Spike Sparkle age 16 after saving someones life in a act of heroism this young dragon finds himself dead. Luckily for him he has been given a second chance at life; the catch? He has been hired by the Spirit World to be a Spirit Detective!
A My little pony Friendship Is Magic/ Yu Yu Hakusho Fanfic.
It all happened so fast. Spike had almost immediately noticed the bus and pushed that filly out of the way. He didn't even have time to react as the bus hit him; fortunetly for him though life is just filled with curveballs and just so happens to like messing with those whom have led rather boring lives.
As the old saying goes "One story ends, and another begins" and yet despite the situation this dragon seems to agree that would best describe the turn of events for him.
Cover art is by me. (on Hiatus till story is planned out and i have more free time)
Ah Ponyville quite a lovely place is it not? Plenty of small adventures or misadventures have a tendency to happen around here at least once a week if not once a day. Too say the least about the small town this town is anything but boring; ok maybe that is not fair it is possibly the most friendly town anybody could ever the amazing fortune of visiting for merely a day.
Although having plenty of ponies of the various races of pony also known as earth pony, unicorn and Pegasus/pegasai all bunched up together in such a carefree community can have it's ups and downs. For one their is a bunch of racism in the ponies here or as some like to say "Xenophobic" nature of some ponies as a result of being too used to Equestria and nothing else whilst some ponies prefer to have a different change in pace in Ponyville. It is why that Ponyville has been known to have mixed reaction towards anyone that is not a pony, some insult, some just flat out ignore, and some make friends with those whom are not ponies. All in all, despite it's flaws they at least put up with their flaws and tries to show its good side more often then it's bad.
However a small group of ponies tend to be more well known since they are the embodiment's of a very powerful set of weapons known as the 'Elements Of Harmony' each element embodying a very important aspect of Friendship a ideology that has recently become very important too the magical land of Equestria as a whole. As a indirect result of this; Ponyville has become more busier then ever in the past years before Twilight Sparkle had moved to Ponyville. This also boosted in a great number of visitors from far off lands or some new and interesting ponies that are visiting; most of which they prefer to live there and never leave and if they do they tend too leave better ponies.
It appears however that i am merely getting ahead of myself, after all it seems that our main character is slowly starting wake up from his unconscious state as he is slowly rising above the clouds a little. Almost as if he was an angel slowly rising up too the heavens and watching all those whom are beneath his- WHOOPS! Almost went on a rant again sorry about that my dear viewers I am trying my best here; now lets get back on track shall we?~
"ugh...wh-what the?" A young voice speaks out as he opens his eyes for what felt like hours to him. his bright emerald green eyes looking around him as they tried to take in as much detail as possible and almost instantly he realized that he was above the clouds.
Almost immediately after he realized that revelation he comically dropped down desperately trying to swim right back up almost if by magic he would reach the 'surface' again. Luckily for him he did, after all physics tend to work differently depending on the type of situation your in; well at least in this particular case for him.
This young lad's name is Spike. Full name is Spike Sparkle age 16, adopted younger brother and assistant too Twilight Sparkle the element of magic. Unlike those around Ponyville Spike is in fact a dragon; more specifically an infant dragon as dragons have a different lifespan and growth rate in comparison to ponies as a result he would like to be around 3'2 or maybe 4'0 if the author of this story had to guess. His round head certainly compliment his looks a bit especially with that somewhat chubby stomach oh his; his spikes simply shot up a bit and were still well rounded just like the ones on his tail and finally as with all dragons he too has fangs and claws too definitely make him fit the image of a baby dragon that seemed well on his way to growing up into a what teenage dragon looks like after reaching teenage maturity recently.
But enough of that lets get back to the story shall we? Anyways, Spike looked around the sky once more noting that there was oddly enough plenty of ponies circling around the town square no doubt from the look in their eyes they were scared; terrified and...crying?
Come to think of it the dragon also noted that there was a remarkable lot of fillies and colts paying attention to the center of attraction, the colts were all looking away and trying not too let anyone see their tears. Stallions were doing the same as well but were showing their tears in sorrow showing they aren't afraid to show sympathy for what is going on, the Mares though were openly trying to comfort their kids. What had surprised Spike even more was that he even saw a few of his friends trying to hold back their young children a few in particular were only standing there mouths open as they were staring at something he couldn't see.
Spike immediately tried his best to twirl around in this odd flying without wings like state of his. But found himself floating in the air for a few minutes before finally he did a complete back-flip (sort of) and was able too see exactly where all the ponies attention was at the moment.
Now that he had gotten control of the situation a bit so that he could at least move, Spike had noticed 3 things.
One, he realized while he was floating helplessly in the air that all of the ponies were so occupied that they didn't even notice him trying to balance himself mid-flight. And he somehow doubt that a single pony WOULDN'T stare at a wingless baby dragon trying to fly without his wings.
Two, there was a whole trail of tire tracks as if someone had started to speed up greatly and it was apparently leading to a small bus that was right outside of the crowd.
Three: and this ones the kicker. Remember how i had said that Spike was the main character of this story? Well there's just one little issue about that and its sitting there right in dead center of the circle that the crowd was forming.
Welp, this story is succesful, and not just on fimfiction but on fanfiction.net as well. See i knew that more people wrote stories about yu-yu-hakusho on fanfiction.net and not on here as far as i can tell. But i did not expect for so many people to take interest in this story just yet since i only posted up the first chapter in november i believe? and suprisingly alot of people liked this story and i dare say when i complete the first arc of this story it will be the most successful story i have ever written for any fanfiction. Though we will cross that bridge when we come to it, tbh i am just really happy alot of you are liking this story. I hope my further chapters get better from here and you will like them alot.
Now before we go further i must ask you one thing and it the same thing i am asking the people of fanfiction.net.
Do you want to see Sparity in here? Or no Sparity.
Before you go n vote in a link provided or on my poll on this website i want you all to know tha ti am not a fan of Sparity and this is focused on a crossover between MLP: FIM and YU YU Hakusho. As such Sparity and any and all potential romances are not going to play a focusing role unless the story calls for it down the line. This is even more so since i am not a Sparity fan myself, as such if i add Sparity it may or may not end in the way you Sparity lovers want too, so keep that in mind but also in mind that i will still try and make it interesting for all of you to enjoy.
Whew damn sorry long authors note here. Anyways hope you enjoy, and remember, read, review, and please vote!~
"Alright this is just weird" Spike said aloud his words failing to match his exact emotions at the moment.
He didn't understand what was happening in the slightest, 'how exactly did this happen?' he thought to himself as he slowly descended to the ground and right in front of his body. His mind was already trying to recall what had happened to him, and more importantly why was there two Spikes as well as the fact of the matter was how the body on the ground looked rather… different than the one whom was standing.
"Wh-What the?" Spike couldn't help but fail to comment on the body on the ground as he realized that he looked VERY different then compared to how he looked right now.
Remember how I had mentioned Spike previously? Well his body that was on the ground looked a lot different in comparison. The 'Spike' on the ground had a rather round and large head that seemed to fit well with his large round torso. While the Spike that was still standing had a rather lean build but is around the same height as Princess Celestia herself with a height between 5 or 6 ft. It also somewhat complimented his short; stubby arms and legs, the tail however was only about the same length as one of his short arms.
The most disturbing fact is how the smaller Spike was posed. His form was lying down on his side, his left arm lying flat with hand open. His right arm however was twisted a bit as if someone attempted to pull it off, failed, and left him like this. The cuts, scratches and bruises placed at various spots all over his body truly gave the impress this lifeless corpse was indeed dead.
