Intermission part II, Walk of the Silenced
Spike’s POV
“Why, Spike, why did you do this?” I heard a rather non-sympathetic voice ask form behind me, while I was standing right infront of a dark Everfree Forest. That annoying voice belonged to the prestigious Princess Twilight Sparkle, who with her magic, was the only source of light in the entire darkened fields outside of Ponyville. The night sky truly was beautiful, even I couldn’t deny that on an evening just like this
Again with that question, I was so tired of the hearing that same question over and over again in past few days, that my body showed physical exhaustion when I turned around to face her. As I finally managed to turn around, I was met her eyes for the first time in a while now, and thanks to that horn glowing on top of her head, I couldn’t make out what kind of expression they gave. No sign of sympathy, not that I expected any at this point
“Why did she ask such a stupid question” I thought to myself. I had answered her question countless times now, with the same answer again and again. An answer that was truthful, and delivered with fear. Only to be ignored again and again by the elements of Kindness, Loyalty, Generosity, Honesty, almost the whole town of Ponyville, and of course the element of Magic who was still standing right in front of me at this very moment.
I was so tired of the answer that I decided to give her another one. An answer better suited for my current feelings toward her royal majesty. Why should I even bother giving her a real answer?
So, as an answer I just stared at her, just staring. Nothing more, nothing less. I had decided that I would not give her anything anymore. No sadness, and no anger. No expression to reward her decision of banishing me, only indifference. She doesn’t deserve it anymore. She was not worth the energy.
I also wanted to give another message to her royal highness. I wanted to make clear that I didn’t care for her anymore. Her existence just stood in the way of my gaze over the darkened grass fields of Ponyville. Just like they didn’t care for me anymore.
She had the same worth to me now , as the meat I could rip of her bones. If I were to eat meat of course.
Even though I knew my life in Ponyville was over, I still wanted to say so much to her. I wanted to say that the only banished me for the sake of her title as Princess of Magic. I wanted to explain the neglect and abuse I had to go through. I wanted to say to her the reason why I staid even though I was neglected and forgotten. And I wanted to ask why she threw away the last remnants of friendship between us so easily. What did I even mean to her?
But instead of asking her, we just continued with our little staring-contest until I decided that this was enough. She wasn’t even worth my time anymore. My new life was knocking on my door, and was anxious to get in.
Besides, I knew asking her was now pointless, she would just silence me like she had done the past few days. Why would she even listen to him, only friends listen to each other’s side of the story.
And I finally knew the truth about this friendship:
We stopped being friends a long time ago, Even before this whole mess begun.
I turned around, not giving her another look, and went straight into the dark Everfree forest, passing a few rows of trees and turned around to stare at the light the alicorn princess was emitting for one last time. A silent goodbye so the speak.
Twilight didn’t leave for a couple of minutes, probably on the lookout for me, if I decided to go back too that wretched town. With her sharp eyes the studied the edge of the forest, for the slightest sign of life, or claws, green scales, or emerald coloured eyes. Or something else that belonged to me. She just watched while I stared back at her from a distance. She couldn’t see me, but I could see her clearly.
“Give them the monster they want you to be” a voice said in the back of my head. “Attack her, and let them see how a real dragon crime looks like” the voice said again filled with rage, and bottled up anger. i looked down, contemplating, but I couldn’t give in. What could a young dragon do to an alicorn princess anyway?
When I looked up again, I saw that the source of the purple light was leaving. I watched between the trees as the light source was getting smaller and smaller, until the princess of Magic had returned to her home. Twilight returned to her normal life, a life without much worry. The life where I was once a part of, but was apparently not important enough to keep around. Something one would cast away once it had outlived its usefulness.
While she returned to her life without fear, I was facing one of uncertainty and worry. “A constant struggle was lying in front of me” I thought when I finally turned my back on Ponyville.
“I wonder if she noticed it” the voice in the back of my head said to me.
“Remember the crystal empire?” the voice asked when I couldn’t thing of a response to my own mind’s question.
“Do you remember your worst fear?” the voice asked with a curious tone. “She said that the was never going to send you away, remember?” the voice said with an almost mocking tone. “She probably just made that promise to shut you up” the voice said with a now slightly dark tone.
“But that doesn’t matter right now. But do you think that she has noticed that she broke that one promise”
My conscious did have a point, and when my realization hit me, my conscious voice decided to finally shut up, but not before adding one last thing to my inner conversation
"She just realized you worst fear, and shoved me away like garbage"
It didn’t matter anymore at this point though, Twilight was long gone, and I was on the verge of entering my new life.
I let out a sight, passed by a few tree only to hear sounds of breaking twigs and crisping leafs behind me. I turned around and I saw nothing in the dark forest. Almost nothing at least, because there was a kind of a pink flash from the corner of my eyes when I turned around again. Only to be met with as shocking, pink coloured. surprise.
“Hello Spike” a normally so happy sounding voice said right in front of me.
I opened and closed my eyes a few times until I saw the pink figure clearly. In front of me was standing Pinkie Pie, with a worried expression on her face, and slightly bloody bandages covering her head and front legs.
“Pinkie, what are you doing here?” I exclaimed in wonder. She wasn’t supposed to be here right now.
“I came to see you silly”
To be continued.