds before eventually relinquishing the hug, and only then, did they start to think about the events that they had just been apart of.
"Twilight.. You remember the figure me and Sonic told you about?" Twilight looked at Rarity with a questioning look on her face, "Well... the person who broke into the library... Was it." Twilight let out a barley audible gasp.
"Seriously?! That.. Thing was inside MY library?!" Twilight whispered loudly, remembering that it could still be in the library.
"As much as I want to say no dear... I'm afraid it was." Rarity said, lowering her head. Twilight was about to say something, until they heard the figure charging up the stairs and charging into the door, fortunately for Twilight and Rarity, the door was sturdy and didn't budge. However, the figure had a solution to that problem. He could be heard revving up a fucking chainsaw! (How he got it is beyond me) Twilight and Rarity were horrified at this, and because Twilight had a tendency to forget about using teleportation spells during a life or death situation, because she panics... No way out.
Just as he was about to start cutting down the door, Twilight, Rarity and the figure heard someone at the front door.
"Yo! Mind letting me back in? Pretty please?" Twilight and Rarity were relieved to hear that it was Sonic. But they were slightly worried at the same time as to what the figure's going to do since Sonic's at the front door. But they heard the figure growl again, and run down the stairs until they couldn't hear anything, besides of Sonic constantly shouting, "Hello?! Hello?! Anyone home?!" So after a couple more minutes, when they decided that he was no longer in the library, Twilight grabbed they keys, and unlocked the bedroom door, she hesitated a bit before pulling the door and stared into the dark. She determined that the intruder was no longer present in the library.
"Okay Rarity, let's go." Twilight once again used her magic to levitate the candle, and started to walk down the stairs. Rarity followed suite, only a step or two they had reached the first floor, they felt a cold breeze hit them as they got off of the stairs.
"Rarity.. Do you feel that?" No response. "Rarity?" Twilight looked at Rarity and saw her looking in the direction of something, Twilight looked in the direction of whatever she was looking at to see, one of the windows wide open. His escape route.
"I think I found where he left..." Rarity said uneasily. Not wanting to take a chance, Twilight ran over to the window and hasitly closed it; locking it as well. Twilight and Rarity ran down the stairs to the ground floor, once they got to the bottom of the stairs they could see that tables were toppled over, books were just laying in random places, and weirdest of all, some of them had torn pages out of them. But they didn't focus on that right now, as Twilight looked through a peephole to confirm that Sonic was still out there, which he was. Twilight unlocked the door, and was greeted to Sonic smiling at them. But his demeanour quickly changed once he saw the look on their faces, they looked as if they were in a near death experience.
"What the hell happened?" Sonic asked worriedly, as he could see all of the figure's handiwork behind them.
Twilight answered him as Rarity walked to the nearest couch, and sat down on it, with her head looking down at her feet. "Almost immediately after you left, someone came in and locked the door. Then as we were going to lock ourselves in my bedroom a couple floors up, one of the floorboards creaked and we heard someone running up the stairs. We got in the room in time, practically closed the door right in it's face, and locked the door... Turns out the thing had some sort of chainsaw or something with it; and just as it was going to cut down the door, that's when you came back and knocked on the door." Twilight explained, a little ticked off that Sonic's abrupt departure almost cost them their lives.
"Holy sh- what did the guy look like?" Sonic quickly changed what he was saying, knowing that if he cursed in front of Rarity, there was the chance she would slap him again. Twilight nervously glanced back at Rarity, and back over to Sonic.
"It was the figure from the boutique.." Sonic immediately looked at her in shock, eyes wide, and his mouth completely opened.
"What the fuck?! Where the hell did he go?!" Sonic let himself in, and looked around. He race walked upstairs onto the first floor, and immediately scanned the area, thinking that he might still be in the building.
"Sonic, he's gone. He went through the window." Twilight said, pointing over to the window which he had escaped through. Sonic walked over to the window, and gazed outside. Nothing was there. He snapped his head back around and went into various other rooms; nothing inhabited them. Only inanimate objects. Sonic let his guard down, as he went to question Twilight some more.
"Did the figure take anything? Like a gem maybe? And did it do anything to you two? Because, I swear to god, if it did.. I'm gonna-" Twilight cut him off before he could go on a verbal tirade.
