Chapter 6

"You could've told me, ah I didn't know!" I heard a voice yell, I couldn't see anything.

"I thought you were asleep and too sick to move!" I heard another voice yell, must've been one of the thieves I was going to help.

"I can muster nough strength to stand and swing" the other voice responded. Great, I feel a headache coming along.

"Well now we need to take care of him till he is better!" the first voice responded. I was regaining some of my vision and I could make out one figure laying on the ground and the other figure standing above me.

"Hey! He waking up!" One of them yelled. I rubbed my head and began slowly standing up, still a little dizzy.

"You alright dude?" The voice above me asked.

"Yeah, I'm alright" I lied, this was the second time I was hit this week. These kids were dangerous.

"Sorry bout that" the figure laying down said.

"She thought you were a thief" the other voice said.

"It's a good reaction, just not good for me" I joked, rubbing my forehead.

"I guess our deal is over now huh?" the orange coated filly asked disappointingly.

"It's alright, I'll forgive you if you promise not to hit me again" I joked again.

"Really? She just knocked you unconscious!" she responded.

"Hey! It was an accident!" the other bandit responded. I noticed her coat was yellowish.

"In this time, that reaction can save your life. Ugh, do you have any bandages?" I asked.

"Sorry, we barely got food" she responded.

"Alright, can you walk?" I asked the one laying down.

"Barely" she responded, weakly standing up.

"Hop on me, I'll carry you till we get there" I told her, normally I would levitate her but I feared her sickness would have a bad reaction.

"Thanks" she said as she climbed on my back. My headache got a little worse but I can shake it off.

"Thanks again, I'm Scootaloo by the way" the one standing said.

"I'm Applebloom" the other said.

"Pleased to meet you, I'm Frost" I responded as I started walking back.

"So where are we going?" Applebloom asked, adjusting herself on my back.

"Don't move so much, we are headed to Ponyville" I told them.

"Oh" they both went.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"We used to live there until…" Scootaloo started but stopped.

"Sorry, but that's where my friends are" I said, it's been a while since I called anypony my friend out loud.

"Which building is it?" Applebloom asked.

"It's the giant tree library thing" I told them.

"Twilights home?" Scootaloo asked. Again, they knew Twilight?

"Yeah, which reminds me, do either of you know Spike or Sweetie Belle?" I asked. Scootaloo stopped and I felt Applebloom tense up.

"Sweetie Belle? Spike?" They both asked.

"Yeah, they're hiding in the library" I told them. Without a word Scootaloo ran off towards Ponyville.

"Hey wait!" I shouted.

"Hurry up. Ah want to see them!" Applebloom yelled as she elbowed me. I sighed and sped up to catch up to Scootaloo.


She didn't slow down at all, I was worried she would attract thieves to follow us. When we were in front of the building she stopped and stared.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"They're alive, right?" Scootaloo asked.

"I wouldn't've mentioned them if they were dead" I said as I opened the door. Lights were off. "Hey guys it's me! I brought someponies you might know!" I shouted. I heard footsteps from the floor above going to the stairs.

"Frost you're ba-" I heard Sweetie Belle start but stopped. I turned and saw her staring at us from the stairs. Now Scootaloo was getting shaking a little.

"I- I thought I lost you, you- YOU DUMB IDIOT!" Scootaloo yelled as she pounced Sweetie Belle. I was going to shoot a beam at her but I noticed she wasn't attacking her, she was hugging her tightly. Sweetie Belle was hugging her too and they both were crying. Jeez how many reunions am I going to watch?

"Hey ya'll forgot something?" I heard Applebloom ask. I gently placed her on the floor as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo got up without breaking their hug.

"Applebloom! You're ok!" Sweetie yelled as she ran to Applebloom and hugged her.

"As fine as ah can be" Applebloom joked, smiling weakly.

"She is sick so I brought them here so she could rest up, I had no idea you knew each other" I told them.

"Thank you" Sweetie whispered. Great, leaving would be harder now. I looked around and noticed Spike wasn't around but I didn't want to interrupt their reunion. I quietly stepped out.


I left her in good hooves, she has her friends now so she won't be too upset that I left. She'll learn to forgive me for what I did, right? I was thinking too much of this, she was just a filly right? Maybe I will run into her again in a few years and I can give her a real apology. I sighed loudly as I reached the campsite, I'll quickly pack up and head out before they go looking for me. Should I leave a note? Maybe I should fake my death. No, that would crush her. Or would it crush her more to know that I left?

"Hey" I heard somepony say, snapping me out of my thoughts. Spike? What is he doing here?

"Oh hey Spike, what are you doing here?" I asked him. He was sitting on a log, looking straight down on the floor.

