Spike slept like a rock and it seemed that nothing could wake him. He was comfortable where he was and he was going to stay there, but something started to wake the young dragon. The smell of smoke, blood, tears, and burnt fur filled the air. Spike instantly awoken and tried to pin-point the horrible smell. In the distance was a town that was set ablaze. "Wait.....no it can't be!" Spike yelled as he ran towards the burning town. When he got closer his fears were correct. The town was Ponyville and all of it's residents were scattered across the blood soaked ground. Spike slowly entered the ruined village and tried to find anybody that survived. He wondered deeper into the village and started to regret ever coming to this place.
Friends lay motionless in the streets with horrible expression forever engraved on their faces. Mothers and Fathers that died tried to protect their families had their bodies eaten and some of them were found half eaten. Little foals ,or what Spike that to be left of them, were just bones laying on the ground. Even elderly pony bodies were found. Spike was just about to turn around and run away as fast as he could, but something stopped him. A small soft voice that sounded familiar. It come from around a building, but time was not on Spike side. The voice was losing it's volume very quickly and now it was no more than a tiny 'peep'. If he didn't find the source quick the owner of the voice could die.
Spike strained his ears trying to find the source of the voice, but reaped nothing in return. Spike kicked the ground in frustration and was met with something other that the ground. It was a pony leg, but not any kind of pony leg, it was a pearly white colored pony leg. Spike slowly looked upwards and found a site that he wished he could not have seen. Rarity was laid on the ground. Her fur was matted with dirt, blood, and tears. She was missing one of her legs and her horn was completely snapped off. There was a large cut that ran from her forehead all the way down to her chin. She had her eyes closed and she was breathing very slow.
"Don't worry Rarity. I'll save you." Spike said. He went to go pet her mane to calm her down, but his hand went right through her mane. "Wh........whats going on?" Spike asked himself. Suddenly Rarity's eye's opened and she started to move away from the purple dragon. "Please........Spike. No......more.....I don't want to die." Rarity said to him. For the first time in his life Spike saw what true fear looked like. He could see it in Rarity's eyes. They begged for help ,pleaded for the pain and suffering to end, but they wouldn't receive any mercy this day. A figure flashed passed Spike. It grabbed Rarity by the throat and left her to hang in mid-air with it's grip slowly crushing her wind pipe.
Rarity struggled to get free. She kicked and flailed, but could not get free of the monster's grip. The beast that held Rarity was growing annoyed with the white mare's attempts to escape and so with a quick motion the creature snapped Rarity's neck with a loud 'crrraack!'. The beast let Rarity's lifeless body fall to the ground and started to look backwards at the baby dragon that was Spike. Spike had fell to his knees. The love of his life was just brutally murdered right in front of him and there was nothing he could have done to stop it. The creature walked over to the teary eyed dragon and began to speak. "Spiiiiiiike." It said in a low gruff voice. Spike looked up and through his tears that now ran down his face saw the face of the monster that killed Rarity along with the whole village. The monster was a teen dragon, but not any teen dragon. This one had purple scales with razor sharp spine spikes running down it's back. It's face was fierce. It eyes were a blazing green and his mouth was lined with two rows of sharp teeth.
This teen dragon was Spike in the future. "Wh......who are you?" Spike asked as he started to crawl away. The dragon in front of Spike just smiled. "I am you Spike. Or better yet I am what you will become." The dragon said. "No. No. You can't be. I would never do this to anypony." Spike protested. The teen dragon now wore a face of disgust. "Spike. How old are you?" "I'm twenty years old. Five years younger than Twilight so what?" Spike said. "You claim to be twenty, but your still treated like a baby. How can you ever say that anyone really cared for you? To them your nothing, but a doll that once their done with you you will be thrown away." The purple teen dragon said.
"Lies! Lies! ALL LIES!" Spike yelled. "Lies? No, everything I say is the exact truth. Twilight doesn't really care about you. To her you just an experiment to see if dragons can really be controlled. Rarity just uses you for manual labor and thinks that she can just get away with it with just a gem and a pat on your head. Rainbow Dash doesn't give a two bits about what happens to you. Applejack is the same. Pinkie Pie might like you as a sugary threat that is. Fluttershy just pretends to like you so you don't eat her or her friends." The teen dragon explained.
"Your lying. My friends would never do that to me. Right?" Spike said. He curled himself up into a ball and started to cry. "Its okay Spike. Even if everyone hates you. You still have me." Teen Spike said extending out a claw to the weeping Spike. Spike looked up and was about to grab the claw, but was stopped by something. A golden thread. Suddenly a golden mare dashed to Spike's side. "Stay away from Spike you monster." She said. The teen version of Spike began to slip away into the flames. "You can't escape what you are Spike. Sooner or later you will become me." He said as the flames engulfed him. "Come on Spike lets get out of here." The golden mare said. Spike's eyelids began to get heavy and soon he passed out.
Spike awoke in a cold sweat. He had the most realistic nightmare ever. Spike checked his surroundings, then he jumped out of bed and ran to the room that Rarity, Twilight, and Jade were in. He creaked open the door and saw that all three mares were sound asleep. "Its okay Spike it was just a nightmare. Nightmares can't hurt you. Right?" Spike said trying to calm down. He started the walk back to his room unaware that a creature was watching him. Watching him very closely.