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// Chapter 3 Forward 
// Story: My Little Pony: Ghost Files 
// by InsanityRealm2300 
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You know something? There was a lot of things that Spke could tolerate in life now that he thought of it even though he was only 16 and most of his friends were around their 20's at most as far as he knew. Though to be truthful there's a limit of how much anger someone can bottle in, for example during the time his friends had left for cloudsdale without him to cheer on Rainbow Dash when she needed it. Sure he had been stuck in bed with two broken legs due to someone accidently dropping a piano from a overhead truck; but it still pissed him off to know end that he only had 6 books to reread and none of his friends came by to tell him about Rainbow Dash. To say the least he was VERY angry at that and almost bursted into flames from his anger and it took Twilight Sparkle MONTHS to earn his forgiveness from that act.

However considering the fact he just died and now this strange diamond dog resembling creature was sitting on a paddle while Luna only looked on humorlessly. It was sufficed to say that Spike the dragon had finally reached his breaking point with his pure undying rage.

“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?!” Spike shouted so loud that if those ponies could hear ghosts then he would have most likely bursted their eardrums from how loud he was at that moment in time. The two different individuals couldn't help but try and refrain from laughing at Spikes shock not that the situation wasn't funny too them in this case. Spike however did not know what was so funny about the situation, cause you know he's dead and all.

"Hehe well Spike when someone dies suddenly like you did they are unable to accept that they are dead at first and as a result they turn into ghosts" the human had explained before Luna started to fly down towards Spike her see-through light blue body landing into the floor and practically emitting the aura that she's done this a thousand times already.

"Dearest Spike" said name looked at Luna still confused about the situation "As you can already tell thou has suffered a most unfortunate end however..."

"You are being given a second chance" The one just sitting down on her paddle said in a tone that spike immediately recognized that she has been through this before.

Wait... What did she just say?

"Wait..what? What do you mean?" Spike asked and the only response was that Luna chuckled a bit no doubt finding a bit of dark humor in this situation. The actions only confused Spike as the human woman floated down next to him before she started too talk again.

"You see Spike it's really funny, none of us were expecting for you to die today. Thing is since you died way ealier then expected we were all thrown through a huge loop which only got worse since our lord Koenma wishes too speak with you about issues rearding where your are going in the afterlife” The strange lady had told him in a cheerful voice, Spike made a mental note to try and introduce this woman too Pinkie Pie or even Twilight whenever he got the chance but he needed to keep his head in the game right now.

"Wait what? What do you mean? Are you implying that Diamond Tiara would have died if I didn't do anything!?" Spike exclaimed in confusion now finding himself to be more angry then before.

The human woman simply sighed as she took out a book with the title saying "Dead Residents Checklist" before flipping the pages over and over till she finally stopped. 

"Ah yes, Diamond Tiara, says right here had you not interfered she would have survived the accident but would have suffered amnesia and would have broken her right foreleg but otherwise she would have been fine!" She exclaimed while closing her eyes as she shut the book before looked up at Spike again whom was already on his back in disbelief and shock from founding out his death was practically pointless.

"I... I can't... I can't believe that my death was completely pointless!" Luna nodded her head at Spikes exclamation.

"Thou are in the right too be angry dearest friend however, thou has been giveth a deal to lighten the mood of the situation" Luna explained to a now even more confused Spike who was scratching his head in confusion.

"What kind of deal can make this situation better? My death was next to pointless and I am still dead?" Spike asked in genuine confusion before turning towards the human woman who only smiled in response to the situation.

"You see Spike even though I can't really give you all the details, my boss has decided to give you a second chance to return to life...if you accept the deal of course" The human said in a honest and happy tone that reminded Spike of his friend Pinkie Pie. He decided to take a moment too think about what was going on here.

First off he was dead, no question about that. He had died saving Diamond Tiara from a incoming cart that would have killed her on impact. Somehow he has a whole new body while his old one was taken away to the hospital no doubt to be examined what caused his death or simply to be cleaned. And now he has a human [Lyra and her Anthropologist friends would freak out right now]



“Well…. Alright, let's get going then” Spike finally answered with a smile before said smile turned into a frown as he realized something that he should have realized from the start.

“Wait, how are we going to get… Wherever it is we are going?” Spike asked only earning a chuckle from the giggity woman infront of him. 

