Spike opened the door to Twilight’s bedroom and peeked inside. “I heard something break.”
I put my head between the doorway over Spike’s mohawk scales.
“Oopsy...” Twilight smiled over the shattered remains of the bowl. Half-eaten peaches were scattered all over the room.
“What happened?” Spike asked.
Twilight pointed a hoof at me, accusingly. “It’s Trixie’s fault. She put the peaches too close to the bed and I knocked over the bowl when I bounced up and down on the mattress.”
Spike walked inside. “Why were you jumping on the bed?”
“It’s my bed and I do what I want to.”
Spike turned to me. “Trixie, get a broom before somepony gets a shard stuck in her hoof.”
“On it!” I said and ran to the cabinet with orderly placed brooms.
With one in my mouth, I raced back, but stopped in my tracks when I sensed the seriousness in Spike’s tone, “Twilight, do you remember when I went on a dragon migration?” It was the same question he had asked me. Was it a test of sorts? I crouched by the door on the other side of the wall to avoid getting seen.
“Yes, I do seem to remember,” she answered. “A dragon going on migration by foot. That was a very stupid thing to do.”
It was wrong to eavesdrop without their knowledge, but the conversation could prove very informative for all sides involved. I needed more information to have at least some chance of helping them. It was for that reason that I didn’t want to miss out.
“But, you supported me then.”
I stayed quiet so I wouldn’t interrupt the conversation by letting them know of my presence.
“Yes, You were told that you need to sate your aspirations. That advice was stupid. I should have just told you right there and then how bad your idea was.” She shook her head and looked at him. “Why are you even asking me this?”
Their friendship was shaky, and they were clearly expressing it.
“I don’t know. I’m actually sorry I did.”
With appropriate communication, they could mend it, but not if I interrupted them. She just needed to reach out to him.
“It’s okay, wings regrowing dragon.”
I silently gasped upon hearing the rough expression she used.
“Why—why did you just call me that?”
“Don’t you find it odd that all dragons have wings, and yet, you didn’t have them most of your life?”
“What made you bring this up all of a sudden, Twilight? The wings come with the molting. You know this.”
“Hey, if you want to stay in the closet that’s fine by me.” She squinted her shoulders.
“No!” He raised his voice. “If you want to say something, say it!”
“The molting isn’t a metamorphosis. It’s just a regeneration process. You used to have wings even before that, but you forgot about that because you were too young at that time.”
“No, I never had wings before molding... did I?”
“They were big and spikey. The ones you have now vane in comparison.”
I couldn’t resist peeking inside the room.
“I had wings bigger than this?” He reached back with a claw and caressed the small wings on his back.
“Mhm, but then we cut them off.” Grinning, she focused her eyes on his face.
He gasped. “Please, tell me this is just some kind of a sick joke.”
“Everything I’m telling you comes directly from the memories I have. I guess even princesses have a hidden past, ey? Surprise!”
“So you’re not lying, after all.” His voice broke. “It’s all true.”
“You better believe it. You were flying all over the place, making a mess of everything. Wings had to go.”
“No way!” Spike hyperventilated.
“Yup, that’s what happened. Memories don’t lie. Oh, and then they let me keep you, wasn’t that nice?”
He tensed up. “I always thought I was born without wings. I never brought up this issue with you before because I was afraid you’d get curious and would do tests on me.” He looked up at her with teary eyes. “What if you found out that I’m some degenerate freak of nature? I didn’t want you to look at me that way. I liked what we had between us and didn’t want to risk it.” His claws clenched into fists. “But you knew about it, all along. You were a part of it.”
She smiled at him.
“Twilight, I want you to know that I’m not okay with this. I’m not okay with any of this by a long shot!” His body tensed. “It will take me some time to process what you told me. I'll need some alone time, away from this place. For both our sakes.”
I gasped and retracted my head just when he turned to the exit.
“You’re free to do whatever it is that you want to do, wingless dragon. Good luck on your new migration.”
Spike gasped then sighed. “Right… We’ll be having this discussion again in a few days.” His voice broke as he shut the door behind him. “Maybe.” He noticed me.
I hugged both hind legs and bit on my lip. My body shook. I looked up at him and reached out with a hoof toward one of the tensed shoulders.
Spike swatted it away with a claw. “Your sympathy is the last thing I need right now.” He faced away from me and thumped down the hallway.