"You might be able to fool Sweetie Belle, but you can't fool me." He said, sounding monotone.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I know what you're going to do, you're lying about coming back, you are leaving us" Spike said, not looking up at me. Oh great, of course he had to figure me out.

"I'm not leaving you guys, it's just-" I started.

"Just what? It's safer for us to be away from you? You think going off and dying is a good idea?" Spike harshly asked.

"I'm not going off just to die" I responded, I felt sweat going down my head.

"Then what are you going off to do!? Will you go and save Equestria!? Will you ever come back!?" Spike yelled, I flinched and he hopped off the log and looked very mad at me, dead in the eyes.

"I- I-" I stuttered, this dragon was reading into my soul.

"You think abandoning us will ease your guilt? Leaving a filly and a baby dragon alone is safer? You honestly think that?" He asked in a dark tone, now he was approaching me slowly.

"What will staying accomplish huh? What then, do we just live in the library and pretend everything is ok?" I responded harshly, I didn't notice until now that I was backing up.

"I don't care! Living through this hell is a better idea than going off and dying!" Spike yelled.

"I'm not going to die!" I yelled back. I felt myself back up into a tree.

"Then what are you going to do?" He yelled, stopping in front of me. I noticed his fists were fists, was he going to attack me?

"Nothing!" I yelled.

"That's exactly what I did and look what happened! Twilight is dead, Ponyville is in ruins, most of my friends are probably dying somewhere, and Equestria turned into a complete hell hole!" Spike yelled, I saw tears running down his eyes.

"You don't know that! Twilight can still be alive! She told me she would find a way!" I yelled back, then I realized my mistake. He immediately looked up at me.

"What?" He asked, I barely heard him.

"She can still be alive, Sweetie Belle was alive so why not her?" I said to try and make him forget what I just said.

"What did you say before? Do you know Twilight?" he whispered.

"I… no I don't." I lied. He looked mad now.

"Don't lie! What did she tell you?! How do you know her?!" He yelled.

"I heard about her" I lied again.

"Stop lying! Why can't you tell me!? Why do you need to leave!?" He yelled. I was digging myself into a deep hole now.

"I have my reasons" I sternly said. I wasn't going to be intimidated by a baby, even if it was a dragon.

"Just like Twilight? Did she have her reasons for going off and dying?" Spike asked in a low tone.

"I'm sure she wouldn't leave if she didn't think she would win" I told him.

"Then why did she tell me to prepare!? Why did she give me instructions as if she knew she was going to die!?" Spike yelled. I had no response for that. "She thought she'd be better off if she died and I lived, but look at me, I needed her…" Spike said, sounding like he was on the verge of crying.

"Why do you care so much, you only met me yesterday" I asked.

"I let Twilight go off and die, I'm not going to let the same thing happen to you" he said, looking at me in the eyes.


"I'm not letting you go off and die" I responded.

"And I'm not going off to die" he responded, grabbing a bag.

"But everypony agreed we should just leave the other book alone" I said.

"Wrong, a majority vote decided to leave the book alone" he cleverly responded.

"C'mon man, I know the book told you where to find the other book, but it also came with a warning for a reason" I told him.

"It said 'the weak mind will not be able to withstand the power of the book,' I'm not weak minded" he said. I rolled my eyes.

"But, at least let me go with you" I asked.

"No, if I do find the book then I won't let you get into trouble for going to help me, Twilight can get pretty mad at times" he said, shuddering a little.

"But can you handle this alone?" I asked.

"Did you forget already, that book gave us amazing spells, including combat and teleportation spells" he said. Heading to the door.

"But, wait!" I yelled, he turned.

"I'll return, I promise" he said, wrapping me in a hug.

If I could've redone this day, I would've told him NO, I would've punched him, I would've used a memory erase spell to make him forget where the book was, I would've told Twilight. Instead, all I did was this.

"Alright, be safe" I said, returning the hug. This would be the last time I would ever hug him. It would also be the last time I'd ever truly return the hug to anypony.

"See ya later" he said, walking out the door. He was out of my vision, and out of my life.


I saw so much of him in Spike, which annoyed me honestly. Spike took a deep breath and wiped his tears.

"I'm not going to force you to stay, but just think, will we really be safer without you?" he asked, I looked up, I still didn't have a response. "If you don't return by night, I'll let Sweetie Belle know you left" he said, backing up.

"Ok" was all I could say. I wanted to say 'goodbye' or 'there is no need for that because I am staying' or maybe even 'just kill me now' but I didn't know what I was going to do.

"Ok" he responded, looking at me one more time, then walking off towards Ponyville. Was this sweat, rain, or tears?


Wondering what really happened to Twilight and the others? Well, you won't find out for a while. But Discord will get involved real soon! :D