Spike is a normal teenager when he gets a letter saying that he has been recommended to join the canterlot academy. He meets new faces and some old faces from his past.
*Disclaimer* Spike in this story is 18 and The Main Six is 19 The CMC is 18 Ember, Smolder, and Gabby are 18 *End of Disclaimer* Story Idea By:Malyra Loki Blackheart New Cover art author :CmacX Original Cover Art Author:Bonaxor Original Cover Art
It was early in the morning in the town of ponyville. The town was quite small, it had a feeling of comfort and peace. It was quite peaceful as there were not many residents moving around on the roads today. Either the people were setting up their shops for the later market buzz, or it was the mares watering their gardens, A male with green hair was standing next to his mailbox fidgeting, he was getting excited that today should be the day that a letter that he has been expecting for quite some time should be arriving on that day. He then saw the mare that he had been so anxious to see. He saw that she was walking to his house and he tried to calm himself down.
"Hello there, Derpy How are you?" Spike asked the gray mare that was approaching him.
"Not Bad, Mr. Drago, Yourself?" She said as he was looking in her bag for the mail.
"Any Mail for me today?" He said as he watched the female look inside the bag that was full of envelopes and packages.
The mare was still looking as she saw the house number and nodded. She grabbed the envelopes that was bundled in a rubber band and handed it to the male.
"Have a nice day spike, I will see you around?" Derpy said with a smile and walked off.
The male standing there is named Spike Drago. He is a 17-year-old boy, that was born with the green hair he is mostly known for. He has been living there mostly his life. He was not living with his parents due to an accident that happened when he was still a newborn, so the house that he lives in belongs to his adopted mother Celestia, and Adopted Aunt Luna. He started to look through the letters. Most of them were either bills or junk, but one of the letters caught his eye. The seal on the envelope was of gold color and it was known to be for the Royal Knight Academy. A glimmer in his eyes shined when he saw this and did waste any time in opening up that seal. This letter was important to him because two months ago he applied to an academy to train to be a knight or to train to become a leader. Soon after reading the contents Spike fist-bumped the air and said yes to himself. The letter was an acceptance letter to the Academy. The letter said that he should report to the academy at 7:00 PM today to have a tour around the campus. After he read the entire letter he soon started to pack some of his clothes for the trip to the academy. Included in his letter is an Airplane ticket because the academy is situated on an island. After Spike was done packing up his belongings it was 5:00 PM. He Quickly exited his home to arrive at the airport.
After the long flight to the academy, he has arrived to be on time. Spike thought to himself, "well this is lucky the airport is just next to the academy and I can walk there easily."
Spike just started his way to the Academy thinking that it will just be a normal tour of the campus, but boy was he wrong. After his walk from the airport, he arrived at the front gate of the campus. The doors where already open so he walked in and looked around the front area where he saw many students walking and socializing with each other. When the students saw Spike walked in some of the students started to whisper to each other containing questions like, “ Is that the new guy” or “he’s cute is he single”. Spike sighed while thinking to himself,
”Did I forget that this school has a population mostly filled with females.”
Without hesitation, he started to walk a little faster so he could reach the front doors without any problems. When he entered the school the hallways were spacious with plenty of room for students to go to and from their classes.
“Woah, when the pamphlet said that it was a sight to behold they weren’t kidding,” said spike when he took a look around the main lobby.
After a few minutes of sightseeing, Spike didn’t have any directions to the principal's office, so he started to look around to find a student that could help him.
When Spike was walking around the hallway, he bumped into a female with purple hair with a streak of pink in it. "Oops I'm Sor-" Said Spike when he saw the said girl he bumped into.
Flashback "Come on Spike, we don't have all day," said a little girl looking at a younger Spike. This version of Spike looked like he was 10 years old and she was 11. The younger Spike started to chase the little girl. ** A few hours later ** Younger Spike and the little girl "Hey, Twilight I have some news I have to tell you." Younger Spike sighed before saying, "My father got a new job and we have to move." Twilight started to cry and say to him, "I don't want you to go, please Spike, stay with me" Spike responded, "I'm Sorry Twilight but I have to go." ** The day he moved ** Spike was looking out the back window of his parent's car waving bye to the young Twilight End of Flashback
Spike just looked at an older Twilight and got up and dusted himself off.
"I'm sorry but I have to go; But do you know where the principal's office is?"
The girl looked at Spike and had a little-shocked expression but didn’t want to show it, so she said that the principal’s office was just around the corner to the left. Spike gave her thanks and started to walk to the principal’s office. One of the girls of the group wearing a stetson asked the girl,
”Twi what was that about, I saw that look do you know him”
The girl who was named Twilight Sparkle responded,
”I think so, he kinda resembled an old friend of mine from my childhood.”
The girl in the Stetson just shook her head in an understanding way and stayed quiet. The group kept walking after that.
***Back to Spike***
A few short minutes after meeting the group of women he approached the principal’s door. “Hello is anyone there?” asked Spike as he walked into the office, a woman with purple pink and a gold-colored hair stood up from out of her chair and greeted Spike,
“Hello you must be our new student, my name is Principal Cadence and what might your name be?” “My name is Spike and yes I am the new student,” replied Spike. Cadence smiled a bit and asked, “what made you apply for our school anyways?” Spike replied, “When I was younger I loved to play around with swords and such. So when I saw the opportunity to join a school where I could live up to that likeness of mine I took the opportunity.”
Cadence just shook her head with a satisfied grin and she said, “now I know you have a map of our school but I have requested one of our students to show you around the campus. Is that ok with you?” Spike nodded his head yes.
So Cadence took her intercom and announced throughout the school,
“Can Ms.Sparkle come to the main office please I repeat can Ms.Sparkle come to the main office please, thank you.”
A few minutes after the announcement there was a knock on the principal's door. Cadence said, “Come in” and Twilight walked through the door. “Hello Principal Cadence I was called?” said Twilight when she walked in. Cadence replied, “Yes, can you please show Mr.Drago around the school?” When Twilight heard that name all she could say was “S-spike?”
Spike just looked at Twilight with astonishment. "At first you were just a look-alike but now I know it's true. I'm back Twilight and it's for good." Spike got up and walked over to Twilight and hugged her. He then walked back to his chair and sat down. Cadence motioned her hand to gesture Twilight to sit down and she complied.
"Spike what are you doing here?" asked Twilight. Spike just sat there with a smile on his face.
"Well, I got a letter stating that there were openings in the academy and if I was interested in joining I could. So I sent a letter in saying that I would gladly join the roster to join this school and I was accepted." Responded spike. "Well since you are new here I will give you a tour of the campus." Cadence then gave Spike his dorm key and said, "Here is your key, Hey Twilight could you also bring Spike to his dorm to have a look at it, and while you're at that help him greet some of the students that are in the halls." Twilight responded, "Yea I'll show him around", she then turned to spike and said, "I'll see you out in the hallway when you are done talking with cadence." Twilight then smiled and walked out.
Spike smiled at her and started to walk out of the office before Cadence said,
" Oh and spike, try not to do anything indecent with the girls, just because we have a few males in this school doesn't mean the girl's still don't have the itch to get rid of." Spike gave a nervous chuckle and left the office. Spike could hear Cadence chuckle to herself while he tried to speed out of her office. When Spike made it back into the main hallway he looked around a bit to find Twilight. He then saw Twilight talking to a blonde-haired chick wearing a stetson and wearing clothes resembling a cow-girl. He started to walk over to the pair when a teenage girl with pink skin jumped in front of him.
"Hey aren't you the boy that bumped into Twilight earlier and that she thought you were her childhood best-friend that moved away and she never saw again?" She said fast and making Spike start to see stars flying around his head.
When Twilight saw the girl starting to make Spike confused she walked to them and put a hand on her shoulder. "Pinkie I think you are starting to make Spike dizzy and confused." When Pinkie looked back at Spike she saw that he was very dizzy, the look in his eyes said so.
"Sorry 'bout that Spike, her name is Pinkie Pie and she is very energetic if that is the word for it." Pinkie started to giggle at her comment and walked towards the girl in the Stetson. A minute later the teenager that Pinkie was talking to started to walk towards Spike with Pinkie following her.
"Howdy there, my name is AppleJack and it's a pleasure to meet an old friend of Twiliy's." Said AppleJack when she approached him. She stuck out her hand to give him a handshake with a smile. He gladly accepted this gesture of formality and responded, "It's great to meet you Applejack, my name is Spike."