“Why that's easy of course, Luna is going to carry you on her back while i’m” She sat down onto her paddle as if she was merely sitting on a park bench. At least that’s the best comparison that Spike could come up with at the moment “Am going to ride on my paddle all the way there, besides it will be a good time for luna to explain a few things to you catch up with her” she before flying off into the distance leaving the dragon and alicorn alone for the moment.

Spike sighed at the obvious ploy that she had, it wasn’t like it was unusual for someone to leave him alone with one of his many friends [most of which were female] in order for that whole ‘leave two people together and they will become lovers’ trick. Unfortunately for her the human didn’t take into account that he had lived in Canterlot for a large chunk of his life, and at the time Twilight was still growing up meaning she needed a babysitter. It was simply luck that Twilight was babysitted Princess Cadence whom was known as the princess of love; and as such whenever Twilight or Spike was curious they would ask a few questions about love in general. Though i, the teller of this little tale am once again procrastinating here so let's get a move on shall we Spike?

Spike suddenly shook his head as he finally processed Luna had asked him a question, yet again he was caught up in his internal monologue and missed the question though he knew instantly that Luna meant to asked him to hop onto her back since she was turned around with her back facing him and wings opened ready to take flight. Not wanting to once again to fall right into a monologue he quickly hopped right onto the Alicorns back before she took right off into the sky; Spike barely got to catch a glimpse of PonyVille as they flew up higher and higher above the clouds of the town the dragon had lived in for the past few years.

“So Luna this person we are meeting, you never told me their name” Spike commented as he tried his best not to look down again, the feeling of air splashing against his face at a rapid pace almost made his eyes water. He couldn't describe how it felt to be flying ontop of Luna’s back then again considering how he couldn't really describe how it felt when he was riding on Twilight Sparkles back through the air some time ago it real didn't bother him even though he was flying higher and higher above the clouds.

“The person's name is Prince Koenma” The spectral alicorn had stated her face furrowing a little, “Despite his attitude and appearance he holds the important role of decision; more specifically the choice where one's soul shall end up after death” Spikes eyes almost bulged out of his head once he processed this information. 

“Needless to say young Spike, thou must choose thou words carefully” Spike could only agree by shaking his head in agreement, the mere thought of meeting someone that could decide whether he goes to heaven or hell was simply… frightening to say the least.

In his mind he began to imagine what kind of a person this Koenma guy was, sure he must look like; he could see it now, a giant monster that is horribly disfigured enough to make even Discord the god of chaos himself squeal like a little girl. Complete with a huge set of horns and a long tongue slipping out of its mouth and dripping acid that's strong enough to burn through the floor.

Spike gulped audibly as he felt Luna landing into some solid concrete, making his thoughts somewhat scattered but just enough for him to keep that image photographed in his mind. He finally got off the spectral alicorn whom was simply staring straight ahead at a VERY huge building that even made the entirety of Canterlot [the capital of equestria] look small in comparison. 

“Wow” Spike said in amazement, Luna could only chuckle at his response.

“We have said the same thing about the castle the first time we traveled here” Luna commented as she walked up towards the building and knocked onto it for a few moments. The duo had waited there patiently for a response for a good minute, said minute was filled with silence not even a cricket sound could be heard until Spike could feel that the veins in Luna’s head had popped out in anger for a moment and he quickly covered his ears.

“ATTENTION THY FRIENDS IT IS I PRINCESS LUNA WE HATH COME TO DELIVER YOUNG SPIKE, SO ASK THAT THOU OPEN THIS DOOR!” Luna had shouted loudly in her trademark royal canterlot voice, Spike could feel his eardrums feeling like they were about to burst from the commanding tone that boomed far worse the thunder.

After the ringing in his ears slowly subsided the doors slowly but surely started to open. Somehow Spike got the feeling that he wasn't the first person to think that the inside of the hallway that was revealed once they were opened resembled somewhat like a giant throat then anything else. He did however note that it did certainly fit the mood of someone going to their God and meet their judgement of their fate in the afterlife, though he wasn't sure it fit him still considering that he was offered a deal to be brought back.

