Once again, Diamond sat at her window, watching nothing in particular, but rather having thoughts filling her head. Thoughts about the thing on the yard. Somehow, it had managed to avoid her father's gaze, even when he had clearly been on the open part of the yard. And just a minute later, he wasn't there. It was almost as if he had sensed something coming and proceeded to hide.
Her eyes drifted towards the lower part of the roof of the house, where the gardener of the house was talking with the big black spider her father had seen, which just seemed to first glare at the gardener, and then offering him a flower, and then finally detaching something from somewhere on the roof (almost like a cocoon) and started to march away from the house.
She wasn't a fan (or hater) of spiders, yet she started to wonder where the spider would go. Where did ugly things like spiders and other things go to? Maybe to the Everfree? To another part? Maybe even to Tartarus?
And speaking of ugly places, from what kind of horrendous world would that thing might have popped up from?
It was then that an idea popped up in her head. She didn't know, but maybe there were other ponies who might know! Maybe even know how to send it back, so it could finally stop harassing her with his annoying being.
With that thought in mind, she ran from the window, ready to know more about that creature.
After a few moments, she found herself in a place she usually avoided at all costs. After all, a place of such reputation as the Castlle's library wasn't at her level. In fact, she wondered again why she should enter that place.
... Oh, right. The thing in the backyard.
She grunted in annoyance. Once again, that thing managed to harass her in public, just because she needed to find more about it. Would there be no ending to his annoyance, even when he wasn't even present?
With a practiced ease, she lifted her snout to the air, giving herself the image of something unreachable, even when she was shorter than most ponies roaming around in the street. Even when she couldn't hear quite well, she could pick pieces of conversations as she passed by.
"... is she even doing here? Thought she was at her..."
"... Why is she walking towards..."
"... of business she has with the Caste library?"
Ignoring most of these questions, she finally arrived at the door. The more she stared at it, the more she felt curiously nervous of entering. She might become bored to death! Library were such boring places! Those weren't for foals! Those were for old ponies who couldn't lift their heads off of those boring books!
"Let's get this over with." Diamond thought with determination as she proceeded to push the door open, hearing a panicked shriek when the door slammed onto the wall.
Curious as to what had just happened, she entered and pushed back the door, seeing the small purple and green lizard who thought he deserved the title of Twilight Sparkle's number 1 assistant.
"Welcome to the library." Spike said in a strained voice as he peeled himself off of the wall, noticing with wide eyes the dragonly mark on the wall.
After a few moments, Spike shook himself off of his stupor, and turned around to see the pony who might've accidentally smashed him. His eyes widened a second time as she noticed the pony, or rather filly, standing in front of him. Despite being close friends with the CMC, he had had the good luck of not having to deal with this filly most of the time.
Yet, there she was, looking at him with a despiteful glare, standing in the library of his- rather Twilight's castle.
"Uhh, is there anything you need help with?" Spike asked, being cautious of her. He knew she couldn't do anything to him, but he'd rather not have an angry filly with him.
"... Ugh! Listen, you purple lizard! I need a book!" Diamond said, pointing an accusatory hoof at him, almost as if he had done anything bad to her.
Spike shrunk once more, feeling rather short in comparison to the filly in front of him.
"... A-Allright... What k-kind of book?"
"One about monsters!"
Spike's uneasiness vanished once he heard that phrase.
"... Monsters?"
"Yes! Are you deaf, or something? I need a book about monsters!" Diamond said slowly, almost as if talking to a baby. Spike, on his part, didn't understand what the heck she was talking about.
"... I don't understand. Are you looking for a book with stories about monsters? A guide? A bestiary? Something like-"
"Whatever it is, just bring it here now!" Diamond shouted, finally annoyed at the small lizard, who just seemed as scared as ever.
That was taking way too long! At that moment, she should've already find something about that thing and left that boring place! Why was he taking so long?
