"Wow" said Spike as he looked out the window of the rocket at the most beautiful sight he had ever seen. A city that was floating on clouds with pegasi flying around airships and buildings made of bricks and stone, and unicorns walking on streets made of clouds and some that were using what appeared to be sky-lines to get to other parts of the city. Then the rocket released a parachute and started to slowly drift down till the rocket safely landed on a platform. After the rocket landed on the platform, the platform started to lower the rocket down into a building. As the rocket went down Spike started to see signs that said "Why did he send us his prophet? So that we would be saved from the evil below."
The rocket finally stopped and the restraints on Spikes arms released him and the door of the rocket opened. The first thing Spike noticed as he stepped out of the rocket was a giant stain glass window with an image of an old purple dragon pointing to a city in the sky with a group of ponies standing beside him and a sign above the window that said "And the Prophet lead us to this new Eden."
As Spike started to look for a way out of the building, he entered into a large room with another set stain glass windows and a statue of the same dragon from the first window. The dragon statue had his armed extended out and a plaque in his claws that said "Our Prophet. Father Comstock". On both sides of the statue were two windows, the one on the left had an image of a pegasus with a yellow coat and pink mane with a sign that said "Our Beloved Lady Fluttershy". The window on the right had an image of Comstock and Lady Fluttershy holding a small orange pegasus filly in their hoofs and claws and a sign that said "The Filly of Cloudsdale".
Spike then entered a large sanctuary thats floor was completely covered in water. He then saw a group of ponies gathered around a blue unicorn mare with a wand and moon as her cutie mark preaching at the far end of the sanctuary. As Spike walked closer to the group he started to hear what the mare was saying.
"On this day we give thanks to are prophet Father Comstock for saving us from the wickedness below and remember all that he has done for us." Said the mare.
“Amen, Pastor Trixie!” yelled the group of ponies
"If the Prophet had just struck down his buffalo enemies at Appleloosa it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just accepted the three gifts of the founders of Equestria it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just led us to this new Eden and destroyed the Changeling army it would have been enough. If the Prophet had just suffered the loss of his beloved and expelled the vox ponyuli IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH!!! Trixie preached as Spike started to make his way through the crowed.
"Who there, is it somepony new? Come to be baptized in the name of our prophet?" Asked Trixie.
"I just want into the city." Spike said. Trixie started to laugh at the dragon.
"Trixie apologizes but baptism is the only way into Cloudsdale. Come now, join me dragon, let us cleanse you of your wickedness." Stated Trixie with her hoof extended out to Spike.
"I guess I have no choice." Spike thought to himself as he reaches his claw out to Trixie.
"Trixie baptizes you in the name of our Prophet and in the name of the founders of Equestria." Trixie said as she submerged Spike in the small pool they were standing in. Spike was struggling in the water due to his lack of oxygen, not expecting the mare to keep him down as long as she did
"You are now born again in the eyes of Cloudsdale." Trixie said as she pulled Spike back up. "Hey this one does not look clean to Trixie." Trixie said before forcing Spike back down into the water and knocking him unconscious.
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BANG BANG BANG BANG was all Spike could hear as he awakened from his sleep.
"Who there?" Spike asked half asleep with his head still on his desk.
The knocking at the door continued. "Bring us the mare and wipe away the debt. We had a deal dragon. Open this door right now!" yelled somepony behind the door.
"Go away. I told you I am not going to do it." replied Spike as he started walking to the door.
"Bring us the mare now!" demanded the voice.
"I said no..........." Said Spike as he opened the door to his office/room to see a Manehattan that he had never seen before on fire, and Cloudsdale floating above raining fire down on the city.
Then out of no were a Cloudsdale airship rose up to his door with a firing squad of unicorns and pegasi getting ready to fire there weapons and magic at him.
"Fire" shouted one of the pegasus solider. The last thing Spike saw was a great big flash of light before regaining consciousness.
