~~~Spike~~~
Spike gets shaken awake, "Spike...I need you to take a letter..."
Spike slightly wakes up, and shuffles over to the writing desk, being accompanied by Twilight and the other pony friends, "What do you want me to write..." he says, rubbing the gunk out of eyes.
"Dear Spike..."
"Dear...Spike..." his eyes drift shut.
Twi signals to the other ponies to join her, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SPIKE!!!"
His eyes snap awake, "What?" he turns to see Pinkie had already set up Pre-party Party, During-party Party, After-party Party, and After-After-Party Party Decorations up. Spike smiles up at them.
~~~Amethyst~~~
A poking at Amethyst's side moves her awake. She stares up at a Brown mare, "Ammy, I need you to help me with a note..."
"Wga?" the purple dragon rubs her eyes, to look at the blind pony, "What do you need?"
"I need you to write up a letter to Avery, and tell her what happened over last week."
Amethyst sighed, and gets up, and walks over to the desk, she begins to write, but she soon finds that her inkwell was dry, "Dear Avery, I wa-
"Terra, wait a second...we need more ink..."
"Oh...okay..." she shuffles uncomfortably, "I think that Green Meadows said he'd have some..."
"Okay..." Amethyst gets up, and heads to the door, "You sit tight...and I'll-"
She opens the door to a crowd of ponies, "SURPRISE!"
Amethyst stares blankly at the crowd, but she does react to a pony's arms wrap around her, body, "Happy Birthday, Ammy...and thank you for everything..." she kisses the top of her head, and Amethyst sheds a tear.
~~~Spike~~~
"So, Spike, how are you feeling?"
Spike sat on the couch, " Pretty Good...but I've been getting a feeling about this year..."
"You are 5 years old now... How does that make you feel?"
"Kinda good...but...I feel something is pulling me into-" he then realised that he was reaching at something to the west.
~~~Amethyst~~~
Sitting with a slice of cake in her hand, Amethyst sighs, "I could never do that to her..."
Terra feels her way up to Amethyst, "Is there something the matter?"
"I feel like something...calling to me..." she reaches out to the East, something wants me to go East...about 20 kilometres in fact..."
"Then go to them..."
Amethyst turns back to her disabled owner, "I could never do that to you...who'll care for you?"
"Green Meadows will stay with me, he and I have gotten close over the years, and I think I would like to spend sometime with him. After I go to get my eyes fixed, I won't really need a guide, but you will always be a good friend..."
Amethyst wipes a tear before it could roll down her face, "Thank you, Mistress Erium...I would like you to be able to see me when I get back!"
The two hug for a while.
~~~Spike~~~
"Are you sure you want to-"
"Absolutely..." Spike continues to pack stuff, Rarity standing across the bed from him, "I want to know what this connection between us means, I can feel that they have already started coming for me, and I would like to meet them half way."
"But what about us?"
"I..." he stops for a second, "I really don't know...*sigh* I hope that I'll be able to come back after all this is over, give you a big hug, and everything return to normal...I really hope so..."
Rarity grabs Spike's face, "I just want you to know that you were the best thing in my life..." she plants a kiss on his lips, and they fall back, saying goodbye to eachother through sheer passion. Spike never had a better night with somepony. After Rarity's gift of pleasure, he picked up his bag, and walked out quietly, hoping not to wake her up from her rest.
~~~Amethyst~~~
Amethyst slings a bag over her shoulder, and waves goodbye to her friends, and walks off into the distance. She gets a distances an mumbles, "You miss someone as well, don't you?"
~~~Spike~~~
After walking a considerable distance from Ponyvile he hears a gentle voice in the back of his head, "You miss someone as well, don't you?"
"Yeah...I do..." he then looks around, not a soul in sight, "Wait...who are you?"
"Who are YOU?"
"I asked you fir-!" Spike cuts off, "Look at me...Talking to a voice in my head."
"Listen...I don't know what you had to do, but I'm sure that we have our reasons for our pursuits of eachothers."
Spike remains silent, "Twilight was like a sister to me, but she was more like a mother..."
"I had to leave my owner, she was about to fix her eyes so she can see again..." Spike stopped, "I felt you stall, what's wrong?"
"I never ASKED you to leave any of your friends."
"Neither did I..." a silence persists, "I'm Amethyst, or Ammy for short."
"I'm Spike...Nice to meet you..."
After a long moment of silence, "It's funny..."
Spike reacts accordingly, "Huh?"
"I don't even KNOW you, and yet, we left everyone we loved just to see eachother..."
"Why is that, I could turn around right now, and run back to my friends and family, and completely forget this ever happened!" he stops, then, after a second continues again, "But I can't..."
"Maybe it's hardwired into us...I mean, why are headed out into-"
"The middle of the desert..." Spike stops, and feels the yellow sand under his toes. He looks back, not a tree in sight, "I have a bad feeling about this..."
"I know...but this place seems familiar, somehow..."
Spike keeps walking, "You think so?"
"Yeah..." He felt her stop, look around, and then continue. It felt strange, like they shared one mind. Then Spike thought, 'I wonder if she's attractive...'I wouldn't mind-
"I HEARD that!" she yells back at him. She could feel her blush, which made him do the same.
He laughs it off, "What...I didn't say anything..."
She gives a snort, "Yeah right, Perv!" He walks on for a bit, then hears, 'I can't believe he said that...now I can't stop think about-'
"I heard that..."
"NO YOU COULDN'T! I-"
"So did I..."
A quiet moment, and then, "So...our connection gets stronger the closer we are...how about this..."
In Spike's mind he saw a Purple Dragon, about his size, bent over, and presenting herself to him. Spike's face flushes, "I did NOT need to see that..." more laughing, "Do you just LOVE torturing me, or do you do this to ALL of your friends!"
The laughing stops, "Are you purple?"
"huh?" Spike was pulled out of his blush to be confused.
"I saw you when I set that image to you...are you really Purple like me?"
"Yeah...but what does that have to do with anything?"
"Besides me having Sapphire fins, compared to your Emerald fins, we are the same race of dragon...Amethystine Dragons..."
Spike felt like a bucket of turnips, "What does that mean?"
"I think we were...Destined Lovers...rumagic di haurach in the old tongue..."
"You mean we are supposed to be...mates..."
A silence on the other side confirms it.
Spike sighs, and continues traveling, knowing that his new life was just 15 Kilometres away.