As she looked at him again, he saw the lizard almost shivering in what she could assume was fear. That was one look she liked more: Ponies being afraid of her! It made her feel great.
Yet, she assumed the lizard was too afraid of her to even get to work. How would she get out of there if he wasn't doing what he was intended to do? What could she do to-
She groaned in annoyance as she remembered the situation with her father.
Diamond once again straightened up and looked at the lizard with an even stare.
"You will bring me all the books you have about monsters, please?"
Even when the annoyance was evident on her voice, the mention of the "p" word was enough to get Spike working again.
"Huh? Oh, uhh... Yeah, just... let me..." Spike said as he turned around towards the guide where they had the locations of all the books, still trying to wrap his head around the fact Diamond had said please.
Almost immediately, he started to rush through the pages of the book, looking for anything that might be of her liking.
"You didn't answer me before. Are you looking for anything like a story, as a hobby? Or maybe more for some like a homework? I didn't know Ms Cherilee had something to do with monsters and all that stuff... Maybe I should convince Twilight to let me go to that school one of these days, then."
As Spike continued his talking, Diamond started to look around in boredom. Watching as row after row of the shelves was filled with books. Only books. It was everything that place had.
"Aha!" Diamond turned around, startled by the shouting of the dragon. "I think this one will fit to your assignment." Spike said as he started to walk towards a shelf, pulling a rather big book from it, taking in on wobbly legs due to its weight, towards a table.
"There you go!" Spike said as he puffed his chest in triumph, ready to get her thankings.
"Mhm." Spike's only response was an unamused humming as Diamond simply passed by him, climbing to the chair in order to get back to reading, completely ignoring him. He merely groaned in annoyance as he turned around to leave.
"How rude." Spike muttered as he vanished from sight, leaving Diamond completely alone. She, on the other hoof, groaned once again, looking at the rather large list of creatures included on the book, some of which she had never heard of before.
It was going to be a rather large day.
A loud groan was heard from the depths of the library as a book was slammed shut by an annoyed filly.
"SO BORING!!" Diamond almost shouted as she ended up stopping her reading, finally bored to death. And it had only been five minutes or so since she started!
It had been far too long, and she hadn't found anything about the creature on her backyard! Not a single thing! How could that be possible? The book said it contained every creature on the planet!
With a newfound annoyance, she hop off of the chair, starting to look around for the lizard who was supposedly in charge of the library. Fortunately for her, the "lizard" was fast asleep on the exact place where she had found him first.
"Hey! Wake up!" Diamond shouted, startling the little dragon, falling off from the pedestal, the book following closely with a loud thud.
"Oww... what is it?" Spike groaned as he lifted the book off of him.
"I... I..." Words died on her throat as she realized that she didn't exactly know why she came.
"You... need help?"
Diamond wanted to deny it, she wanted so badly to say no and demand him to do her bidding! She wanted it so badly!!
"... Y-Yes, please..."
Spike finally finished lifting the book back to its place, and turned towards the filly, who seemed to be bothered by something. She had been rude with him, but he couldn't deny his help towards a lady in distress. That's what heroes, like the ones from his comic books did, right?
"... Alright, what do you need help with?" Spike said, crossing his arms, looking at her intently.
"... I-It's... I c-can't find... anything on that stupid book about the creature I'm looking for." Spike nodded as he walked with her back to where the book was.
With a slight twitch on her ear, Twilight suddenly turned around, looking at something non existent.
"Somepony just insulted a book... "
Finally at the book, Spike, turned the pages towards the index.
"So, what is this creature you are looking for?" Spike asked as he turned towards the filly, who stared at the book with annoyance.
"Some kind of creature that's bald, it stands in two hooves."
"Bald?"
"Yes! Like the head from that old pony on the park!"
Spike nodded as he looked at the index, almost instantly flipping through pages and pages. Finally, she could have some answers!
"Is it this one?"
Diamond turned towards him with a gleeful smile, only to be replaced by a frown as she looked at something that didn't resemble at anything to the one on her backyard, unless it was some kind of ugly (even uglier) kind of "chupacabra".