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The first thing Spike saw when he woke up was three pony statues staring at him all holding a different item in there hoofs. The one on the left was a statue of a unicorn marked Princess Platinum, with a key in the statues hoof. The statue in the middle was of a pegasus that held a sword and was labeled Commander Hurricane. The one right was an earth pony with a scroll in it mane and was marked Chancellor Puddinghead.
"Hey, that pony looks just like me." said a pink earth pony with a poofy mane and tail that had appeared out of nowhere.
"uh.........." Spike said.
"Oh oh oh look over there." The pink pony said turning Spike's head in the direction she was pointing.
"Look at what?" Spike asked as he turned around to see the pink mare was gone. "Where did she...Oh never mind, I guess a city in the sky has it far share of crazy ponies too."
"Hey! I am not crazy!" called out the mare but was no where to be seen.
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Inside one of the building surrounding the garden were Spike was at.
"Quiet you. Celestia help me deal with her." Said the blue alicorn as she covered the earth pony mouth with her hoof.
"Luna why is she here? I thought we left her at bottom the ocean in the Crystal Empire." Said Celestia.
"I don't know just tie her up before she dose something stupid." Luna said. Just then the earth pony knocked over a 15,000,000 bit vase.
"Upsy. Was that expensive?" Asked the pink mare.
"PINKIE!!!!!" The two alicorns shouted.
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Spike just shrug off what he had just seen and started to look for a way out of the garden. While walking he noticed more pony's waking up after there so called baptism and others being brought into the garden.
"That mare needs to learn the difference between baptizing a dragon and trying to kill one." Spike thought to himself.
Spike finally found a door leading out of the garden with a sign posted above the door saying "The filly of the Prophet shall sit the throne and drown in flames the mountains of stallions." Spike scoffed at the sign and opened the doors that lead out of the garden and found himself on the streets of Cloudsdale. Walking down the streets of Cloudsdale, Spike was greeted by many unicorns and pegasi. Many of the younger mares tried flirting with him but he just kept walking and ignored them. He soon came up to a large statue of the so called Prophet holding a sword in his claw. "The dragons got an image." Spike thought to himself as he passed the statue. He soon found a passing parade of airship with the same images he had seen in the building rocket had landed in tell the story of Cloudsdale.
"After the Battle of Appleloosa an angel appeared before our Prophet showed him a city in the sky and telling him to build this great city and save pony's from the evil of the world below. But it was the miracle filly that secured our future. The filly that grew into a mare in just four days is the hope for our great city and shall cleans the wickedness from the world below." narrated the announcer on the last barge in the parade with a sign that said "Cloudsdale Raffle & Fair 1912"
"Just four days? These no way these ponies really believe this." Thought Spike.
"I wish I could age as fast as the miracle mare did. I hate being a filly" Pouted a pink unicorn filly with a tiara on her head and as her cutie mark.
"Now Diamond you know the miracle mare is the only pony that can do that." Said the stallion behind her.
"And I stand corrected." thought Spike as he continued to walk around Cloudsdale trying to find something to point him in the right direction of the mare he was looking for.
Spke soon found a sky barge with a poster with two unicorn mares saying "Only for the Cloudsdale Raffle & Fair. Flim & Flam Industry's presents Madame Vinyl Scratch and Madame Octavia Melody preforming Beethoofs 5th Symphony." Aboard the barge Octavia was playing on her cello while Vinyl was using her new creation she called turn tables to be used in the place of the other instruments needed. They were playing quit lovely till Vinyl started to scratch the record back and forth.
"Vinyl stop that noise right now and use those records like your suppose too." Ordered Octavia.
"Oh lighten up Octy. I am just making this piece of trash called music more enjoyable." replied Vinyl as she turned the speakers up to drown out the dark grey mare talking.
"This music is great the way it is. Your just killing it." said Octavia getting frustrated with the white mare.
"Does it make a difference. It sounds terrible either way." said Spike thinking no one could hear him.
"Oh who asked you, Dragon?" yelled Octavia at the dragon
"Just saying." Spike replyed.
