Spike and Pinkie Pie were walking away from Canterlot train station. As Pinkie Pie skipped cheerfully along with Spike, Spike had plenty of thoughts running through his head.
Who was that mare in Twilight Sparkle’s coffin?
Where is Twilight’s body now?
Who did I have to kill?
What are the rest of the trials
Would I ever succeed?
Also, Why would the letter come from the princess? It didn’t make any sense. The Princess has always been faithful to Twilight, as Twilight had been faithful to her. Or was it from the princess?
He didn’t like this one bit. He glanced at the ground, as his mind was racing through hundreds of other thoughts.
The cheerful pink pony stared at Spike. She had taken notice that Spike was not really happy, or at least not in the correct mood.
“Is something wrong Spike? I see a frown on that face” Pinkie twitched her eye. Which of course was not one of her Pinkie senses.
Spike shook his head. Yes, there was something wrong, but Spike could not tell her. At least not yet. He took this moment before replying.
“I guess I’m just distracted by... Err...” He looked around his surroundings, trying to think of a quick excuse. “The....ground? Yes, the ground!” He gave a bright sheepish looking smile, hoping that Pinkie Pie would buy it. Of course he knew it wouldn’t work.
Pinkie stared deeply into his eyes. Never before had she seen Spike act like that. She sighed and gave Spike a light, warming hug “You know you should not hide anything from me.” She spoke in a quite unusual motherly tone. She surprisingly did take this seriously.
Spike did not know how to react at all. Should he tell her about this whole ‘trial’ mess?
No... if he want to have Twilight back, it needs to be a secret, at least till this is done
“I will Pinkie, but I promise I am fine. Let’s just find a hotel or something, I guess I just need a little rest.” He was indeed tired, but it needed to be very quick. Maximum would be 1 hour, otherwise he would not be able to finish this in time.
Pinkie Pie nodded in agreement, and released her grip “Let’s go” She said happily, as she was trotting after Spike.
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It was already 7 pm. It was just 5 hours until the deadline. As they walked, Spike saw a hotel just around the corner. He took small steps, walking towards the hotel entrance. The door opened automatically. He took a look inside, and noticed that this room was quite large and fancy. Somehow it even looked bigger inside than the outside.
Spike and Pinkie Pie walked towards the counter, but as short as he is, he didn’t even
see the receptionist, so Pinkie Pie had to do it for him. ‘
“Hello?” Pinkie pie cried out, and rang the belle twice. The receptionist wasn’t there to be seen.
Soon after, a yellow earth pony walked towards the counter
“How may I help you?” The receptionist asked in a calm, gentle voice.
“A room for two please.” Pinking Pie requested
“A room for two... That will be 50 bits each for one night.” The price was outrageously expensive. “What! 50 bits?” Pinkie Pie cried out “We can’t pay 50 bi-”
Spike interrupted her, as he climbed on her back “We’ll take it!”
Pinkie Pie widened her eyes. “What? Are we paying?”
Spike gave nothing but a nod. Pinkie Pie sighed got some money out of... nowhere. Where else would a pony keep their money anyway? Pinkie muttered to herself some nonsense. “Here! 100 bits!” She said rather a tad bit annoyed
The receptionist hoofed the keys over to them. “2nd floor. Room 115, end of the corridor.”
The duo ventured forth. They stood by a not so big elevator.
Spike pushed the button, that would lead the elevator to their floor. Of course they could just taken the stairs... The elevator soon came down in a matter of 20 seconds.
The duo took a step into the elevator. Both Pinkie and Spike just stood there looking awkwardly at each other.
“So... have you been working lately?” Spike asked his pink friend. Pinkie shook her head. “Nopey dopey....i only work on sundays and mondays” Pinkie pie responded with a cheerful voice
Huh? Sundays? Why would anypony in Equestria work on sundays anyway?
The elevator opened up. It was rather slow for being such a modern elevator, but that didn’t matter. They walked toward the end of the corridor, glaring at the numbers of each door. “There, 115!” Spike gave a shout out, and brought forth his key and opened it.
Inside was a large room with 2 double beds and 2 lamps, a mini bar and a large bath room.
“Wooow. this place looks amazing!” Pinkie Pie shouted happily
As they walked inside, Spike felt rather dizzy for whatever reason. He walked toward a random bed and collapsed. Everything went dark for him. He could hear Pinkie’s voice call for him, but too late. He was already unconscious
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“Wh...where am I?!” Spike’s voice echoed throughout the room. He was in a pitch dark place. He glanced over at the dark, empty space. It soon began to lit up. The pitch black wall showed his deepest memories.
“Twi..Twilight is that you!?” He widened his eyes, he stuttered, he smiled and was as cheerful he could ever get.
Twilight and spike were just walking away from Sugarcube Corner. Both Spike and Twilight were laughing.
“That was a great party, Pinkie! Again, thanks for hosting my Birthday party” Twilight said cheerfully with Spike on her back.
“Noooo problem. Anything for you Twilight!” Pinkie responded from the balcony overly happy.