"Okay this has gone from weird to freakish, how do I look so different now!?" He almost shouted not even bothering to look at the ponies around him. Spike knew that these ponies would not even pay the slightest bit of attention to him at this point no matter how much he screamed at them.
Ignoring his thoughts about the ponies; the young drake squatted down to take a good long look at the body. Hesitantly, he reached forward a bit towards the motionless body and was about to touch it when he heard a loud cry and constant profanity being yelled out.
"SCOOTALOO CALM THE FUCK DOWN!" '
"Scootaloo?" Spike thought to himself before turning around too the source of the noise and sure enough he saw three of his best friends two of which were holding the other back.
Scootaloo, Pegasus, age 14 and second oldest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, also one of the three founders of said group. Scootaloo's height while normally was only slightly above Spike's normal height of said dragon if he looked the same as before. Her purple hair looked much like Fonzie if he had a small twirl spike at the end of his tail and Fonzie was female. Her orange coat somehow reminded Spike of fire as he looked at her; though it only matched that same fire in her eyes. Her tail had the same matching colors as her hairstyle but had small little pointing ends on her tail.
"Calm down? CALM DOWN!? HOW CAN I CALM DOWN WITH THAT MURDERER RIGHT IN FRONT OF US! "Scootaloo screamed loudly as the warm salty tears were slowly dripping down her face and onto the orange fur coat as she struggled pitifully in her friends grips. Earning her a lot of looks of sympathy from the crowd as she pointed towards a certain filly that only looked down and crying in front of everyone, Spike on the other hand was only confused more than ever from Scootaloo's shouting as she tried to break free from her best friend's grips on her. The way that the 14 year old Pegasus was shouting at the crying Filly in front of her and shouting at her friends made it clear that she was grieving over the loss of Spike; not that he really minded it was still nice to know that his friends still cared about him even though he's… you know.
"AppleBloom we need to get her out of here right now!" A younger voice shouted at AppleBloom seemingly calmer then she appeared. Spike immediately recognized this voice as Sweetie Belle whom was trying her hardest not to cry right now. Spike couldn't help but stare at both of them in interest as they try their best to hold back Scootaloo whose eyes were still painfully mixed between anguish and rage; a conflict of emotions that he was going to admit only made the filly seem like a pathetic mess.
AppleBloom, Earth Pony, age 15 oldest of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and fellow co-founder youngest sibling of Applejack the Element Of Honesty. AppleBloom's hair style was oddly shaped much like Spikes well; spikes even her tail was oddly shaped like it though at least her red hair color made it a little different then the dragon's namesakes. Her fur coat is a pale light grayish olive color, and yet somehow her coat made one pay more attention to those orange eyes of hers.
Sweetie Belle, Unicorn, age 13, youngest member and co-founder of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Her hairstyle and light grayish harlequin mane were simply fashioned similarly to that of cotton candy; her light grey coat making her seem more 'girly' then compared to the rest of the crusaders if her green eyes didn't already make it clear she was more 'girlish' then compared to AppleBloom and Scootaloo.
"Ah'm way ahead of you Sweetie Belle!" AppleBloom said slightly louder than normal as she tried to push the orange Pegasus out of the way to get her as far away from the scene as possible. Sweetie Bell's horn glowed a light grassy green as it slowly engulfed her friend too keep her down and make it easier for the earth pony and unicorn push Scootaloo out of the way. The Pegasus in question struggled against her friend's grips even harder than before as the crusaders were slowly trying to walk away, though Scootaloo was certainly making it difficult to the point it was hard for Sweetie Bell hold her down with her magic and have AppleBloom hold onto the orange pony as they slowly managed to get away from the scene of the incident.
"Ah'm really sorry Ya'll about this really!" AppleBloom said as she continued to push Scootaloo away with Sweetie Bell only grunting heavily as she slowly walks with the earth pony and pegasus. As they walk Scootaloo would only try and escape their grip her broken cries would echo around the town as she is carried off leaving the town ponies to look down at Spike's body as a few more ponies walked near the said body.
Spike looked towards the direction of these two new ponies almost immediately noting that they were from the local hospital, already thinking that they were here for the corpse lying down on the floor at the moment. Sure enough one of the earth ponies one being blue and the other one being green and both were wearing those strange white coats. The stallion in green kneeled down in front of the motionless body, before he started to poke and prod the baby dragon for a few minutes while the blue one would walk towards the young pink filly that was only staring there motionlessly as the tears fell from her face.
"Hey what's your name youngster?" The dark blue stallion said as he sat down in front of the crying filly and started to check her for injuries; it as that moment Spike remembered that the name of the pink filly was Diamond Tiara a former bully of him and his friends before she turned over a new leaf. He instantly recognized that her hair and mane basically screamed 'rich person' hell, even the mark of the tiara she usually wears upon her head that normally matched the mark on her rump is a flat out sign saying that she is from a very wealthy family; that is if the fillys blue eyes didn't already make it clear enough already.
"It-It's D-Di-Diamond Tiara" She said with a whimper as the stallion checked the slightly injured filly for any kind of injuries. After a few moments of checking the filly the stallion near Diamond Tiara looked towards his partner with a slight relived tone before talking again.
"This ones all right, just a few injuries but nothing serious" He said as his partner finishes checking Spike's body for anything that would even prove that he was still alive at the moment and was merely unconscious. The green stallion got up before he picked up Spike's body and placed the deceased dragon on his back, the solemn look on his faced showed how he was feeling at the moment.
"At least one of them is alright..." The green pony commented as his partner nodded and walked away from the scene, though the comment the green stallion made it painfully clear to Spike that he had died and somehow turned into a ghost. But how did he die? What had caused him to turn into a ghost?
"Ok Spike think try to remember what happened earlier" The dragon said to himself as his mind started to wander backwards to where the whole day began…
{ 6 hours earlier }
It was already morning in the town of Ponyville, Celestia herself had already raised the sun and made it shine so very bright today, and yet it only seemed to bring out the radiant beauty from the sun as its light shined down upon the small little town. The first rays of sunshine managed to squeeze its way through the window of the so called 'Castle Of Friendship' and more importantly shined down upon Spike whom was still in his normal looking appearance.
"Uhgh, I hate mornings" The young drake said as he got out of his bed. He rubbed his eyes as he walked feeling a bit exhausted even though it was around 10 in the morning. Spike had never really been a morning dragon always preferring to sleep in during the day.
Spike however was able to get over the fact he was missing out on some sleep. The reason for this was because he was going to hang out with a few of his friends for the 'Friendship Festival'. This new festival that was introduced around a year ago was meant to celebrate your family and friends just having a good time, and more importantly to be grateful for the friendships they have with others whether they are pony or not.
Spike shook the thoughts out of his mind as he walked towards the kitchen and swiftly prepared breakfast. He didn't make anything fancy just a few pancakes and nothing else before he set them upon a table in the dining room where he noticed a scroll with some words scribbled in it.
'Dear Spike,
I am sorry that me and the girls are unable to spend the day with you, AppleBloom, Sweetie Bell and Scootaloo. Unfortunately something is I have no idea exactly but I do know that it involved the Elements Of Harmony in some way and how each of us have been feeling strange as of late.
I really hope you can forgive me for this, I really wanted to bring you with us. The others wanted to do so as well, but we eventually decided to leave you so that you may 'hang out' (I have no idea if that's the term to use) with the others.
I hope you're not too mad Spike, and I promise you we will hang out once we come back tomorrow.
From, Twilight Sparkle.