"Go back to Shanty Town where you and your kind belong." Octavia said in a hateful tone.
"You don't have to be that hateful to him." Vinyl said defending Spike.
"Oh what do you know? You like anything that is uncivilized and has no class." Octavia said turning her attention to Vinyl.
"Is that what you think. Well let me tell you something Miss Classy Mare you are the most ..........." Vinyl started saying while taking off her sun glasses.
At this time Spike started to leave, thinking it would be best if he tried not to gather suspicion around himself. He then made his way to the fair grounds were all the booths where at and found what he was looking for. The giant angel statue from the postcard that showed where the mare was being held, a place called Monument Island. As Spike looked at the statue he felt a tug on his arm, he looked down to see a little pegasus.
"Telegram for you sir." The pegasus colt said as he handed to letter to Spike and ran away. Spike began to read the telegram that said.
"Spike. Stop.
Do not alert Comstock of your presence. Stop.
Do not Pick Number 16. Stop.
Luna."
"What is that suppose to mean" asked Spike as studied the telegram.
Spike continued on through the fair ground passing many boots advertising new technology from Flam & Flim Industry's like Voxophones, a device that you could use to recorded your voice and play back what you said. The Handy-Colt was another thing being advertised, a machine that stood 10 feet tall in the shape of huge stallion with a real stallion heart visible at it chest. Another booth was selling Sky-Hooks, a device that allowed ponies without wings to get around the city using the sky-lines. The final booth was advertising Vigors, a magical elixir that would grant ponies that could not use magic the ability to use a limited selection of powers, such as shooting fire and ice from their hoofs or lifting ponies in the air with just the wave of their hoof. As demonstrated by the two alicorns in front of the booth.
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"Remind me. Why you get to use the Vigors and I don't?" asked Luna.
"Because we flipped a bit to see who would get to use them first, and the bit landed on heads so I got to use them. Simple as that." replied Celestia. "Besides your just mad I get to shoot them at you."
"Yes. But can I try using one now?" Luna asked.
"Yea can I try one too?" asked Pinkie Pie.
"But how did you... We tied you up and put you in a broom closet. How did you get out?" ask Celestia.
"You left the door unlocked silly." Pinkie giggled.
Luna hoof faced herself "Pinkie just go jump off the side of the railing." Luna said through her hoof.
"Ok." said Pinkie as she jumped over the railing.
"Pinkie. No!" cried Celestia and Luna as they galloped over to the railing that Pinkie Pie jumped over. Then a hot air balloon with the pink mare on top rose from the clouds in front of the alicorns.
"That was fun. What next? What next?" Asked Pinkie as she jumped up and down on the balloon.
"Just stay there and we will come get you later. Ok?" said Celestia.
"OK!" yelled Pinkie Pie as the hot air balloon rose higher in the sky.
Luna looked to Celestia. "Sister, we are not coming back for her right?" Luna said with hope in her voice.
"Yes, hopefully she wont find us this time." Said Celestia.
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Spike walk through the fair hoping to find a way to Monument Island, when he was stopped by a light green color unicorn mare offering him a bottle of Vigor named Possession.
"Sorry I don't have any bits on me." said Spike.
"No sir it free. Here try a bottle." said the mare.
Spike took the bottle from the mare and started to drink it. All of a sudden everything he seen turned green and his vision began to blur. The unicorn mare then started to draw a heart with her horn and said. "Just a whisper. There all ears." A few seconds later Spike's vision returned to normal.
"What did you just do to me" asked Spike
"I just gave you control over the stallions of metal. Here try it out." said the unicorn as she dragged Spike over to a Vigor vending machine.
"Just focuses the magic to your claw then to the machine." instructed the unicorn.
Spike rolled his eyes in disbelief and did as the mare said. He focused the magic to his claw then to the machine. As he did a stream of green light shot out from his left claw and to the machine making it shoot bits out of it's return slot.
