//------------------------------// // Chapter 9: Discord // Story: Spike Drake // by Spike DrakeStar9 //------------------------------// Friday afternoon, and the Canterlot High students are already savoring the flavor of the weekend, all finishing their second class and walking around the building, but 2 teenagers are not happy. We talk about Thorax and Ember. "No...," the girl said aloud, getting her friend's attention. "Excuse me?" "I can't accept that 'he' is back...". "Who came back?" Question that took them both by surprise, seeing their 3 new friends behind them. "Why so sad?" Applebloom asked. "Is it someone unwanted that came back?" Scootaloo finished asking. "Well, partly yes but...," Arthur replied, lowering his gaze. "It's complicated," Alexa tried to say, but trailed off sadly at the memory. So they are about to leave, except that little Jones says something that makes them stop and look at her: "Does it have to do with a... young assassin type?" It took him a while to say the last thing, since she assumed that they have been friends with "him" for a long time. "How...?" Alexa hesitated to hear her talk about it, surprised that she knows. "It was a little tricky but... We found out, after he lied to us that he only hit Anjulie's manager," Scootaloo explained to them. "We haven't told anyone, because we knew there was something she didn't like about being 'that' person," Applebloom finished. "He... He saved us once, but we were afraid of that side of him that swore he'd never be that guy again," Thorax finally recounted, revealing what he told them that day. "He saved me…and it broke my heart to see his pet buried and him missing," her beautiful eyes filled with tears, but she didn't let them fall. "Yeah... Us too." With Spike. He is right in front of his school, waiting for the exact time that everyone enters his last class to enter without being seen, he looks at his watch and sees that it is time. He enters and begins to walk down the long corridor, he stops at the door of the directors' office and opens it slowly without making a sound seeing that there is no one, then inside the suit he takes out a letter that he leaves on the desk, but when he turns around, he sees a surprised Celestia and Luna with 2 cups of tea. "Spike...," the principal hesitated as she saw her student in that outfit again. "You are... The Dragon," Luna nearly dropped her mug in shock. "Principal, vice principal... I'm sorry, but I can't stay," he looks down and walks between them, but Tina grabs his arm and hugs him. Janis also does the same, staying in a group hug that surprised the young green haired man, but in the end he ends up accepting and sheds a single solitary tear until they part. "We are so sorry for the loss of your pet," the multicolored one placed a comforting hand on the boy's shoulder. "Twilight told us, she went to your house with the others to look for you," Luna explained, the surprise fading from her face. "I... Thank you, for everything, I can't stay any longer, I have to go," he told them as he gave them one more hug and walked out of the office directly towards the infirmary. He also enters slowly, but already knowing what would happen, he leaves one last letter on a table and turns around, waiting for any word from Christine, but what he received was a big hug from her psychologist, where she sheds a couple of tears. "When Arthur and Alexa told me your house was attacked and…Fawkes in the backyard, I thought you went another way," she said through her tears, her voice cracking but relieved. "Sorry, just... I was looking for someone," he replied, looking away. "You're Joker, the one who's been murdering the Mafia," she didn't say with surprise, since she partly intuited it from someone who had just lost his entire family. "Yes, and the letter was just going to reveal who I really was, I also gave it to Celestia and Luna... I have to go, I still need to find someone," he said before giving her a last hug as well and walking directly towards the exit, looking for his prey. In another side. It is already past afternoon and we see a huge warehouse guarded by several agents of the Mafia "The Darkness" outside and inside with semi-automatic rifles. Inside one of the cubicles, Tony Osbourne is in a bar watching the news on television, as always, showing the murders of his henchmen. "Bodyguards who died trying to protect me from that young hitman... Now I only have you guys left, Joe Mustaine can't give me any more henchmen," he said to the bartender, who sighed and poured him another shot of vodka. Near the complex, there is Spike with a sniper with which he aims holding his breath and aiming at one of the guarded vans, shooting and causing it to explode along with the other transports. He found out from Garble that this is his command center and before he got there, he planted some bombs. The sound of the explosions caught the attention of Discord, who quickly looks out the window of the place and sees his men running outside, knowing who it is, he starts to run and go down. Spike enters without any problem, killing whoever gets close to him, while Tony reaches the back where there are 5 more cars, but just at that moment, the green haired man activates a button and the vehicles explode, causing the shock wave to send Discord back just as the hunter finds his defenseless and injured prey. "H-Hey, it was just a car-," the hunter finished off his last victim of his hunt, ending his journey... Or not, since he gets a call. "Spike! Spike! Thanks for being quick with him, even though you killed my best man and friend, you're still on my list-," he cuts again, preparing to return to the hunt.