P.S, Pinkie Pie says hi and she left you a sapphire cupcake at Sugar Cube Corner.'
"Heh, typical Pinkie Pie" Spike said as he heard the door to the room open. He quickly hid the scroll underneath the table as his friends walked into the room, he didn't need to look twice when he saw the colors of orange, yellow, and white walk near the tables.
"Howdy Spike" Turning his head he waved at AppleBloom whom he noted was really excited about the festival. Though it wasn't really difficult to notice considering how wide she was smiling at the moment.
"Woah Spike did you make all of this for us!" Scootaloo said as her mouth began watering from the sight of pancakes that had a bit of whipped cream on them. Spike chuckled a bit at her reaction before he began to speak to her.
"Yeah figured I should make something light since we're going to eat a lot during the festival" Spike commented as he began to eat some of the pancakes, truth be told he was really excited for the festival even if he wasn't able to spend it with Twilight he at least could spend it with a few of his friends.
"Well, what are we really waiting for? The festivals going to start in a few minutes!" Sweetie Bell said with glee after she pretty much wolfed down those pancakes and ran out of the room. Completely neglecting the fact she had some food left over on her face as she ran out of the room to the festival no doubt.
"Should we tell her that she still has whipped cream on her face?" Spike asked the other fillies as they finished eating and got out of their chairs. AppleBloom and Scootaloo looked at each other for a few moments, they grinned as they looked at the drake again.
"No"
"Yeah I didn't think so" Spike quipped before getting of the chair and began running after Sweetie Bell.
It didn't take too long for the crusaders and assistant to catch up too Sweetie Bell, the 3 of them finally managed to walk outside of the castle and almost instantly noticed that Sweetie Bell was talking to a pink filly Spike immediately recognized as Diamond Tiara. In the young drakes mind he started to scream that he didn't really like this certain filly in the slightest, but he also did his best to hide it in reality not wanting to spoil the day for him and his friends.
Sweetie Bell turned towards her friends before smiling and waving at them, it was then that spike noticed they were standing in front of a 'Pumpkin Shot' game.
"Oh there they are!" Diamond Tiara said as she waved at Spike and his companions. The assistant winced for a few seconds as she spoke but he did not make much of a big deal of it. He instead pushed those feelings down and pressed them into that locked box of hidden emotions and threw away the key as he walked towards the pink filly.
"Glad to see your joining us today Diamond Tiara" Spike said trying his best to mask his emotions a bit, thankfully his acting lessons paid off as the fillies bought his attempt to hide his emotions.
"Likewise Spike, it's nice to get away from my mom even if it's for a day" The rich filly responded as happily one can be when they are away from someone they truly hate. Spike could actually agree with that at least, though he did not say that out loud in fear for the repercussions that it would bring to the group on a day that was meant to be a happy occasion.
"So are you 5 going to play a round of pumpkin toss or are you looking to chat away the day hmm?" The unicorn stallion that was in charge of the pumpkin toss game teased them a bit in a joking manner.
"Oh um sure, what do you girls think?" Spike said knowing he was going to play anyways, the girls all mumbled in agreement before the unicorn started to speak again.
"Right now, thing is because of a incident that happened last year I can't let you use the catapult but..." The manager of the booth suddenly pulled out a bow and arrow toy set collection, of course it was modified that ponies could use them no matter how old they are. Thankfully the top of the 'arrow' was replaced by some strange looking rubber that honestly made Spike think of plungers for some reason.
"The arrows here work almost like real ones, thing is you have to aim it up high and it will hit one of the pumpkins on the field, the farther you get the better your prize will be" The stallion explained as he brought of a wide collection of prizes that the kids could earn in this one game.
Spike turned his head towards the 'field' where the pumpkins were all sitting. In truth it was kinda large about as large as a swimming pool would be, though I digress here lets get back to the story hmm?
"Ok sure I will play"
"Alright that will be 5 bits" The unicorn said with a tone that basically said 'your going to fail but I am going to watch anyways' though that tone only made Spike want to try and win the big prize to show the pony who's boss.
"So what's the prize I get for hitting the middle pumpkin?" Spike asked in a curious tone, the stallion had simply placed a few coupons on the table in response before answering.
"A few coupons for the games and the rest of the coupons are ones for SugarCube Corner, that is IF you hit the main pumpkin" The stallion said in a obviously fake mocking tone no doubt to try and goat Spike into playing more then he should.
Unfortunately for the unicorn this young drake had more then a few skills besides being a assistant.
Spike grabbed the bow and arrow before aiming it, the familiar sensation of holding a bow had almost instantly registered in his mind. The mind in question began to think almost like a supercomputer working on a long string of math equations as he took in the weight of the arrow itself and the current of the wind. His mind calculated the possible paths the arrow could take before deciding on the best one and letting go of the arrow.
The arrow flew through the air for a few good seconds, almost as if it was a bird taking flight to the skies above. The arrow landed on its target, dead center of the pumpkin target; a shot that would have pierced right into its core of it had been a real arrow.
The young dragon grinned as he stared towards the unicorn whom only looked on mouth gaped in surprise from the casual act the young dragon displayed. The store owner wasn't even able to react to Spike as the young drake grabbed the coupons and walked off with the fillies.
"Spike. That. Was. AWESOME!" Scootaloo exclaimed loudly and jumped into the air, letting her wings flutter for a few seconds before landing into the ground once more.
"No kidding ah didn't know you could do that Spike" AppleBloom joined in with her cheering, making Spike blush a bit in embarrassment.
"It wasn't really much of anything really" Spike commented not used to all the praise he was getting.
"Are you kidding me? You only shot one arrow and you got the pumpkin easily that was amazing!" Sweetie Belle said happily as she started to jump up and down a bit in excitement, even Diamond Tiara looked impressed.
"It really was amazing, where did you learn how to do that?" Diamond Tiara asked, Spike blushed slightly more before he opened his mouth to explain.
"Well erm, to save some time I will try and give you the dumbed down version" the crusaders and former bully leaned in a bit closer to listen to the assistant.
"All right a long time ago me and Twilight both lived in Canterlot with Twilight's mom dad and brother. During that time Shining Armor was still trying to get into the royal guards and because of that he always needed a sparring partner; since dragons are naturally pain tolerant-"
"Um Spike what does 'panic tool-er-ia-ance' mean?" AppleBloom sheepishly asked in embarrassment letting out a little 'sqee' as she does so. Spike chuckled a bit at the display before he continued.
"It's pain tolerance AppleBloom. Now hush and let me continue, anyways as I was saying. Shining Armor needed a sparring partner, now since dragons are more immune to pain naturally he decided that he should have me be his sparing partner and even showed me the best ways to defend myself if a pony attacks me. Some of the ways he taught me relate to survival skills, hoof-to-hoof combat, archery, and also how to escape a unicorns grip while being held down with their magic" Spike explained as the young fillies listened in on his small tale. Needless to say the four of them were genuinely surprised at how he admitted he knew all those things.
"Wow Spike I didn't know that you were so talented in things other then house cleaning" Diamond Tiara joked in a obviously playful tone Spike caught onto the mischievous insult before preparing one of his own.
"This is coming from you, the filly that's the daughter of Filthy Rich and has around ten servants that are willing to wipe your flank for a few bits"
"Coming from the dragon that is always used as an experiment for magic" Scootaloo joined in on the banter which earned a scoff from Spike.
"Oh wow real scary, the girl that prefers the scooter over her wings trying to insult me how frightening" Spike said as sarcastically as he could as he clapped his claws/hands? This only earned a raspberry from the orange pegasus.
