//------------------------------// // The Vivre card // Story: Fire-Fist Ace in Equestria // by Supreme Assassin //------------------------------// with Twilight Twilight and her friends had just arrived at the Canterlot train station. Spike had insisted on taking the card, hoping the princess would have an answer as to why it was moving. When they arrived Twilight told the others to wait at the station until she was finished with her test. While they were walking to the castle, they noticed a certain prince accusing several ponies of taking his wallet. "I wonder what happened." muttered Spike, as they continued to walk. Twilight took another glance at the card in Spike's claw. "Spike, are you sure the princess will know why that thing is moving? And are you sure there wasn't a bug underneath it? Or that somepony didn't put a string on it?" asked Twilight "Positive, and if this thing is moving I'm sure the princess will have an answer for it." said the dragon. "Ugh, fine. But make sure you ask the princess before I take my test!" Twilight said so her assistant understood not to interrupt her during the test. Spike nodded in order to comply with Twilight's demands. Their walk to the castle was relatively quiet, they did hear some gossip about a new pony knocked out a few of the guard without doing anything. Twilight wondered about this hoping that the royal guard didn't lose their image with the city. "Hey Twilight, before you take the test, ya think we can go to Donut Joe's?" asked the hopeful and hungry dragon. "Eh, why not? I am kinda hungry after the train ride." said Twilight. The two then made their way to Spike's favorite restaurant. They entered the shop they noticed that there weren't as much ponies in the shop and that Joe seemed to be a little disappointed with the amount of customers he had ever since the incident, after that he didn't have as many as he used to. But as he saw Twilight and Spike come through the door his spirit was lifted. "Twilight sparkle, Spike! How are my two favorite customers?" greeted Joe as the two walked in, Twilight looked to a little nervous due to the fact that she had a surprise test. Spike on the other hand was happy that he was able to go to his favorite donut shop. "Hey there Joe. Me and Twilight are great, well except that the princess is giving her a test." said Spike as they entered the shop. "Really? Well I'm sure you'll do great. Now what can I get you two?" asked Joe. "Two donuts please." said Spike as they sat down. After their little snack Twilight seemed to have calmed down a bit when they left the shop. That calmness was short lived when they finally made to the castle. Twilight looked like she was about to pass out from sheer nervousness. She them remembered some thing that Spike needed to do before the test. As they got to the door leading to where the princesses were, Twilight stopped and turned to her assistant. "Spike, you go first since you wanted to ask about that stupid card." stated Twilight as they were in front of the doors. "Alright I'll go first. And it is not stupid." said Spike as he entered the room with the two princesses. But when he came in the room he saw a strange pony standing next to the princesses. They didn't seem to notice him enter the room, except the new pony who shrugged at Spike's entrance. The three of them were looking up at the pictures on the windows. "Um, excuse me princess?" said the purple dragon trying to get their attention. The princess turned to see Spike looking up at them. Celestia had a small smile when she saw him, while Luna kept her stern look and the other pony just had a bored expression on his face. "Good day Spike. Where's Twilight?" asked the princess with sight confusion. "Oh, the thing is I had question that I was positive you could answer.But Twilight said that she didn't want me to disrupt her test so she told me to go first." explained the baby dragon. "Hm, fair enough. Now what was the question you wanted to ask me?" said the princess curious about what Spike had to say. "Well, while Twilight was freaking out over the test, I found this weird card that moves." Spike said after he took out the card. The princesses had a confused expression on their faces, while the new pony grinned. The two princesses shared confused glances while the new pony looked with interest. "Here let me show you." said Spike as he put the card down on the floor. And like the the princesses' mane it moved in a nonexistent breeze. The princesses were confused as to why it moved, but the new pony just grinned. Spike picked it up and held it in his claw. "So what do you think it is princess?" Spike asked hoping that she would have an answer to his question. "I'm sorry spike I honesty don't know why it is moving." apologized Celestia. Spike looked down at the floor with dis "It's a vivre card." the new pony. The three of them turned to the new pony with confusion plastered on their faces. He took the vivre card from spikes claw and put it back on the ground. The card then moved towards the pony that had his ever present grin. "And I'm pretty sure it's mine." Said the new pony. He then picked up the card and put it in his cloak. Spike was extremely confused as to why the vivre card belonged to this pony. He raised a scaly eyebrow at his statement. The new pony asked to be excused for a moment to talk to the dragon. He tried to tell a story that the dragon would believe but spike didn't by any of the lies he tried to tell the young dragon. When that didn't work, the pony told him his name, witch was Ace (shocking isn't it) and how he got here. Ace explained how he died and the other world business but did not say he wasn't a pony, cause that would confuse him.After the story of the war and his friends from the White-beards to his little brother's crew, and how vivre cards worked, Spike had a few tears rolling out of his eyes from the really sad end. "Now that you know everything you can't tell anyone, understand?" demanded Ace, not wanting his secret out. Spike wiped away the few tears he ad and nodded. "You can count on me!" Ace saw a few things that reminded him about Luffy when he was at his age that made tell the story. 1: small AND 2: annoying