The Orb

Spike was cleaning the tree house than an amazing thing happened he found an orb laying on the ground right next to Twilight's bed it looked to be about 3 inches wide he took a closer look at it than a thing poped into his mind, "Maybe I can give these to Rarity?" Spike looked at it again than Instantly, the sphere changed, taking on a much darker color, and emitting a small burst of energy, which pushed Spike away from it and smashed him into the headboard which dazed him slightly.

"Ugh…Twilight, is this something to do with you?" He mumbled.

"Slowly, the sphere began to grow, expanding outwards and beginning to advance up the bed towards where Spike was lying. As it did this something began to exert a force on Spike and small objects from around the room began to shake violently before moving straight toward the sphere.

"Twilight?" Spike asked, his voice getting slightly louder.

The sphere continued to grow in both size and as it did so the force it was exerting on everything else grew as well. Grabbing hold of the Headboard Spike held on for dear life as his feet was being pulled towards the energy.

"TWILIGHT!" He screamed, now very terrified, now beginning to lose his grip on the headboard

"Ugh…what is it Spike?" Came the voice of Twilight from a few rooms over.

"HELP!" He screamed, his claws scraping deep furrows into the dark wood as he was pulled harder by the invisible force.

"Hold on!" She shouted before a crash was heard around the house and emanating from Twilights room.

"NOOOOO!" He screamed. Finally losing his grip on the bed as the wood splintered under his claws.

Flying backwards through the air, he desperately tried to grab onto anything he could but for once his claws were working against him as everything he tried to grab ripped under his grip.

As soon as his feet touched the energy, a burning sensation travelled up his body, as smaller tendrils of energy moved up his body now it engulfing him fully before with a final last scream he was dragged into the ball of energy disappearing from the room.

A moment later, Twilight burst into the room just in time to see a small white ball fade from existence at the very end of her bed.

"Spike?" She asked uncertainly. Now she looked everywhere around the room.

Darting around the room she took in every aspect of the room including the large amount of new bits of stuff around the floor ranging from a few pencils to whole notebooks worth of parchment.

"Spike?!" She shouted, tears started to form in her eyes. "Spike answer me!"

When there was no reply, tears began to appear in larger numbers in her eyes. Quickly, she ran out of the room now checking the whole library for something, anything that could help her in her time of need. Finding nothing and with tears freely flowing down her. She than sprinted for the door than teleporting a second before she hit it and materialising on the other side.

Stepping back from the door she stared up at the tree. From the outside it looked exactly how it always looked. No damage noticeable, no magical residue floating around it just nothing.

"Spike?" She uttered mindlessly.

She thought about that for a moment, stunned. Sluggish. Than suddenly a thought hit her and instantly she decided on her next course of action.

"Taking off at a sprint, her horn lit up, and she covered herself in a purple aura, casting her cloudwalker spell, and continuing running, before disappearing in a soft pop.

Reappearing again, she found herself on Rainbow Dash's porch. Not wasting time with knocking she teleported into the house sprinting up to Rainbows room and shaking the Pegasus awake.

"Rainbow! My library! Now!" She screamed before vanishing once again.

A few miles away, Twilight reappeared directly outside of Applejacks bedroom, before repeating the process she had done with Rainbow.

Twilight repeated the process three more times before rematerializing outside of her library now waiting for her friends.

Twilight stood in absolute silence outside of her library, thinking about what could of happened. He was there for one second than he disappeared but there must've been a simple solution for what was going on.

"Twi? What's all this about?" Applejack asked, catching Twilight unaware and causing her to jump a feet up into the air.

"Settle down there scardy cat." Pinkie laughed, bouncing up and down in front of Twilight.

"Sorry. I was thinking." Twilight said before turning to the others, revealing tears falling down her eyes. "Spike's gone."

"Whatever do you mean darling?" Rarity asked while putting her hoof around Twilight.

"Spike, he called out and when I got there…" Her tears began to fall quicker. When she had been thinking about it she had manage to keep her composure but now she had actually crippled her.

"Don't worry Twilight." Rainbow smiled. "I'm sure he's just playing a prank on you." With that she raised her head and shouted in the direction of the library. "Hey Spike! Good one but jokes up now!"

Rainbow crossed her forehooves and waited a smug grin on her face as she thought that she had solved the problem. A full minute passed and no answer. Rainbows face fell consistently throughout the minute as well, before she shakily called out again.

"Spike?"

"He's not there!" Twilight shouted at Rainbow.

"We need to find him then." Fluttershy squeaked. "He's only a baby dragon after all, remember what happened when he left after the whole incident with Owlowiscious."

"I'll search the house for you darling." Rarity said softly before walking away from Twilight and moving towards the library.

"I'll get my brother to gimme a hoof with the search around town." Applejack said, taking off at a run towards Sweet Apple Acers.

"I'm searching the Everfree." Twilight said softly, gently pushing Pinkie and Fluttershy off her as she did. "He may have wondered off I guess." She finished the last bit in an extremely unenthusiastic tone.

"I'm coming with you." Rainbow said, swooping down and landing next to Twilight.

"Me too." Fluttershy said moving forward.

"You would voluntarily to go into the Everfree forest?" Rainbow asked.

"I can't let Spike be there on his own." She defended. "I can get my animal friends to look as well."

"Guess I'm coming too." Pinkie said before running to catch up with the group before taking the lead.

The four ponies walked through the near pitch darkness of the early morning Everfree forest. The sun was still a few hours away from the horizon and long shadows were being created by Luna's moon.

"Where should we start?" rainbow asked while looking around the forest.

