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// A Missing Purple Alicorn 
// Story: Season Spike 
// by Haoryu Changer 
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Spike and Dim Sum entered the castle happily with a bag of gems in each of their claws.

"It's not as bad as I thought. Living among ponies." Dim thought to herself, soon shaking her head at the unbelievable thought. "What am I saying?! If I keep thinking like this then I won't ever get respect."

"Hey."

Dim looked over to Spike with both of her brows raised. "Yeah?"

"Something on your mind?" Spike asked.

"Um... No, it's nothing, don't worry about it." She said with a smile.

Spike seemed to buy it as he kept walking straight.

"By the way," Dim continued. "Where's your purple pony friend?" She asked.

"I don't know," Spike said while looking left and right. "She should be awake by now, at least in the library, or she probably went to go see one of her friends. Maybe she left a note somewhere..." He scratched his head before stopping. "Well... anyways. Do you want to lend me some of your gems so I could make gem cupcakes?"

"Um... sure." Dim wasn't exactly sure what cupcakes were but there was still cake inside of cupcake and she loved cake. She might as well give it a try.

It felt like time flew by as Spike finished baking. The two ate, Dim was enjoying every bite, but on the other claw, Spike was starting to get worried about Twilight. He rid some of the cupcakes of gems specifically for her, but there was no hint of her ever since she over exaggerated earlier and Spike had to put her to sleep. Spike even checked all over the castle after he was done eating, but not a sound of Twilight came.

Spike decided to just head to his bedroom and sleep. He met Dim Sum, who was suspiciously in deep thought, back in the kitchen and took her back to the bedroom she first found herself on when she woke up.

When she was properly rested, Spike told her to have a great night before heading to his own room. Halfway through his walk, he stopped and looked out a window in the hallway, staring at the full white glowing moon up in the sky on display. His eyes glistened as he thought, "It's not like you to just disappear on me like that. Even if it was an emergency you would have had a note laying on the top right corner of the kitchen table or one of your friends come tell me." He gripped the bottom of the windowsill. "I hope you're alright Twilight..." He let go of the windowsill and continued to walk, briefly looking back at Luna's moon. "Wherever you are..."





1:00 AM

Dim Sum couldn't sleep. She wasn't awake for all that long when she thought about it. She woke up in the middle of the day, and even if she did work for that white pony she couldn't be tired so soon. She was nothing close to a lazy dragon. She always worked hard and was proud doing so. And then there was this odd thing she was laying in, a bed. Not that she was uncomfortable, she just wasn't used to it. It was nothing like the obsidian plates she had at her home.

After a while just laying on the bed, she started to think deeply about the same purple pony and how she was suddenly missing. A thought came to her mind that made her chuckle. "Like that would happen." But she grew a serious face. "But what if it did..." She laid still on the bed for some time, thinking with a frown and furrowed eyes. Soon she started to fidget under the bed, twisting and turning. After about a minute, she got up slowly and hopped off the bed with a quiet sound of landing on the floor. She walked up to the door and peeked out to see if anyone was there before opening it wide and stepping out sneakily.

Dim Sum walked past Spike's room where she saw him sleeping on his back, she then came across Twilight's room which was still empty. She quickly but silently opened the door, stepped inside, and closed it behind her.

"Alright," She whispered to herself. "Time to see if I was right."





Twilight woke up, slowly opening her eyes. "It must be night." She thought. But something seemed weird to her. Why was she sleeping on the hard floor and why was the ground rumbling a bit. She was going to get up to find and turn on the light switch but her head hitting the ceiling stopped her. 

Rubbing her knocked head, Twilight shinned her horn and found out that she was in a wooden box. After a nervous look around the box she used her magic and teleported out of the box...

Right in the middle of four dragons.

"Ah!" Twilight shrieked as she hovered in the air in the middle of the grassy field.

The dragons also yelled under the dark sky. "Ahh!" 

Twilight gasped. "D-dragons?!" Something about this felt familiar to Twilight.

"How'd she escape?!" Of of the dragons yelled.

"She used magic numbskull! That means someone didn't put the collar on!" Another said.

"I swear I did!" One of the smaller ones exclaimed.

Twilight looked at each and every one of them in disbelief. "Escape? Collar? What's going on here?!"

After a split second she said that, all the heads of the dragons snapped in her direction.

"U-uh hey there, big, strong dragons..." She said with a sheepish smile.

Her reply was a bunch of snarls as the dragon slowly inched their way closer to the alicorn.

Twilight carefully started to hover backward with fright, lighting her horn to get ready any one of them, but as her horn started to get brighter, she bumped into something hard behind her. She turned and looked up at the red and yellow scaled grinning dragon she didn't want to see again after the dragon migration.

She again smile sheepishly. "Oh, h-hey Garble! Long time no see..."

Garble smiled viciously. "It's nice to see you again, pony."

Twilight grew wide-eyed when Garble started to reach down to her, she tried to charge up some magic in her horn but the dragon noticed this and grabbed her by the horn, stopping whatever she was planning. "None of that stupid magic, pony. If you wanted to fight me then it's without it."

Twilight gritted her teeth and started to charge some more magic in Garble's grasp.

Garble shook his head mockingly before tightening his grip on her horn, making her squeak out in pain. He turned to the other dragons. "Get me one of the collars!" He ordered. 

Twilight watched helplessly as a pink and white dragon handed Garble a magma-colored ring. Garble then proceeded to place the ring around Twilight's horn. She felt the ring slightly burning where it was touching her horn and she groaned in pain.

Garble threw her to the ground harshly and turned to the other dragons. She heard one order from him before she blacked out.

"Call Dim Sum."





It was dark in the friendship castle. Spike was still sleeping while Dim Sum was still sneaking around. The clues she found led her to the basement of the castle, where she was walking around at the moment.

She was in the middle of one of the rocky hallways. She looked left and right before walking forward. She turned left and walked down a different hallway. This is where she noticed a couple sets of footprints. She furrowed her eyebrows and followed to where they started. She was taken to a large tunnel which was five times her size. 

With her draconic eyes she spotted something on the ground. She walked up to it and kneeled down, picking up dry dragon scale.

"Of course it had to be those idiots..." She said to herself.

Dim Sum then got up and decided to enter and explore the tunnel, making sure to get back to her room before sunrise.