"No Sonic, he never got to me or Rarity." After saying this, Twilight could see Sonic calming himself down a bit. Then Twilight remembered something, she looked out of a window, and began to walk towards the front door. "Sonic, I forgot that Princess Celestial asked if I could see her before sunrise; she says that she wants to teach me some more about some spells and whatnot. Anyways you two take care, and please be careful." Without another word, Twilight exited the building, leaving behind a confused Sonic and a very quiet Rarity. Sonic looked over to Rarity to see she was still looking down at her feet, he started to feel worried about her and approached her.
"Rarity... Are you okay?" He stuck a hand out, to put on her shoulder, but it was smacked away. Rarity then looked up, her face full of rage and tears running down her cheeks. 'Oh shit! Why did Twilight leave now?'
"Why did you leave?!" Rarity shouted, making Sonic step back in surprise. "If you hadn't left, we could've had a MUCH safer night! WE ALMSOT GOT KILLED BECAUSE YOU LEFT US SONIC!" Rarity screamed, making Sonic recoil slightly. Sonic looked at her sheepishly, and apologetically.
"Well... Yeah um..." Sonic couldn't put a sentance together as Rarity got more pissed by the second.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW SCARED I FELT SONIC?! I WAS TERRIFIED, THAT I COULD DIE! WITHOUT SAYING MY FINAL GOODBYES TO EVERYONE I KNOW AND LOVE!" Rarity's outburst caused a massive wave of guilt to hit Sonic, as he stared at her with wide eyes at her outburst. Rarity started panting, and sat back down. She put her face in her hands and began to cry. Sonic shook his head, annoyed at himself. He walked over to the couch and sat down next to Rarity. He put his hand on her shoulder.
"L-listen Rarity, I'm so, so sorry for leaving." There was a two second pause, Rarity didn't even lift her head up to look at Sonic, she didn't stop crying either. "I wanted to see if I could catch it... To see if I could, well, make sure it never comes back." Sonic said, there was another brief pause; Sonic opened his mouth to say something, but that was postponed when Rarity suddenly wrapped her arms around him, and hugged his side tightly. Sonic's shirt was getting stained with Rarity's tears; but Sonic didn't give a damn at this point. In return he wrapped an arm around her back and pulled her in closer, rubbing her back a bit in an attempt to comfort.
"Hey... Please don't cry; I hate it when beautiful women cry." 'Did I really just fucking say that to her? At least I was being honest..' Rarity looked up at him, with a surprised look on her face. And she's about to ask that cliché question.
"Y-You think I'm beautiful?" Told you. Rarity let go of Sonic, and used the sleeves of her robe to wipe her eyes. She looked at him, in wonder about what his answer is going to be.
"Well... Yeah. I really do think that you're beautiful." Sonic somehow was able to say this looking at her eyes, and not her... Well... Her tits; and once that was said, Sonic looked up at the ceiling and scratched behind his head. Rarity looked away, with a mad blush on her face. 'This is awkward...' An awkward silence filled the room as both Rarity and Sonic refused to look each other in the eye. Only taking glances at each other, before quickly turning away before either of them could notice. Rarity let out a sigh, which made Sonic look at her. She looked down.
"Well Sonic... I've always thought you were.. Quite, handsome.." Awkward as fuck! Now it was Sonic's turn to be a Knuckles impersonater, as his face became warm with a blush forming on his cheeks. He just looked straight forward. Rarity kept looking at him for another few seconds before once again turning away and looking elsewhere. Meanwhile Sonic, was trying to form a basic sentance.
"Wow... Errrr.. Thanks, Rarity." Sonic said slowly. Another awkward silence filled the room until, Sonic felt his stomach rumble, obviously signalling that he was hungry. Rarity somehow didn't notice, making Sonic relieved. He stood up, and he walked towards the door and opened it, but not going fully outside the room. Instead he just looked around, he could feel Rarity staring at the back of his head. So he tried to make the situation less awkward by trying to have a normal conversation.
"So, uh Rarity?" He turned his head so he could look over his shoulder. "You happen to know where the kitchen is, in this place?" Sonic questioned, becoming more hungry by the minute. There was silence from Rarity for another two seconds before she finally answered
"Y-yes, go to the door on the right, that should be it." After receiving a nod from Sonic, he walked out of the room leaving the door open. 'Did I really say that he was handsome? Caught up in the moment I guess'
Sonic went to the door on the right, with presumably the kitchen behind it. As he was about lean his hand forwards, to try to turn the nob, he noticed that the door was already forced open; probably by the figure. As he walked in, he saw a purple object in the corner of the room, with its back turned to him. It seemed to be asleep, somehow it must have slept through the entire time he was in the library.