"None of my animal friends have seen Spike in the forest and he isn't with that big ferocious dragon either." Fluttershy said.

"We should go see Zecora." Pinkie said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"That's actually an excellent idea." Twilight said.

"I often have good ideas and yet ponies are always surprised." Pinkie grinned.

Twilight lead the group in the direction of Zecora's hut. She often wondered how she could find the hut whenever she wanted to, where ever she happened to be but pushed the irrelevant thought from her mind. All she wanted to do was to find Spike. Everything else was a secondary concern even her own wellbeing.

That final thought only crossed her mind as a thin branch whipped back, leaving a scar across her left cheek.

A while later the four caught sight of Zecora's hut and despite the hour that they had approached it, Twilight banged loudly on the door.

"Zecora! We need your help!"

From within the hut, a thud was heard, as a skull connected with a wooden floor before hoofsteps were heard approaching the door and slowly it inched open, revealing the zebra behind it.

"Twilight Sparkle and her friends, what bring you four to these ends?" Zecora asked, gently rubbing the side of her head although whether it was from banging it on the floor or simply because she was tiered.

"Spike's missing!" Twilight said. "We…"

"…came to see if I know where he went?"

"He cried out for me. Then he wasn't in his room." Twilight explained.

"I am sorry Twilight." Zecora said and instantly Twilight was alert. "I can't help you."

"You're not rhyming." Fluttershy said.

"There are some things that are not a joke and these must be said without my note." She replied simply. "I wish you luck on your quest and I hope it turns out for the best."

"Thank you for trying Zecora." Twilight said. "We'll let you get back to sleep."

Twilight looked ready to burst into tears as the door shut in her face and she slid down to the floor, sobbing silently.

"I don't know what to do." She said softly. "I've asked everypony I know."

"Really Twilight?" Pinkie asked. "Really?"

"I've got to side with Pinkie here." Rainbow said, looking at Twilight. "For a smarty pants book worm you really can be dense."

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, sniffing.

"Now let's think. Who do we know who sends messages to Spike through magic? Somepony who is extremely powerful and knows more about the world and the sun than anypony else?" Rainbow asked.

"Oh of course!" Twilight shouted, smashing her face with her hoof in exasperation. "Why didn't I think of it?"

"Because you," Pinkie said, bopping Twilight on her nose "are too smart."

"We need to get going." Twilight said while getting up and sprinting forward. Sighing, Rainbow, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie shook their heads, before taking off after Twilight.

Once again Twilight stood in front of her library, thinking what to do next and praying that whatever she did would be enough to save Spike. Around her, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy shared similar feelings. Applejack was on her way back to the library and Rarity was finishing what felt like the millionth sweep of the house for any clues as to where Spike had gone.

"I found nothing." Rarity said sadly, walking out of the house.

"And I didn't find anything either." Applejack said, walking towards the group. "Big Mac is still lookin around town but I don't think that he's gonna find anything."

"It doesn't matter." Twilight said, scrunching her face up in concentration. "We are going to the princesses."

"We catching the train then?" Pinkie asked excitedly. "I love the train."

"No." Twilight said before opening her eyes again. A bright glow that surrounded her horn increased in size to encompass all five of her friends. A split second later all six ponies disappeared.

The six appeared almost instantly in the Canterlot throne room, stunning the ponies present and even taking the princess who was sat on her throne stunned for a split second before regaining her composure and looking at the six.

"Twilight Sparkle. What is the meaning of this interruption?" Celestia asked while rising from her throne and making her way down the steps to the main floor of the throne room.

"It's about Spike."

"Now Twilight." Celestia said soothingly. "What is the problem about Spike?"

"He called out for me from his room and when I got there he wasn't there." Twilight explained.

"Are you sure?"

"We searched the library, Ponyville and the Everfree Forest for him." Twilight said. "He wasn't there."

"This is troublesome news." Celestia said before her horn lit up and she summoned a roll of letter. "However, Spike is not ordinary and I have a way to contact him anywhere on the planet through the enchantments I placed upon him as a child."

"So you can find him?" Twilight asked in excitement.

"Correct." Celestia replied with a smile before her horn glowed slightly brighter.

Instantly, the letter was engulfed in flames as it had been so many times before. This time however instead of the green flames that usually heralded Spikes messaging system a bright purple flame engulfed the letter, consuming it almost instantly and reducing it to a pile of ash that landed in front of a stunned Celestia.

"Princess?" Twilight asked confused.

"I… I don't understand." Celestia said, staring at the ash on the floor. "That spell has a range to reach across the entire planet."

"But it didn't send." Rarity pointed out.

"Yes." Celestia said. "There are only two reasons as to why this would happen."

"And those reasons are?" Applejack asked.

"Either he is not on this world anymore or he is dead." Celestia said.

Twilight stared at her mentor, unable and unwilling to believe what she had just heard.

"That can't be true." She said softly staring straight at Celestia.

"It is not something I take pleasure in.." Celestia said slowly, "But it is something that I must say as both your friend, princess and mentor."

Twilight stared at the princess, her jaw hanging open as she fought with her own self-conscious to process exactly what Celestia had said.

Then she raised her face, opened her mouth and screamed. The scream could be heard all throughout the castle. She fainted because of the stress but now how would she face the reality... Spike was gone.

That was a pretty depressing chapter. If anybody wanted to know each chapter will come out on each Friday. This chapter took place slightly after King Sombra defeat but before Discords return. I pretty much copied one of my other story chapters and added to it. I hope you all enjoyed it and hope you keep reading.