When Spike got a better look at the farm girl in front of him he saw that she had to be at least 6'2 or taller and she had an F cup breast size. Applejack also seemed to have some meat on her bones. When he looked over at Pinkie she seemed to be shorter than Applejack but taller than Twilight who was at 5'9''. Twilight seemed smaller in the chest department at a D cup size but she was almost as skinny as a stick. Pinkie looked to have a G cup breast size but it could also be because she seems to eat a lot of confectionary sweets. Pinkie looked a bit chubby but it was all in the right places.
"Hey, Twilight can we join you in your tour with Spike here?" Asked Pinkie while acting very joyous. Twilight sighed a little bit when she thought that he and herself would be able to catch up with each other by themselves but since her friends want to find out how Spike is like she would allow them to join.
"Sure girls you can join, do any of you know if any of the other girls are around here cause they also might want to meet Spike?" Asked Twilight. Applejack gave her a shrug as a response and Pinkie was thinking a little bit about her question.
"I don't know where the girls would be at this moment but I know we all will meet at lunch," said Pinkie. Twilight gave an understanding nod. Twilight thought and told the group of friends,
"That would be a great idea, we could all talk to spike then and tell him about you girls" Pinkie's face had grown a giddy smile when she heard about Twilight's plan. Spike crossed his arms as he looked at the multiple females talking about what they were going to do during the school day, he then looked at his watch and tapped his chin.
"Twilight, How do I find out about my class?" He asked he was very confused as to where he was going to place within the school. He already knew about the class system between the princesses and knights, but he just does not know what he is going to be. Twilight looked at him and raises an eyebrow,
"Spike, didn't you already know where you place? Normally when you are born you would have this information with you" She said to the male as pinkie's voice is heard going on about cupcakes and parties. Spike opened his mouth then his head drooped,
"Twilight don't you remember? I was adopted into my family, there was no information about my birth," he said in a sad tone.
Twilight gasped as she realizes that she touched on an iffy topic that he isn't very proud to talk about. "Oh my god Spike, I am so sorry. I forgot about your family tree." She said as she hugged the sad male tightly.
While in Twilight's loving grasp, he let out a sigh. He did know that Twilight could be a bit oblivious sometimes but, she would never want to hurt one of her friends purposely.
"Its alright Twi, I know you didn't mean to say that. I know how you are, you still haven't changed since you were a little kid." Spike said as he rubbed her back. The two then moved away from each other, Twilight having a slight rouge blush across her cheeks. It was not very noticeable, to Spike that is. But Applejack could see it from where she was and said to herself,
"Well I'll be darned, Twilight got herself a little crush of hers. But it's understandable, the little guy isn't so bad looking himself." Applejack widened her eyes as she realized what she just thought about. Her cheeks grew a slightly pink blush, she tried to act as normal as she could. Her eyes darted left to right in hopes that nobody is noticing her blush and walks over to the nearest water fountain. During this Twilight thought about what Spike could do to figure out his predicament.
"Spike? Have you thought about asking Cadence about trying to asses what your stance could be?" Spike opened his mouth to voice his response, but he could not speak. He thought about it for a second and he grunted.
"Why am I so stupid? I should have thought about that in the first place" Spike thought as he mentally facepalmed himself. He sighed and rubbed his chin.
"So what do these tests consist of?" Spike asked Twilight crossed her arms under her bust to think about it for a second. Her foot tapped against the ground, Spike knew that when Twilight did this, she was in deep thought.
After a minute of thinking, she gave Spike an answer, "I don't have a clue, we all should go to her and find out." Twilight whistled to gain the girl's attention, this was successful, as all their heads turned to her.
All of them said in unison, "What's up Twi?" She responded to them, "We have to go to the dean's office again, he has to set up an aptitude test to figure out his stance in this academy."
The girls nodded and sighed as they were able to finally get out of the hallway they were in for the past 10 minutes. They were getting quite bored, as all they were doing was either walking around in circles or speaking to each other, which they were running out of subjects to talk about. All of them grouped back together and started to walk the way towards Cadence's office.
Applejack who was next to Spike looked over to him, "So Sugahcube, how is it? Reuniting with Twilight I mean." Spike looked over to the cowgirl, "It's amazing, to say the least. It has been quite a while since me and her has seen each other, but it's different. I'm not saying that it a bad thing but..." Spike said as a darker blush crept onto his face. Applejack noticed this and moved closer to his ear, her tone lowered close to a whisper, "I've seen the connection between you two. I can feel that you have the love bug, am I right?"
Spikes eyes widened as he realized that the cowgirl in question, was able to read his emotions and actions like a book. Spike sighed as he came to terms with his emotions.
"Yeah, I have feelings for Twilight. But why would she return them to me? We were only childhood friends. You would think that I would have noticed if she had any type of feelings for me?" Spike said. "I wouldn't be so sure 'bout that partner. Twilight is a complex girl, as you know. But she doesn't have the best terms with cupid himself."
Spike chuckled as he heard Applejack's little joke. Spike then looked at the hallway they were heading down and seeing the sign that is labeled "Dean's Suite". He took a deep breath to calm his nerves. He hoped that this test would not take too long, or be that complex. The whole group walked through the door and into the little area before the office. The receptionist looked at the group.
"Hello, can I help you?" The girl behind the desk asked. "We are hoping to see Dean Cadence please, it's quite urgent," Twilight said.
The female looked into a book, then dialed a number into her phone. Someone talking on the other line, which was unintelligible to the group, was heard as the receptionist was talking to the person.
"Alright, you may go in," she said. The whole group nodded and Pinkie opened the door to the office. "Oh hey there girls, what can I help you with?"
Cadence folded her hands together and put them on the table. The smile on her face was that kind of heartwarming motherly look.
"Well Cadence, I was hoping that a test could be administered so that my standing could be decided within this school." Said Spike has his face was a little worrisome. He did not know if Cadence would have been confused, or angry.
"If I may say Cadence, Spike here was adopted when he was a baby. There was no record of his birth, and that in reason means that there was not study conducted as to find out if he was in either of the standings." Said Twilight calmly. Cadence nodded as she picked up her phone. She dialed a number and began speaking.
"Hey redheart, its Cadence. I was wondering if you had any openings for a test to be done on the student Spike Drago. He needs to have his standing evaluated." A female voice could be heard through the phone. "No, he does not have any records beforehand, no test was done. Alright, thank you."
Cadence then put the phone back on its stand and smiled at the group.
"Well, I have an exam to be done on you spike tomorrow. But for now, you should head to your dorm now."
The girls and Spike nodded and exited the office. The group walked into the hallway and headed towards the Dorm building.
"Alright Spike, its time for you to head to your dorm room. It's already past schooling hours, and you need to at least have your room set up a little" Twilight said looking over at Spike. "Luckily, your room is right next to mine, so we would be able to walk together."
Spike nodded as he yawned. He needed sleep by the look on his face. The rest of the girls said their goodbyes and walked into their rooms. The two walked a little further down the row of doors, and then Twilight gave him his key to his room.
"Alright, here's your room. I will see you in the morning." She said as she opened her dorm door, and walked in.
Spike then opened his door and dropped his bag right next to the door. He did not care where his stuff was as he wanted to go to sleep. He jumped onto his bed and instantly fell asleep.
Spike turned onto his side as he slightly opened his eyes. Making a groan he sat up, a little confused as to why he was in a different room than his house.
"Where am I?" He asked, groggily.
He looked at the door, seeing his bag, and a pair of folded clothes on his dresser. He then realized that he was inside the academy. He looked at himself, he noticed that he was still in his clothes from yesterday, he got up and walked over to his dresser, seeing a piece of paper laying on top of the clothes. He lightly picked up the paper to read it.
Hey there Spike. I left you your school uniform here while you were sleeping. I guess you were really tired, I tried to wake you but you kept thinking I was your mother. See ya in a few.
Love, From, Twilight (Twiliy)
Spike started to chuckle to himself, he always loved how Twilight, even though she was smart and outgoing, she was never good at writing notes to people. He sighed as he heard some knocking on his door. He walked over to it and opened it slightly seeing Twilight. When he saw her he opened his door fully.
"Hey good morning Twilight," he said as he reached out and hugged her, The girl hugged Spike back and smiled.
"Hey Spike, glad to see you awake," She said "Even though you are cute when you sleep" Twilight thought.
Spike nodded and yawned.
"Sorry that I'm a mess right now. I just woke up, and read your note. Thanks for leaving this here, I needed them as I don't have many clothes to wear at the moment."
Twilight smiled and blushed. She started to think of Spike being shirtless since it was dark inside his room, her blush was not very visible to Spike. She always did have a thing for Spike even when they were children. She thought he was cute and a great boy. And now that she saw him with her own eyes, he has grown into an excellent man, with great features.
