Spike the Dragon
I might’ve been willing to help Rarity at the drop of a hat, but my crush on her had long since faded now. In fact the only reason I still help her is because she said herself that she’s come to need me as much as Twilight does. I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Sky recently. We were born around the same time, but she went to another Unicorn, a boy named Glacier Storm, from what I remember. Then one day they just left the academy, I’m sure there was an explanation, but I was too young to understand at the time. But finding out that Glacier Storm was a Guardian of Chaos… that was a bit of a shock. Strange thing is, when Soarin, Ironsparks and I ran into him he didn’t have a weapon, heck his hands were bound by a pair of Everiron Cuffs. If those things were on him, there was no way he was swinging his arm. Soarin and Ironsparks decided to help, but when I saw Sky unconscious, I just had to drag her back to Twilight, she would know what to do.
Helpless. Weak. Useless. Those three words describe how I felt perfectly until Sky woke up for those brief ten seconds. I washed her forehead, trying to keep her cool as Inferno’s medicine kicked in. Inferno came into the room and changed out the bandages, giving me long enough to ask a question or two.
“Councilor Gateway?” I said.
“How many times do I have to say it?” He said in exasperation. “Call me Inferno.”
“Right, Inferno, sorry,” I said. “How do you know how to treat this kind of thing?”
“My mother taught me,” He said. “She was constantly preparing me for the time loop.”
“Time loop?” I asked.
“There are some things that life where I’m from has taught me,” he said. “One; if I can’t trust my uncle I can’t trust myself. Two; if I’ve got a big secret I can’t tell a baby dragon until I’m ready for the reveal… you can go now, she’ll be fine in about ten minutes.” That was a relief to hear. I headed for the throne room, where Cadance, Twilight and the others would be to tell them the news. But that’s when Shining Came back through the mirror. He looked tired, scared and in a hurry all at once.
“Spike! Where’s Twilight!?” he yelled but then collapsed on his face clutching his side.
“Easy!” I said. “Why do you need Twilight!?”
“He’s back… He’s gonna kill Flash if we don’t help!”
“Who’s back!?” I said getting worried. He let out a soft whisper in my ear when everypony came to take him back to the infirmary.
“Tirek.”
Master Chief Flash Sentry
The weekend was peachy. Flash and I spent it hanging out with Twilight and her friends, or playing video games. I had to learn how to do that for Equestrians. Eventually, Monday rolled back around and I had trouble rolling out of bed. For some reason, they decided to have me stay at Twilight’s, probably so I didn’t cause a bit of panic between Flash and Starlight (this world). Lunch period rolled around and I was snoozing through a lecture about parabolic equations when I felt something. In the back of my mind something was wrong. It snapped me awake fast enough for Rarity, who was right next to me, to notice that I woke up for a lecture.
“Chief? Is everything alright?” she whispered. I didn’t have to answer; the collective screams from the cafeteria did that for her. Then the fire alarm went off and everyone who wasn’t near the cafeteria was walking calmly out of the building. Me? I had to get to the cafeteria. I found a shadow between the lockers near the exit and the wall of a branching hallway, which was at the end of the hall I was on. With my “shadowporting” ability, I found myself… in the service room for the food. I snuck out of the room, noticing that there wasn’t a fire anywhere in the area. I entered the cafeteria and saw a demonic centaur threatening a student in the corner.
“You aren’t Flash Sentry!” It said. “Your spirit and appearance might match, but your heart does not! Where is he!?” I realized that the student shivering in the corner was Flash.
“HEY!” I yelled. He turned around and I recognized him. I felt a little pang of fear. Tirek, Master of Darkness.
“Guardian Tenebrae!” he smiled. I thought about fighting him, the cafeteria wouldn’t do well, for me, it was too cramped, and too much fighting would crush all of us. I did the one thing that normally I wouldn’t… I ran.
“You dare flee from a fight, coward!?”
“Not fleeing!” I said. “Relocating!” I ran outside and used my shadowport to get to the roof. I waited for Tirek to bust through the Doorway, when he did…
“Sentry! Where are you!”
“Tenebrae! Engage!” I jumped around the rubble and cut off one of Tirek’s horns. I landed on my feet in the parking lot. “You looking for me?” I saw Shining in the crowd from my peripheral vision, but it didn’t register that he was getting closer. Tirek made a sword materialize in his hand, it looked very simple, leaf shaped without a guard. He raised it and brought it down, I would’ve blocked it (or tried to, that sword was bigger than I was!), but Shining jumped and pushed me out of the way. Unfortunately he took a hit, a large gash on the left side. Twilight picked him up and applied pressure to the wound.
“The Statue,” he said. “I need to get to Equestria!” Twilight took him to the portal and he passed through. All the while I was defending myself from that huge sword. I only know that that happened by watching it from peripheral vision. About five minutes after Shining was through the portal, Tirek stopped fighting.
“My work is done,” then he grabbed Twilight with some dark form of magic that was nothing like my own and pulled him to his hand. “Give me Sinhunter and I’ll let her go.”
“Wait!” I said. “Why do you need it!?” Tirek snapped his fingers and a guy about my age materialized out of his shadow. He was white skinned with black hair. Like me he was strangely dressed, a tunic and scarf with black work pants, boots and a headband.
“I will avenge my father!” he said. “And I will do it with my enemy’s own sword!” did I kill this guy’s father? He didn’t look Kayen so he couldn’t be his, he looked more like somepony else, though I couldn’t tell who.
“The sword, Flash!” Tirek said. “Give Dreamheart your sword, unless you want Princess Friendly to die!” I didn’t ask any more questions, I threw Sinhunter to the guy.