"Hah you just got told Scootaloo!" Sweetie Bell said with a small laugh finding this situation humorous.
"Oh hush you dictionary, let's not forget about that plan you had involving your magic a week ago!"
"Hey now that's not fair me and Sweets weren't able to see that bear!"
"It was right infront of you how could you not see it!"
I erm ah, Spike help me out here!" AppleBloom begged not able to think of a good argument for this one.
"Mm nah, I rather watch and eat popcorn" Spike said casually which caused the group to go completely silent before all of them suddenly started snickering a bit. The snickers turned to chuckles, and the chuckles turned into fairy loud laughter as the group of kids started to laugh so loud that some ponies looked at thin oddly but simply looked the other way and let the kids laugh and have fun.
The laughter took a few good minutes to die down but even then the crusaders, the rich girl, and the dragon couldn't help but let out a few snickers here and there. It was then that Spike had to admit, he was really happy that Twilight had left him in the dark about an adventure that might or might not happen, because of the fact it had allowed him to spend this holiday with a few of his good friends and be sharing this amazing moment of laughter and happiness with them.
The girls smiled and laughed a bit at him before they finally started to cough from how loudly they were laughing and eventually they stopped laughing all together. The young drake took the time to look at his friends as they started to calm down, even though he was sure they would be fine without them he knew from their faces and how they looked at him that they were glad to have him here as well.
But the next few minutes would forever change the lives of the five minutes would change the lives of not just the five friends but the lives that were closest to them and bring them closer to each other then before.
"Hey Diamond Tiara I forgot till just now, where's Silver Spoon?" Spike inquired noting how the group was missing a certain silver coated filly that normally was around Diamond Tiara wherever she went.
"Oh that's right I forgot to tell you, Silver Spoon got sick and she won't be able to join us for the festival this year"
"Really? What got her so sick?" Scootaloo asked a little interested and wondering what caused the filly to miss out on a important event.
"That's the weird thing nobody knows, she just randomly got sick, doctors are going to take a look at her later and make sure that she isn't serious sick" The former school bully explained which had earned her a few nods of agreement from everyone.
"She might have lied about getting sick though" Spikes comment got him a few confused stares from the rest of the of his small group.
"Why would you think she would lie about something like that to her?" AppleBloom said in confusion not liking where this concept was going in the slightest. A large part of her gut was telling her to stop this before it gets really ugly but she didn't know what words exactly to say to get Spike to step down.
"Simple. Diamond Tiara was a school bully for the three of you; she had Silver Spoon with her since the first time they bullied you. Need I remind you of what happened between Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon after diamond lost the class president election" Spike asked which earned a cringe from Diamond Tiara whom looked down at the ground feeling bad about herself for what had happened.
The rest of the crusaders didn't find their voices for a few minutes, each of them knew exactly that Spike had meant the small fight that had broken out between the two bully friends. Silver Spoon had taunted Diamond Tiara relentlessly and caused the filly to run off in tears, none of the crusaders could believe that she was crying at first and that lead to them all discovering that her mother was a 'Filthy Rich pony snob that society would be better off if they just ran off and left the same ones alone' as Spike put it.
"Even if we take that account you have to remember one thing Tiara" Diamond Tiara looked up at the dragon as if he was a person that knew all the knowledge in the word and she was a mere peasant looking for answers about a specific topic.
"You were the one to blackmail the crusaders. You were the one that caused Babs Seed to bully her cousin and friends by taking advantage of her bullied past. You were the one that insulted Scootaloo's handicap on the topic of flying, and you were the one that continued to be an all around jerk to every pony in your class." Spike said as he continued to dish out true fact after fact each small word feeling far worse then a critical blow and each word slowly but surely started to bring her closer to tears.
"B-bu-but"
"You mom had nothing to do with those incidents, yes she basically forced you to try and cheat your way to the top but you had the strength to turn your back on her and become your own pony. Just imagine from what I said right now; how much worse would you be if the girls DIDN'T help you?" Diamond Tiara gasped and started to feel those warm salty tears threaten to crawl out of her eyes. But she refused to cry infront of her friends, trying to trick her mind into thinking happier thoughts so that she won't cry infront of them.
"Spike what the hay was that for, that was uncalled for!" Sweetie Bell said not understanding why Spike was acting like this way, she didn't like this at all and neither did the others.
"Oh please you know your thinking the same thing, besides for all I know Silver Spoon might really be sick but what if she's not and is still angry Tiara? What are you going to do to make it up to her?" Spike interrogated the poor filly giving her at least an idea on how to make her situation a bit better.
In the instant that Spike said that Diamond Tiara felt the gears work like clockwork in her head. She knew simply buying something with money that her parents have would not make it up to her but what else could she do? She was simply too unskilled in well anything related to any construction work but still skilled enough to know her homework very well at least...
"Well..um..." She started trying to think of something, ANYTHING to answer the dragon that was seemingly bullying her.
"What about one of the girls?" Scootaloo asked quickly thinking of a suggestion too which Spike smiled finally getting them all right where he wanted them.
"Of course, Rarity is great at making dresses, and she has been looking for an excuse to teach someone what she knows about seeing and and other forms of art" Spike said in a casual tone while subtly giving Diamond Tiara a hint of what she should do. Something that made her eyes go wide as the realization hit her, and just like that the pieces of the small puzzle had all fit together for the pony.
"Y-Your right, b-but how will I-"
"Let me handle that" Spike said as he reached towards his back and casually popped off one of his spikes as if they were a cap of some sorts and inside were a spare scroll and quill. Moving quickly he started to write down the contents of that scroll before he would hand it to Diamond Tiara.
'Dear Rarity,
It's me Spike, listen Diamond Tiara is trying her best to help out others then herself ever since that whole class president election not long ago. I am certain that she could use the help of some other adult role model besides her mother, with that in mind I am hoping that you take some time to hell her out with a unique dress. Not one for say the gala, but one that is meant from one friend to the other.
The catch? I am asking you to teach her how to make her own dress so Diamond Tiara can say 100% she made it as a effort to say she's sorry to Silver Spoon. I hope that you have the time to help her out and I am certain that she will be very grateful for this.
Love, Spike
P.S.
Think you can help me stock up on a lot of gemstones whenever you get the chance between your business, and Diamond Tiara? I began running out yesterday and need to stock up on them since apparently they are the only things that actually fill me up!'
With the scroll completely written down spike placed the quill back into the cap before placing it into his back again. The scroll however he threw into the air and blasted it with green fire and caused it to deliver itself too Rarity, he then turned towards the pink filly before he spoke again. {1}
"You should probably head over to Rarity's boutique, she's probably already agreed"
"R-really!? T-THANK YOU SPIKE!" Diamond Tiara squealed happily and hugged the dragon before she began to walk off taking her time and feeling rather relaxed after that short ordeal.
"You planned this out from the beginning didn't you?" All eyes turned towards Sweetie Bell besides Spike whom only stared on as Diamond Tiara walked away. "You knew that we would get into a fight, and you knew that she would try and find a way out with her money but instead you have her the best alternative you could; and the only way to do that was to make it seem like she had no way out of th mess..." Sweetie Belle pointed out with a tone that made it clear that she was thinking at a rate that could make a super computers brain hurt.
"Oh? And what gave you that idea?" Spike said in a smug tone which earned a short laugh from Scootaloo.
"And here I was worried you were about to go psycho nine on her ass!" Scootaloo laughed as she sat down on her rump earning her a few glances from her friends but Spike only chuckled at the comment.
"Heh maybe, anyways the fairs still going on we should have fun while we are here."