Spike felt a shiver down his spikes as he watched Luna slowly move forward at a calm pace. Now that he was thinking about it calmly while still feeling like, he was walking right into a trap just like Grognak the Barbarian and the tale of the batwoman comic he liked to read sometimes. Despite the looks of that ‘giant throat’ he walked side by side with Luna whom remained as calm as ever as if this wasn’t anything special. Spike had to admit to himself that he didn’t really think she should be surprised that she was reacting any differently, though he chalked that up too her seeing many things throughout the years of protecting her people's dreams…. And also the fact she was turned into Nightmare Moon and trapped in the moon for a thousand years.

The two of them walked in silence, only the sounds of footsteps/hoofsteps were all that could be heard in hallway, both of them felt awkward the longer they walked. The awkwardness was more or less starting to feel annoying a bit as he was feeling rather impatient to get back to life, and yet he still couldn't get the idea of the deal that will bring him back to life out of his mind. The absurdity of it all still made him think about what kind of mess he was walking into and how he could get out of it...and maybe give his friends a scare after his death.

Spike knew that they both had reached their destination at the end of the hallway.

“Um Luna? What is that thing on the door?” Spike said in a comically humorless tone, the door itself had a strange looking handle on it. Let me clarify for a moment, that door handle was shaped just like your typical demon head; and by that i mean the demon head look extremely realistic while you stick to the average look that's accepted by many. Go on go ahead, look it up on google or something; and i can guarantee the demon that doesn’t look human will probably be the closest thing you will get to a detailed description. Once again, i am interrupting so please; let me continue with the story.

Luna rose an eyebrow as she looked at the strange door handle with interest. “We were unaware that Koenma had changed the door handle today; thou should be aware that he changes the entire castle at least a few months or so” Luna explained as she reached a hoof towards it before snapping her hoof back to her when the demon head snapped its jaws at her!

“Hey what's the big idea?!” The demon head started to thrash about wildly growling at both the surprised Spike and unamused Luna. Deciding enough was enough Luna opened her mouth ready to speak before the demon shouted again.

“Day in, day out people always using my head to knock on the wall just to alert Koenma for whatever reason well I am sick of it always giving me a headache whenever you…” the demon started to go on and on about something something door handles. The dragon and princess continued to grow more and more annoyed as they were forced to listen to the annoying demon’s rambling.

“SILENCE!” Luna had finally shouted after a good minute of hearing the demon ramble. “WE HAVE NOT CHOOSEN TO TRAVEL WITH THY FRIEND SIR SPIKE TO LISTEN TOO A DOOR HANDLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THOU LIFE NOW OPEN THE DOOR OR WE SHALL TEAR THIS CASTLE DOWN!” 

Luna’s voice echoed loudly as if there was thunder booming around them. Her Royal Canterlot voice  causing the castle to shake and Spike was certain that more than a few pieces of rubble had fallen from the ceiling and landed onto the ground right next to them. Fortunately for Spike Luna’s shouting had scared the demonhead into silence and a lot of shouting on the other side of the door could be heard; just enough for Spike to assume that someone was struggling to open the door from the other side.

So, before we continue let me just clarify that Spike; while he may not look like the same dragon he was this morning or evening when he died was still very much the same dragon that most of Ponyville loved. Now keep that in mind i want you; yes you the reader that's probably chowing down on some chips and soda while you read this. I want you to imagine the possibilities that ran through Spike’s young 16 year old mind when the door was finally opened. 

That way you can see how horribly disappointed he was when the door revealed that instead of demons [or angels] punching each other out cold everywhere; he saw hundreds upon hundreds of desks and small office spaces as if he was in a stereotype work building.  The young dragon couldn’t help but think that he had walked into a cartoon where everyone was a stereotype businessman or woman; except that nobody is laughing because everyone's so busy with their work.

“W-wow everyone seems to be really busy here..” Spike spoke with a bit of disappointment in his voice, Luna chuckled to herself a little bit as her spectral form slowly walked forward more and more; ignoring all of the hundreds upon hundreds of files flying everywhere as the two walked carefully trying not to step on any of the papers that were now on the ground because of all this chaos.

“Thou are not wrong to be disappointed, Celestia had a similar reaction when she first visited this place” Luna commented as they both reached yet another door, Spike sighed as he had the feeling that he would finally be able to meet this ‘Koenma’ that's apparently such a big deal that he runs this demon house. 

The giant door opened very slowly, the soft creaking from the door seemed to be much more louder to both him and Luna as it slowly opened; revealing a very large office space that would probably be the perfect size for a small Pinkie Pie style party. Maybe more then five times the size of an average Pinkie Pie party; though he did wonder exactly why the office looked a little bit like something out a comic book now that he thought about it.

