Spike stood at the top of the hill, arms crossed, tapping his foot angrily. His eyes were set on a bench.
An EMPTY bench.
"Is she really late today, of all days?"
He started his way down the hill, muttering under his breath the entire way. When he reached the bench, something caught his eye. "A... paper?"
Sure enough, a piece of parchment was sitting on the bench, folded neatly in half.
He picked it up and slowly unfolded it. His eyes quickly scanned the paper. "Wh... what?" His voice cracked very slightly.
He sat down as his eyes returned to the top of the note, and read it more carefully.
"Dear Baby Dragon,
I'm sorry I had to leave without saying goodbye. But I have to take care of my people, and the farewell would have been too sad for me to handle.
I'm glad I met you though. I came to look forward to talking to you each day, even though you were a bit annoying at times. You are the first creature I've ever considered to be a friend...
I hope we'll meet each other again some day.
Signed,
The Parasitic Queen."
As his eyes met the last word, his claw's grip loosened, and the paper fluttered down next to him on the bench.
"W...why...?" He slumped back in his seat, tears welling up in his eyes.
"You're... my friend, right, baby dragon?"
He was shocked into sitting up. The voice echoing in his head... that was... Chrysalis's voice...
Spike looked up to the sky. It was what she had said yesterday. She had finally called him a friend...
He slammed his fist down on the bench next to him. "Why didn't I realize it? It was so obvious!" He began cursing himself out in his head. The way she was acting... there were things she wanted to say before she left; so she said them a day early.
The tears began to roll down Spike's face. Is it really that easy to lose a friend?
"Thank you."
At the sound of her voice, he looked at the note sitting next to him, as if it were an instinct. It was only half open, but he could see one line of it, and this time, he heard it in Chrysalis's voice.
"I hope we'll meet each other again some day."
"That's right." Spike looked up to the sky again, and smiled. "I didn't lose a friend. I'll see her again."
He hopped off the bench, and began to run towards the library, the note in hand, off towards the setting sun.
"I'm sure of it!"
Good job!! These were great! And they were only the prelude!! Holly shite! Leaves to wonder what the encore would be... Wait... Prelude... Encore?... You're going to skip over the wedding aren't you... Well Spike didn't really know chrysalis was the changeling queen... I mean it's not like he can put two and two together to reach the shocking conclusion that chrysalis attacked Cadance, harmed Celestia, and mind fucked Twilight... No... That could never happen... >.>
2294114 Don't worry. I wouldn't dare skip over the "performance."
I am looking forward to Act 2 of this story.
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Sweet! I'm actually interested on how exactly Spike will react to this revelation. You've developed him differently then I've seen other authors do it. He's naive from a child's view point, he sees something dangerous, deadly even, and first thing he does is befriend it, yet still have that certain maturity where he has both the intelligence and understanding of an adult.
Oh this is gonna be good!!
So that was why he was not around ...
I am sad. Chrysalis, er, Dragonfly finally made a friend, one she can trust, but has to leave........
Very interesting. Say have you ever considered submitting this to Equestria Daily Here's how: null
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah, this next chapter is going to be quite the huge one. I'd say don't expect it before monday.
That's quite a long prelude. It feels pretty fatiguing to realize everything has been a prelude up until now, and you had a lot of content down. I guess you probably could have done this in less chapters. It's all well written though.
For some reason, reading the end of this chapter makes me think of the end of a movie or a long novel.