Before any of the ponies could respond there was loud screams filling the air. Not a single one of them were screams of people having fun, no these were screams of terror as they headed towards their doom.
Spike turned his head towards the sounds of the screaming, and noted that Diamond Tiara was standing still as she was facing the directions of where the screams were coming from. It was then that the young drake noticed that there was a wagon filled with multiple ponies no doubt about that, thing is the ponies were making that cart even heavier and were trapped on the inside of it. With the laws of physics applying that would mean the cart would depend that hill at a faster rate than normal; now applying the laws of trajectory to all of that and Spike instantly saw where the cart was going to hit.
The cart would roll off that hill flying upwards for a few seconds, once it had landed the cart would actually do a few rolls but the path it was on...
"Diamond Tiara!" Spike shouted and ran after the filly whose hooves were frozen to the ground. There she was staring death right in the face and now she was to scared to move, she didn't know what was wrong with her her mind was screaming at her body to move and yet her body refused to respond. The cart was barreling closer and closer every second that passed by and here she was unable to do anything even as death was about to claim her... At least that's what it tried to do and failed.
"Get out of the way dumb ass!" Spike shouted as he pushed his friend out of the way, Diamond Tiara gasped as she felt her body being pushed away from the cart.
It was almost like it as in slow motion as the pony's body glided through the air, the cart continued to mercilessly hurl itself towards the dragon that was still in the path of the cart, said dragon gasped in surprise as his selfless act finally played out in his head. He knew that from how fast the cart was moving that getting out of the way was imply not likely. The reasons why is because just the other day his scales had molted and without them he was no doubt going to take a full force hit from that cart in the position he is now, but he was still going to try and get away from the cart and survive the impact-
At that moment the cart had finally reached its prey, almost like a bull rushing towards a red cape with the intent to destory. Spike's body was hit full force by the cart, knocking the wind out of him in an instant and sending his body flying through the air as if someone had uppercutted him and he was rolling mid air. The ponies around him could only look on in terror as the young drake's body flew, he had to admit it in these last few moments he had that watching them be worried for his safety like this was somewhat bittersweet as he knew that the second his body would land on the ground it would all be over. Yet despite this the ponies were all staring at him hoping that he would survive, even ponies that didn't even know the dragon at all were staring.
'I guess... that you don't need to be friends with someone to hope they can survive...' Those were Spike's finaly thoughts as his small body hit the ground with a loud and deafening 'THUD' and bounced as his bones cracked on the inside. He couldn't help but yell out in pure agony as he slid across the ground for a few short moments before finally it stopped and the young drake sat there lying down on the ground motionless...
{Present Time}
"Huh.." Spike commented as he looked at the ground where his body had made impact, one of his spikes had fallen off his original body from the moment his back connected with the ground. So it was easy to identify thats where his body landed with that loud thud, that and the small streak of blood on the ground and dirt as if something forced its way through made it even more obvious now thathe was looking at it from a different angle.
"So I sacrificed my life for a filly I barely knew besides her being a bully? …...is this it?" Spike asked himself as he sat down with a depressing tone as he watched the ponies half-heartidly try and go back to their day but the accident that occurred moments before made it simply impossible.
"So thats the end? I am roadkill?" He asked himself wondering if anyone would indeed answer before he got a sudden thought.
"But if that's me with the hospital ponies? Then how am I here?...unless... I TURNED INTO A GHOST!?" Spike shouted not caring about how loud he was since the ponies couldn't see or hear him at the moment.
He did not expect to hear clapping from behind him.
Spike turned his head to the source of the noise so fast that he felt a few bones crack slightly. Well he techincally doesn't have bones anymore but whatever, his young eyes widened once he saw that there were two individuals looking at him, one of which he knew well.
This pony was known as an alicorn her fur was as dark as the midnight sky, and so were the wings she had on her sides that displayed an aura of elagance that would take decades to match. The horn seemed so very sharp and stiff that it looked like it was ready to pierce a hole through anything, her blue eyes shimmered with kidness as much as the strange mark of a moon with a few black blots behind it did. Her hair though made her seem so very radiant as it always moved even though she was merely standing upon the air rather then walking on it let alone the ground. Spike knew her as Princess Luna, the guardian of the moon that watches over the night and one of the two princesses that have ruled Equestria for years together.
The other individual looked like she did not even belong there at all, in fact she looked surprisingly human I say surprisingly because even I do not know her species. In fact I will call her human because she looked exactly like a human woman would with her long blue hair pulled up into a ponytail and purple eyes. Her clothing consisted of an light-pink kimono with a white obi sash on it, and her skin was the same color you would expect form any kind of anime girl would have. The only other thing that was noteworthy about her was the fact she was riding on a paddle of sorts; Spike was actually somewhat afraid to ask what it was for.
It also didn't help the fact that Princess Luna appeared to be more see-through at the moment and the human was merely looking on and clapping her hands as if Spike had won the game.
"Bingo you won the main prize!~"
Already Spike felt like he was going to have a panic attack from the stress of the situation.
Welp this was fun to write, now if you will excuse me i am off to write the next chapter. till next time everyone!~
{1} This is my headcanon for Spike's namesakes. Deal with it >W>
You know something? There was a lot of things that Spke could tolerate in life now that he thought of it even though he was only 16 and most of his friends were around their 20's at most as far as he knew. Though to be truthful there's a limit of how much anger someone can bottle in, for example during the time his friends had left for cloudsdale without him to cheer on Rainbow Dash when she needed it. Sure he had been stuck in bed with two broken legs due to someone accidently dropping a piano from a overhead truck; but it still pissed him off to know end that he only had 6 books to reread and none of his friends came by to tell him about Rainbow Dash. To say the least he was VERY angry at that and almost bursted into flames from his anger and it took Twilight Sparkle MONTHS to earn his forgiveness from that act.
However considering the fact he just died and now this strange diamond dog resembling creature was sitting on a paddle while Luna only looked on humorlessly. It was sufficed to say that Spike the dragon had finally reached his breaking point with his pure undying rage.
“WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON HERE?!” Spike shouted so loud that if those ponies could hear ghosts then he would have most likely bursted their eardrums from how loud he was at that moment in time. The two different individuals couldn't help but try and refrain from laughing at Spikes shock not that the situation wasn't funny too them in this case. Spike however did not know what was so funny about the situation, cause you know he's dead and all.
"Hehe well Spike when someone dies suddenly like you did they are unable to accept that they are dead at first and as a result they turn into ghosts" the human had explained before Luna started to fly down towards Spike her see-through light blue body landing into the floor and practically emitting the aura that she's done this a thousand times already.
"Dearest Spike" said name looked at Luna still confused about the situation "As you can already tell thou has suffered a most unfortunate end however..."
"You are being given a second chance" The one just sitting down on her paddle said in a tone that spike immediately recognized that she has been through this before.
Wait... What did she just say?
"Wait..what? What do you mean?" Spike asked and the only response was that Luna chuckled a bit no doubt finding a bit of dark humor in this situation. The actions only confused Spike as the human woman floated down next to him before she started too talk again.
"You see Spike it's really funny, none of us were expecting for you to die today. Thing is since you died way ealier then expected we were all thrown through a huge loop which only got worse since our lord Koenma wishes too speak with you about issues rearding where your are going in the afterlife” The strange lady had told him in a cheerful voice, Spike made a mental note to try and introduce this woman too Pinkie Pie or even Twilight whenever he got the chance but he needed to keep his head in the game right now.
"Wait what? What do you mean? Are you implying that Diamond Tiara would have died if I didn't do anything!?" Spike exclaimed in confusion now finding himself to be more angry then before.
