Spike and Nightingale had finally arrived in Applossa, on the way, Nightingale told Spike that her Assassin order had good control of the faction of the town they controlled, but very little outside of the faction.
meanwhile Spike had been seeing some weird visions every night of the trip to Apploosa.
The first night
As Spike fell asleep, he started to dream. In it he saw Gardon again, but this time, he had a beard and moustache, Spike was a bit impressed. But Gardon was on a castle wall, buildings were burning, sword and shots were heard, and he was holding a pony on the shoulders. The pony had red fur with brown hair, wearing a little bit of armour.
"The throne was mine!" The pony said.
"Wanting something does not make it your right." Gardon said.
"What do you know?" The pony asked.
"That a true leader empowers the people he rules." Gardon replied.
"I will lead ponykind into a new world!" The pony replied.
"Che nessuno ricordi il tuo nome (may no one remember your name) requiescat in pace." Gardon said.
"You cannot kill me. No stallion can murder me!" The pony yelled, Gardon glared daggers right into his soul.
"then I leave you in the hands of fate!" Gardon said, he then let the pony go as he fell down into the inferno below as Gardon just walked away.
The second night
Spike saw Gardon, whose hair had turned old and grey, who was coughing as a light green mare with dark red hair, along with altitude filly jumping next to him, who had red fur and brown hair.
They were walking towards a bench where Gardon coughed again.
"You should of stayed home." The mare said as she helped Gardon sit down on the bench.
"I am home." He said as the mare gave him a quick kiss.
"We'll be right back." She said as she grabbed the fillies hoof, who was skipping as they walked to a kiosk, Gardon gav ether a little wave before a pony sat down and started to talk about the difference between Florence mares and Rome mares.
"Firenze, is not the problem." Gardon said as he started to breath heavily,and grabbed his chest, the pony also grabbed his left claw, Gardon looked at him and the pony smiled, who then put a hoof onto his shoulder.
"Get some rest." The pony said as he stood up and walked away, as Gardon gave him an angry glare, he looked towards the mare and Filly, he gave one more smile be he leaned back.
Then there was a close up of the fillies and mares face as they see the Drake lying dead on the bench, time seemed to slow down as they dropped their food and rushed towards him. The vision then moved away from Gardon and the mare and Filly, looking a a tall building as an eagle flew by and screeched. It then saw a Tuscan house and slowly move down then forward to see a desk filled with papers as there is one letter that had the name 'Sophia' on it with a red Assassin stamp, all the while Gardon's voice was heard.
When I was a young drake, I had liberty, but I did not see it...I had time, but I did not know it...and I had love, but I did not feel it. May decades would pass before I understood the meaning of all three...and now in the a twilight of my life, this understanding has passed into contentment. Love, liberty and time - once so disposable are the fuels that drive me forward. And love was especially mia caro...for you, our children, our brothers and sisters, and for the vast and wonderful world that gave us life and keeps us guessing.
Endless affection mia Sophia.
Forever yours,
Gardon Auditore.
The third night
This one surprised Spike, this vision wasn't about Gardon anymore, instead he saw what looked like a port that existed slime time before he was hatched, it then switched to what looked like a pony but had bat like wings coming out of his robes, he also had a hood on his head, some leather armour, and a pint of ale. He also noticed that the pony had slited eyes like a dragons.
Then a zebra came up and touched him on his shoulder, he looked left to see the zebra as he smiled. The two hit each others pints with each others and take a sip of their drinks. The zebra then walked off as the pony in robes got back into his original position.
Just then, some ponies in white uniforms came in, followed by a pony wearing white duke robes on him, the ponies in uniforms cleared a table that already had some ponies their, but threw off their drinks to make way for the duke pony.
The pony from before in robes, looked at the duke for a while before he looked at the zebra from before and motioned him about the duke.
The zebra then walked up friendly to a group of ponies and said cheers to three of them as they hit theirs pints, right before he threw a ponies head into the table, and hit another with his pitcher, the guards took noticed as the zebra and another pony started to pretend to fight.
The robes pony then slid a bottle on the table as he walked through the zebra and ponies that were taking care of the guards, and as he walked through one guard headed towards him, but a bottle had also been flung at the pony, who caught it, dodged the Guards attack and smashed the bottle onto the back of his head.
As he was ready to fight the duke who has pulled a sword out, a pony grabbed him from behind who he elbowed, but also caused his hold to fall back showing his face, he had purple fur with a red mane.
He then dodged and hit away the dukes sword, before stabbing the duke in the abdomen, and pushed the duke onto a table, ending the dukes life. The pony then pulled up the dukes coat and took what looked like a bag a bit's.
Then he saw a bunch of ponies in white uniforms holding flintlocks running along a dock before they stopped on the edge. Soon a pony with maroon fur and black hair walked past them and onto the edge of the dock, he looked out to a ship that was sailing out. He then raised a hoof and swing it around while walking back along the dock, followed by the ponies in white uniforms.
Meanwhile on the ship, the pony from before wearing the robes was holding the wheel as the crew around him celebrated, he turned the wheel around and his ship sailed out of the dock.
