Frozen
Spike and Apple Bloom, now covered in urine, as well as a mix of sulfur and hydra dung, were standing among dozens of hungry manticores.
“Spike...” Apple Bloom said, trembling and cowering behind Spike.
“Do. Not. Move!” the voice told Spike.
“Do not move!” he repeated.
“Do not do anything. And under no circumstances run away. No matter what. Don’t! Run! Away!”
“Stay calm Apple Bloom!” Spike said, slowly placing his shaking arm around the pony’s neck.
This did little to calm her down.
“It will all be alright...” he said, gently stroking her mane in an attempt to calm her down. “Just keep your eyes closed and it will all be all right. Trust me!”
“Okay...” she said in a voice that would have made Fluttershy seem like Rainbow Dash.
He closed his own eyes and tried to calm himself down. First he slowed down his breathing, then his heart slowly followed, until finally his hand stopped shaking.
Apple Bloom also calmed down a little. They were still scared, but at least they were not showing it. For whatever reason, she trusted Spike to get them out of here alive, and Spike in his turn placed the same kind of trust in the voice in his head.
One of the manticores leapt forward and landed near them. It let out a violent roar, sending bits of spittle flying from its mouth. Spike and Apple Bloom shivered as the cold droplets hit their faces. Spike pulled Apple Bloom as close as he could and squeezed her tight.
The beast began walking towards them. From time to time it would, intentionally or not, step on a bone and break it, and every time it did this the filly was startled and it took all of her strength not to leap up and start galloping as fast as her little legs would take her. It helped that Spike held her tight and would not let go of her.
“Kid, listen to me. Do not talk back. Do not say anything. Just listen.”
The voice paused.
“You are doing well kid. Just keep focusing on your breathing, and don’t let go of Apple Bloom. It will be fine. Everything will be just fine...”
The manticore was now next to them; they could feel the warmth of it’s breath against their bodies.
“It is waiting for you to do something stupid. As you are right now you look like a large, and particularly smelly, piece of hydra excrements. No matter how hungry it is, it will not eat that.”
The manticore roared. Apple Bloom was trying so hard to keep her mouth shut that she started bleeding from her gums. All her muscles were tense, and her body was overflowing with adrenaline. Spike squished her even harder against his cold scaly body. He was careful not to sink his claws into her soft flesh; screaming like she did in front of Zecora’s hut was the last thing they needed right now.
*Thump* *Thump*
*Thump* *Thump*
*Thump* *Thump*
*Thump, thump*
She had her head so close to Spike’s chest that she could hear his heartbeat echoing through her body. Her own was at least twice as fast.
Spike slowly loosened his grip and gave her a little space to move, but not too much.
Apple Bloom noticed that Spike seemed a lot calmer and more relaxed. She did not know why. Had he given up? Or did he know something she didn't? The thought was both frightening and reassuring.
The manticore roared again and Apple Bloom pushed herself against Spike, expecting him to grab her tightly. He didn't. She slowly opened her eyes to look at Spike. He was standing beside her, one of his arms placed around her. His eyes were closed but he was not forcing them to stay like that. A barely visible smile could be seen on his face. Spike was relieved that the manticore did not attack them yet.
She closed her eyes again, and waited.
The manticore was still circling them and roaring ever so often, but the two did not react anymore.
“It will eventually give up,” the voice reassured Spike.
And it did. After roaring several times and getting close enough that its whiskers could touch them, it eventually left the two of them alone. The two of them stood motionless a little longer.
“It’s over, you can move now.”
Spike let out a deep sigh of relief before tapping Apple Bloom on the shoulder to let her know that is was all over. The two of the opened their eyes almost at the same time and looked around. The manticores were, for the most part, gone. Some of them remained but their attention focused on something other than them. Some were busy chewing the bone of something that once served as their dinner, some were fighting among themselves, but most had either left or gone back to sleep.
"Did that really just work?" Apple Bloom asked turning her head to look at Spike.
"Eyup," he replied, looking back at her.
They stared at each other for a while longer before simultaneously breaking down on the floor laughing like they had never laughed before.
“I can’t believe we are alive.” Spike said, holding onto Apple Bloom.
“Me neither.”
“STOP WASTING TIME!”
At the sound of the voice Spike instantly let go of Apple Bloom and jumped to his legs.
“We... we should get going,” he told her.
A sweet chapter with Spike comforting Applebloom and protecting her during the face to face with the manticore. Don't worry, I will look at the long rhyme you sent me in my pm. I forgot to yesterday, and I deeply apologize for that.
2551729 glad you liked it and no rush, there are 'a few' chapters until that rhyme pops up
Out of curiosity . In this fic will have spikexapplebloom?
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Minor Spoiler
check tags and you should noticed the lack of a Romance tag
MAJOR SPOILER
there will be NO direct Spike/Apple Bloom shipping (love relation), but there will spend a lot of time together (so think of it what you want), so if you came here expecting a shipfic I am sorry to disappoint you
don't you feel all warm and fuzzy inside when someone changes a dislike into a like?
I know I do.
2552165 thats ok i'll be still reading your fic any way you can make one shipping after this fic(which will take a really and i mean really long time)
2552966 so you came for the ship and stayed for the story
2552972>> eeyup
Guess what is my favorite spike shipping
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2552996>>2552996>>2552996nooope
Tip: there aren't very much of this kind of shipping
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2553004 its spikexluna
Especially when spike is able to do dragon magic
2553027 we really need luna emoticons :doublefun:
2553039 heh thats what said
Is it possible for you to do one.. i mean if you want to
2553055 a emoticon or a spike/luna shipfic?
2553064fanfic .when your done with spike the knight.
okay people I know it kind of sound like begging, but...
if all of you who favored Spike the Knight could leave a thumbs up, that would be great
I know I have
2553188 way ahead of ya
I think I may have broken the scale
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either that or they add them
ALSO 500 people read (or at least looked at) the first chapter
2553273 wow
2557552 it's a shared universe of Spike the Knight and a few other stories that I am working on (like the DCU or the lunaverse) also it's a group in which i am the sole member of
since this is the first and only story you don't have to worry about things like continuity or character development that happened elsewhere
Ah, good to see you capitalized this one--but the other two could use some capitalization in their titles as well. Not capitalizing titles drives people off (You must have gotten to that just now I swear it was lowercase in the notifications)
2557768 I am sorry I do not understand what you are trying to say.
if you are referring to the stories title "Spike the Knight" it was originally written with a lowercase 'k' but I have changed that over a week ago, probably fimfic only takes into account the name the story had at the time of its submission.
if you are referring to a particular chapter name, I fail to see which 2 you are referring to, please tell me so I can correct them
if you are referring to my other 2 stories, "We can only change so little" and the "The first Lunar Laws" I think that the way I have written the title is fine.
if you are referring to one or more blog posts I think I have written the title with a capital 'K'
if you are referring to something else please let me know in a reply
we need a :twicrazy: emoticon
okay ppl be warned, chapters 27,28,29 are a little darker
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNER
NO direct Spike/Apple Bloom shipping? Oh thank goodness. Still, it is fine for them to become good friends.
2558012 i read a not so kind element of kindnessi i can handle this then i can handle the other chapters DO NOT READ