Spike was walking through the castle with Rilda, their destination was the dining room so Spike could have breakfast with his mother. While they were walking Spike notice that the guards saluted him and the maidens bowed to him, some of them though he was cut. It all still felt so unreal for him, he has accepted that he is the son of Garnet and a prince, but part of him still didn’t believe it.
Once they reached their destination which was a door and guard was standing by it, the guard open the door so Spike and Rilda could enter. The dining room was huge, there was room for at least twenty guest, it was bigger than Celestia’s dining room, Spike couldn’t understand why was the point in having such a large dining room. Royalty, that was the answer he had.
Spike and Rilda was to the other side of the room, Spike sat down on one of the chairs, Rilda was about to help him with the chair but he want to do it himself so she let him.
Rilda was about to collect the food when he doors to the dining room open and the queen walk in with Pethayrth right behind her.
“Would you slow down your majesty?” Said Pethayrth with worried in her voice.
“No, I don’t want to miss a single minute with my son and beside, I’m hungry.” Pethayrth couldn’t help but groan of the queen’s words. “Oh stop being a baby.”
‘I wish I could say the same for you.’ Pethayrth thought about that the queen.
Garnet took the seat opposite of Spike, she gave her son a warming a smile which made him smile back at her, he couldn’t help but feel warm inside him of her smile. Pethayrth stood behind the queen.
Then Garnet notice that the food hadn’t arrived. “Haven’t the chef’s been here yet?” She asked Rilda.
“I was about to go and see your majesty.” Rilda then walk to the closet door, which led to the kitchen, she open it and disappeared into the kitchen, leaving only three dragons alone.
Then Garnet decided to ask Spike something. “So, did you sleep well in your new bed?”
Spike didn’t know why but he just look down on the table in shame. “I didn’t get much sleep, I just keep staring up at ceiling wondering if this a dream or not,” he look up at his mother with some tears in her eyes. “I’m sorry, it’s so unreal for me.”
Garnet couldn’t help but feel bad for her son so she got up and walk over to him and gave him a hug, he return the hug. Pethayrth wanted to stop her but decided not to.
“It’s okay Spike, you have every right to be sceptical about this so I want to tell you a little story, I had trouble believing that your father was a prince.”
Spike managed to stop crying to look at his mother. “Really?” He said between sniffs.
Garnet let go of her son and stood up. “That I did.” She walk back to her chair and sat down. “it all began when I was at your age…”
Then Rilda came back with two plates in her hands and she saw that Spike had cried. “Did I miss something?” She asked them as she placed the plates in front of Spike and his mother.
“I think the queen was about to tell us how she meet the king.” Said Petayrth.
That made Rilda to groan. “Not that story, I have already heard it from my bother.” She said while standing behind Spike.
Spike was confused. “Your brother?” he asked Rilda.
Rilda nodded. “Yes, Drake is my brother and he punch your father in the face when they were young when they went to school.”
Spike look at his mother with curiosity. “Really?”
Garnet nodded. “Yes, it’s true. We were young, Drake and your father had a crush on me and when I decided to go out with your father instead of Drake, he got jealous and punched your father in the face and then they got in a brawl.”
Spike had to know who won. “Who won the brawl?”
“They never got to finish it, the principal came and broke them up, both of them got detention.”
Spike couldn’t help but laugh a little. “My father the king got detention?” He asked with a smile, he didn’t know why.
“He wasn’t king back then, only a prince but yes, he got detention.”
“But, what about his parents? Didn’t they, you know, get him out from detention?”
Garnet just shook her head. “Nope, they decided detention was a good lesson for him.”
Spike couldn’t help but laugh of the whole thing, even Petayrth couldn’t contain her laughter. Garnet was just glad that his son was laughing.