Soon Spike saw the open seas with two ships, one was the ship he saw the robed pony on earlier, and another was following behind them. The robed pony was standing at the back of his ship, holding a telescope, looking at the incoming ship, he handed the telescope to a crew member and then yelled to the crew.
Four cannons were moved into place in slots on the back of the ship, they were loaded and fired at the ship chasing them, it only caused minor damage though. The robed pony was on the wheel again and quickly turned it causing the ship to quickly turn around, but was able to get its broadside cannons a shot at the ship. This time it caused a lot of damage to the ship, taking out some sailors even.
Soon the ships were side by side, grapple hooks grabbed the sides of the ships. Soon the first gun shots were heard, from some rifle ponies on the crows nest, the robed pony saw this and headed towards one of the masts. He grabbed onto the rope, pulled out a pistol and shot something, causing the rope to pull him up to the top, where he jumped from his ship to the other one and jumped down and stabbed the two rifle ponies.
He then headed towards the deck, were he grabbed a pole and threw it at a pony who was pointing a musket at him, and before the pony fell, he used him as a pony shield as someone tried to shot him. He then pulled out a sword and stabbed the guard.
He then walked up the stars where the red pony was, and in the background, the zebra from the pub was on his knees being held by two ponies in white uniforms. The robed pony and the red one started to duel with there swords, until the robed ponies sword was swatted away.
But that didn't stop the robed pony. He blocked the other ponies attack with his hidden blade and threw him into the wheel. Where his head got stuck, the robed pony then walked over, grabbed the wheel, and turned it, there was a cracking sound heard.
Fourth night
This dream didn't have Gardon in it, more the dragon like pony, or the griffon. Instead it was a flashback, to one year that Twilight and her friends decided to help with the Applebucking season. It was important to him since it was the day his interest in Rarity started to lose.
Spike was forced to come along, not getting a day without work was usual for him. He was sent to help the CMC since he wasn't 'grown up' enough. He soon found the three girls hauling baskets of apples into a cart, one was having problems with hers. She had yellow fur, with a red mane and tail, with a red bow in her hair. And deep red eyes, she was about to fall and drop all the apples but Spike quickly caught her.
"Don't worry I gotcha." He said as he helped the filly up.
"Thank ya kindly Spike." The filly said as she then chucked the basket into the cart.
"Don't worry Applebloom" Spike said.
"Alright, move yer butt Spike and haul those baskets into the cart." Applebloom said as she got another basket up onto her head, Spike chucked and picked up another.
Soon the entire cart was filled with the baskets, Twilight had came up to inspect, but found no one there.
"Where are those four?" She asked.
While Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were in the clubhouse planning new ways to get cutie marks, while Spike and Applebloom was on a hill, looking at the sunset.
Spike had noticed something as well, that Applebloom's head was resting on his shoulder and she seemed to be hugging him, but he didn't seem to mind.
"There you are!"
Spike and Applebloom jumped up and turned around to see a very angry looking Twilight, before Spike could respond, Twilight grabbed him with her magic and started to walk away, Spike reached out to Applebloom, who also reached out to him. They slowly shrunk from each other as they got further apart.
Present time
Back to present day, Spike and Nightingale began to walk towards the den, along the way, they saw a bunch of guards walking around, they were lucky they didn't recognised Spike. Until they walked through a little plaza, and somepony was holding a poster with Spike on it, and a group of eight guards were nearby.
"There he is!" Shouted one of the guards, the rest nodded and started to charge.
Spike and Nightingale were able to react quickly, Nightingale flared her wings out and took flight while Spike ran to the closest building and began to climb it, while the guards just blindly charged like a bull charging at red.
Soon, Spike and Nightingale were on the roof, watching the guards try to climb the building, but failed miserably as they fell onto each other like dominos, causing Nightingale to laugh at them.
"Ah. These guards are such a laugh!" She said, wiping a tear from her eye in laughter, Spike simply nodded. But Nightingale nudged him.
"Come on, you gotta admit. That was funny." She said.
"Sorry, I'm not in the mood for humour right now." Spike said.
"Oh come on. Lets go big boy." She said as she giggled and walked along the roof, with Spike following her.
She lead him off the rods and back on the road, where Nightingale then showed Spike something he couldn't believe, a bunch of guards that looked like kids were all lined up below a platform that had two guards with muskets in hooves and an announcer who was talking to the ponies.
"Why are we here?" Spike asked.
"To finish something before we head back to the den. That pony there has been taking colts and forcing them into the guard, he's an operative for Flams company." She said.
"Any idea in that big brain of yours?" She asked, Spike looked at the staircase to the platform, that leads behind the ponies.
"How good of an aim are you with those?" He asked pointing to her pistols, she grinned and pulled out two.
"Just give me the signal and I'll take those two out." She said.
"I'll take the agent." He said as he pulled out one of his own pistol.
He carefully walked up onto the platform as he sneaked up behind the announcer and levelled his pistol to behind his head, he then raised his arm, and then clenched his fist.
The two musket armed guards and announcer, soon all went flying in different directions, the guards to the right, and the announcer's into the crowd of guards below. Spike and Nightingale quickly flew and ran away from the scene, and disappeared from the guards eyes a second time.