"Sorry Twilight I got to freshen up a little, I did not have the time to take a shower or anything of the sorts," Spike said as he rubbed the back of his head.
She nodded and sat on his bed. She didn't mind if it wasn't fixed, Twilight smiles as she looked at Spike.
"It's alright, I came by hoping you could walk with me to breakfast, all the girls are waiting for us." She said.
She looked at her feet, a little embarrassed hoping he would say yes. Spike thought for a moment before he smiled and nodded.
"Alright give me a minute or two, so I can freshen up. After that, we can leave."
She smiled, as he grabbed his uniform and headed into his dorm's bathroom. She could hear the shower's water falling onto its floor. After he left the room, she sighed as she tried to regain her composure. As she waited, Twilight walked around his room, seeing that no decorations, or any type of customization.
"I wonder if Spike likes me the way I like him. I would love for him to just snuggle me, holding him in those big muscular arms. Him being shirtless, that six-pack he has. Meeow" Twilight thought her blush intensifying to the point that her cheeks were looking as red as a tomato.
Twilight was snapped out of her thoughts as she heard the bathroom door open. She thought that the door was unlocked, but she did not hear the shower. She realized Spike was coming out, so she took 2 deep breaths to calm her self and her face temp. As Spike walked back into the main living space, he looked over to Twilight. He saw that she was looking calm but, was not her normal self.
"I wonder what is going on inside her head. Could she-No Spike, Twilight does not love you like that, she is like an older sister to you."
Like Twilight, Spike did have a crush on the female for a while. Back when they were kids he was fascinated because she was the first female he met. He never did have experience having a conversation with females back then and was grateful that she was as shy as he was. So they kicked it off great and became great friends. But as he was growing up he kept contemplating how to ask her out, but it was too late when he had to move.
Spike coughed to snap Twilight out of her trance.
"Are you ready to go Twi, we don't want to miss breakfast do we?" Spike asked combing his hair into his normal spiked look.
Twilight nodded as she started to walk towards the door. She was able to get herself back under control, for the time being. Boy did she not expect what is going to be happening next. The pair was walking down the hallway when they turned to the double doors leading into the lunchroom. At one table twelve girls were chatting with each other. Spike could see that Pinkie and Applejack were sitting there, but he didn't recognize the rest of the group. Twilight and Spike were approaching the table as Pinkie saw the two, her grin became bigger as she waved the two over quickly.
"Spike, Twilight over here!!" Pinkie said loud enough the whole cafeteria could hear her.
Twilight sighed and smiled. The awkwardness between Spike and Twilight was getting to her. She was glad that her friend was going to be able to remove the problem. The two sat at the table, Spike was looking at the whole group and was wondering who everybody was.
"Twilight, who are these people?" Spike asked a little worried they were just some random people.
Twilight then smiled, "Oh these are some of my friends." She smiled "Why don't you introduce yourselves?"
The females looked at each other and spoke to one another trying to find out who should start. After a bit, the girl with Rainbow hair decided to speak up. All the other girls had fascinating styles. One had smooth pink hair, and it seemed to curl at the end, another had royal purple hair and was curly throughout her hair. Sitting next to the purple-haired girl, was a smaller girl. Assuming she was the female's sister, they looked similar. She had a lighter purple, with a slightly grey highlight.
"Well, My name is Rainbow Dash, and I am the greatest athlete The Royal Knight Academy has, and I am a Knight," Rainbow said with quite the grin.
Rainbow Dash sported rainbow-colored hair while wearing a light blue cut tank top, black shorts. She had a light blue loincloth over the shorts, a white strap holding it to her frame. Her build looked slim but yet muscular at the same time. Next to her was a smaller girl with purple hair, but lighter than the one female. She was acting like a rainbow-haired girl. She then decided to speak up.
"Hey there, well my name is Scootaloo, but my friends call me Scoots. I am a lot like my older sister and play sports. Someday I want to be like her and be as good as sports as she is."
"Well Nice to meet 'cha Rainbow and Scoots, my name is Spike, Well I have been friends with Twilight for a while now, me and her first met when I was only 6. My new family and I, moved down to ponyville because I was an orphan after an attack on my parents. They were Dragonbloods, living in Canterlot. Well",
is what he could say before he had to pause because the subject he was talking about was very painful to him. He then closed his eyes and took a deep breath before he started to talk again.
"My parents were killed after a rampage through our house because some of our neighbors found out about what my parents were. Because of the risk, I was to Canterlot they didn't keep track of my birth, as well as made me leave to find someplace to live. Only a few days after being kicked out of my own home was I able to get into an orphanage, and the Drago's were the ones to adopt me and that brings me here today."
Spike was able to speak but after his explanation, he started to shake a little and Twilight hugged him even though she was still embarrassed about what happened only twenty minutes ago. Spike then looked at the watch on his wrist and saw that it was almost time to get to the nurse.
"Sorry girls I have to get going, I have to go to the nurse to find out if I am a leader or a knight," he said as he got up from the seat and started to run to the nurse's office.
Due to it still being before all the classes started the hallways were quite empty except for a few students here or there, including some teachers who were getting supplies for today's classes. When Spike reached the nurse's door he walked in and knocked on her office frame.
"Hey nurse, I am here for my exam"s
He stood there and when he heard,
"Alright, Mr.Drago please sit on one of the benches I will be there to examine you shortly"
After his directions were spoken he sat on one of the benches and waited patiently for the nurse to come out. He looked around the room to find it was not full of many trinkets except for a few fake thermometers and a clock on the wall with a red cross in the middle. What seemed like five minutes the nurse walked out of her office with a needle and she turned on her computer. She sat on her stool and rolled over to Spike putting on some gloves.
"Alright Spike, you might feel a pinch"
Is all she said as she put the needle inside and drew some of his blood. The needle was dripping his blood inside of a small vial, assuming it is used for storage. After the vial was filled, Redheart took the needle out and put the bandage onto Spike where she pricked him. She rolled to her computer and opened a program, Spike could not make out what it was, but he saw the nurse put the vial into a small machine and it made a whirling sound. After a bit the computer made a ding and Redheart looked at the results. She turned around with a face of confusion and shock. She sighed as he began to say what was on the computer.
"Umm Spike I don't know how to explain this but, the test results say that you are both a leader and a knight"
When he heard the news, Spike had more confusion on his face and after a bit passed out with a groan his head falling onto the pillow.
Spike was floating inside an area of black space, there was no gravity, or any person other than himself around. It was cool and he was confused about where he was. He looked around as he tried to determine where he was.
"What? Where am I, why am I?" - Spike started to freak out. - "Oh my god am I dead? If I am, how did I die?"
As Spike was getting nervous about why he was here a figure started to appear. The figure looked slim, its hips swaying a little side to side. As it got closer it seemed more feminine, Spike then determined that this person is female. The female got close enough in the dark realm, that her face was able to be seen. She had a tone to her skin that made her look pearl white, while her eyes were a shade of pink. Her hair was seemingly flowing, even in the place they were at the moment had no wind. The smile on her face was soothing, acting mother-like. When Spike saw this, he couldn't help himself from walking towards her without any hesitation. While getting closer, he could tell that her hair had multiple colors embued into the silk-like strands of hair. After a minute or so of walking the two persons were close enough that they could stretch their arms out and touch each other. When he got a good look at her face he blinked shortly and opened his mouth,
"Mom?" Spike asked as he stepped back a bit and realized that it was the female who raised him since he was adopted.
The female nodded and smiled warmly- "Yes Spike it is me, and you must be wondering why I am here in your dreams."- The mother of Spike twirled her wrist around a chair appearing in the dark space, with a lamp that was illuminating without electricity.
"Please sit, it might take a bit to explain to you who I am."-The female motioned to the chair as she herself sat on a chair that appeared right under her. Spike himself sat on the comforter that was there waiting for him, he looked at her and waited for her to speak.
"Well firstly, My name is Celestia, and I am the leader alongside my sister, your aunt Luna. We decided to adopt you because, well the story that the orphanage told you, was false. Your parents did not die because of an accident, some people from my realm went out and sought to find your father because he bore the child of a princess and a dragon. Which is why you are a knight, You have the connection to a magical force called the summoning grid, it is what knights use to summon their weapons at will, or how they are able to use magical abilities without using a spellbook or incantations. Your father was a royal knight to my army before he moved back to the Badlands because of being summoned for army training there due to the treaty between our nations. The Leader part? well, how can I explain this? I am your birth mother, I was the princess that your father, his name was Bahumat, the leader of dragons that bore the child, which is you. The reason the story of your birth parents being magicians was made was that after I had conceived you, I had you put in a home with my greatest warlocks to protect you because my city would want my empire taken down because of a princess having a relationship with a dragon. Those people that attacked my warlocks because they found out about your whereabouts through a spy inside of my staff that was taken care of."
