The Spider's game.

by TwoPie


The sailors song.

Two Pie, was walking across the slushy snow, in the North of Equestria, being followed by the teen dragons, who would christen the ship as it left off. it was a walk, that was filled with comments, jokes, and suggestions, while sailing on the ship. A Breezy, and sunny walk indeed, without need of constant fire breath, but every three minutes.

"hey, ill see you around kid!"

"yeh, you stay safe"

"i'll doubt that'll happen you two, but hope for the best!" said Two Pie, as he stepped into the boat, being given rags for clothing, to keep him warm on the high seas.

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It was a stormy day, and Two of the ponies, keeping the cannons on board, had fallen off, so there was a lack of responsibility, on deck. Title waves were coming in, like bees, to their hives, after pollinating the flowers. it was massive wave, after massive wave, and yet, the crew still held together, as one, singing shanties like "oh my sweet pony" and "down to las-pegasus." it was amazing, to see such friendship, in such danger. it brought a tear to Two Pie's eye, as he just sat at the swivel cannon, ready to use his hearing to shoot at any monsters.

"Land Hooo!" shouted the watch pony in the birds nest. it was indeed land, and it was far from Two pie's target, but at the same time, a ship was ready to dock off, as he docked into port. it was a boring and long journey, but it did the job, and only one thing was left to do for Two Pie. he had to get on the last two boats.

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Two Pie had one month to go before he docked into the last port he'd have to transfer ships on, but something happened on this smaller ship. a giant sea serpent came out of no where, nearly knocking the whole ship sideways, several crew members were blown off, but Two Pie had focused the Swivel cannon instead of on the chest, but in the mouth, to choke the beast, took the shot, but just blew off a few teeth of the serpent.

it roared as loud as possible at that, remarkable and cheered for hit, but then, it struck back, this time FULLY flipping the ship over, making everypony fall off. except Two Pie, who expected that hew would be needing a special Drako name. He then called out the name "fermare il tempo!" then, everypony stopped screaming, stopped drowning, the serpent stopping flipping its lid at a few teeth in its throat. It was the Name of the Drako of freeze time. Two Pie though, was able to swim from under the boat, and got to the surface. he would need his clear sight after this, and since he wasn't ready to take on a serpent at all, without killing everypony around him, he just left, swimming along, with blurry vision, all to call "Eliminare vista!" Clear sight, followed by steady flying, it was a month of flying ahead of Two Pie. or so he thought.

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One full week later, he was getting tired. no sleep for 7 days, his wings were literally starting to get blood shot, along with his eyes, (when the wings get blood shot, you can basically just see the beating veins inside the wing) Two Pie couldn't see land for miles, but luckily he snagged a compass off of the ship, after the literally, flipping out serpent. Two Pie, was flying for his life though, because he was flying to find another ship.

"HO THERE!" said a rusty, burly voice from below. "What be-yah' name!" Two Pie then looked down, all to see a tiny little ship that his eyes missed, from being so strained by the sea salts, and mist floating about over the great blue dessert he would have been stuck over for 1 full month untill he found the land he should have docked at.

"The name's Drako BlazeWing!" said Two Pie, flying down, all to fall in a barrel of fish. He then took a fish out, used his fire breath to cook it, then he ate it, all in 3 bites. not clean bites, and there was a bit of blood and skin left over after, but it was one damn good fish for no food for a full week straight.

"got a home son?" said the shaggy captain, looking at Two Pie peculiarity while he indulged himself with delicious fresh fish.

"yes, its in Equestria. sad place now a days, its only got a few good ponies there any more, and i ran away two years and 8 months ago. sad place to go back to as well, my girl, Princess Aurora, is only wantin' me for my Dragon like- Drako abilities." Two Pie spoke, like was maybe from Spain, or Britain. He spoke, as a Pirate now, and only to fit in. this was a Spanish Gun Boat though, so he could rely on his ability to mimic accents and tones of voice. "i believe though, that you are on a course for Hoofnada. If so, may i hitch a ride for the journey? thats on my course." Two Pie, had read the mind of this captain; a little trick he had taught himself.

"yes, we are on course there. not exactly out last stop, but the tiny island will do. we want to take upgrade, of the cannons and sails"

"perfect! maybe i might just get this right, and defeat her after all..."

"Who? is that the girl of yours you were talkin' 'bout?"

"no. somepony else..."

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"i'll see you some day again captain rahkam! i garuntee it"

"ay! you better have the best of luck at defeating that evil son of a bitch in equestria, yah hear me?"

"loud and clear." And as Two Pie started off with his bags, he then ran into a familiar pony, in the harbor. He was in a cloak, and had the most nostalgic stripes anypony would know. "Zeru?"

"Two Pie!" yelled the old, but apparently NOT dead zebra, as he threw his hoof around Two Pie's neck. "how have you been?"