The human woman simply sighed as she took out a book with the title saying "Dead Residents Checklist" before flipping the pages over and over till she finally stopped.
"Ah yes, Diamond Tiara, says right here had you not interfered she would have survived the accident but would have suffered amnesia and would have broken her right foreleg but otherwise she would have been fine!" She exclaimed while closing her eyes as she shut the book before looked up at Spike again whom was already on his back in disbelief and shock from founding out his death was practically pointless.
"I... I can't... I can't believe that my death was completely pointless!" Luna nodded her head at Spikes exclamation.
"Thou are in the right too be angry dearest friend however, thou has been giveth a deal to lighten the mood of the situation" Luna explained to a now even more confused Spike who was scratching his head in confusion.
"What kind of deal can make this situation better? My death was next to pointless and I am still dead?" Spike asked in genuine confusion before turning towards the human woman who only smiled in response to the situation.
"You see Spike even though I can't really give you all the details, my boss has decided to give you a second chance to return to life...if you accept the deal of course" The human said in a honest and happy tone that reminded Spike of his friend Pinkie Pie. He decided to take a moment too think about what was going on here.
First off he was dead, no question about that. He had died saving Diamond Tiara from a incoming cart that would have killed her on impact. Somehow he has a whole new body while his old one was taken away to the hospital no doubt to be examined what caused his death or simply to be cleaned. And now he has a human [Lyra and her Anthropologist friends would freak out right now]
“Well…. Alright, let's get going then” Spike finally answered with a smile before said smile turned into a frown as he realized something that he should have realized from the start.
“Wait, how are we going to get… Wherever it is we are going?” Spike asked only earning a chuckle from the giggity woman infront of him.
“Why that's easy of course, Luna is going to carry you on her back while i’m” She sat down onto her paddle as if she was merely sitting on a park bench. At least that’s the best comparison that Spike could come up with at the moment “Am going to ride on my paddle all the way there, besides it will be a good time for luna to explain a few things to you catch up with her” she before flying off into the distance leaving the dragon and alicorn alone for the moment.
Spike sighed at the obvious ploy that she had, it wasn’t like it was unusual for someone to leave him alone with one of his many friends [most of which were female] in order for that whole ‘leave two people together and they will become lovers’ trick. Unfortunately for her the human didn’t take into account that he had lived in Canterlot for a large chunk of his life, and at the time Twilight was still growing up meaning she needed a babysitter. It was simply luck that Twilight was babysitted Princess Cadence whom was known as the princess of love; and as such whenever Twilight or Spike was curious they would ask a few questions about love in general. Though i, the teller of this little tale am once again procrastinating here so let's get a move on shall we Spike?
Spike suddenly shook his head as he finally processed Luna had asked him a question, yet again he was caught up in his internal monologue and missed the question though he knew instantly that Luna meant to asked him to hop onto her back since she was turned around with her back facing him and wings opened ready to take flight. Not wanting to once again to fall right into a monologue he quickly hopped right onto the Alicorns back before she took right off into the sky; Spike barely got to catch a glimpse of PonyVille as they flew up higher and higher above the clouds of the town the dragon had lived in for the past few years.
“So Luna this person we are meeting, you never told me their name” Spike commented as he tried his best not to look down again, the feeling of air splashing against his face at a rapid pace almost made his eyes water. He couldn't describe how it felt to be flying ontop of Luna’s back then again considering how he couldn't really describe how it felt when he was riding on Twilight Sparkles back through the air some time ago it real didn't bother him even though he was flying higher and higher above the clouds.
“The person's name is Prince Koenma” The spectral alicorn had stated her face furrowing a little, “Despite his attitude and appearance he holds the important role of decision; more specifically the choice where one's soul shall end up after death” Spikes eyes almost bulged out of his head once he processed this information.
“Needless to say young Spike, thou must choose thou words carefully” Spike could only agree by shaking his head in agreement, the mere thought of meeting someone that could decide whether he goes to heaven or hell was simply… frightening to say the least.
In his mind he began to imagine what kind of a person this Koenma guy was, sure he must look like; he could see it now, a giant monster that is horribly disfigured enough to make even Discord the god of chaos himself squeal like a little girl. Complete with a huge set of horns and a long tongue slipping out of its mouth and dripping acid that's strong enough to burn through the floor.
Spike gulped audibly as he felt Luna landing into some solid concrete, making his thoughts somewhat scattered but just enough for him to keep that image photographed in his mind. He finally got off the spectral alicorn whom was simply staring straight ahead at a VERY huge building that even made the entirety of Canterlot [the capital of equestria] look small in comparison.
“Wow” Spike said in amazement, Luna could only chuckle at his response.
“We have said the same thing about the castle the first time we traveled here” Luna commented as she walked up towards the building and knocked onto it for a few moments. The duo had waited there patiently for a response for a good minute, said minute was filled with silence not even a cricket sound could be heard until Spike could feel that the veins in Luna’s head had popped out in anger for a moment and he quickly covered his ears.
“ATTENTION THY FRIENDS IT IS I PRINCESS LUNA WE HATH COME TO DELIVER YOUNG SPIKE, SO ASK THAT THOU OPEN THIS DOOR!” Luna had shouted loudly in her trademark royal canterlot voice, Spike could feel his eardrums feeling like they were about to burst from the commanding tone that boomed far worse the thunder.
After the ringing in his ears slowly subsided the doors slowly but surely started to open. Somehow Spike got the feeling that he wasn't the first person to think that the inside of the hallway that was revealed once they were opened resembled somewhat like a giant throat then anything else. He did however note that it did certainly fit the mood of someone going to their God and meet their judgement of their fate in the afterlife, though he wasn't sure it fit him still considering that he was offered a deal to be brought back.
Spike felt a shiver down his spikes as he watched Luna slowly move forward at a calm pace. Now that he was thinking about it calmly while still feeling like, he was walking right into a trap just like Grognak the Barbarian and the tale of the batwoman comic he liked to read sometimes. Despite the looks of that ‘giant throat’ he walked side by side with Luna whom remained as calm as ever as if this wasn’t anything special. Spike had to admit to himself that he didn’t really think she should be surprised that she was reacting any differently, though he chalked that up too her seeing many things throughout the years of protecting her people's dreams…. And also the fact she was turned into Nightmare Moon and trapped in the moon for a thousand years.
The two of them walked in silence, only the sounds of footsteps/hoofsteps were all that could be heard in hallway, both of them felt awkward the longer they walked. The awkwardness was more or less starting to feel annoying a bit as he was feeling rather impatient to get back to life, and yet he still couldn't get the idea of the deal that will bring him back to life out of his mind. The absurdity of it all still made him think about what kind of mess he was walking into and how he could get out of it...and maybe give his friends a scare after his death.
Spike knew that they both had reached their destination at the end of the hallway.
“Um Luna? What is that thing on the door?” Spike said in a comically humorless tone, the door itself had a strange looking handle on it. Let me clarify for a moment, that door handle was shaped just like your typical demon head; and by that i mean the demon head look extremely realistic while you stick to the average look that's accepted by many. Go on go ahead, look it up on google or something; and i can guarantee the demon that doesn’t look human will probably be the closest thing you will get to a detailed description. Once again, i am interrupting so please; let me continue with the story.
Luna rose an eyebrow as she looked at the strange door handle with interest. “We were unaware that Koenma had changed the door handle today; thou should be aware that he changes the entire castle at least a few months or so” Luna explained as she reached a hoof towards it before snapping her hoof back to her when the demon head snapped its jaws at her!
