//------------------------------// // Intermission Part I, Walk of the Silent // Story: Dreams of a Dragon // by jh 8 //------------------------------// Intermission part 1 Walk of the silent, with an expressionless goodbye. *events take place three years ago* Twilight’s dream sequence, and POV It was almost completely dark when I was walking past the last buildings in Ponyville and when the screaming and yelling coming from Ponyville finally died-out . The sky above was clear, with no clouds in sight, and stars and a beautiful full moon were visible in the sky above. It was almost the perfect night, with the emphasis on almost. Normally I would be studying, or doing something with my friends, but tonight was different. Completely different As I walked over the dirt road onto the grass, I could not make out anything distinctive outside of the light my horn casted on the forms direct around me. One of those forms happened to be a purple coloured being, walking on two legs, and being around the same height as a grown mare. This being was named Spike, and he was not a pony, he was a dragon. He was a dragon I once called “friend” but that time had passed. Because this was the night I would probably see him for the last time. This very moment, as we walked outside of Ponyville, was most likely going to be the last moment we shared together. And the sad thing is that we didn’t share this last moment spend in each other’s company as friends. I was chosen as alicorn princess to personally take him away from Ponyville and banish him from these lands. I was also alone because none of my friends who were currently conscious wanted to come with me. Maybe to give us a last moment alone, or because they couldn’t look at the creature named Spike anymore. The dragon in question had his back turned to me as we walked quietly on the wet grass outside of ponyville. He hadn’t looked me in the eye since yesterday, and was probably determined to keep it that way. I could only presume is was because of the shame, or to hide his tears. We were finally far enough from ponyville to hear nothing of the screaming coming from my small home-town. These screams could generally be summarized in one sentence : “Banishment is too good for this monster”, mostly followed by something gruesome. Even though I couldn’t do those kind of things, I could understand the ponies’ feeling, especially after what Spike had done. Even I could somewhat relate to that, since one of my friends was currently unconscious, and wounded. None of us said anything, as we put more distance between ourselves and Ponyville. Everything had already been said yesterday and this morning. Hurtful words, most of the time, coming from both the dragon and me and my friends. But most of spike’s words were lost to us . it was clear what he had done, and that is why I blocked out his words. Doing that with the power of the mind, or with the power of my silencing magic. But I made sure he could hear everything verypony had to say to him, while his words of anger and sadness were lost. Even so, there were ponies that still had to say something nice too him were the CMC, and applejack’s big brother big Macintosh. They tried to reason why spike was innocent. But their pleas fell on deaf ears. Almost nopony took the CMC seriously, they are just kids after all. And big mac’s statement was quickly overruled by a quick talking Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. They were also the only ponies that come to say goodbye to spike before the banishment. Getting one final hug among a crowd of ponies who could only glare and scream in disapproval. But that was the only thing they could do because Big Mac gave an example of what would happen if they tried to break-up the tearful goodbye hug between spike and the CMC. He did this by almost knocking-out a stallion who was the first who tried to break up the hug. The CMC, respectively, got dragged away by their sisters and Idol after the hug. I was so lost in thought that I hadn’t noticed that Spike had stopped walking. I almost bumped into him, and quickly walked back to a saver distance. Spike made no attempt at moving an inch from his new found place right in front of the Everfree Forest. For minutes we just stood there, both of us not moving. I just stared at him, and he seemed to stare at his feet. He was just waiting there, waiting for the next thing that would happen. Staring at him made me become angry again. He had destroyed Ponyville and put one of my friends in the hospital, and that were not even his worst crimes he commited. He had also destroyed part om my reputation as an alicorn princess by doing this, which was more of a side-note in the situation. All my feeling of anger came back to me. How could he do such a thing? Even though everything has already been said, and I didn’t really expect an answer from the dragon in question, I couldn’t help but asked with a tone that had a distinctive lack of sympathy: “Why, Spike. Why did you do this?” There was finally movement within the dragon’s body as he turned around to face me. His movements were slow, giving him the impression that he was very tired. His feet were clumsy, but he managed to turn around and look me dead in the eye. His face looked very tired and bleak. It looked like he used a lot of strength to keep his head up high. His expression on the other hand was blank. There was no sign of anger or sadness anymore like there had been yesterday, and earlier today. The only thing that gave an slight expression were his glowing green eyes. As an answer to my question he just stared at me with those darkened, tired looking, and slightly puffy eyes. Probably form all the crying he had done the past few days. But his eyes showed also no expression of sadness, or anger. His darkened eyes showed only indifference, and a slight hint of pain. It looked like he didn’t care for me anymore, and that he had given up convincing me of his innocence after all his pleading. He just didn’t care about it anymore. That expression made me almost feel bad for him. With the emphasis on the word almost. After this last almost expressionless stare, Spike turned around without saying a word to me, and walked straight into the Everfree forest. My eyes following him all the way until I couldn’t see him anymore between the trees in the darkened forest After standing there for a couple of minutes to make sure he was really gone, I also made my journey to my destination: back to Ponyville. Back to my real friends. I only turned around to see a what looked like a pink flash pass by the tree, only to brush it of as a reflection of my magic, because the alternative wasn’t possible. Lost in thoughts, I just kept on walking until I finally heard the sounds of Ponyville again. The sounds were still low and full of disapproval, but tomorrow there might just be a celebration. An ending celebration to mark the end of these dark few days. Then everything turned to black ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twilight sparkle, alicorn princess of magic, suddenly woke up from her slumber, only to unconsciously look around her room for a being who hadn’t been there for three years now. The place where his basket once stood, en where later his sleeping place on the ground one was, were empty. While starting to think, she heard her clock eleven times over. She had overslept, and hurried downstairs, banishing her strange narrative dream to the back of her head.