"b? wha? your.... YOU'RE DEAD!" he yelled, silencing the crowd around him. "you fell off! and, that whole robot suit thing..."

"Two Pie, don't you know a changeling, in disguise when you see it? its stripes were CLEARLY not as dark as mine!"

Two Pie, was shocked... no, the Dragon, was pissed off though. the dragon was lied to, and ran away for no reason. then again, if it wasn't for the fake, Two Pie would have never fulfilled the Drako's Box dragon generation. "Dude. without you, i wouldn't be here today, ready to take on Aracna." The rusty red pony named Two Pie, was in utter awe, as to what one decision can do. to fake death, is amazing, but leading to this. "wow"

"im about to leave port on another boat, to get to equestria. the great Jackpony, as its called, its a galleon, and its going to equestria-"

"equestria? they all ready know about me there, infact, i over threw aracna all ready! Aurora is now the princess of equestria!"

"WOT! you mean to tell me, that i ran away for two years, nearly spent another two out here, and all just to find out that the pony i was going to get revenge on, has been over thrown? damn it zeru!"

"yes, and i am sorry, but it worked! i was going on the same boat back to equestria, because i was just here to tell everyone that for the first time in 20 years, they're throwing a Grand Galloping Gala!"

"really? now? i might just have a gander at that. i hope that she witch, Aurora won't be wanting me to dance with."

"what?"

"shes just now, suddenly gotten love struck over me, after i found out that im the Drako of dragons. the Drako, to heal equestria. they might as well call you the Drako instead, of deception! you bloody, made everyone think you died, over throw royalty, and then all in time to find your best friend, in the slums in the middle of the bloody ocean!"

"Maybe, if you feel like it."

It was then, a voyage on a slow galleon that would take a year to get 200 miles, from a small island, all the way to a grand land. a boring voyage most of the time, until it came back.

"Sir! theres something lurking around the boat!" yelled one of the two scouts, "its huge, like a serpent!"

suddenly, Two Pie's ears perked up, and with the flash of lightning, he was galloping to the edge of the boat, all to stop the same serpent from a year ago, destroy this ship with innocent life's on it, to spare. "no pony dies today. only a serpent."

Two Pie lunged himself into the water, then started ruffling his wings strangely, to give him water swimming efficiency. he then, jet towards the Serpent, and slashed at its side, with his wing. blood squirt all, up to the surface, and then Two Pie, was in the stomach of the beast. he had gotten eaten. "not today" Two Pie said, as he slashed at the fabric of the stomach, getting blood on his coat, was the last thing on his mind now. he kept biting, and slashing, untill he finally reached skin, there he could just push through, and swim out of the now dead beast, to the surface. the ship had barely moved a few feet, and every poor pony on the galleon, who had been cursed to come on, started cheering. almost every one of them, had rags for boots, and cloth for a hood. Two Pie, then walked up to the youngest of them all, a sick looking, filly who hadn't even gotten her cutie mark yet. cutie marks never mattered to Two Pie though. he never acknowledged them, only because they tell you what that pony is good at. not what they are like on the inside. He then, handed his coat to her, to warm her, because it was getting close to the middle of winter. "merry early christmas" he said, as he handed it to the sick girl, who was starting to cry with joy.

"thank you so much Mr!" Two Pie gave her the coat, knowing that she would need it, in order to survive this long and harsh looking winter on the high seas. The coat was blood stained, which then Two Pie asked "can i have it back just for one second?" The little filly then answered "give it back please!"

Two Pie then, said the name "pollone sangue," his sharp teeth morphed to fangs, and he sucked the blood ff of his jacket. "wait" Two Pie said, as the spell was replaced with the clear sight spell, "i never studied them... in fact, i have only studied 22. yet i can name 220 off the top of my head. and there have only been 250, including me!" Two Pie then just kept sucking the blood off of his jacket, because he wasn't just going to give a bloody, muddy, dirty jacket that has been on fire, to a little sick filly! "here you are!" Two Pie said, throwing the jacket over the little filly "Thank you sir..." the filly said, as she drowsed of into a deep warm sleep.

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It was sooner, or later time to doc off at manehatten. a big city, that Two Pie wouldn't like. big cities, to a stallion who has only seen small villages and one posh, stuck up castle. this was barely what he was most afraid of though. the spiders were still around. Aracna might have been overthrown, or maybe even dead if Zeru was a bloody mad assassin zebra, but the spiders still roamed sewers, took lifes of ponies un-suspecting, and without some pony to lead them, they would most likely never stop poisoning ponies all across the streets. This was his worst nightmare. those damned spiders, had given him his worst of them all. not just the sea salt getting to his head, or constant nightmares of failing against aracna, back in the north. "i just hope that the grand galloping gala is some place i can go, without having the images of spiders race through my mind." yes, Two Pie had Arachnophobia. it was ironic, that he was about to go up against a big spider-pony.