"Your a natural." said mare as she applauded Spike. Spike thanked the mare for the Vigor and continued down the street to the raffle hoping to find away to Monument Island from there. As Spike walked through streets he spotted some very disturbing posters. One that had a picture of a tall black dragon with his claw reaching out to a young mare that said "Beware the Greedy Dragon seeking to take are mare." Another had a picture of a giant blue bird like creature with rainbow colored wings that said "Thank the Rainbow Bird for she keeps our precious mare safe." The last poster had a picture of a dragon's claw with the initials "SD" inscribed on the claw and had written "You will know the Greedy Dragon by his mark." Spike looked down at his right claw that had the same initials as the one on the poster.
"But how did they? No it cant be the same." thought Spike. Spike had finally made it to the park where the raffle was being held. As he entered in to the park he noticed that a statue of a dark blue alicone labeled Luna, had a circle of light rotating around it and started changing into a white alicone labeled Celestia.
"Hey. That is mine!" Cried Luna out in the distance.
Spike had made his way into the park and was standing in the middle of a large crowd surrounded by unicorns and pegasi. Spike could see only two dragons in the crowd. Both of the dragons stood a foot taller then the ponies. Spike began to notice that there were no earth ponies in the crowed and started to wonder why was there so few dragons and no earth ponies there when a red coated peguases called out to him.
"Hey mister" called the mare.
"Look, I don't have any bits." Said Spike
"You don't pay for the raffle silly. What have you been doing sleeping in a cave? No offense." The mare said remembering who she was talking too. Spike reached into the basket the mare was carrying and pulled out a baseball with the number 16 on it.
"Number 16, that a good number." said the mare as she flew away. Then two yellow coated and red mane unicorns walked on stage.
"Mares" said the unicorn on the left with a red mustache.
"And Gentlecolts." said the one on the right with out a mustache.
"I am Flam." said the unicorn on the left.
"And I am Flim." said the other.
"And we are proud to declare the Cloudsdale Raffle has officially begun." Said the two twins. The whole crowed started to cheer and stomp their hoofs for joy.
"Bring us the bowl." Said Flam.
"Is that not the most prettiest mare in all of Cloudsdale?" Said Flim as a white unicorn with a light pink mane and three fleurs-de-lis for her cutie mare trotted across the stage carrying a bowl filled with paper in her pink aura.
"And the winner is....." Said Flam pulling out a piece of paper from the bowl.
"Number 16!" Said Flim.
"It him. He is the winner." said the red peguses said pointing her hoof at Spike.
"Well then, step right up and clam your prize dragon." Said Flim in a happy tone. As the curtain on the stage pulled back revealing a white unicorn with a monocle and three crowns as his cutie mark and a green earth pony mare with a bird as her cutie mark, tied to a fake tree, as Here Comes the Bride starts to play. The unicorn begging for them to spare the mare he loved beside him and to hit him instead.
"First throw." Said Flam. Spike was discussed by what he saw. Wondering how anypony could agree to this act of hatred and cruelty.
"Come on are you going throw it are what?" Asked Flim.
"Oh I am going to throw it." Spike said as he ran one his sharp claws around the ball cutting it in half and lighting both halves on fire with his dragon breath. The crowd was getting more and more excited as Spike got ready throw the two flaming halves of the baseball. Spike took aim at the couple then changed his aim at the last second and went to throw at the twins. But was stopped by two Cloudsdale guards pulling his arms down. One of the guards noticed the SD on Spikes hand.
"It the Greedy Dragon!" Yelled the peguses guard on Spikes right side, lifting his claw up for the other ponies to see.
Flam & Flim studied the marking on Spike claw and looked at him with an evil smile on there faces.
"Now where did you get that mark?" Asked Flam.
"Don't you know that that make you the Greedy Dragon?" Said Flim.
"And we won't let any Greedy Dragon into are city. Right?" Asked the Flam. The crowd then turned on Spike and started cheering for the twins on stage
"Show him what we got planned colt." Said the twins. As soon as the said that, the unicorn guard to Spike left starting to raise in his spinning sky-hook in front Spike of face.