Spinel looked at the room that was to be hers, it was indeed better than the worst, there was a bed with a blanket and there was hay everywhere, that was about it.
"No Pillow?" Spinel asked.
"Harder to get rats and mice out of a Pillow than it is to get them out of a Blanket," Applebloom replied as she climbed the ladder, the area wasn't small but Spinel wouldn't have called it big either. Spinel sat on the edge and swung her feet back and forth as she looked down at the barn. Applebloom made it to the top and sat next to Spinel and looked over the edge.
"Kid why are you following me?" Spinel asked looking over at Applebloom "I'm not exactly what you might call a people person," Applebloom looked over at her and Spinel scratched her chin "I don't know how to make those words both apply to ponies so let's just say I'm not exactly someone who's into socializing, having friends, that kind of stuff."
"But you said you were made to be someone's best friend,"
"And that didn't end well," Applebloom looked at her silently and Spinel sighed "OK yes I do have some friends, but we were friends only at work, they always put stress on that, I could hang when nothing was going on during work, but I wasn't welcome in their social life,"
"Why not?" Applebloom asked, trying very hard to get the mysterious creature next to her to open up a little.
"I'm a bit of an oddball, I do things like...like re-reading the same book over and over and over again," Spinel looked around the barn as a thought came to her mind "I have Spinels body and powers...hope I don't have her issues too," Spinel was trying to think of a way to test if she did when Applebloom pointed at her.
"Why does it look like you've been crying?" she asked, Spinel blinked, then laughed, Applebloom felt a little put off by the somewhat crazy laugh as Spinel pointed at the black lines.
"Eternal tears," She said with a smile, Applebloom looked at her in silence and Spinel decided it was time to split before things got weird.
"Welp I'm bored," She said a little faster than she meant to as she jumped to the first floor with a squeak before rushing out the front of the barn.
"Hey! You can't just run off after saying something like that!" Spinel poked her head back through the door.
"I just did," She replied before pulling back out, "Man that was almost as awkward as when...I...hmm..." Spinel tried to picture anytime she had done something weird of unusual as a human and found she couldn't think of anything. "What was my name?" She pondered in silence as her eye's widened "Oh that's a red flag," Spinel stood still for a moment before shrugging "It was probably boring anyway"
Spinel extended her legs and looked around the orchard for anything to do when she noticed that Applejack was talking to some white pony and a purple lizard of some sort. "What's this eye spy with my little eye?" Spinel cupped her eye and extended it to get a better look at the group. It was a White Unicorn and a Dragon with a bag full of gems, Spinel watched as the Dragon looked shiftily at the white mare before pulling one of the smaller gems out of the bag and putting it in his mouth. "Is he sucking on a-" Spinel stood wide eyes as the Dragon chomped the gem in half, quickly shoving the rest of it in its mouth, Spinel pulled her eye back in and stared wide-eyed with a smile as she held her hand up, "Nope, nope, nopity, nope," she decided as she walked back into the barn.
"You better not go back up," Applebloom said as she got off the bottom of the ladder, Applebloom had an irritated look on her face that shifted to confusion when she realized Spinel was smiling, wide-eyed, and sweating like she was in a steamer.
"There's a small purple dragon outside," She said simply.
"Oh that's just Spike, he's..."
"Eating gems," She added, Applebloom blinked as she processed that and returned Spinel's wide-eyed stare. "Oh...Oh...OH!!" Applebloom ran out the front of the barn to her sister, Spinel held onto the side of the door and looked out, not so much freaking out cause the dragon was eating gems in front of her and more so that it could eat her and end her existence.
"...really fascinating," Rarity said as Applebloom came into ear shot "I've never heard of a Gem Golem before, I'll have to ask Twilight about it, I imagine that having a living gem around could help me when Spike is off playing with Gabby. Spike didn't respond as his mouth was full.
"Hey!" Applebloom said sliding to a stop, cutting off Applejack just as she had started talking.
"Applebloom it's rude to interrupt other's while there-"
"So Spike, you enjoying those gems?" the group looked over at Spike.
"Spike," Rarity chilled "You little sneak I thought we talked about this,"
"Snitch," Spike complained to Applebloom who added.
"So you know about our guest right?" She asked Spike, who looked confused.
"The Living...gem?" The entire group went silent when they caught on to what Applebloom was saying and all looked over at the barn, Where Spinel was staring at them in silence, A long awkward silence fell over the orchard as Spinel slowly pulled out of view, dripping with sweat, The silence continued as the three ponies looked slowly over at Spike, who gave a guilty smile.
"So I'll just..." Spike put the half-eaten gem back in the bag "...finish this later,"
"Spike," Applejack said calmly, "I think we should, very slowly, go to the barn and apology to Spinel for exposing her to....to that,"
"Ok," Spike said in defeat before Rarity added.
"And maybe avoid eating Gems...in populated areas, just in case Gem golems become a common thing in the future," Spike sighed as the group made their way to the barn,
"I'll go grab her," Applebloom said as she walked into the barn, she walked in and found that Spinel had fortified the small upper floor that was her room, a wall of random farm tools lining the top, Spinel's head poked over the top, a bucket on her head functioning as a make shift helmet. "You work fast," Applebloom called up, Spinel squinted at her.
"Is it still out there?" She asked.
"Just come outside and we can talk this out," Spinel squinted before walking over her wall.
"I'm trusting you on this," Spinel said shaking with Paranoia that she was gonna be handed over to the dragon.
"Alright," Applebloom said calmly "It's cool, It's chill, nothing to worry about," Applebloom and Spinel walked out of the barn door and Applebloom pointed to the side, Spinel looked over and met face to face with Spike.
"Hey..." Spike managed to say before Spinel started screaming.
"Betrayal!" She screamed out before compressing her body and jumping to the room of the barn, the 4 watched as she hid on the roof.
"I think she may have trust issues," Applebloom decided before noticing Spike opening his wings. "Wait Spike don't..."
"Don't worry," Spike said confidently as he flew up "I got this," Spike landed on the roof and more screaming followed as soon as Spinel saw him.
"You'll never take me alive!" She screamed as she placed her feet on the slant of the roof and turned her lower body into a spring before shooting off the roof and through the air. "Suck it Gem eater!" She called as she flew off.
"And she's flying right towards Ponyville," Applejack noted as she flew off "Because of course she is, Come on, let's go get her before something stupid happens,"
Spinel landed on Ponyvilles main street leaving two small craters in the shape of her feet as she did so, dozens of Ponies froze once they saw her, She stood her ground, scanning the crowd to make sure there were no dragons when she felt a light tapping on her feet, she looked down at a smiling Pink Pony who was shaking with excitement.
"I've never seen you before!"