Such is The Way
The next few days were eventful for both Spike and Sweetiebelle. For one, Sweetie was admitted out of the infirmary and had regretfully discovered that Lyvia no longer supported her. She never imagined that she would lose anyone apart from Spike due to this quarrel but it wasn't just Lyvia. Lil' Dew abandoned her too and joined the side of Spike. This made most classes extremely awkward and that meant she only had Cinder left to grieve to.
Sweetiebelle wanted to confront her old friends and ask them why they left her, but she was afraid that Lyvia would act more hostile towards her due their collapsed relationship.
However, the loss of friendship was not all that had changed. Over the past week and a bit the five of them had settled into their classes and Twilight had been informed about attack on Sweetiebelle and the presence of the Black Apple Gang. As a result of this, Twilight had given Captain Blaze the authority to station his squad all around the school as a precaution in order to protect the students.
This however, did not satisfy some people, one of these people was Lyvia who thought that the new headmistress wasn't doing enough. She had past experiences with the Black Apple Gang and she knew exactly what they were capable of. But Twilight wasn't heading her warning and believed that Blaze and his team were an elite force with the skill and ability to handle situations such as these.
"Spike?" Lyvia said as she walked down one of the hallways once meeting up with Spike after her last class for the day.
"Hmm?" he responded simply.
"Can I ask you something?"
"Of course." he replied with a smile.
"Do you think that we're safe?" she asked sternly.
"What do you mean, Lyvia?"
"Well, I just don't think that a small handful of elite guards will be enough to protect us against the strength of the Black Apples. I know Twilight has trust in them, but I just want to know what you think."
Spike sighed and placed a hand on the small mare's shoulder. "Lyvia, you already know what I think; I trust in what Twilight's decision, I trust that what she's doing is right. You should too. She is a Princess after all."
"You're right, Spike," she sighed too, "It's just... these people are powerful and dangerous and if they're back then their threat can't be taken lightly." she warned.
"Look, it's alright, they haven't been sighted for nearly two weeks, there's a high chance that they've run off back to their cave,"
"What, so they can brood upon their failure to kill a girl?" she clenched he fists, "Spike, I was with them for nearly a whole year, I know what they're like and they tend to take things slowly, so when they act they do it in such a way that its devastating to the largest possible span of people!" ... "It's horrible but that's just how they are, a few guards won't stand a chance against them."
Both went silent as Spike took in what Lyvia had said. To be honest, he thought she was overreacting but he couldn't help but agree that being cautious is a better approach. Never the less, he trusted in Twilight's judgement and whether or not Lyvia did too was not the biggest concern.
"Lyvia, we'll talk about this later, but if you're so sure that we're all going to die then you should go take it up with Twilight." he said sounding slightly annoyed. he didn't feel like debating this at the moment, he had enough on his plate with Sweetiebelle.
"Fine..." Lyvia announced in defeat as they reached their dorm. "Alright Spike, I'll see you tomorrow morning I guess," she smiled and waved goodbye as Spike entered the dorm and she walked off to hers.
As soon as Spike closed the door he was immediately greeted by an fox who went by the name of Sky who had been his roommate for the past few weeks who was laying on his bed reading over a book of what was presumed to be notes. Behind his bed was a tall window which stood from the ground to the ceiling, this was the same for the other three beds. Under each bed and in the centre of the circular room was a white and brown checkered rug which covered the hard and cold wooden flooring that occupied the entire floor of the dorm, including the bathroom which was just off to the side.
"Hello Sky," Spike greeted and waved to the fox.
"Hmm?" the fox looked up, "Oh, hi Spike."
"Is anyone else back yet?" he asked.
Sky nodded, "Cinder is in the shower at the moment but Tyra is out with some friends, I don't imagine her to be getting back here any time soon."
'Oh no' Spike thought, he had dreaded the thought of Cinder since she was the only one at the moment who sided with Sweetiebelle. She tried hard to make Spike annoyed and angry, she went out of her way to piss him off. But not only that, she also made things sound extremely awkward as the hatred between the two was mortifying.
"How long has Cinder been in there for?" he asked.
Sky shrugged, "hell if I know, I only just got back a few minutes ago."
Spike sighed, "okay then. Thanks anyway." he went over to his bed and sat down as he too pulled out a book of notes and began to read from them. he was lucky that he didn't have any homework to do tonight so he could spend his time doing some much needed revision.
After an unknown amount of time his revision was rudely interupted by the annoyance of Cinder who stood over him with her arms crossed and stern expression of anger planted on her light-yellow face, her golden mane was still wet as it drooped all over her head in a straight, but messy pattern. Spike peeked over the peak of his book to face her.
"What?" he asked half-assed.
"You yelled at Sweetiebelle again today didn't you?" she growled.
Spike raised an eyebrow, "I did what?" he replied bored.
She held up her phone to him and showed him a text from Sweetiebelle saying that Spike had yelled at her again. "You did this!"
Spike yawned, "oh yeah, I remember now, she tried to take my books away from me in order to get my attention."
Cinder growled again, "You shouldn't yell at a girl who's injured like she is!!"