"What the hell?" Sonic carefully walked over to it, trying to not make a sound. Then all of a sudden, it sprang up and got into some karate pose, as if it was waiting for something to walk over to him.
"HEY! YOU WILL NOT TOUCH ME! FOR I KNOW THE ART OF KUNG FU! ... BASIC KUNG FU!" Sonic looked at him blankly and then blinked, to make sure this wasn't any sort of mirage. Truth be told, it was no mirage or hallucination. What was in front of Sonic, was a small purple dragon, in a Kung Fu pose, ready to fight.
"... Ummmm... What?" That was the only thing Sonic could think of saying, as he was too confused to think of anything else. He then noticed the dragon walking up to him, and did a crane kick to Sonic's shin. He stayed in the crane kick pose for two seconds, before slowly removing his foot from Sonic's shin and grasping his foot, obviously in pain. He let a very feint, 'aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh' escape his lips. He then fell to the ground, still clasping his foot. He then sat upright, and breathed in, and let out a 'Ahhhhh!', he repeated this process as if he was Peter Griffin from family guy. Before getting up, albeit nearly falling back down; and once he got up, he hopped on one foot. He hopped over to Sonic and this time tried punching his shin. He got the exact same result; once he was sitting upright he once again started breathing in and out like Peter Griffin.
"Is this just going to keep happening? Because no matter how you hit me, it isn't going to work." Sonic said, shaking his head at the dragon. Who was still clasping in his foot, as he hadn't put as much force into the punch as he had with the crane kick.
"Yeah, I think I know that now." He slightly hissed at the pain. "Darn! It's hurts so bad!" Sonic looked at the dragon, he got a chuckle out out of the dragon's actions.
"The pain will go away, in about five minutes. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm hungry." Sonic said, taking his focus off the field off of the the dragon, and looked in the cabinets for food. He however saw no food that had any relation to meat however, which came off to him as odd.
"Hey, where's all of the meat-related food?" Sonic asked the purple dragon.
"Ponies don't eat meat." Sonic looked confused for a moment. If there's could there be no meat related food, then how is this dragon still alive? "And before you ask, I eat gems. Not meat." Now it made sense to Sonic. All lthough the eating gems part was weird.
"Right..." Sonic went back to searching for food, and a smile came across his face as he saw two cupcakes beside some noodles. He took one of the cupcakes greedily, and took a large bite out of it. He heard a door closing, and became cautious, but let his guard down as he saw Rarity coming into view. He looked her up and down, still pleased about her outfit. He also saw out of his peripheral vision, the dragon looking at Rarity, he was looking at Rarity like a Looney Toons character who had love hearts in their eyes. It was obvious the dragon had a huge crush on Rarity. He turned his full attention back to Rarity.
"Sonic, I heard some groans, of what seems to be pain. Are you okay?" Rarity asked, not noticing the dragon; who just kept his eyes on Rarity.
"It wasn't me who was in pain." Sonic pointed to the dragon. "That guy over there, was." Rarity looked over to where Sonic was pointing at, to see the purple dragon quickly taking his eyes off of Rarity, and just looked at nothing in particular.
"Oh Spike! What's the matter dear?" Spike loved it when she called him that, and wanted to seem 'tough' in front of Rarity so he did something unexpected.
"That... That blue guy over there hit me!" Rarity and Sonic looked at him in shock and then at each other. Rarity then gaineda serious look on her face.
"Sonic, is this true." Sonic sighed, knowing what the dragon was doing.
"No. In fact, he tried kicking me, and failed, then he tried punching me which, also failed." Rarity, looked for any hint that he might be lying. But she found none. She looked at Spike with an annoyed look, making Spike nervous.
"Spike, did Sonic really hit you? Or is this just an attempt to make Sonic look bad?" Spike, started getting more nervous and chuckled sheepishly. He shrugged his shoulders, which made Rarity face palm and groan. "Really Spike?" Sonic watched in amusement, as Rarity took Spike into the room he was just in with Rarity, and he could hear her scolding Spike. Sonic continued eating he cupcake, until it was no more. He put his ear to the wall, and heard the following.