“Um… Koenma? Are you in here?”

“Of course i am” Spike got a response back, confused he looked around having noted before that the room was seemingly empty besides him and Luna. THat is until he finally looked down… 

“Is that a fucking child?” 

In response to this he had earned a hard hit on the back of his head from the spectral form of the princess of the night, while the so called ‘child’ looked very visibly angry at the young dragon for his rather blunt response to meeting Koenma for the first time. Spike on the other hand was wondering why exactly he had just swore, meeting Luna and that strange woman on the ‘paddle’ was alright because of how stressed he was at the situation at that moment; but swearing out of nowhere when it doesn’t really call for it? Whats going on with him???

Luna on the other hand had quickly fell to her knees and he swore he could FEEL sweatdrops on that spectral body of hers as she bowed down to Koenma; he didn’t really pay much attention to that small little detail as he was more focused on Koenma’s appearance and choice of clothing he was wearing right now.

To put it bluntly, Koenma was dressed similarly to what one would think if they were thinking of an average chinese attire if one were going with stereotypes. Koenma’s clothes that consisted of a red obi sash tied at the waist of a pink-trimmed blue robe over brown and pant’s shoes didn’t help give that illusion since the child still had a pacifier in his mouth and he still had the face of a human child. The hat admittedly still looked something that Rarity would call ‘A crime against fashion’ because of the fact it still somewhat resembled his outfit in terms of appearance; with a large ‘Jr’ mark on what Spike assumed to be the headband for the hat.

“All right Luna thats enough don’t need too hit him so hard...yet” Koenma added as he looked at Spike, well; more like analyze Spike and for some reason the dragon had a very strong feeling he wasn’t going to like the direction where this conversation was heading.

“So, your this Koenma Luna told me about. Why did you want to see me sir?” Spike said trying his best to ignore the fact that Koenma was still a child in a position that might be higher then even Celestia’s if Luna was bowing before him.

“Straight to the point aren’t you Spike? All right take a seat and i will tell you everything” with that, Koenma turned around and Spike noticed a rather large chair that was definetly not there before; the dragon decided not to question it due to the fact he has been around Pinkie Pie and Discord before; such tricks don’t normally affect him that much.

“Now that you are seated Spike we can finally start talking about your...ordeal” Koenma spoke in a way that Spike had almost forgotten that he was talking to a kid; almost.

“Yeah; but first before we get into this whole; ‘me coming back to life’ thing i got a few questions”

“I am sure you do Spike; lucky for you in the realm of the dead time does not hold much meaning here so essentially” Koenma outstretched his arms a little in exaggeration “We got all the time in the world” Koenma finished with a bit of exictment in his voice.

Spike didn’t say anything to the toddler, he figured that since he had all the time in the world he could take a bit of time to gather his thoughts. After a good minute the dragon decided what the first question would be.

“So, what's the catch with me looking far different then when i was alive?” Spike asked truly wondering why exactly his body was different now, he had been wondering this entire time but it was only just now that he had actually focus on that issue considering; ya know being dead and all.

“Ah yes, that issue it’s quite a complicated predicament one that might be a bit hard to explain; a problem that has persisted since the day you were born Spike” Now that had gotten Spike’s complete attention, hs mind began to swim around the possibilities surrounding the drakes birth that was when he had remembered one of the important things about that day; the day his friends lifes were all connected to each other.

“That was the day Rainbow Dash accomplished the sonic rainboom; does the rainboom itself have something to do with my new appearance?” Spike asked confident that he had figured out what had caused his new form, that is until Koenma shook his head and reached down into the desk and pulled out a strange black book. The young prince started to flip through those pages, Spike had noticed that on every single page there was a small profile featuring a picture of various species; from ponies to dragons to griffons and even changelings. Eventually Koenma stopped flipping through the pages and looked like he was reading through the page; which had a picture of Spike.

“Tell me Spike besides your birth; what exactly did the Sonic Rainboom accomplish?” Koenma asked and instantly spike had remembered exactly what he was refering too.

“The Elements Of Harmony were connected that day” Spike said with realization now getting the bigger picture of the sudden change in appearance, Koenma chuckled at the face the young dragon was making oh how he wished to be so uninformed of the universe just for the sake of being suprised.