Diamond denied with her head, Spike nodding as he looked for another one, this one being also different, and though it had some resemblance on the way it stood, Diamond doubted seriously it was an "ahuizotl".
"No! That's not the one! It was different! To start with, it didn't have hooves on his... hind legs? And it doesn't has a muzzle!"
Spike nodded as he started to turn pages, each and every one of his depictions not having anything in common with the creature she was seemingly looking for. Suddenly, she stopped him.
"Wait! Go back!"
Spike turned back some pages, instantly landing on the figure of a minotaur. However, the book had images of many of them. While not considered "monsters" per se, there were entries about minotaurs with different colors of skin and fur, the most common being dark blue, red and even brown.
"This one!" Diamond pointed towards an image of the text, where it pointed towards yet another creature called "satyr".
Spike started to turn the pages, looking for the creature on the book. After a few seconds, the title of the creature came in front, and Diamond grinned as she started to look at the creature, only for her grin to vanish, giving away a frown.
"That's not it, either!"
Finally having enough, Spike groaned in annoyance.
"What do you mean? It coincides with the description you gave! Bald in some parts, stands on two hooves?"
"Yes! But the creature I'm looking for doesn't has that much fur, and doesn't has hooves on its... hind legs?"
Spike looked at her with a frown that screamed annoyance. He knew she didn't knew what she was looking for, and that wouldn't be that helpful. What kind of creature that stood on two legs, had no hooves and was bald would resemble a satyr?
It was at that moment, some clicked on his mind.
"This kind of creature you are looking for has hands, almost resembling to my claws?" He said as he showed her his claws. "It doesn't has hooves, but it has something resembling hands on its hind legs, no muzzle, but rather a small nose, and its eyes on the front part of its head?"
Diamond's eyes widened in shock. It fit the exact description the lizard had just given her.
"H-How-"
Whatever she was about to say was interrupted as Spike shut the book closed and hopped off the table.
"What you are looking for isn't on any kind of books Twilight has in here about monsters." Spike said, much to Diamond's demise. "And I'm afraid to tell you that there's definitely no books in here about those creatures you speak of." Diamond's ears flattened in anger and demise as she turned to him.
"Then, where can I find about them, you good for nothing, Lizard?"
A nerve was stroke on Spike's mind as he turned around, anger reflecting on his eyes.
"I. Am. Not. A. Lizard." Spike said, each word carrying an immeasurable amount of anger on them.
Diamond sighed. It looked like she would achieve nothing with insulting him. It seemed as if almost everypony was losing respect to her whenever she showed up in the streets. It was so much different in her house, where everything she said was done, almost immediately.
The memory of her parent when she literally pleaded for him to see through the window resurfaced once more. It was on that occasion, at least recently, when her father had listened to her.
"Ugh! Listen, can you please tell me where to find more about them... dragon?" Diamond said, still with a bad tone, more annoying than pleading.
However, it seemed to be enough to appease Spike. He merely turned around, took a piece of paper and wrote something on it. After a few moments, he stretched his hand with the paper on it, not before giving Diamond a harsh glare.
"You really need to work on your manners."
Diamond didn't need any lecture, and even moreso when it came from a dragon maybe around her age. She simply stuck her nose up like always, taking the paper on a hoof, and turning around.
"You're welcome." Spike said in an annoyed tone as she closed the door.
Finally with that done, Diamond turned her hoof around, at the piece of paper, noticing on it a name and an address on it.
"Ugh! Another egghead!" Diamond said annoyed as she looked at the name. At least, she would try the "p" word more frequently. it seemed like a more effective method for making other ponies do her bidding quicker.
With that in mind, she started to walk again, this time with an address on mind, and a name that even she knew was that of a mare commonly known as somewhat crazy with rumors of an ancient creature.
Turning the paper around, she groaned once more as she looked at the name on it.
Lyra Heartstrings.