WITH THE PONIES

having left the library the gang soon found themselves giving shining armor the grand tour of ponyville, taking him to their usual hangouts as well as some of the not so popular places and soon found themselves offering their own unique opinions on some of the places they visited seeing a new face many ponies began introducing themselves to shining armor

which led to the marre 6 and spike also intrudicing shining armor to many of their friends.

eventually the tour led them to the everfree forest where the ponies had gone to meet one last person of the day their zebra friend zecora.

Later that evening

Having left zecoras house after a long chat and alot of catching the mares, shining armor and spike who was riding on shining armors back soon began their trip back to ponyville. while the trip back was mostly silent due to everyone having run out of things to say.

Everyone was suddenly stardled when spike made a yelp of suprise, "whats wrong spike? " rainbow dash asked the slowly panicking dragon but he didn't answer her question instead he was looking up to the sky in bewilderment, "the moon " said spike robotically "what about it" asked twilight was now looking concerned as spike seemed to grow even more panicked.

Soon however spike answered her "the moon is out" this time it was applejacks turn to speak "ya so i don think thats a big problem there spike what are you get-tin at?" spike tore his gaze from the moon to stare at applejack as she could see his fear mounting.

"wasn't the sun just beginning to set when we left zecora's house and the moon was just beginning to rise but now look at the moon it's nearly at the center of the sky"! After hearing spikes explanation the mare 6 and shining armor looked up and saw what spike was talking about the moon was in fact near the center of the sky!

Pinkie pie spoke up this time "So it looks really pretty whats the problem spike?" she said with evermounting curiosity slowly spike looked back to pinkie pie "theres more the moon isnt right " rather meekly fluttershy decided it was her turn to ask a question "what do you mean spike what wrong with the moon?"

spike soon shifted his gaze to the timid pegasus pony while answering her question "The phases of the moon are wrong fluttershy today the moon was supposed to be a cresent but look its a full moon somethings seriously

wrong here" "correct little dragon" everyone found themselves frozen by the sudden interjection of a new voice but looking around to theirsurprise they found no one there "Who's there" screamed rarity show yourself! "have you really forgotten me so soon i'm hurt but no matter i shall soon JOG YOUR MEMORY!"

with the angry declaration vines all around them sprang to life and faster than any one could react they were all wrapped in vines and pulled in different directions. spike however was dragged along with shining armor as he was riding on his back at the time. soon everypony was thrown in a different clearing in each part of the woods and no matter how the shouted for each other they couldn't hear anyone shouting back at all.

Soon a dark and ominous figure appeared i front of each of them and soon took on all to familar and terrifying form the mare 6 and spike knew all to well standing there somehow unknowingly to them in seven places at once was none other than nightmare moon!

The mare 6 and spike all had a major look of fear and confusion on their faces as nightmare moon edged closer to each of them however shining armor wore a look of confusion on his face and quickly turned to spike for an explanation. Spike seeing the look on shining armors face quickly answered his unspoken question.

"This is night mare moon she's the one who took over princess Luna's body over one thousand years ago and tried to wage war against celestia but celestia used the elements of harmony to banish her to the moon however a couple months ago she returned and tried to drown the world in eternal night all over again but that time twilight and her friends eased the elements to beat her for good and freed Luna from her control" spike then immediately stopped and took a deep breath after finishing his explanation before turning to nightmare moon.

"How did you know all that baby dragon!" Nightmare roared angrily as spike and shining armor suddenly found themselves being pushed by the force of her roar, spike answered hastily "twilight told me all about you and she said that without a host your powerless so you tell me WHO'D YOU POSSESS!" Nightmare seemed taken aback by spike angry retaliatory question but this look of surprise lasted only a moment as soon after a dark rumbling laugh started coming from nightmare's sickeningly fanged mouth. "your brave young baby dragon but that is foolish"

"Hate to burst your bubble but i'm not brave i'm courageous, people often say that the line between bravery and stupidity is really thin but to me they're the same thing because bravery means fearing nothing and its unbelievably stupid to not have fear. So i am courageous not brave!" Shining armor looked at spike astonished at his rather profound statement and how he said it mockingly to an enemy as powerful as celestia and clearly much more dangerous.

"Spike when did you become so intelligent" "When you hang around twilight its bound to happen eventually right?" "Even so" nightmare interjected "Why do you insist on mocking me when you what i can and will do to you for it?" nightmare asked with genuine curiosity

Spike for his a part wore a look of blazing determination on his face as he answered her "because i know that no matter what twilight and the others will beat you and

send you right back where you came from!" "Hm interesting and what is your relationship with this twilight and which of those mares is she?"

Spike for his part answered her with the same determination he had before "simple she's the purple unicorn, her full name is twilight sparkle, this unicorn here is her older brother shining armor, she's the wielder of the element of magic and she's celestia's most faithful as well as the one who hatched and raised me, she's family and she's my big sister."

As shining armor listened to spike's description of twilight he felt a sense of pride in his sister swelling in his chest but this was soon replaced by a feeling of fear and anxiety when he looked over to nightmare moon and saw that her gaze and face had somehow grown even more sinister. "I see then i must thank you spike for telling me that but i have no further use for you so goodbye"

shining armor blinked as he suddenly hear a sound that was disturbingly familiar yet foreign to him. As his eyes darted left and right he couldnt make out anything that could produce such a sound. Normally with something dangerous as an evil alicorn shining wouldn't take his eyes off of said danger but the sound he heard carried a certain gravity to is that he couldn't explain.

Only a moment later shinings ears caught the sound of a small thud just to the left of him and he quickly jerked his head to the side to ask spike if he heard it to but as he turned to him his blood suddenly ran colder than the frost of the 9th circle of taurus.

He had noticed five things. One he saw what looked like an unbelieveably evil looking dagger it was shaped as if it was murder incarnate and looked like it only existed to be used to kill. Two this dagger looked slightly transparent as if it was made of black glass. Three it was so black it seemed to greedily comsume all light that got near it like a ravinous beast that was starving and had been handed meat for the first time in years.

While simply looking at the dagger fulled shining armor with dread and fear but this was not the reason he felt cold, the reason was because of the fourth and fifth thing he saw that the dagger was embedded deeply into spikes chest nealy all to the hilt and that it had completely run him through be for he even hit the ground.

Five and the most chilling thing of all was that spikes eyes had lost all life in them and lastly blood was pooling around him unbelieveably fast. Shining armors minded reeled as if he had thrown from canterlot to phillydelphia in less than a second as his voice found itself stopped my a gigantic lump in his throat.

when he finally found himself able to speak again he screamed.

SPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKEEEE!

authors note

the dagger being made of black glass was not my idea i got it from a mlp fanfiction called lunacy is expected and i included it because to me nightmare moon seems to represent darkness or the dark side of the moon to me also yes spike is dead but he will come back if you can guess what way nightmare moon is back then ill private message you to tell you your right and you can ask me any question you want about the story and i'll answer you as best i can without it being a complete spoiler