“Hey what's the big idea?!” The demon head started to thrash about wildly growling at both the surprised Spike and unamused Luna. Deciding enough was enough Luna opened her mouth ready to speak before the demon shouted again.
“Day in, day out people always using my head to knock on the wall just to alert Koenma for whatever reason well I am sick of it always giving me a headache whenever you…” the demon started to go on and on about something something door handles. The dragon and princess continued to grow more and more annoyed as they were forced to listen to the annoying demon’s rambling.
“SILENCE!” Luna had finally shouted after a good minute of hearing the demon ramble. “WE HAVE NOT CHOOSEN TO TRAVEL WITH THY FRIEND SIR SPIKE TO LISTEN TOO A DOOR HANDLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THOU LIFE NOW OPEN THE DOOR OR WE SHALL TEAR THIS CASTLE DOWN!”
Luna’s voice echoed loudly as if there was thunder booming around them. Her Royal Canterlot voice causing the castle to shake and Spike was certain that more than a few pieces of rubble had fallen from the ceiling and landed onto the ground right next to them. Fortunately for Spike Luna’s shouting had scared the demonhead into silence and a lot of shouting on the other side of the door could be heard; just enough for Spike to assume that someone was struggling to open the door from the other side.
So, before we continue let me just clarify that Spike; while he may not look like the same dragon he was this morning or evening when he died was still very much the same dragon that most of Ponyville loved. Now keep that in mind i want you; yes you the reader that's probably chowing down on some chips and soda while you read this. I want you to imagine the possibilities that ran through Spike’s young 16 year old mind when the door was finally opened.
That way you can see how horribly disappointed he was when the door revealed that instead of demons [or angels] punching each other out cold everywhere; he saw hundreds upon hundreds of desks and small office spaces as if he was in a stereotype work building. The young dragon couldn’t help but think that he had walked into a cartoon where everyone was a stereotype businessman or woman; except that nobody is laughing because everyone's so busy with their work.
“W-wow everyone seems to be really busy here..” Spike spoke with a bit of disappointment in his voice, Luna chuckled to herself a little bit as her spectral form slowly walked forward more and more; ignoring all of the hundreds upon hundreds of files flying everywhere as the two walked carefully trying not to step on any of the papers that were now on the ground because of all this chaos.
“Thou are not wrong to be disappointed, Celestia had a similar reaction when she first visited this place” Luna commented as they both reached yet another door, Spike sighed as he had the feeling that he would finally be able to meet this ‘Koenma’ that's apparently such a big deal that he runs this demon house.
The giant door opened very slowly, the soft creaking from the door seemed to be much more louder to both him and Luna as it slowly opened; revealing a very large office space that would probably be the perfect size for a small Pinkie Pie style party. Maybe more then five times the size of an average Pinkie Pie party; though he did wonder exactly why the office looked a little bit like something out a comic book now that he thought about it.
“Um… Koenma? Are you in here?”
“Of course i am” Spike got a response back, confused he looked around having noted before that the room was seemingly empty besides him and Luna. THat is until he finally looked down…
“Is that a fucking child?”
In response to this he had earned a hard hit on the back of his head from the spectral form of the princess of the night, while the so called ‘child’ looked very visibly angry at the young dragon for his rather blunt response to meeting Koenma for the first time. Spike on the other hand was wondering why exactly he had just swore, meeting Luna and that strange woman on the ‘paddle’ was alright because of how stressed he was at the situation at that moment; but swearing out of nowhere when it doesn’t really call for it? Whats going on with him???
Luna on the other hand had quickly fell to her knees and he swore he could FEEL sweatdrops on that spectral body of hers as she bowed down to Koenma; he didn’t really pay much attention to that small little detail as he was more focused on Koenma’s appearance and choice of clothing he was wearing right now.
To put it bluntly, Koenma was dressed similarly to what one would think if they were thinking of an average chinese attire if one were going with stereotypes. Koenma’s clothes that consisted of a red obi sash tied at the waist of a pink-trimmed blue robe over brown and pant’s shoes didn’t help give that illusion since the child still had a pacifier in his mouth and he still had the face of a human child. The hat admittedly still looked something that Rarity would call ‘A crime against fashion’ because of the fact it still somewhat resembled his outfit in terms of appearance; with a large ‘Jr’ mark on what Spike assumed to be the headband for the hat.
“All right Luna thats enough don’t need too hit him so hard...yet” Koenma added as he looked at Spike, well; more like analyze Spike and for some reason the dragon had a very strong feeling he wasn’t going to like the direction where this conversation was heading.
“So, your this Koenma Luna told me about. Why did you want to see me sir?” Spike said trying his best to ignore the fact that Koenma was still a child in a position that might be higher then even Celestia’s if Luna was bowing before him.
“Straight to the point aren’t you Spike? All right take a seat and i will tell you everything” with that, Koenma turned around and Spike noticed a rather large chair that was definetly not there before; the dragon decided not to question it due to the fact he has been around Pinkie Pie and Discord before; such tricks don’t normally affect him that much.
“Now that you are seated Spike we can finally start talking about your...ordeal” Koenma spoke in a way that Spike had almost forgotten that he was talking to a kid; almost.
“Yeah; but first before we get into this whole; ‘me coming back to life’ thing i got a few questions”
“I am sure you do Spike; lucky for you in the realm of the dead time does not hold much meaning here so essentially” Koenma outstretched his arms a little in exaggeration “We got all the time in the world” Koenma finished with a bit of exictment in his voice.
Spike didn’t say anything to the toddler, he figured that since he had all the time in the world he could take a bit of time to gather his thoughts. After a good minute the dragon decided what the first question would be.
“So, what's the catch with me looking far different then when i was alive?” Spike asked truly wondering why exactly his body was different now, he had been wondering this entire time but it was only just now that he had actually focus on that issue considering; ya know being dead and all.
“Ah yes, that issue it’s quite a complicated predicament one that might be a bit hard to explain; a problem that has persisted since the day you were born Spike” Now that had gotten Spike’s complete attention, hs mind began to swim around the possibilities surrounding the drakes birth that was when he had remembered one of the important things about that day; the day his friends lifes were all connected to each other.
“That was the day Rainbow Dash accomplished the sonic rainboom; does the rainboom itself have something to do with my new appearance?” Spike asked confident that he had figured out what had caused his new form, that is until Koenma shook his head and reached down into the desk and pulled out a strange black book. The young prince started to flip through those pages, Spike had noticed that on every single page there was a small profile featuring a picture of various species; from ponies to dragons to griffons and even changelings. Eventually Koenma stopped flipping through the pages and looked like he was reading through the page; which had a picture of Spike.
“Tell me Spike besides your birth; what exactly did the Sonic Rainboom accomplish?” Koenma asked and instantly spike had remembered exactly what he was refering too.
“The Elements Of Harmony were connected that day” Spike said with realization now getting the bigger picture of the sudden change in appearance, Koenma chuckled at the face the young dragon was making oh how he wished to be so uninformed of the universe just for the sake of being suprised.
“Exactly; that sonic boom had forged the bond between your friends and had simotaniously given birth to you from an egg that was never meant to hatch in the first place; a feat i must add had been 98.5% impossible and yet here you are” Koenma explained finding enjoyment in how Spike was seriusly thinking hard of what kind of a mess he had walked right into.
“So wait, does that mean i’m…. A thrall?” Koenma shook his head in response to this question.