“Exactly; that sonic boom had forged the bond between your friends and had simotaniously given birth to you from an egg that was never meant to hatch in the first place; a feat i must add had been 98.5% impossible and yet here you are” Koenma explained finding enjoyment in how Spike was seriusly thinking hard of what kind of a mess he had walked right into.

“So wait, does that mean i’m…. A thrall?” Koenma shook his head in response to this question.

“Close, your more or less a familiar; and at the same time you are not” this had gotten Spike even more confused then before; so confused that he had put a hand onto his head feeling a migrane coming on.
“While it is difficult to explain i will do my best to dumb it down for you” Koenma started before coughing a bit to start quite a speech for the dragon as he leans in closer to listen.

“You see Spike whenever someone is born in the spirit world we mostly get data records on how their lives are supposed to go; your life in particular is an anomaly because of the mere fact by all accounts you were not meant to exist; what makes you even more strange is the fact we have zero records on you due to the nature of your birth. Normally something like that is shared with familars whom are all mere summons with no particular identidy unless said familiar was made from the soul of someone already existing tying them to the caster and living world” Koenma leaned back in his chair and made it turn in a different direction away from Spike, the so called toddler twiddling his thumbs while he tries to figure out what way to explain it.


“See when you egg was hatched by that time we should have had data on you; however; there was nothing” Koenma then suddenly placed a folder labeled ‘Spike Sparkle’ onto the table and out of the folder slide multiple pictures of the elements of harmony.

“Nothing that we could find about you, but rather; from what people would be surrounded by you was what we could have found in that folder even late into your life; it had gotten to the point we had asked Celestia herself to spy on you and feed us information so that we would figure out this mess before a time like this could occur”

Spike could feel that one of his eyes were twitching and tried very hard to supress a growl in his throat; while his agitation was still shown it was made clear that he was trying to keep self control through gritted teeth.

“Spying on me through one of my mother figures aside; clearly something has changed since i am here now; why not send me to heaven and be done with it?” Koenma chuckled again, for some reason Spike had reminded him of one of hid old friends whom he makes a mental note to send a letter too sometime in his mind.

“Thats actually our main issue Spike, see we had run the numbers over and over and concluded something that completly forces us to not send you to heaven, hell, or purgatory” Spike’s head snapped up towards Koenma with wide eyes completly taken back by what the prince had just said.

“You see Spike as it turns out that you hatching on that day had a side effect in you and Twilight Sparkle in particular; while the two of you have grown up slightly over the years the bond between young Twilight back then had completly stunted your growth making you appear as if you were the same age Twilight was when she hatched you. While this side effect is only a minor inconvience; it had directly tied into your very soul itself which had been soul bound to twilight sparkle the day you were born right the instnat twilights magic went haywire. Tell me did you ever expereience a feeling of sickness when you attempted to stay away from twilight for too long?”

Spike had thought long and hard about every word that Koenma had spoken in that small speech; looking back on his life he had always wondered why exactly he was so small in comparision to other dragons or at least photo’s taken of dragons. And that last part had also explained why exactly whenever he tried to do something on his own he would screw it up, he always had that feeling that it was more then him just being a kid and being a kid meant screwing up alot as you grow.

“That would also explain that time i was Applejack’s helper for a day” Koenma nodded too Spike’s response.

“Yeah, unfortunetly though it kinda gets a bit more complicated for this; see when we ran the numbers we had made a conclusion that your egg would have hatched but not around the time of the rainboom had hapened; a complete fluck on the timescale but one that isn’t too bad”

Spike rubbed at his chin a bit somewhat wishing he had a beard right now as he ponders his thoughts “So i am guessing my appearance is how exactly i would have looked had the rainboom not hatch me?”

Koenma simply shrugged “I am only 86% certain that is the case; could also be that a side afect that i am unaware of; however it could also be a another side effect that should be noted that your soul when it hatched was a completly blank slate that was bonded by the elements of harmony; perhaps the tree of harmony decided it would be a good idea to have a dragon raised amongst ponies for a change” 

Spike chuckled at this, and here he had thought that the tree of harmony was just merely a giant fancy tree that happened to hold the elements of harmony and nothing much was special about the tree. He made a mental note to himself to ask Celestia about the Tree of Harmony again as soon as he can, since he was dumb enough not to listen to her the first time back then.