“I remember that party like it was yesterday.” He said to himself , as it echoed across the room. Really, it had been almost 8 years.
“The happy times with me and Twilight have been the best times I have ever witnessed.” he spoke with a timid voice, yet he was overjoyed. This was a great opportunity to get distracted by Twilight’s death
Speaking of which. It skipped to the hospital. It was just 5 months later. With the 5 ponies and Spike They stood with the purple mare. Twilight was breathing heavily, panting, almost lifeless, but she was cheerful to the very end.
“This day was the day...” He stopped before talking, to dry off a tear “This was the day she had gone to peace. Every time I think of this moment, I wish for the same thing all the time. Why couldn’t it be me?” Spike questioned nopony in sight.
Her voice echoed through his head. She used her last strength to speak to her friends for the last time.
She turned over to Applejack, breathing heavily.
“Applejack... You are certainly the most amazing pony I have ever met. You are certainly the best pony I could go to for the best kind of advice. Through the bad and good times.”
“Fluttershy... you are the most kindest pony I have ever known in my entire life. You knew how to even give the most heartless pony a flutter in their heart, and you certainly fought for your friends. You sure was shy, but even you could overcome your worst fears”
“Rarity you are an amazing pony. Your generosity, your responsibility, everything, and your dresses are just as great, and your generosity made them even greater. I know you will become famous one day, and shine all over Equestria.”
“Rainbow Dash... You were one of the few ponies I really admired. Your bravery, your style, the way you helped everypony. I really did envy you. You are pretty much what I wanted to be all these years. You will definitely become the best flier in Equestria for sure.”
“Pinkie Pie...” Her voice slowly started to fade away, but she kept going. “You are the greatest pony to ever have as a friend when somepony are sad. You teached me a lot that even I didn’t know. For one thing, you teached me how to smile, laugh and have the greatest times of my life.”
She even gave a bright smile, and closed her eyes. She then turned over to Spike.
“And you, Spike... you have been like a..” She stopped for a full 10 seconds “You have been like a son to me.” Her voice had finally started to reach the limit where she could barely talk
“I know you will become a great, and an amazing dragon, Spike... You were the one who kept me going, and you certainly gave me a reason to carry on. Without you, I would still be a loner to this very day. I will always remember you as my number one assisstant.”
A tear drips down Twilight’s cheek. Her heart rate had dropped intesively, her voice was gone. Her life began to fade away, and her heart stopped pounding.
Spike teared up. “Twilight! This isn’t funny! Wake up! We’ll go home and... do some re-shelfing, right?” He got no response at all. He hugged Applejack tightly. Finally, he decided it was time to let it all out.
“This is it, y’all.” Applejack stated, with tears in her eyes. “Our Twilight is finally in peace.” He held her hoof around Spike.
“I’m going to the library... if anyone need me, you know where to find me” He brok of the grip, and walked off.
Rarity pulled a hoof stitched blanket over Twilight “You are in a better place now, I would hope.” Rarity gave Applejack a tight hug, and even began to cry
Rainbow Dash finally showed her emotions, and got plenty of tears rolling down her cheek “T-This is it girls... I am going back to cloudsdale. I do not know when I will be back.” She rapidly flew away, in an enormous speed out the opened window.
“Dashie!” Pinkie Pie tried to yell back at the mare. She sighed, and hugged Twilight’s lifeless body. “I can’t even take my own advice... My advice to smile, and being confident that everything is alright.” She shed a tear and released the grip. “What now, girls. Dashie is gone too.”
Fluttershy stared blankly at Twilight. She backed away a few steps. “I am going as well, Pinkie Pie. I am going to stay in Las Pegasis for a while.” She slowly started to walk away
“Hold just one darn minute. Ah’m comin’ with ya’ll” Applejack said with a determined voice
“W-What?! You guys are leaving too?” Pinkie Pie asked even more devestated. “What about our friendship!” She yelled “Shouldn’t we stay together at least”
Both of them went away, not listening to the pink mare “Oh brother.” She looked at Rarity “What bout you”
Rarity sighed. “I am going back to the boutique, Pinkie...” She left soon after.
Moment later, It flashed white all of a sudden. Spike stared blankly at the wall in silence.
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“Spike... Spiiiike!!” The familiar high pitched voice finally reached him.
“Finally! I have been waiting for hours!” Pinkie pie spoke a tad bit worried, but of course she was exaggerating “Well, it was just about 54 minutes and 39 seconds...”
“Pinkie I need to go out and fix something... like, you know. Candy... or something. I’ll
be back in an hour or two” He shed a tear, but quickly wiped it away. With that, he ran off.
Spike got out of the room. He began to run towards the elevator, hoping that Pinkie Pie wouldn’t follow him .
As Spike had left the hotel, he saw the top of the castle, and stared at the clock. It was already 10 PM.