Spike's breath was getting a little shakey, all of his life he believed that all of this time his birth parents were just some random magic users that worked for Celestia, not actually a princess and a dragon knight. He still had so many more questions for his birth mother.
"But mom, why would you come back for me after I was put up for adoption, didn't you think that was a risky move on your part?"
The female nodded and smiled at her own son,
"Yes I did realize that but after telling your aunt Luna about my idea of taking a leave of my duties to help raise my son after the mistake I made of leaving you with some strangers. So I contacted Bahmaut and told him that I and he were going to take you back, and thought of the realm you are in today, the human realm. So we got you and brought you here to raise you like the parents we should have, and after you moved out, we went back to my realm and became the ruler I once was to my people."
The ground inside the dream realm was starting to shake. Celestia and Spike looked around when she began to spoke.
"It looks like you are starting to wake up my son, do not fret this is not the last time we will be meeting, I have set up a surprise for you in the coming weeks. I hope you are prepared for what is to come."
After those words were spoken, the area flashed white, with Nurse Redheart tapping on Spike's cheek loudly saying his name.-"Spike, SPIKE!! Are you awake?"- After he blinked a few times and his eyes re-adjusting to the bright white lights that were surrounding the room he opened widely and he shot up sitting straight up panting a bit.
"Miss Redheart what happened? Why did I pass out?"
Spike asked his legs shaking a bit after not being in use for sometime.-"Well Spike, after I told you the results of your exam you passed out. No worries though, you were only passed out for a few minutes, ten tops."- The female in front of him smiled warmly at him and had a paper in her hands grasp. She extended her arm handing the paper to him, "well these are the results, all you have to do is drop this off to the principal's secretary and head off to your first class, your first class is starting up in fifteen minutes, so I suggest you hurry."
Spike nodded and got up grabbing the paper from the nurse's hand and rushed down towards the Principal's office. After a few minutes of running through the halls, he reached the door to the lobby of the office. He slowly opened the door and approached the assistant. Spike looked at her and spoke,-"Here you go this is for the principal, they are the results from my placement tests."- The assistant nodded said thank you. After this, Spike exited the office and ran down to the room that his Schedule stated was his first class. When he entered the room the bell rang, signaling that all students have to reach their classes at the moment or be entered as tardy. The teacher was wearing a plaid turtle neck sweater with a yellow shirt underneath, brown pants, and black dress shoes. His skin was a fair grey with a brown hair spiked around being quite random. The teacher looked at Spike with a faint smile,-"Welcome to Math 1, my name is Discord quust, but you can just call me Mr.Discord"-Spike nodded and replied,-"Hello there Mr.Discord, my name is Spike"-After introductions were done, Spike found an empty seat and sat down, officially starting the first day of his new life.
The bell rang at the end of Spike's first class. Spike looked down at the sheet of paper in his hands' grip and read the ink printed on it.
"Training, this is going to be a fun experience," he said with a hint of sarcasm. The boy was walking down the hallway towards what he read on the signs, which was where his training class was going to occur.
Spike was looking around the hall, seeing so many students walking back and forth from their classes to their next and some staring at him. Some with disgust with how snobby some students are. The females were mostly looking at Spike with lust, wanting to know what kind of man Spike really was behind the bedroom door. Spike kept walking towards his class, getting all of the thoughts of his peers away from him. He reached the door to the field outside of the school and sighed.
"Here we go, hoping for a painless experience," Spike said as he opened the doors. He saw the bleachers where the other students taking the class were sitting, waiting for the teacher.
A person who looked triple the size of Spike was walking across the field towards the students, and what looked to be a large sword on his back. The man had a fierce poise about himself and grinned when stopping in front of his students.
"Welcome to your training class, trainees; my name is Coach Biceps, and today we are going to test your power and skills for your time here training as a knight." The coach stood in front of all of his students and had a big grin on his face as he took a look at everyone he would be training.
Spike gulped as he imagined what kind of pain he would be going through while being trained by this man. Spike looked around all of his classmates and sighed, seeing that most of them are most likely more powerful than himself. He wasn't swift, nimble, or athletic, for that matter. He never really trained at his home, and then Spike sighed, thinking of any strengths that he might have. While thinking, he heard an unrecognizable voice within his head, "Use your instincts; they will guide you, my son, " Spike smiled, finally hearing the voice of his father, and opened his eyes. He took a deep breath and readied for his turn to present himself.
The Coach called the first student; he was wearing a red jock jacket with a light yellow undershirt. The student had bright orange hair, "Alright, coach, let me show all these losers how a real knight will perform," Biceps had a confused look on his face as he stepped aside from the student.
The student stood in front of everyone, "My name is garble, and I am the most powerful knight here, so don't forget your place," Garble had a snarly look plastered upon his face and reached into the air.
A strike of thunder was heard within the sky, and next to the male appeared a red-colored staff that has seemingly fire coming off of the weapon. Garble picked up the weapon and spun it around his head, and smiled as he flipped the weapon into the air, grabbing it into his other hand and continued to spin it in front of his body. He continued to spin the staff and then thrust one end, and a length of fire spewed out towards a wall; as the fire collided into the wall, a large explosion was seen and heard. Garble then stood the staff on one end and had a smirk plastered onto his face as his peers have watched what he just demonstrated. Garble shouted "Return!" and the staff disappeared without a trace of where it was standing, and he then went back to his seat.
The coach watched as Garble sat back into his seat and sighed, "As before, I was rudely interrupted by this showoff. We are going to test which weapons all of you would be proficient at, and which stance you shall take while going into battle. First, we need to display what we have."
Meanwhile, Spike was sitting there watching as the teacher was talking, and did not notice as a person behind him was tapping on his shoulder whispering "psst, Spike!" After a few minutes of trying to gain his attention, this figure grabbed a lengthy object and hit him on top of his head.
"Ow! Who did that?" Spike said as he looked around until he looked behind him and saw Rainbow Dash sitting behind him with a smirk and waved to him. "Can I ask why you decided that it would have been the best way to gain my attention was to hit me upside the head?" Spike asked as he had a hint of anger within his voice.
"Well, you weren't able to hear me when I was tapping on your shoulder so I guess the best way to actually get your attention was to give you a concussion" Rainbow Dash had a sheepish smile as she rubbed the back of her neck, "Besides, I was tired of going the slow route," She said as she unleashed a breath that she did not know she was holding.
Spike shrugged as he turned back around and saw a case full of different kinds of weapons, ranging from long swords to bows and even bow-staffs. He smiled as he looked throughout all of them and saw a weapon that caught his eye just as he looked at it. It had a short grip and hilt, but a long curved blade. It was thin through the long part, but at the end, it had the view of a dragon that took on the shape of the end of a key. On the other side, it had multiple bumps that took on the shape of the cuts on a key. As he looked longer at the weapon, he noticed that it was the only one of its kind and had strange markings on the weapon.
"Hmm, I wonder what kind of weapon that is?" As Spike said this, the coach took a look at the thinking man and shouted "You there! With the green Spikey hair, get down here and pick up a weapon!" As he was pulled out of his trance he looked around and saw that there were no more students on the stands and were looking at all the other weapons.
Spike Sighed as he stood up and walked down the steps to the green grass, and walked towards the case. As he got closer he saw small markings across the blade it seemed to have a dragon spiraling across the blade itself and Spike smirked. He loved dragons and he admired them even as a kid, so when he walked up to the sword, he grabbed it and swung it around a bit.
"Hmm, you took the dragon blade I see, may I ask why?" Coach Biceps said as he took a small step towards Spike.
"I don't know?" Spike said as he took a long look onto the blade and hilt, noticing more smaller engravings that showed smaller creatures that looked like majestic creatures.
Spike was continuing to look at the sword within his hand. This feeling that is calling to him, it's unnatural, but it almost seems protective at the same time. He continues to look at the engravings on the blade and tilts his head, confused as to why there is a prediction of a dragon within the blade. Spike is confused as to why it looks like a key, is there a reason this was made for battle use.
The coach looked at Spike and spoke, "So you've taken a liking to the key-blade I see. That sword was used by the famous Dragon Kight Sir Dorrorth Rambath. He was an excellent soldier and was in the original war between the dragons and the leaders."
