//------------------------------// // Glowing Eyes Because... Reasons? // Story: The Completely Normal Pet of Spike the Dragon // by DauntedSuperior //------------------------------// ‘Okay. My eyes can glow on command for some reason. I can see perfectly in the dark, though that might just be cause I'm a cat.’ I thought to myself as I looked over my body in the shattered mirror. It was my first order of business to see if I had changed at all from the dark magic. Couldn’t very well keep this a secret if I looked the part of dark magic wielding kitten, ‘Though that would probably make me look awesome...’ I shook my head as I looked back at my glowing eyes. They were the same amber as before, it’s just that they glowed brightly when I willed them to. Bit confused as to what that did, I just shrugged and jumped down from the countertop. The other room was the same as when I had found it. Nothing noticeable except for the pile of dead wood that used to be a bed frame and not a single other piece of furniture. It was a little bit weird, but probably a minimalist's room, or the rest got stolen over time. ‘Since my eyes glow depending on if I want them to...’ my claws slowly came out as I looked at the wall. I put my paw on the wall and sunk my claws in, ‘Don't hurt the wall...’ I tried pulling down my claw, but found my paw stuck to that same spot like I had wanted it to... A smile broke across my muzzle as my other paw found it’s way onto the wall. Then my first paw sunk it’s claw in further up the wall while I pulled my body up. My hind legs stretched out and I found myself standing perfectly fine on the wall with all my claws dug into the stone. Gravity’s pull was hardly worth registering. Though I didn’t know if that was because of my muscles being juiced up with dark magic or because I was small. Whatever the cause was didn’t matter to me. I was too busy thinking of ways to utilize my new spider-like abilities. Just to check, I lifted my paw up and found no scratch marks what-so-ever. My claws looked the same though. Would of figured they would at least turn transparent or something. It was surprisingly easy to move up the wall. Almost like walking regularly, but I could always feel the pull of gravity towards the floor. It was small though and helped me keep my sense of what’s up and what’s down. With this new amazing discovery I spent the next few minutes climbing all over the walls of the room. Jumping from wall to wall felt as weird as weird could be, but would undoubtedly be helpful if I was chased in the future. Though, my fun wasn’t to last as a voice called from out in the hall, “Scruffy!” I had been mid jump when the Spike’s voice had reached my ears. This lead to me crashing face first into the wall opposite the door. “Scruffy!” Spike called again as I finally began to hear him running down the hallway, “Scruffy where are you!?” As I looked up from where I had landed I saw the door wide open and the light from whatever the little dragon was carrying shining in. I still needed more time to figure out if I had any dangerous powers besides my claws. I tried to get up onto all fours to hide behind the pile of wood, but once again fell to the ground as my body didn’t want to cooperate with me. As I laid there and watched the light get closer to discovering me I reached out with my claw in a vain attempt to shut the door. It was at this point I realized my head hurt beyond belief and I wasn’t thinking straight because of the meeting between my face and the stone wall. Lazily I tried to shut the door from halfway across the room when something happened. As my paw continued waving back and forth to shut the door, a dark purple set of claws materialized from my paw and shot towards the door. It happened so fast that I didn’t notice it in time to stop my paw from moving. The new set of claws followed the exact motion of my paw and slammed the door shut. Pain shot through my head as I heard Spike scream, drop something, and take off the way he had came. My head though felt like it had just gotten hit by a truck. I barely had enough energy to stay awake. Star Swirl’s words echoed to me in my head, ‘It will trickle in gradually like water filling a pool.’ ‘Hasn't been that long since I got this body, so I'm essentially running on empty right now.’ I thought as I tried to get up on all fours, ‘A splitting headache like this has to be from completely draining my magic. If not then I have no idea why my head is hurting so much.’ I fell back to the ground as my body just refused to cooperate. My eyes felt heavy and my vision was beginning to blur, ‘A nap wouldn't be so bad...’ ... ... “Ahhhh!” my eyes shot open as the scream reached my ears. I found new strength as I got up onto all fours, ‘That was Spike!’ the pain at the back of my head was pushed away as I slowly made my way over to the door. ‘Not even an hour since I got these new powers and I can't even catch a wink of sleep...’ the door to the room was now in front of me. I didn’t even remember crossing the room. I lifted up my right paw and extended out my claws. Despite my magic completely empty they still had that black edge to the front of them. Carefully, fully expecting my head to burst open in pain from even attempting this, I pressed my claw into the door. ... No pain. My headache was still very much present, but it didn’t get any worse. I pulled the claw down, making a large cut in the wood. Still no addition to the pain. That settled it. From the crack between the two doors I cut into the wood with my claws and made a large cut towards the floor. It was like a fourth of a circle cut into the wood. After only a moment of cutting like this I started to feel the adrenaline rush winding down. Throwing caution to the wind, both my claws struck the door and started tearing into the spot I had marked out. The sound of breaking wood echoed in the room and the hall on the other side, but I didn’t care. A few seconds later and I had made a hole big enough for me to move through. I practically threw myself through the hole and ran down the hallway towards where I had heard Spike run off to. A flashlight lay on the ground a few feet away from the door, broken and unusable. The thought of Spike being in this place alone was worrying enough, alone and in the dark though? I ran as fast as my four legs could carry me. ‘Knowing my luck, I'm going to have to save him from some gargantuan beast while surrounded by lava, or, something... too tired to think.’ I thought as I took a right at the end of the hallway. I had no time to stop as my face collided with an orange hoof.