Spike took a deep breath, as he kept walking straight towards the castle entrance. A lot of pony citizens were looking at him as he passed through. Spike looked from side to side, gazing upon the eyes of the ponies
He proceeded towards the archives. Spike looked from a corner and looked into the archive room to see if there were any guards patrolling the area. Fortunately for him, was luck by his side. No guards, or anypony else he should stay away from. He proceeded towards the door, and grabbed the door
He opened wooden door, looking at a large room with papers scattered everywhere “Oh great!” He said annoyed “This will take fore-” He saw a parchment with looked way older than the usual scrolls/parchments around her. “Well... that was easy” He said.
He picked up the scroll. “Let’s see”
“I have seen you have come this far Spike. You are probably wondering who you are going to kill? You are probably aware of Rarity’s boyfriend, am I right? He is working in this castle. Find him, kill him and drag his body out to the forest outside of Canterlot. There is a revolver in this scroll. It is loaded. Go finish the job!”
An image of the stallion was put in the gun barrel. It was Prince Blueblood. Spike lowers his eyelids. “When did Rarity hook up with such a moron anyway?” he questioned himself, and looked up.
He looked at the large clock above the door. “Great. 11:20 already. I have no time to lose”
Spike found the revolver in the scroll. “I’m sorry Rarity...” He shed a tear.
He walked out the corridor, with no guards in sight. Spike could look for him. This certainly was convenient. Looks like hunting down a certain somepony would be easy today. Though, where would he be by now?
Spike took a deep breath and started to sprint towards the bedroom. Spike felt like his heart was about to stop when he reached for the door door. Just a few seconds after
catching his breath, Spike could hear someone from Blue blood’s bedroom, Spike started to panic. He turned his head from side to side and started to look for somewhere to hide. He saw a pair of blue curtain, which reached the floor. Spike had no other choice, he ran off once more to hide behind the curtains.
He tried to calm down, and avoid being spotted behind the curtains was easier said than done. He sat in a fetal position for crying out loud. He knew that if she/he saw him they, would most likely bring him to Princess Celestia, or possibly worse!
As the door got open, a young maid left the room. In a hurry, Spike thought that it would be safe to check if the coast was clear.
“Phew.” He started to walk toward the room he opened the door quite slowly, in attempt to make as little noise as possible. Most of the accessories was covered in gold, and jewelry. Even the furnitures.
There was silence through the entire room. He peeked in a bit further, until he saw a shadow.
“There he is spike said with a nervous voice” Prince blueblood was sitting on a chair, reading a novel. He had a pipe in his mouth, he was wearing a black suit that looked hoof stitched, a tie and a hat.
Spike opened checked for ammo, luckily it was ready for ‘action’. He sighed! and stared at the prince. He walked up to the prince, poked his shoulder, and aimed the revolver against his head.
“Ugh, what is it now!” He said rather annoyed. That was until he turned around, and took notice to the revolver up to his head “W-Woah... calm down mister, let’s not get violent, shall we?”
Spike held his finger against the trigger ready to shoot, but somehow he could not do it. He could not pull the trigger “Please! Don’t shoot, I have a wife and everything.” He held up a picture of Rarity in his hooves. “S-See!”
Spike sighed, and remembered that he was still in love with this mare. He could not hesitate any further “I will say hello for you” He finally pulled the trigger. The bullet squeezed out of the barrel, and hit him directly in the head.
He fell down on his knees, dropped the gun and stared at his his hands as he could feel his tears squeeze out through his eyes. He could not believe he had just shot somepony.
He pulled himself together, and grabbed the body from his hind legs. He looked throughout the room until he saw a bag big with room enough for the prince. He dropped the body and grabbed the bag.
As He stuffed the body, he could hear guards sprinting to his location. Looks like they heard the shot.
Spike was panicking, adrenaline rushed through his body, when he heard the guards were running directly to his location. He looked at the large windows, he did not know where it would lead, he did not know how far it was down, but he had no other choice.
“Here goes nothing.”
He ran and took a dolphin dive straight trough the window. The glass had shattered everywhere. He fell down to a flowing river. He fell unconcious yet again from the fall, but this time only for about 10 minutes.
Spike felt a lot of pain running trough his whole body. The landing was pretty harsh.
He woke up in a grassy area, with trees everywhere” He got up as he groaned in pain.
“Wh...where am I?” He questioned with a rather pitched voice. “The bag with the corpse where is it!?!
he panicked, and tried to look everywhere for his bag. He spotted the bag not far away from him. He sighed in relief, and ran to it’s direction
He checked the inside of the bag, which now was a body bag to find the body in it’s place. He was relieved, but also filled disgust and regret. Though he found himself in a forest just like the letter said. He had no other thoughts than to leave it as it is now.
As he wandered back into town with exhaustion, injured, tired and quite saddened by the fact he just killed someone, he wasted no time and went back to the hotel.
“What a day...” He whined, as he used his key. He turned the handle, and went inside. It was dark, breezy, and Pinkie Pie was surprisingly asleep with the blanket on the floor, he picked it up. Before he tucked her, he stared at her for a moment and smiled. He then tucked her in and smiled. “Good night, Pinkie” He wasted no time, and fell straight on his bed, planted his face first on the pillow