I wanted to pursue him, but I was afraid I’d only make things worse. Maybe I was the one responsible for everything bad. If I could learn about the spell that I had used and find a way to undo it, perhaps I could make things right again. Getting myself to the library was my best bet for that. If I stayed stuck in the amnesic condition, I might even make a bigger mess of everything. Spike’s departure was a testimony to my ineptitude.
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What a dick.
10063408 Why is telling the truth sometimes regarded as a dick move?
10063446
It's not the truth that's a dick move, it's the delivery and purpose in revealing the truth. Trix-light (That's how I'm going to refer to Trixie in Twilight as) only revealed the truth to spite Spike and cause pain. The fact that she is using the truth to hurt him, and thus indirectly try to hurt Twilight, is the dick move.
10063458 Still, she gets some bonus points for honesty, right? Is the delivery method really more important than the truth itself?
Why don't you consider past Twilight as a dick since she didn't even come clean with Spike?
I don't think anypony should be considered bad for speaking the truth. Speaking the truth is a good thing, not a bad thing.
10063547
she speaking the truth to harm spike in a act of spite towards twilight, it horrible sometimes the truth can be worse then being physically hurt, i mean depending on when this was done to spike twilight would still have been a young child right so she not be the one to make the decision, trusting in celestia knows what she doing, so she not realize how horrible this was for spike yet trixie not revealing those details without that context to what happened, it just seem like a act of cruelty to spike.
im curious isn't that what you intend with this chapter having trixe causing a rift between spike and twilight relationship?
10063598 Indeed, that was the intent of the chapter. I have no problem with the chapter. Some beings react badly to truth and Spike is one of those beings. I'm sure we've all met a few beings in RL who react badly to the truth. They're out there. That's a fact, and I have no issue with said fact.
I'm also not contesting the fact that Trix-light, as 10063458 calls her, might not have the best of intentions in mind for those around her.
But when it comes to the principle, I do wonder. Why would anyone hold ill feelings toward somepony who just told them the truth? A thank you is in order, not scorn. Those who react badly to truth produce more liars in this world. People learn that lying is better than telling the truth. So they lie. I'm not okay with that.
What I'm saying is, not all liars of this world are fully to blame for their lies. Some of the blame goes to those who react badly to somepony telling the truth.
10063034
Because my left arm is messed up, I cannot use a backpack, but I carry things in a messenger-bag. I shall now read the next chapter.
10063622
well this is a truth spikes learned that alter his world view and may permanently ruin his relationship with twilight i will be interesting to see where this goes and how it resolved
Spike will not appreciate Twilight disfiguring him.
10063648 So, you're wearing a purse now? Stylish.
10063664 It's only his view that has changed. Everything else is the same. Trix-light helped him defeat his ignorance. If knowledge is power, he's more powerful than he was before, right?
10063686
Indeed.
10063686
if i was spike i would leave twilight maybe go live in the dragon lands after learning this
Spike pov
this is knowledge that ruined everything the ponies i trusted all my life disfigured me not for my benefit but theirs, what else have they done to me that i dont know what else have they kept from me, all my life i wanted to know who my parents are they told me they dont know is that a lie how can i trust them ever again, how can i trust any pony?
am i a Slave?
for spike ignorance was bliss, he was happy as twilight number one assistant and friend now he not
this knowledge made spike feel powerless
10063703 10063677 The truth will set you free.
What they did to him may be unacceptable. Perhaps even to a point where continued life with ponies is no longer feasible.
Still, somepony telling him about all this is not a dick move in my book. This information should have never been hidden from him in the first place.
Them doing that to Spike was a dick move. Them hiding what they did from Spike was a dick move. But bringing all this to light was the reverse of a dick move, IMO.
10063726
in the end it intent, trixie did it to hurt him not help him and it did hurt him deeply so it was a dick move
we both have differing opinion and that fine see you next chapter
10063664
Good riddance. Mare needs to be locked up.
10063826 We'll see if you get your way.
10063726
I never wrote that it is bad that Spike knows what the ponies do to dragons, merely that he would not appreciate it. Indeed, now that he knows, he might leave these crazy ponies before they do something else terrible to him, thus his knowledge of what ponies do to dragon could improve his welfare.
10064199 Indeed. At the very least, he'll need some soulsearching after learning of his past.
Now I know why Twilight brought this up to Spike now.