Spike looked at the blade with awe, seeing such a weapon used in an old war. Even used by the most famous Dragon Knight there was. Spike didn't know why this was calling to him but it was. He held the blade within his hands for a few more minutes and then he looked back at the coach.
"Sir, would it be ok if I tried this weapon out? I know it has such a history but would it be ok?" Spike asked as he continued to hold the blade. He tried swinging it a few times, and he noticed that the sword seemed almost like it was made for him. It felt balanced and light enough that he could grip it firmly. But then at the same time, it was sturdy and rigid enough to cut through almost anything.
Coach Biceps looked at Spike and then at how he was swinging the sword. "I don't see why not young Spike" The coach had a small grin on his face as he saw his student using the sword. It reminded him of the Dragon Knight.
**** Flashback - 20 Years Ago ****
A younger coach Biceps, then known as Commander Biceps was fighting alongside an 8-foot tall purple dragon. Both of them were back to back, fighting against other Dragons that were trying to destroy the duo.
"Well Durroth, this may be it for us. I want to say that it's been a nice run with you" Commander Biceps yelled out as he turned his head to look at the side of his partner,
The huge dragon looked back and down at his human partner nodding, a snarky grin on his face. "This isn't the end of us my old friend. Only the beginning of the future of the new world. Don't give up on us just yet!"
The dragon said with a ferocious roar. Durroth took his blade in hand and started to spin it at a quick pace. The Sword becoming a big chain rapping around the enemies. Once the sword was rigid, he look into the leader of the enemy team - "Go burn in Hell!" - Once he said that the sword erupted into flames and the enemy dragons burst into ashes and magma.
The young Biceps looked at his partner as he whipped the sword and it returned into its original form. After this was done, the dragon knelt onto his knee and started to pant vigorously, and looked at Biceps.
"Thank you for everything that you have done for us Biceps. It is an honor fighting at your side." The dragon prayed at the ashes of the fallen dragons then rested his claws on top of his knee. The dragon closed his eyes while having a warm smile on his face. He then took out a picture within his large jacket. It had a pale white woman and a human version of Durroth on behind her. While the woman was holding a small baby with spiky purple hair.
**** Flashback End **** The current Biceps opened his eyes and looked at Spike that was standing before him. "Say, son have you used a blade before in your life?" Spike looked at Biceps and nodded.
"Yes, I have Coach! When I was around 10, for my birthday I received a small wooden sword and an old friend of the family showed me the basics of swordsmanship. I've been practicing every day ever since then." Spike responded as he continued to swing the sword around. The Coach nodded and put his hands within his pockets.
"Well, I say that you have chosen the right weapon for you. Why don't you go back to the bleachers and take care of that weapon? It has been through hell and back," Coach biceps gestured.
After Spike was done talking with Biceps, he noticed Rainbow Dash was waving over to spike. Within her hand, she had a bladed weapon in the shape of a boomerang. She looked ecstatic as he was flailing the weapon around without anyone near her.
"Hey Rainbow, What do you got there?" Spike asked as Rainbow stopped swinging her weapon around. "I honestly don't have a clue. Someone said it was a double schmitar? But I am gonna call it a bladed boomerang!" Rainbow exclaimed as he was jumping around acting as if she was a ninja.
"Hiya!" Exclaimed Rainbow Dash as she tried to do a jump kick into the air but then fell onto her bum when she was not able to land on her feet. Spike walked over to her and reached his hand out to her.
"Nice kick there Ninja Dash," Spike said as he helped her up. "Maybe you should work on your landings first before trying to become an actual ninja." Rainbow then whacked him in the head. "I am Rainbow Dash! I don't need to work on anything!" She then chuckled and looked at Spike with a grin.
Before anyone else was able to continue their conversations Coach Biceps blew his whistle. "Alright Maggots, it's the end of your training day. Tomorrow will be the new drills with your special weapon Instructors. Get ready because this will be your time to shine!" Everyone started to walk out of the stadium.
Spike and Rainbow Dash exited the stadium and arrived at the Cafeteria. It was their lunch period, as they sat down the group noticed both Spike and Dash at their table and sat down.
"Well Spike, how has your first day at your new school going so far?" Asked Twilight, as she sat down at the table. The whole group took out their lunch while Spike did not. He didn't prepare his lunch before he arrived due to not knowing the school did not have an in-house kitchen. Both Pinkie and AppleJack noticed this and looked at Spike.
"Hey there, why didn't you bring your lunch today?" Pinkie asked as she had a concerned look. She did not feel happy when people were not able to enjoy themselves and not be able to have food. "Well hold on there Pinkie, Spike here is new I reckon' that he didn't prepare one for himself. Here suga' cube you can have an apple fritter o' mine. Our family makes them around here." Apple Jack responded to Pinkie as she handed him the warm apple fritter on a plate.
Pinkie nodded and grabbed an extra sandwich that she had within her bag. "Well Spike, I was going to save this for later for a snack. But you need this more than I do!" Pinkie exclaimed as he slid the sandwich towards the man. "Thank you Pinkie and AppleJack. How can I repay you for this?" Spike asked as he opened up the sandwich and put it on the plate next to the fritter.
"Well after school you can help me out with my homework. Twilight here said that you were a great mathematician in grade school." Applejack said as she smiled. Spike's cheeks radiated warmth as they turned pink, in response he started to rub the back of his neck. "Well, I can definitely do that for you Applejack. And what else did Twilight say about me?" Spike looked over at Twilight, and when she saw this. Twilight grew a deep blush on her cheeks and glared over to Applejack. Throwing a napkin at her. "You did not need to tell him that AppleJack!"
Once the girls were done fussing over Applejack spilling the tea on Twilight. The bell rang and Spike looked at his schedule once again. He noticed that his next class is Drama. Spike himself never was within any plays or was an actor. But since he was within the class he minds as well as give it a try. Once the boy got to the entrance of the auditorium, he opened the huge double doors seeing a class of around 8 people. But off in the front row, he noticed a pale white female with purple hair sitting next to a female with bright pink-haired female. He noticed there was an empty seat near them, so he walked over to them and looked at the two.
"Hey there ladies, is this seat taken?" He asked as he gestured his hand towards the seat. The two women looked at him and smiled while shaking their heads. "No, it's not, you can sit there if you would like." The pale white woman said.
Spike sat down in the seat and waited for the Drama teacher to arrive. While doing this, he was looking around the class trying to find any familiar faces within the area. He couldn't find a single person that he could have recognized. He didn't know any other of the friends the girls had when he first met the group. Spike looked over at the 2 girls next to him and taped on the pink-haired girl's shoulder.
"Hey there, I'm Spike," He said as he held his hand out. The female looked at him and shook his head, "I'm Fluttershy, and did you say your name is Spike? My friend Twilight said that she had a childhood friend named Spike!" Fluttershy exclaimed. After that, she clamped her hand over her mouth and blushed violently. "Sorry about that!" she said as she looked over to her friend that was sitting next to her.
Spike chuckled as he watched the girl's actions and had a small grin on his face. He never met such a girl that was this shy. He looked over at the pale woman, and he grew a slight blush. The female was gorgeous, he thought that he fell in love with her at first sight. "H-hi there miss! M-my name is Spike," Spike said shakily, trying his hardest not to hide within his clothes.
The female looked at him and gave out a small giggle, "No worries darling. I know who you are, my dear friend Twilight told me all about you during Chemistry Class today." She said as she stuck out her hand and shook his lightly. "And please don't be afraid to talk to me, I am quite friendly."
Spike nodded as he heard a loud cough coming from the front of the theatre. He looked up front and saw the Drama Teacher. "Hello, students. I am Gloriosa Daisy, but you shall call me by Miss Daisy. Are we clear?" She asked. Most of the students nodded after hearing the name. They knew the story behind the teacher and why she is here.
2 years ago Twilight and her 5 friends went to The Camp Everfree, Gloriosa was the camp counselor but became overwhelmed with power after she took a rare artifact from the cave on the camp. The girls defeated her before she could do any harm to anybody. The Vice-Principal and Principal gave her a job for the Drama department after they learned about her original job as an actress.
The pale woman looked at spike once again, "Don't worry about her, she is actually kind once you get to know her. And my name is Rarity by the way." Rarity stated as she looked at spike then back at the teacher.
"Well students, today we will be learning the basics of dance!" Gloriosa said as she spun around before putting her hands on her hips. "Can we get any volunteers to give an idea of the type of talent we have within this room?" She asked. Nobody rose their hands, so Spike went to raise his hand. "Well perfect! We have a volunteer. But it looks like we have no one else to volunteer, I guess they will all have to endure the fact that their talent won't be visibly seen today!" She smirked expecting more people to raise their hands.