While Spike and his mother continued their breakfast, a certain purple unicorn had finally arrived at Wiacaster train station. “Man, that was the longest twenty two hours of my life.” Said Twilight while stretching her body. “Sleeping on a train is not very pleasant at all. Well, time to find Spike and bring him home.” She then started to walk towards the castle.
While walking through the street of Wiacaster, Twilight couldn’t help but marvel of it all. The city had to be twice as large as Canterlot, she many shops at almost every street corner but what got her interest was the population. She saw dragons, ponies, griffons and even some changelings, walking around, laughing, and smiling to each other. She couldn’t believe that so many species lived together in one place.
While Twilight walk through the crowed, two dragon guard notice her. “Is that her?” Asked the first guard.
“I think so, the captain said to look after a purple unicorn with black hair with purple stripe and if he saw her we are supposed to escort her to the castle.” Said the second guard. They walk after her.
Twilight continued to walk until the guard caught up to her. “Excuse me.” Twilight stop to turn around and she saw tow guard. “Are you Twilight Sparkle?”
Twilight became a little nervous right now, she didn’t know what they wanted with her. “Yes?”
“We have been ordered by queen Garnet to escort you to the castle.” Said the first guard.
Twilight couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow when she heard that. “Why?”
“She just want to talk you, that’s all.” Said the same guard.
Twilight just smirked. “I see what’s going on.”
Both guard gave each other a confusing look when they heard that. “You do?” Said the second guard.
“Yes, your acting all nice and when we arrived at the castle the queen will arrest me.”
Now the guards was even more confused. “Why would the queen arrest you?” Asked the first guard.
“Because she want Spike to herself but I won’t let her.”
Before the guards could react, Twilight’s horn glowed and she shoot a beam from her hand which hit the first guard, he was taken by surprised by the blast that he lost his balance, he then fell on the ground which gave Twilight the opportunity to run.
“Are you okay?” Asked the second guard as he help his fellow guard up.
“Yes, she just took me by surprised, after her.”
The second guard nodded. “Right, I’ll take to the sky.” He spread his wings and flew after while the other guard ran after Twilight.
Twilight ran through the crowd trying to get away from the guard that was pursuing her, they may have said the truth but she didn’t believe them at all. The queen didn’t want to talk, she just wanted to lock her up so she could keep Spike to herself but Twilight wasn’t going to let that happened.
Twilight could see that castle coming closer but suddenly she felt something wrap around her and she fell face first to the ground, scaring some of the of those who was watching.
“What’s going on? I can’t move.” Twilight look down and saw that some black rings was wrap around her legs and arms, she tried to use her magic but nothing happened. “My magic, it’s not working.”
Then a new voice spoke up. “Of course you can’t,” Twilight look up and saw a female dragon that was black walking towards, her eyes were glowing. “that’s my anti magic rings, even your teacher couldn’t break those rings.” The dragoness bent down in front of Twilight. “So, your Celestia student. I can’t say I’m impressed, running away from queen Garnet’s guards, I thought you were smarter than that.” Then her eyes stop glowing and Twilight could see a pair of red eyes staring into her soul.
Then the two guard arrived. “Raldrin, your back.” Said the second guard when he landed.
The dragon named Raldrin stood up. “Yes, I just arrived and then I saw a pony running from the queen’s guards. What did she do?” She asked the guard.
The first guard spoke up. “We just said that we were supposed to escort her to the castle by the queen’s order, then she said that the queen would arrest her when we arrived at the castle because the queen wanted prince Spike to herself, then she attack us.”
Raldrin look down at Twilight. “Really?”
“It’s true, she just want to take Spike from me but I won’t…”
That was all Twilight could say, Raldrin’s eyes glowed putting the unicorn to sleep. “That’s enough of you.” She then look at the guard. “Take her back to the castle and put her in a cell, she attack a guard and that’s a crime. I’m heading to the castle to inform the queen.” Both guard saluted as Raldrin started to walk towards the castle. “Something tells me her majesty isn’t going to be happy when she hears about this.”