"Her injury has nothing to do with her actions, Cinder, you know this. So quit blindly following her and open your cursed eyes, will you!"
Cinder rolled her eyes, "I'm not blindly following her, I'm protecting and supporting a friend you jackass!" she was getting defensive.
Spike too rolled his eyes and face palmed, "You right," he replied sarcastically, "its all my fault that she cheated on like she did, and I'm not allowed to be angry at her at all...!"
"Look, you may have Lil' Dew and Lyvia believing you but you can't treat everyone else bad just because they're supporting someone you don't like." she rebutted.
I'm treating you like this because you're being a bitch to me! Now piss off before I do something I'll regret!" he growled and bared his claws.
Cinder winced and ran off leaving Spike to go back to his study.
The next day Spike met Lyvia outside his dorm and they travelled to down to the Main Hall for breakfast. They sat at a different table to Sweetiebelle and Cinder so they didn't cause an uproar between the ex-group of friends. There was no mistake that this break-up between Spike and Sweetiebelle had caused this collapse of friendship but that was to be expected.
It wasn't long before Lil' Dew joined the two and they sat peacefully eating their breakfast of oats and gems. Then their eating turned to peaceful chatter as Spike told them about his confrontation with Cinder the previous night.
"Why does she even bother?" Lyvia complained. "Doesn't she know that she's just being annoying?"
"Of course she does, I've told her so many times. She just wants to get under my scales and drive me insane. She thinks I'm the bad guy for abandoning her!" ... "She obviously doesn't understand the full story."
"Maybe she just feels sorry for Sweetiebelle since she's lost all her other friends?" Lil' Dew suggested. "I'm not standing up for her or saying what she's doing is right..." she added quickly, "but Cinder has always shown exceptional kindness towards her... well, that's what I've seen so far."
"She's also shown kindness to me!" Spike protested.
"Well maybe she prefers to stand up for a girl, then a guy. It happens, and some girls feel like they need to stick together." Dew added.
Spike sighed, "I don't care what her reasons are, if she wants to support the wrong side then she'll get whats coming to her!" Spike stated and crossed his arms. Their once peaceful conversation had quickly turned aggressive.
Lyvia sighed, "well, I suggest you don't do anything bad to her unless she makes the first move, you don't want to be seen as the bad guy even of you're not." she suggested, "but remember, I have your back if you ever need any help." she smiled and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Thank Lyvia," Spike smiled too and they went back to their peaceful conversation. They had another half an hour before class started and so they had plenty of time to do whatever they wanted. So they decided to enjoy themselves without the thought of whining ex-friends. Well, that was until Lyvia sighed someone that made her blood boil.
"What the hell is he doing here?!" she stood up with haste and her hands were clenched into a fist.
"Who?" Spike and Lil' Dew turned around to see where she was looked to see the griffon they knew as Leo.
Lyvia growled as Leo came closer to their table and by the time he got to them her face had turned red with anger.
"Woah, woah, woah. Calm down their cutie. I'm just here to ask Spike something." Leo said defensively.
"What is it?" Spike asked in a hostile tone.
Leo went to open his mouth to answer him but as he did Lyvia leaped over the table and pounced on him, pinning his to the ground with a knife to his throat.
He gulped and eyed the knife, "Hey! easy there sweetie. No need to get violent!"
"I'm not your 'sweetie'" she growled and pressed down on the knife as a crowd started to form around the two.
"Fine then, cutie." ... "You need to chill out!" he dared not move just in case Lyvia gave him a fatal blow.
"Shut up! Shut up! I swear I will end you if you don't shut up!!" she yelled and kneed him in the balls.
The griffon yelped and whimpered as he tried not to flinch in case her slit his neck. It was then that Lyvia was pulled off of him and the knife was yanked from her hands as the surrounding teachers seized the girl.
"Get off me!" she protested, "he deserves to be slaughtered!" That was the last thing that Spike heard from her for the rest of the day because the teachers carried her out of the room and presumably to the headmistress's office.
Spike and Lil' Dew were in awe, they knew that Lyvia hated him but they didn't expect her to try and kill him, although, he had no complaints if she did.
Spike sighed and looked around the room, he spotted Sweetiebelle and Cinder who were laughing their heads off. At least there was one thing that him and her could agree on, and that was that Leo deserved all the pain he got.
Sweetiebelle giggled and went over to Spike, "did you tell Lyvia to do this?" she asked curiously. She had smug expression planted on her face.
"No. But I wish I did, and I wish she went through with it." Spike replied.
Sweetiebelle eyed Leo with a smirk as he was helped up by a teacher, this was the first time the her and Spike had been able to talk without breaking into a yelling contest for the past few weeks. It was nice.
Sweetiebelle giggled and replied, "Yeah me too," she agreed, "but I don't even know why Leo would be at this school... he's to stupid even consider education."
"Well I'm sure he's regretting coming here." Spike added, "but now Lyvia's gonna get into big trouble no doubt," ... "Pulling a knife on another student could land her in jail."
Sweetie sighed, "it's Lyvia. She'll be fine." Sweetie finished and began to walk away. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going back to Cinder."