The Completely Normal Pet of Spike the Dragon

by DauntedSuperior


Yet Another Potential Enemy... Great

Five minutes. Five minutes were all I had spent searching for Sugarcube Corner. It was a wasted effort as I came to realize I hadn’t even the slightest idea what the place looked like.

It was a demoralizing hit too as my time to find the place was more than likely up. I looked around at the passing ponies as more and more of them disappeared off the streets. Then the chill hit me like a freight train.

The feeling ice being all around me peaked as a pegasus mare hit the wall I was right beside. She had a light pink coat, long flowing red mane, and I was close enough to see her cutie mark was a pile of gold and jewels with a large ruby in front of it.

That’s all I got to see as she began to pick herself up off the ground. From the look in her eyes she really wanted to kill something. She was breathing hard and her lip was curled back to show she was pissed off.

All of this was being focused right at me. My fear took over and I shot into the nearby alley.

“Hey Red, you all right?” a voice asked from above me. With a cautious look around the corner, I got a full view of the pink pegasus taking a deep breath. As she released the breath she no longer looked angry.

Despite the sudden uplift in attitude I wanted to get away from this mare as soon as possible. I could almost feel my insides turning to ice from the chill factor she was giving off.

“I’m just fine Rainbow.” Red called back up to the sky, “That last turn was tough though.”

While the pink pegasus had been talking, another blue pegasus caught my eye in the sky. With a mane to match her name she yelled down, “As your coach, I will not stop till you have my obstacle course beat in ten seconds flat.”

Red looked up to the pegasus as I heard her mutter under her breath, “Then stop changing the course every five minutes you-” the rest of what she said was lost as she was interrupted.

“Now we could break for the day, but-”

“Yes!” Red said quickly, “I-I mean-”

“It’s alright. Not just anypony can keep up with the fastest flyer in Equestria.” Rainbow said while I kept my eyes on the chilling form of Red, “Same time and place tomorrow?”

“Yeah sure...” the pink pegasus replied, her left eye twitching a little bit. Rainbow took off into the distance. As soon as she was out of sight Red's scowl returned, “If I don’t wring your neck first you insufferable mare...”

I shook my head and was about to get away from the mare before I felt another chilling presence, ‘This is getting ridiculous!’

Down the street from the silently cursing Red was the stallion that had dated Rarity. He just walked down the street in our general direction, not making it look like he was going towards me or Red.

The beige stallion walked past, “Control yourself, you’re making a scene.” he began to walk away again. None of the few ponies that had been watching the mare seemed to notice him say anything to the pink pegasus.

Red huffed in anger before she took off into the sky. Meanwhile I was trying not to freak out about two of the ponies that set off my instincts thing knowing each other. Whenever this happened it usual led to some stupid conspiracy or evil plan.

‘One I'll probably have to stop I'm sure.’ I thought as I looked to where the stallion had walked off to only to no longer be able to see him, ‘I hate being helpless. My cuteness will only get me so far...’

Bad memory doesn't make me forget everything. I remember that I would usually have either some powers, some magic, or at least a good team of fighters to help me when evil popped up.

These ponies aren’t exactly the first I would pick for a fight to stop an evil plan. I’ve been proven wrong before though. Plenty of times it’s the team you think won’t be able to stop evil that actually does it.

I’ve ran into my fair share of evil plans throughout all of my lives, can even remember coming up with a few too. For some reason I couldn’t remember a single one of the reasons for making them or the results though...

My head shook as I cleared the questions out of my head and started down the road in the opposite direction of the beige stallion. Questions like those only ever led to bad things anyway.

Focusing on my current reality seemed to take my mind off of the thoughts. The multicolored houses seemed to help with that and... ‘Is that an actual gingerbread house?’

As the gears in my head began to turn I couldn’t help but notice I had to of passed the same building at least three times, ‘Sugarcube Corner maybe?’

The place looked even more ridiculous than anywhere else I had seen in a long time. It may of been the appearance that I noticed the absurd place, but it was the unicorn standing out front that really caught my attention.

Rarity stood in the doorway to the sugary home with a worried look on her face as she looked out into the crowd. My memory may not of been the best, but I remembered she was apart of the group going to the castle.

She looked back over her shoulder and said something to whoever was in the building before turning and walking back in. I put the questions of why they were still here out of my head and took off towards the building.

After nearly getting crushed a few more times by random ponies, the entrance to the frosted building was proudly in front of me. If I had nine lives like a cat, eight of them were used to get to where I was at.

“-does not give you the right to accuse him of being evil!” Rarity’s voice was unmistakable, but never had I thought I would hear her mad. It was scary.

“But he’s just like Sleek! Everytime I see him I get a cold chill an-” Spike’s voice was cut off.

“Now Spike,” a mature southern voice started, “Ya know I’m more honest than most, but outright sayin ta sompony that ya think they’re evil, that’s a bit much.” my mind reasoned this was Apple Bloom’s sister.

“If ya ain't got nothin nice to say, don’t say anythin at all.” Apple Bloom’s voice spoke next, “Though he does sort a give ya da creeps if ya look ‘em in da eye.”

“Apple Bloom!” the elder voice scolded.

“What?" she answered back innocently.

Then Scoots voice spoke up, “Come on! If we don’t leave soon then we won’t get to the castle till Celestia lowers the sun.” I heard the sound of hooves on the floor just before Scoots galloped out the door.

“Hey Scootaloo! Wait for us!” Sweetie shouted as she too ran out the door behind Scoots...

‘Her full name is Scootaloo?’ I thought as I heard Rarity sigh from inside.

“Spike I will be talking to Twilight about this.” the unicorn walked out the door with her nose held high.

“What? But I didn’t do anything!” Spike argued as he followed the unicorn out the door.

A few seconds later a regular, orange pony followed him shaking her head. She seemed to stop for a second before starting to turn around.

“Got ya covered!” a bubbly voice sounded just before a pink mare poked her head out of the doorway and put a pair of bags on the orange pony’s flanks, “Can’t forget the equipment. That would of been bad.”

“Thank ya Pinkie. See ya tomorrow.” the sound of the arguing crusaders reached our ears despite the distance they would of put between us by now, “An wish me luck.” she took off down the street.

Pinkie took out a mega phone, “Good luck Applejack!” me and everypony near by was stunned by the sheer volume of the goodbye.

‘If she could focus in one direction it would give Sindel a run for her money, and her scream is the main reason I remember her.’ I thought as I tried to stop the ringing in my ears.

The pink pony put down the mega phone and looked at me, “Good luck to you too.” she then walked right back into the store and shut the door.

For a few seconds I just stared at the door in confusion, ‘That's some awareness of her surroundings... For some reason that reminds me I need to think of a zombie plan... later though.’

After a questioning glance to the door to see if the pink pony would pop out again I took off down the street after Applejack.