The words shot right into Spike’s chest. “Help you?” he replied his voice barely above a whisper, Sombra stepped towards him.
“Yes, and I desire that aid right this second!” he yelled pounding the abyssal ground the two stood upon. Before Spike could react, Sombra glowed with a sinister dark light that enveloped his entire body and reached Spike’s. The light oozed around his legs and up his body bringing the baby dragon closer to the dark king. Spike tried with all his might to escape the tyrant’s grasp, but every attempt was met with the same result, failure, and Spike only moved faster. As he imagined, Spike was all but doomed to be free of the oozing light, in a last ditch effort to wake up, Spike closed his eyes, fearing for the worst to wash over him.
“...”
Spike opened his eyes, wide this time. Was it that all just a nightmare? he thought, looking at his surroundings, he was relieved to be in the treehouse ,early in the morning, and not in some void Celestia knows where.
Spike rose from his bed, stretching out his limbs until he was satisfied with the pops that resounded from Spike’s said limbs. “Ugh”. Spike could hear a groan; this might of been nothing to the dragon, it was probably just Twilight trying to go back to sleep, but the groan sounded...masculine.
Spike stepped out of his bed and peered around to locate the source of the groan. Spike was beginning to think it was just himself, when he stumbled upon something that nearly made him shout.
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Clasping his claws over his mouth if he actually did, he takes a better look at what he found. It was a pony, but not just any pony, this one was a unicorn colt with dark grey fur and a jet black mane and tail. His cutie mark was a strange group of black crystal’s surrounded by red jagged streaks.
Spike near instantly assumed who this was but he didn’t wish to ask. A failed attempt to creep back to bed was met with the colt opening his eyes and revealing his blood red eyes. Slowly getting his footing, the colt stretches his neck and gives a short once over on his body, followed by a deep sigh. “As I expected, back to being a colt” the unicorn colt muttered.
Spike frozen in fear stutters some words so the colt acknowledge his presence “S-Sombra? I-Is that...y-you?”
The colt rolled his eyes with annoyed scowl upon his face “Again did you think what just happened was all a dream?” the colt growled, his voice sounded younger but it still had that ominous tone underlying it that Spike shivered at.
Spike nodded slowly, Sombra facehoofing at the response. “Why are you a colt and not your whole…” Spike tried to emphasize Sombra’s original tall appearance by stretching his arm high as it could go.
Sombra rubbed at a foreleg as he gave a response “Do you remember when we met gazes?” Spike confirmed that with another nod, Sombra continued “Basically to put it in an easy to understand way for your underdeveloped mind. A small sliver of my soul was transferred into your body, just before your princess Cadence” he spat the royal’s name “acquired the heart and destroyed my body. I knew one of two things was about to happen in that split second, I claim victory or die trying to. So, while I wished it was somepony better than your scaly hide, I hid some of my soul in your body to be regenerated once it regained enough energy to do so. A failsafe plan of sorts, as for my pre adolescent form, since your current age is equivalent to that of a young colt or filly. My new body took on the appearance of my younger self” Sombra explained.
Spike tried to take all this info in, “So you used my body as a safehouse of sorts until you had enough energy to react with me and escape into your own body, granted a younger version” Spike evaluated, trying to ignore the comments about being “undeveloped”.
Sombra confirmed this “That is correct, now if you do so mind. I have an empire to reclai…”
“Spike! You awake yet?” a voice shouted from downstairs. Spike panicked, he looked at Sombra with a freaked out expression trying to push the king into someplace to hide.
“Yeah I am, I’ll be down in a second Twilight!” Spike shouted.
“That name” Sombra growled “Your unicorn friend that originally tried to take the heart, before she fell into my trap” Sombra laughed.
“...Are you laughing?” Twilight asked.
Spike tried to utter a witty response that Twilight would take “No” he replied nearly on reflex. Well okay not witty but he didn’t have time for that.
Twilight easily enough was convinced by the answer “Spike I heard it, either tell me the truth or I’ll come up there to find out for myself.”
Spike panicked again “No! Twilight don’t come up here!” he yelled. That done it.
Twilight not getting the response she wanted, quickly bolted upstairs with agitated look. Arriving at the top she laid her eyes on Spike seemingly wrestling with a colt.
Twilight as expected, was confused beyond what one would expect. She looked over the two fighting and her confused look turned into a small but noticeable smile. “Spike why couldn’t you just tell me you had a friend up here...in fact how did he get up here?” Twilight asked “I’ve been up for a while, so I would of noticed him if her entered via the door.”
Spike had managed to calm down a smidge, coming up with a response he looked over Sombra and outstretching his claws towards the colt, he introduced his “friend”. “Twilight meet Onyx Stone, he’s a new unicorn in town that I met while on my rounds doing that check list yesterday. He was really eager to see me so he climbed up the side of the tree and jumped in through the window. A little clingy I know, but he’s a good guy to be around, so I didn’t pay it much attention. Since you were out really late, I never got a chance to tell you about him” Spike explained, much to the angered look on Sombra’s face.
Twilight gave the colt a warm smile “Hey there Onyx, if you just arrived in town, then you might not of applied for the primary school yet. Am I right?” she asked sweetly, something Sombra felt sick to stare at. He was close to escaping the premise without a response when Spike got hold of one of his hooves and gave him a look of disapproval.
Sombra didn’t want to admit it but at the moment he was in a body that wasn’t even a quarter of his original power and thinking upon that, trying to take back his empire this way was probably an unwise move. He had to play along until he could find away to gain his full power and older body back.
Hesitantly, Sombra or Onyx stone now replied to Twilight’s question. The latter waiting expectantly for the reply. “Y-Yes, you are correct Twilight, my parents wanted me to have a better life then the village I lived in. So they sent me to live in this town called ponyville because of its friendly denizens. Unfortunately I need to find a place to stay at for myself” Onyx’s eyes wide in fake realization “ in fact...could I potentially stay with you?” he asked, his fake childish grin making Spike’s skin crawl.
Twilight thought about this question, it wasn’t easy to answer that was for sure, but Twilight knew that it would be wrong to say no and she doubted anypony in town was as willing to take in another mouth to feed. Since a multitude of Ponyville already had children, looking back towards Onyx, Twilight smiles once more. “Ok Onyx, you can stay with us. But you may need to be willing to help with things around the library and also help ponies around town, just like what Spike did yesterday”
Onyx turned towards Spike, who wasn’t in the best mood, and grinned “I’d be more than happy to help with your chores, Twilight” he replied, his words laced with no meaning and true willingness.
“Great, now one of Equestria’s greatest threats is living in my house and nopony else is the wiser” Spike mumbled, Onyx could hear it all too well.
With a smirk he responded “Better get used to it reptile, because soon enough I’ll be back at full power and this town, along with your pitiful friends will kneel before me!”
The younger Sombra was about to let out a maniacal laugh when Twilight stated something to him “Oh Onyx, how about you go get your stuff from where ever you have been staying till now and then follow me to the school house so we can get you enrolled.”
Onyx replied in his best fake innocent voice“Okay Twilight, just hold on for one moment” sighing inwardly, Sombra grumbled under his breath “But before I can take over this town, I need to participate in its academic field...for younglings...just great”
Spike chuckled at that comment, it was the first time he had smiled for real that morning.