“It is for the reasons i just told you that your being given a second chance Spike” Koenma said as he pinched his forhead a bit clearly showing signs of frustration at the rather complex situation. “Due to the soul bound issue i am unsure what types of effects it would have on Twilight Sparkle, my job requires foir me to judge whether someone goes to heaven or hell and i have seen many types like Twilight Sparkle fall prey too the darkness” Koenma sighed when he was done before he continued.

“The issue with this Spike if i am right and Twilight will get the same judgement as you; i am certain you can tell how bad it will turn out on the off chance she somehow starts to convert to the dark side” Koenma explained again and with that explanation, Spike had finally understood the whole situation the two of them were in. It all made sense in a way, Koenma was meant to judge people to send them to heaven or hell if Spike were to be judged right now at this point in time and Twilight were to turn into another Nightmare Moon or maybe far, far worse then she would have gotten the same judgement Spike got when he died.

“And because of that fact you want for me to go back to life?” 

“Exactly Spike, however luckily for you since your soul was bounded together to twilight’s pretty tightly right up until your death; bringing you back to life should be only a matter of recreating your soul without chaning your mind or personality” Koenma explained once more as he picked up a smaller book that said ‘Instructions for souls 101’ and began to flip through it no doubt to look for the exact instructions.

“So if its that simple why bring me here?” Spike asked wanting to get the answer he really wanted to know out of the way; not that anyone can blame him after all he had just died saving a pony he hardly knew today.

“Thats because i can’t just give you back your life” Before Spike could ask why Koenma continued “Bringing someone back to life is serius business Spike; if i had simply given you back your life then i might get plenty of other requests wanting to return to life as well” With that said Spike looked down to the floor dejected as he already knew that there was an ulterior motive to what Koenma is saying.

“With that said there is a way i can allow you to return to life; while simotaniously keeping balance to life and death without any issues” Spike looked up again suprised as he had somewhat forgotten that Koenma ‘wants’ Spike to return to life during the whole conversation.

“And, mind explaining what exactly i have to do Koenma?” Spike said tapping his foot impatiently as he waited for an answer; for a very brief moment Koenma could have sworn he saw a old friend of his right there in front of him for a few seconds before shaking his head and explaining Spike’s role.

“You see Spike throughout the years there have been a number of cases of rare talented folks like yourself; and throughout the years there are ‘special’ matters that i am simply unable to interfier with due to my job as judge. That is why i had thought of the idea of ‘Spirit Detectives’ a few special individuals that are capable of doing detective work in order to solve issues that will affect the balance of life and death; such as demons invading the living world to cause mischief, a person dying when it was not their time yet, and many other cases” Koenma explained as the young drake started to rub at his chin from the explaination given to him.

Spike already could think of the many ideas of adventure that were rolling about in his head; maybe he would be like super-stallion going around the world ready to fight crime for truth and justice; or maybe he could be like ‘grognack the stallion’ that weird stallion that always got into trouble involving demons and stuff.


“So i am basically a special task force for you right?”


“For the goodest intentions yes; however do not take this job lightly in some cases it can be even more important then those Elements Of Harmony Equestria needs so very much” Koenma explained with a stern voice, and suddenly Spike had remembered all of the potential threats that had occured in Equestria and he had thought of all the times he had felt useless during said threats. If what this guy was saying was true; what kind of threats would he end up having to fight in the near future; that is if he had o do fighting at all?

“Don’t you think your getting ahead of yourself? I mean, if i end up having to fight demons i am very doubtful my training with Shinign Armor alone is going to cut it?”

With that said Koenma had stood up from his chair and looked towards the wall which Spike noticed conviently had a bulls-eyepainted onto it. The prince then from a strange ‘L’ shaped sign with his left hand and for a few seconds everything was silent until a beutifal glowing blue ball of light started to form on his index finger. Before Spike could fully process what was going on the ball of light had shot right out of Koenma’s finger and hit the wall completly breaking a pice of it apart; the dragon had to close his eyes as dust got into them as a result of the destruction. When he had opened them he noticed the wall had been mostly wrecked, completly suprised by how that technique while looking so simple was capable of that much destruction and he had a feeling that Koenma was simply holding back just to demonstrate.

“That is how you will defend yourself, the most basic of techniques the Spirit Gun while basic can be applied to literally any situation; and be a catylst to learning or developing new techniques as time passes” Koenma said as he sat back down into the chair; while Spike continued to stare at the wall slack jawed for a few moments. 