Spike stood up and started to walk towards the stage. "Well, student what is your name?" The teacher asked as Spike reached the steps, "Spike ma'am" He responded to her question. The teacher nodded and moved towards the other side of the stage. "So what will you be doing Mr.Spike?" She asked.
Spike moved to the middle of the stage and looked around, "Well I will be dancing. I primarily specialize in Swing." Spike looked at the teacher. She had an intrigued look while looking at the young man. She nodded her head and moved her hand towards him, "Proceed" She said as she walked off the stage.
Spike walked over to the Music player and put in an old CD. With the label "Swing Music" on top of it. He moved back to the middle of the stage. While holding onto the remote, he pressed the play button on it. And the music started to play from the speakers. Once the beat starts going, he slid all around the stage. His sneakers gripping and hip kicking and wiggling his body around while the fast-paced funky music roared through the whole Theatre. The other students clapped to the music as Spike danced silly around the Stage for another 3 minutes before the music ending, with him ending in a split with his hands out in the air. The whole class stood up and clapped for him.
The teacher walked back out onto the stage and clapped loudly while Spike started to get off of the ground. "Well done Spike, well done indeed. I have not seen someone dance to swing music in many many years." She said as Spike walked off of the stage. "Well, sadly that is all the time that we have today. Class is dismissed." The whole class got up and walked out of the theatre. Before Spike could catch up to Rarity and Fluttershy they were already gone. Talking to some of their other friends.
After a few minutes of walking back throughout the school, Spike returned to the door of his dorm. Grabbing the key out of his pocket he unlocked the door and entered. The dancing today got him beat. Spike took the sword out of the sheathe that Coach Biceps gave him before he left and put it next to his closet. He jumped onto the bed and sighed, exhausted from the dancing he did today. Spike closed his eyes slowly falling into a deep slumber.
**** back in the dream realm **** Spike opened his eyes and he found himself back into the dream realm. Seeing his mother Celestia sitting in a chair in her human form. The same rainbow-colored hair, except only down to her hips. "Hello, my dear child. Welcome back I was awaiting your arrival" She said calmly as he picked up a cup of tea that was sitting on the table beside her.
Spike saw a chair next to her and sat down, "Hello mother, still going to take some time to get used to that." Spike said as he gave out a small sigh as he stretched out. "Well son, how was your first day in the academy?" She asked as if she had not been watching him through the cameras of the school.
"Well, It has been good so far. Coach Biceps introduced us to our arsenal, and we picked out our main Weapons. But for some reason, this one dark green sword kept calling out to me." Spike said as he reached next to him seeing that he could feel the sword next to him. He looked down and saw it, but in a much cleaner and neater shape than it was when he first got a hold of it.
"Well, that is your fathers' old sword before he retired from being a Knight. He had one great battle before he settled down. I and he currently in our world are in our house relaxing. Still awaiting the time to be able to come to your world. And be able to see you in person." She said as he held her hands together looking at the Sword. "And if you are wondering, he cannot join this realm. He himself does not have the magical prowess that I and my sister have connected to this realm. We created this realm in hopes one day it would be able to bring us back to you." Celestia stated as she took another sip from her tea.
"Wait, my father is still alive?" Spike asked as he looked over at Celestia while she was sipping her tea. "How could I not know that my father was still alive?" Celestia lightly giggled at his response, "You knew all along that your father was alive. He was the one who gave you that wooden sword all along. I in fact didn't want him to do that, but he insisted that you would grow up to be just like him. Fighting the enemies while looking badass." Celestia shook her head as he let out a deep sigh.
"Anyways, I wanted to talk to you because of something I was not able to tell you during our short meeting. But you see since you are the son of a princess and dragon knight. You do have special abilities that only a few can possess. Like inhuman strength. Enhanced durability and stamina. Including the option to expand wings and fly. But I can sense that is not the limit to your abilities. While you may not be able to access them right now. You will be able to when you are able to harness the power of the dragon deep inside of you. In a few days, I and your father will be there hopefully you will recognize us when we are there. And I hope that I can be there to help guide you through the path of learning what the abilities are." Celestia looked at him with a warm smile as she gently kissed his forehead.
"That is all I wanted to say to you my son. I wish you goodnight and cannot wait to see what kind of peace you bring to our land." She said as the realm turned into blackness as Spike fell into a deep slumber.
It was the next day and Spike just woke up. He could not shake the feeling that something important was going to happen today. Spike folded the blankets off of him and stood up, stretching out his arms and back. He heard a loud pop from his back as he arched backward. After his stretching, he got up and went to the shower. Not knowing if any of the girls will pop up at his room in the morning so he kept his door locked. He took a spare uniform out of his closet and went into the shower. After showering for 20 minutes and making his whole room foggy, he came outside of the room and looked around to see if anybody was there.
Spike could not shake this feeling off of him. He kept feeling that someone important was coming to his campus today, but he could not put a pin on it. She shrugged off this feeling and got dressed. Once that was done, Spike exited his room and made his way towards the cafeteria. He noticed that his friends were not at their table this morning, so he went to the exercise field and started to train with his sword. Practicing the basic techniques his father taught him of Shinkendo, swiping his sword from left to right mimicking it as if there were enemies around him trying to take off his balance. 20 minutes after he started his training, Spike felt a presence behind him. He spun around and saw a dark figure in front of him that instantly faded before him, but a note floating down from where this figure stood.
Spike walked over to the note and picked it up, taking a look at the contents.
Today is the day your whole life changes - Man from your past
Spike stuffed the note into his pocket confused, he couldn't think of anybody that would even visit him at this school. After shrugging this off, Spike walked back into his school to start the day. He didn't know what to expect at all today.
After attending his math class with Mr.Discord, Spike walked back down towards the stadium. Rainbow Dash is following right behind him. "Hey, Spike! Did you hear anything about what's going on during training?" Rainbow Dash asked while spinning around in front of him, walking backward while facing the male. He shrugged, "No not really, did you?" Rainbow nodded and had a giddy grin plastered on her face, "Indeed I have my friend. Apparently, we will be having our very own trainers today! isn't that great!!" Spike nodded and grew a smile upon his face. He didn't know who his trainer was going to be. and he went back to thinking about who that mysterious figure was that appeared when practicing. Could that be his trainer? And if so, who was it?
Both Rainbow and Spike made it to the arena and saw multiple different people standing around the field all of them not recognizable to Spike. Rainbow Dash herself looked around and started to fangirl at most of the people there, "Oh my gosh Spike!! There are so many different famous Knights here it's incredible!" Rainbow Dash then regained composure and blushed a bit -"Sorry"- She said to Spike as she rubbed her left arm shyly. The duo made it to the stands and sat around waiting for their coach to arrive.
Coach Biceps entered the field and looked at his students, "Alright students! Today we are going to start with your personal trainers. Normally this class doesn't do this but because of the tremendous amount of weaklings and ability users, the school and I decided to get you, trainers. Now everyone stand up and walk onto the field!" Every single student including Spike stood up and walked onto the field in a straight line. Some people are nervous about who they will get, including Rainbow Dash. Spike looked around and was wondering who most of the people are. He shrugged, happy to know that hes going to get someone who can help with his abilities and combat skills. But he just wonders who, most of the people standing there do not look like a dragon user or even a blade user.
Coach Biceps started to say each student's name one by one and pointing them to each person there. But once he got to Spike's name he looked astonished. He remembered that last name, it was his past blood brother. But if his kid is here that must mean he's alive right? Coach looked at Spike and could see the similarities, but when he looked at his sheet he couldnt see a name next to his, "Uhhh, Spike I don't see a name here for you? Do you already have a trainer?" Spike Shook his head, but as soon as he started to shake his head a large fireball appeared in the sky and started to quickly approach the field. Everyone looked upwards and ran away, thinking this was a meteor. But Spike looked at it and sensed a familiar aura in it. So he only took a few steps back.