"Plus, it's so rude and selfish to blame someone for your own actions! What if the same thing happened to you, and Sonic was lying that you did something to him? How would you feel Spike?" Sonic suppressed his laughter, and walked over to the room that they were in, and leaned on the doorway.
"Rarity, it's nothing major. No need to teach him a lesson or anything." Rarity looked at Sonic and back at Spike, before finally looking back at Sonic. She walked towards Sonic and as she was going to pass him, she stopped.
"Just trying to help dear." She said, with a small smile; which in turn, made Sonic smile.
"I know you were, which I'm grateful for." Sonic replied. She kept her smile and walked past him. He followed her movements, ogling her ass, which somehow Spike didn't notice. Then he started to get anxious again, as Sonic looked back at him.
"... Please don't hit me..." Spike quietly pleaded. Sonic barley heard it, and chuckled.
"Spike... You actually think I'm going to hit you? I know why you did that... I mean she is very attractive and I would want to get some easy sympathy from her as well as hug anytime of the week as well..." Sonic trailed off; Spike became embarrassed as his cheeks now had a rosy glow on them. He knew Sonic knew about his feelings towards Rarity...
"Umm... No? No, no no! I do- I don't like her THAT way!" Spike tried to convince, Sonic but to no avail. Sonic saw right through his attempts to hide feelings.
"You make it pretty obvious. I mean, the way you were staring at her in the kitchen when she first walked in, and when she came up to you and looked at me, you stared at her as if you were a Looney Tunes character, madly in love." Sonic said, making Spike sheepishly scratch the back of his head, as he refused eye contact with Sonic.
" *Sigh*... Am I THAT obvious?" Spike finally looked at Sonic, in which Sonic gave a confirming nod. Spike sighed, and Sonic approached him.
"I know man, she's attractive, great ass, and a wonderful pair of tits; but have you ever told her about how you feel? My guess is no, correct?" Spike shook his head. "Well then, why not get it off of your chest. Even if she says no, you'll feel so much better after speaking your mind about her, to her." Spike looked down.
"Well, it's not that simple. I mean, it could ruin the bond me and her already have, it could lead to embarrassment... Heck, maybe she'll tell everyone that I said that I love her." Spike said, his voice reached a depressing tone. Sonic took a bit of pity on Spike.
"Don't think like that. She isn't like that, you and I both know that. However, I cannot guarantee she'll like you back. But I really doubt it will tarnish the friendship you two have. If she says no, just accept it, and don't throw a temper tantrum and you'll be fine. Like I said, you'll feel a LOT better, once you've confessed to her. Even if she says no, you'll feel much more relived without having a burden on your mind constantly. Although I wouldn't tell her now as she's pissed at you, and might reject you in a more mean spirited way. Just a heads up." Sonic explained, although Spike was very grateful for the advice, he was rather confused at something.
"Say, why are you even helping me? I tried to make you look bad in front of Rarity. So if anything, you should be against me, and not giving me advice." Sonic simply looked at him with a smile.
"I'm not that type of guy Spike. But when she's more open to talk to you. Go for it. I'll support you." Sonic said as he put his hand on Spike's shoulder. Spike looked up at Sonic, and was greeted with a wink, which made Spike smile slightly. Giving him some confidence. "Now, I'm going to go talk to Rarity, not about you of course." Sonic said, and he walked out of the room and closed the door; allowing Spike some free time to think about what Sonic had told him.
"He seems like a good guy... Just hope that he isn't all smoke and mirrors though.." Spike got much more unnerved at the thought, that Sonic's nice guy personality, was just all a Facadé; and all it was doing, was concealing a much more darker entity, a much more scary part of him... The scary thing is, he isn't far off.
"Hey Rarity!" Sonic called out, and Rarity appeared with her head sticking out of the kitchen. "You know what time it is?" Sonic asked.
After a moment of silence, Rarity answered him, "10:25am dear!" Sonic looked out of the window, to see the sunrising. What a beautiful sight it was. Then all of a sudden, Sonic's vision started to go blurry.
"Woah... Am I high? Or just tired as fuck?" It was the latter of the two, and Sonic collapsed to the floor and immediately started to snore.
Sorry for the late chapter. My life has just got in the way, as well as my health deteriorating. But I thank all those who waited, and here another chapter to "War Never Changes". Yes I changed the name. Because the first name I gave the story was stupid. But Anyways, I will see you guys...
whenever I decide to update.
Chao!