“Now then Spike here's what I need you to do…”










Spike couldn't believe how obvious this mess was.

Sure he could get behind the idea that a toddler had taught him a very useful though basic technique,sure he could believe that his birth was more or less a fluke; sure he could even get behind the idea that he was given a second chance at life as soon as he completes one little favor.

But he just couldn’t belive that the person he was hunting whom had stolen this so called ‘moon amulet’ something that had originally be used to liuft the moon to change to day before Celestia and Luna had come into power, it didn’t make sense for the young drake that someone could steal something that could potentially destroy the world with whover was using said amulet with it. Though, to be truthfull he was mostly more annoyed that he was forced to walk past the Everfree forest again, not that it wasn’t dangerous it is just he had done this so many times that it had long since become so darn boring he hardly could be bothered with it.

It didn’t help matters any that he was going to have to walk through the streets of ponyville to get to the forest, which just so happened to be by Fluttershy’s house. Unfortunetly this would mean, you guessed it. Spike would have to go ahead and look for his friends whom were no doubt grieving right now just to check up on them, both for plot reasons and because of the fact he was worried especially after that outburst between Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara.

Finding out where the crusaders were was easy enough, fortunetly for him, Koenma had decided to drop him off nearby the farm where the Apple Family consintly worked at. Perhaps i am just mistaken and he simply walked there, either way Spike couldn’t stop himself from flying up a bit now that he was somewhat getting the hang of being a spirit, and what he saw was all 5 of the crusaders at the treehouse.

Diamond Tiara simply stayed outside refusing to walk inside to join Scootaloo whom Spike noticed was curled up into a ball, her best friends Sweetie Belle and AppleBloom were sitting right next to her and occasionally petting along her back or wings. It was a suprise to Spike to see the 4 of them here and not SilverSpoon anywhere, in fact now that he was suprised that SweetieBell and Applebloom were whispering to one another their eyes still red and puffy no doubt from all the crying from earlier. Spike had noticed that out of all 3 of them AppleBloom looked like she was doing wel at trying to hide how torn up she was about this in comparision to her friends.

With a sigh Spike stopped floating aroudn the treehouse and started to run on the path heading right into ponyville, the young dragon hardly payed much attention to anything he ran by. THough he had to admit he still found it strange when he ran right through all the ponies he normally would bump into if he were alive, not that he had any reason not too it just made it a bit more enjoyable; especially when said ponies got the shivers as soon as he ran through them.

Eventually after a few minutes he managed to reach the entrance to the EverFree Forest, the entrance almost looking like a long dark hallway with said darkness ready to embrace him on what could be a rather deadly journey; he had to stop as soon as he took yet another step forward. Spike had to take one last look at the castle made of crystals, shining bright despite
Todays rather screwed up events, he put a hand over his chest as he stared at the castle for a few minutes as he thought about everything that he had gone through today and how his choice to help Koenma would possibly affect his friends and what kind of more screwed up situations he would get into in the future.
It was only then, he thought about Twilight; it was odd in a way. In most situations Twilight would almost always leave him behind for her friends, and now it seemed like it was reversed where Spike had completly forgotten to pay twilight a visit to make sure she was holding up. He could envision AppleJack with a an hand on Twilights shoulders as she cried harder then she ever did as a filly, the rest of the girls no doubt circled around her in a tight hug as they tried their hardest to comfort the princess of friendship while trying to be in controll of their own emotions as well with a variety of results.

He then started to feel bad for Twilight now, he knows how important he really is to her even if she doesn’t always act like he is that important to her as he was always there by her side even when things got rough ever since he had hatched thanks to her magic. With recent events in mind, and the revealing of him and Twilgiths connection the young drake clenched his chest harder as he remembered the mischief the two of them caused together in canterlot before moving here to Ponyville.

With that image now stuck in his head, Spike had felt more determined then ever to complete this task set out for him by Koenma.


“Twilight, i’ll come back for you I promise. Big sis”

With that the rather teenage looking drake turned around towards the forest, looking back towards the castle for a brief moment one last time before he ran off full spead right into the forest mouth, the darkness swallowing him up as only the faint sounds of footsteps soon faded into darkness as the young drake finally begins what will only be the beginning of his journey.