A large dust cloud appeared as the fireball reached the ground but only a silhouette could be seen within the cloud. As soon as the dust cloud cleared a large stout man was standing there. He seemed to be at least 6'7" and had large muscles on his forearms and torso. He had large spiky grey and purple hair on top of his head and wore a leather sleeveless shirt with metal pins all over near the ends of the shirt. He wore dark purple leather pants and dress shoes. This man had a scar over his right eye and a large grey beard. His arms crossed as the man looked over at the coach with a smile. "Well, old friend it's good to see you again!!" The large man walked over to biceps and opened his arms widely
"Sir!! Oh my god, I thought you were dead!!" Biceps said as he walked to the big man and hugged him tightly, "You really are the one for Big entrances. " The old man looked around seeing as he was trying to find someone. But as soon as the man turned around, the person named garble stood in front of him, "Hello there, my name is garble, sir. I see you are here to take on me as your apprentice am I right?" Garble said with a snooty attitude. The old man looked down at shook his head, "I do not know who you are, but I am here for my son. Have you seen a Spike Drago around?" Garble snorted and walked towards spike and bunched him in the arm, "I don't know who you are and why you're getting special treatment but you are done for!" Garble said as he snarled at Spike.
Spike looked at Garble and rolled his eyes, "Whatever, your just a snooty rich boy who doesn't know the word discipline." After Spike responded to Garble, the old man laughed loudly, "Well I can see who my Son is now! Has the same old attitude as his old man! Come here, Spike!" The old man smiled as Spike nodded and slowly made his way towards him. His sword was still attached to his back within its sheath. Dorroth smiled and looked down at his son, "Ho ho, is see you've taken up my blade as well, we will be having such a great time training I can just see it." Dorroth spoke as he knelt down and looked Spike in the eyes, "I think its time for us to go and train" He then got up, "Biceps, I and my son will be heading out" Dorroth rubbed his sons head and walked out of the stadium, Spike following behind him. Once they reached outside, they saw a large limousine gold plated with numerous gems encrusted around the handles and wheels. The driver opened the door for the two and they got in. Already sitting inside the car was Celestia. Sitting there in her human form, a warm smile on her face, "My son Spike! It is so good to speak to you in person and not within a dream!" Celestia spoke as she reached over and hugged him. Spike hugged her back and smiled a light tear in her eye, "Mom, Dad it's so good to finally meet you. And know the full truth."
The trio while sitting within the car was talking up a storm, talking about how they have been watching over Spike for the years that he has been alone. And how that Spike has become quite the strong warrior even without proper training. Spike, while still very young was lean, he had muscles, which were barely visible giving him a smaller frame than he is strong. After a few minutes of continued talking, the group arrived at a large house, almost mansion-like. In front of the house, there were large lawns, both having a fountain respectively. There were large archways made out of what seemed like grass on top of the pathway towards the front door. The building itself was made out of dark red brick, the windows surrounded by white siding and the roof being black with a large chimney on the right side. The lawns themselves were neatly cared for, dark lines next to light lines all around the area, with the fountains emitting a rainbow-like glow in the sky as the mist entered the air.
The view itself was quite breathtaking Spike thought as he was looking around the area, He never imagined that he would ever have seen a house that was this beautiful. When he took a look at the front door of the building, he noticed a large group of people standing there, he had never seen these people before and wondered why they were there. The car slowed down and then was put to a stop when the back doors were in front of the walkway, the Driver who in conversation was named Alfred, got out of the car and opened the door next to spike.
"Welcome home young master Spike, Master Dorroth, and Mistress Celestia. I hope you do have a wonderful rest of your day." Alfred stood there speaking to the trio and once all three got out of the car.
He then closed the door and went back into the vehicle. Alfred then drove away leaving the trio looking at the house.
"Well son, this is where you will be training and living during your training sessions and during the holidays. I hope you can settle in nicely" Dorroth exclaimed as he looked over at the young boy. Spike then looked at his father with a smile and nodded - "I will dad, but who are those people?" - Spike asked as he pointed to the large group of people. Upon closer inspection, everyone was wearing either a black suit, a chef apron, or a maid dress.
The older man laughed loudly as he wrapped his arm around the boy, "Well Spike, let's go greet them. They have been dying to meet you for quite some time now!"
All three of them then walked towards the house, as Spike was looking around the area. He noticed that the area around the house was larger than appeared. Most of the walking space was covered in trees as a fence of sorts. Closing off any view from unwanted viewers trying to look inside of the property. Spike smiled as he could not wait to find out what else was around the building. He then looked at his father, he noticed that he seemed young, probably in his early 40's the grey beard made him look older than he actually was. He saw scrapes and cuts on his shoulders showing how many battles he has been in, the danger he endured. He had large muscles and it fitted him, he looked as if he could break you in half but he was kind and caring. Dorroth never wanted to leave his son, it was never considered until the day that he was surrounded by other dragons. He never meant for his family to get in danger but it happened, and every day he had grief. Spike learned all of this when talking on his way to the house he is currently at. But he still does not have some of the answers he wished he had.
Dorroth noticed that his son was looking upon him, so he looked over at Spike and gave him a large smile. The smile coming from his face was near if not godlike. It was warm, but also showed the care of the father he was towards his wife and his son. The trio was in front of the group, everyone except for Spike, Celestia, and Dorroth bowed.
"Grettings Master Spike!" They all exclaimed as they returned back to their posture looking at the young man.
Spike had a light blush upon his face at all of the attention that was towards him. Spike was never one to have so much attention on him, which made him quite shy. He looked at everyone, and he noticed that most of the female staff that was looking at him had a blush on their face. One, in particular, looked as young as him. She noticed this and her blush deepen and turned her head slightly.
"Hello there Master Spike," Said the female said to the male as she stepped forward, "My name is Starlight Glimmer," She said as she gained the courage to look at the male again. She took a deep breath and smiled, "I will be your personal Maid if there is anything that is required of me. Please let me know" She said as she bowed and then moved back into place.
Spike smiled and nodded, looking at Starlight. He then looked over at his father and chuckled, "Did you always have such a huge mass of workers here? or is this something new?" Dorroth laughed loudly and put his hand onto his son's left shoulder. he looked down at his son, "Yes son, they have always been here. They have taken care of this house since we were in the realm where your mother was living before we came here. We needed this house to be taken care of in case of either your or our arrival." Dorroth said calmly as he brought Spike closer to his frame.
The group all walked inside the house, soon after so did Spike and his parents. Spike looked around in awe as he saw the luxurious inside, it was much more defined than it was outside. The entrance room was filled with candles, a few led lights that were on the walls, a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, covered in clear crystal. Lights powered on, lighting the room quite a bit to make everything visible. On both sides of the room, there were staircases that rose up to the second floor, the stairs curving to their respective sides. On the right side, there was a doorway, with a spruce-colored door that was leading towards the main living room. And on the left it seemed as there was a mudroom, leading to the outside garden and tennis field. Spike looked up the steps to see what was there but he could only see the ceiling and two doorways, there was no hints as to what was up on the second floor. Spike looked at his parents and followed them into another wing of the building. It seemed to look like a large gym, all three of them entered and Spike was amazing as to what was inside of the gyn. There were giant dumbells, weight lifting bars that seemed to be the length of 40 feet, a regular treadmill, and then a treadmill that seemed to have been modified. There was another set of weights but seemed to be a normal set for a human, and then an area for archery and sword fighting. Spike couldn't believe how much stuff was inside of this one area and could only guess how much all of it costed, some of it seemed to be custom made for this specific type of usage.
Dorroth stood in the middle of the room with a large smile on his face, "Well Spike, this is where I'll be training you for the next 10 months. The teachers did not tell you, but School is out of session for first years until their training has been completed. Meaning you are to stay here until you are prepared for your school's prep. Until then, we are going to be training your combat abilities until you are a master of that blade. But tomorrow, we are bringing you into the familiar forest. We are going to get you a familiar, all knights and leaders have a familiar or multiple leaders." Dorroth crossed his arms and transformed into his dragon form. "This son, is my families dragon form. You by having my blood shall unlock this form with the proper training, and the strength used to turn into a dragon that you will be the greatest knight of all!! You Spike shall be The DragonBlood Knight!!!" Dorroth yelled as he raised his fist into the air as he roared with all the air in his lungs.
Spike looked at his father with a large smile and raised his own fist in the air. He could not believe his father was such a strong being, he looked at the room preparing ahead for the vigorous training that he will be enduring for the next 10 months. While this was happening, Starlight was walking through the hallways looking for Spike herself, she was asked to show him to his room so that he could be settled in by the lead butler. Starlight blushed as she saw Spike and his father in the gym hyping up for what was going to happen. She entered the room and stood next to spike - "Master Spike, would you like me to show you to your room?" - Starlight asked.
Spike looked over at Starlight and smiled warmly at her, noticing she was getting shy, "that would be great Starlight." Spike spoke as he turned around, "hey Dad? Im going to go to my room, Starlight here is going to show me the way!"
Dorroth nodded as he gained a small smirk on his face, he knew that Starlight would gain a crush on Spike. He wanted to make sure that he would have a good woman with him. What Spike did not know was, that dragons are ones to have harems. Dorroth knew this, and wanted to surprise Spike with this, he knew he had a large infatuation with Twilight but wanted him to get used to multiple girls after him. Dorroth waved at Spike, "Alright! Im going to do some regime planning to maximize how much you will grow and properly be healthy!" Dorroth then exited the gym, with Celestia following her husband. "Remember Spike, Dinner will be ready at 6 please don't be late." Celestia asked Spike softly and exited the gym chuckling to herself.
Spike smiled softly and looked at Starlight, "Well ma'am please lead the way, I was looking to look around the house myself. But I know I would get lost for sure" Spike chuckled as he joked with the housekeeper. Starlight blushed a bit more and nodded, as she walked down the hallway towards the room wing of the house. "W-well Master Spike-" Spike shook his head, "Please Starlight, Master makes me feel old, just call me Spike" Spike looked at Starlight. "Of course Ma-Spike. Like I was going to ask. How are you liking the house so far? We have been taking care of this house to the best of our abilities." Starlight asked as her hands were held close to her stomach as she kept her head forward and turned right into the hallway where Spikes room was.
"Well Starlight, to be quite honest..Its huge, I never expected to ever live in a house like this. I grew up in a tiny home, learning to love what I was gifted by the watchers above, never to indulge too much. But this will take some time to get used to. And the house looks amazing, it must have taken quite the amount of effort to take care of this house during this whole time of my parents being gone." Spike told the female as the stopped in front of him room.
Starlight shook her head and smiled brightly at the male, "Of course not Spike! It is no trouble at all, we are hired to take care of this house and we shall do it perfectly and to the T. Well I must be going." She said as she handed Spike a small device. "Here you go, if you ever need anything at all please don't hesitate. All you need to do is push the button on that buzzer and it will send a notification to my phone that you need my help." Starlight bowed in front of Spike and walked away towards to where she was needed.
Spike smiled and waved as Starlight walked away, Spike opened the door and walked inside of his room and saw how big it was. The room had a king sized bed, a 55 inch 4k TV, with a Wardrobe next to it. On the right side of the room there was a door that was open that led to a walk in closed and on the other side was the enterence to his very own bathroom. The room itself was pained blue with not many decorations around, Other than the TV, there was 2 windows near the headboard of the bed, showing the now sunsetting sky, and the large garden that was in the back of the property. Spike plopped onto the bed and sighed, getting ready for the new chapter of his life with his now reunited family. He closed his eyes taking a small nap waiting for six when his mother will call him.
It has been a few hours since Spike went to take a nap, Celestia has walked over to his bedroom door and knocked on it. Expecting her son to be immediately up, she tried opening the door noticing it was unlocked. after 3 minutes of waiting for her son to open the door, When Celestia looked inside the room she saw Spike doing some pullups on a bar that was hanging from the ceiling. Currently, Spike was wearing a pair of grey sweatpants and a red t-shirt that was hugging his torso. Celestia smiled seeing how much her son had grown and knocked on the door signaling that she was there. Spike let go of the pull-up bar and turned around looking at Celestia.
"Hey Mom, sorry I was working out a little bit. Even if I am at home, I'd rather continue working on my strength and sword forms." Spike said grabbing a towel from his bedpost and wiping his forehead. Celestia nodded and turned out of his door into the hallway.
"I'm glad you are, Why don't you clean yourself up then we will have dinner. Your father would like to speak to you after dinner though." Celestia spoke softly as she started to walk down the hallway back towards the dining room.
Spike nodded to his mother's comment, he walked towards his private shower cleaning up after the exercise that he committed to. After being in the shower for fifteen minutes, Spike walked out of the shower looking toward his mirror inside the room. Spike sighed as he examined all the scar's over his body from the years of training he endured. He always endured the most pain during his practices all because he wanted to become a great swordsman to protect those who were around him. Including Twilight at the time, Spike cared for her and it showed. Spike took a deep breath and sighed as he turned around and got dressed in comfortable attire. This included a dark red T-shirt and blue shorts, Spike took care of his messy cobweb of what is known as hair. He soon walked out of his bedroom and towards the dining room where his family was seated.
Spike walked to the seat next to his father and sat down. "Hey, Dad! I heard you wanted to speak to me about something?" Spike asked as he turned towards his father.
"Yes son, I did." Dorroth spoke in a hushed tone. "and I'd rather your mother not hear this. But after dinner, I would like to train you to unlock your dragon form. The reason I would not want your mother to hear about this is that I would rather her find this out as a surprise."
Spike nodded as he looked down at the food that was served to him while talking to his father. He smiled when he saw a rather large steak and Potatoes. As Spike started to eat his food, he started to think about the future of what could happen after this training. He never knew how his life would change, his mother being a princess, and his father being a noble knight. Could he live up to his parent's images and make them proud? This was eating him up inside as he heard a small voice in his head. It was faint so he was not able to understand what it was saying, but he knew it was there. Spike sighed and rubbed his forehead after he finished his main course and looked at his father.
"Dad? Have you ever had a voice inside your head before?" Spike asked as he looked at Dorroth.
Dorroth looked at Spike and looked surprised then looked at Celestia. "Well son, there is something that I need to explain to you. Us dragon people are known to have something called a familiar. A familiar is an entity sometimes in the shape of an animal or it could be a complete beast from mythical stories. But on the basis of everything, a familiar is a companion to us dragons. And when that dragon's familiar is ready to be called upon they will hear a voice inside of their head." Dorroth explained as he finished his food and put it on the cart to be taken away by the butler.
Spike nodded as he rubbed his head in confusion. He never knew anything about what a familiar was, or even the fact that they existed. He always thought that animals were there in the wild to exist, he didn't know that some of them are actually beings that dragons brought around their travels. Spike looked over at his father, confused.
"Dad, is there a way to find out who my familiar is even if it hasn't spoken to me yet?" Spike asked as he looked down at the table contemplating what he should do with all of this new information. He didn't know if he should try to find his familiar early or wait for it to call to him, and possibly find him on its own. As Spike was contemplating he felt a presence, it felt relatively close but still could not pinpoint where it was coming from.
Spike looked around the room as he felt this energy, Dorroth looked at Spike and was confused at what was bothering his son. "Spike? Everything ok, you sensing something?" Spike continued to look around until he heard a large squawk in his ears. Spike held his head with both of his hands as the loud sound was causing ringing in his ears. He knelt on the floor trying to ease the pain coursing through his head. After a minute of constant ringing, he panted and got up and looked at his father.
He then ran out the dining room doors and out the building, looking around more until he felt something in the forest to the east. Spike fully sprinted towards the said forest, the feeling of this presence becoming closer. After a few minutes of running, Spike came across a large cave the feeling of something there overwhelming his body. Dorroth soon stopped behind his son after his constant running.
"Is something here Spike?" Dorroth looked down at his son, as he asked. Spike turned his head to look at him and nodded. Slowly walking towards the entrance of the cave looking around at the walls, confused as to why he was lead here. Spike looked forward as a large orange beast started to glow as if it was surrounded by fire. In the large part of the cave, this beast stretched out its wings and tails, letting out a large scream as its fire spread out exposing what it was. A large orange and yellow phoenix the size of a 5 story building stood there in front of Spike and looked into the boy's eyes. The phoenix had a wing span of at least 100 feet and 8 tails swaying behind the beast.
An old voice entered his head as the phoenix continued to look at Spike, "I am the Great Phoenix Lord Ryze Solice. I have been waiting here in this cave for thousands of years waiting for the appropriate soul to be by my side as my master. You, Spike Drago, have been chosen to become this one such being. Do you accept this offer, in return, you will be able to summon me by your side whenever you shall please as well as have access to some of my power."
Spike looked at the phoenix and was confused, how is he the one this phoenix was waiting for? Is this really happening? Spike soon took a deep breath and nodded. "Yes, I Spike, accept your gracious offer Lord Solace and become your partner and master." Spike knelt on one knee in front of the phoenix.
The phoenix leaned his head towards Spike and blew a blue flame on top of him an orange line appearing around his arms and legs looking like the tails of the phoenix before him. After Ryze has stopped his breath, the phoenix shrunk down in size to the size of a normal bird landing on his new master's shoulder. "For now, I shall remain this size so as to not frighten anyone around us. If you so wish I can grow back into my original size."
Spike soon stood up and looked at his arms as the orange tails slowly faded away from them, as well as the markings on his legs. Spike nodded to the phoenix on his shoulder and walked towards the exit of the cave where his father was.