“Close, your more or less a familiar; and at the same time you are not” this had gotten Spike even more confused then before; so confused that he had put a hand onto his head feeling a migrane coming on. “While it is difficult to explain i will do my best to dumb it down for you” Koenma started before coughing a bit to start quite a speech for the dragon as he leans in closer to listen.
“You see Spike whenever someone is born in the spirit world we mostly get data records on how their lives are supposed to go; your life in particular is an anomaly because of the mere fact by all accounts you were not meant to exist; what makes you even more strange is the fact we have zero records on you due to the nature of your birth. Normally something like that is shared with familars whom are all mere summons with no particular identidy unless said familiar was made from the soul of someone already existing tying them to the caster and living world” Koenma leaned back in his chair and made it turn in a different direction away from Spike, the so called toddler twiddling his thumbs while he tries to figure out what way to explain it.
“See when you egg was hatched by that time we should have had data on you; however; there was nothing” Koenma then suddenly placed a folder labeled ‘Spike Sparkle’ onto the table and out of the folder slide multiple pictures of the elements of harmony.
“Nothing that we could find about you, but rather; from what people would be surrounded by you was what we could have found in that folder even late into your life; it had gotten to the point we had asked Celestia herself to spy on you and feed us information so that we would figure out this mess before a time like this could occur”
Spike could feel that one of his eyes were twitching and tried very hard to supress a growl in his throat; while his agitation was still shown it was made clear that he was trying to keep self control through gritted teeth.
“Spying on me through one of my mother figures aside; clearly something has changed since i am here now; why not send me to heaven and be done with it?” Koenma chuckled again, for some reason Spike had reminded him of one of hid old friends whom he makes a mental note to send a letter too sometime in his mind.
“Thats actually our main issue Spike, see we had run the numbers over and over and concluded something that completly forces us to not send you to heaven, hell, or purgatory” Spike’s head snapped up towards Koenma with wide eyes completly taken back by what the prince had just said.
“You see Spike as it turns out that you hatching on that day had a side effect in you and Twilight Sparkle in particular; while the two of you have grown up slightly over the years the bond between young Twilight back then had completly stunted your growth making you appear as if you were the same age Twilight was when she hatched you. While this side effect is only a minor inconvience; it had directly tied into your very soul itself which had been soul bound to twilight sparkle the day you were born right the instnat twilights magic went haywire. Tell me did you ever expereience a feeling of sickness when you attempted to stay away from twilight for too long?”
Spike had thought long and hard about every word that Koenma had spoken in that small speech; looking back on his life he had always wondered why exactly he was so small in comparision to other dragons or at least photo’s taken of dragons. And that last part had also explained why exactly whenever he tried to do something on his own he would screw it up, he always had that feeling that it was more then him just being a kid and being a kid meant screwing up alot as you grow.
“That would also explain that time i was Applejack’s helper for a day” Koenma nodded too Spike’s response.
“Yeah, unfortunetly though it kinda gets a bit more complicated for this; see when we ran the numbers we had made a conclusion that your egg would have hatched but not around the time of the rainboom had hapened; a complete fluck on the timescale but one that isn’t too bad”
Spike rubbed at his chin a bit somewhat wishing he had a beard right now as he ponders his thoughts “So i am guessing my appearance is how exactly i would have looked had the rainboom not hatch me?”
Koenma simply shrugged “I am only 86% certain that is the case; could also be that a side afect that i am unaware of; however it could also be a another side effect that should be noted that your soul when it hatched was a completly blank slate that was bonded by the elements of harmony; perhaps the tree of harmony decided it would be a good idea to have a dragon raised amongst ponies for a change”
Spike chuckled at this, and here he had thought that the tree of harmony was just merely a giant fancy tree that happened to hold the elements of harmony and nothing much was special about the tree. He made a mental note to himself to ask Celestia about the Tree of Harmony again as soon as he can, since he was dumb enough not to listen to her the first time back then.
“It is for the reasons i just told you that your being given a second chance Spike” Koenma said as he pinched his forhead a bit clearly showing signs of frustration at the rather complex situation. “Due to the soul bound issue i am unsure what types of effects it would have on Twilight Sparkle, my job requires foir me to judge whether someone goes to heaven or hell and i have seen many types like Twilight Sparkle fall prey too the darkness” Koenma sighed when he was done before he continued.
“The issue with this Spike if i am right and Twilight will get the same judgement as you; i am certain you can tell how bad it will turn out on the off chance she somehow starts to convert to the dark side” Koenma explained again and with that explanation, Spike had finally understood the whole situation the two of them were in. It all made sense in a way, Koenma was meant to judge people to send them to heaven or hell if Spike were to be judged right now at this point in time and Twilight were to turn into another Nightmare Moon or maybe far, far worse then she would have gotten the same judgement Spike got when he died.
“And because of that fact you want for me to go back to life?”
“Exactly Spike, however luckily for you since your soul was bounded together to twilight’s pretty tightly right up until your death; bringing you back to life should be only a matter of recreating your soul without chaning your mind or personality” Koenma explained once more as he picked up a smaller book that said ‘Instructions for souls 101’ and began to flip through it no doubt to look for the exact instructions.
“So if its that simple why bring me here?” Spike asked wanting to get the answer he really wanted to know out of the way; not that anyone can blame him after all he had just died saving a pony he hardly knew today.
“Thats because i can’t just give you back your life” Before Spike could ask why Koenma continued “Bringing someone back to life is serius business Spike; if i had simply given you back your life then i might get plenty of other requests wanting to return to life as well” With that said Spike looked down to the floor dejected as he already knew that there was an ulterior motive to what Koenma is saying.
“With that said there is a way i can allow you to return to life; while simotaniously keeping balance to life and death without any issues” Spike looked up again suprised as he had somewhat forgotten that Koenma ‘wants’ Spike to return to life during the whole conversation.
“And, mind explaining what exactly i have to do Koenma?” Spike said tapping his foot impatiently as he waited for an answer; for a very brief moment Koenma could have sworn he saw a old friend of his right there in front of him for a few seconds before shaking his head and explaining Spike’s role.
“You see Spike throughout the years there have been a number of cases of rare talented folks like yourself; and throughout the years there are ‘special’ matters that i am simply unable to interfier with due to my job as judge. That is why i had thought of the idea of ‘Spirit Detectives’ a few special individuals that are capable of doing detective work in order to solve issues that will affect the balance of life and death; such as demons invading the living world to cause mischief, a person dying when it was not their time yet, and many other cases” Koenma explained as the young drake started to rub at his chin from the explaination given to him.
Spike already could think of the many ideas of adventure that were rolling about in his head; maybe he would be like super-stallion going around the world ready to fight crime for truth and justice; or maybe he could be like ‘grognack the stallion’ that weird stallion that always got into trouble involving demons and stuff.
“So i am basically a special task force for you right?”
“For the goodest intentions yes; however do not take this job lightly in some cases it can be even more important then those Elements Of Harmony Equestria needs so very much” Koenma explained with a stern voice, and suddenly Spike had remembered all of the potential threats that had occured in Equestria and he had thought of all the times he had felt useless during said threats. If what this guy was saying was true; what kind of threats would he end up having to fight in the near future; that is if he had o do fighting at all?
“Don’t you think your getting ahead of yourself? I mean, if i end up having to fight demons i am very doubtful my training with Shinign Armor alone is going to cut it?”
With that said Koenma had stood up from his chair and looked towards the wall which Spike noticed conviently had a bulls-eyepainted onto it. The prince then from a strange ‘L’ shaped sign with his left hand and for a few seconds everything was silent until a beutifal glowing blue ball of light started to form on his index finger. Before Spike could fully process what was going on the ball of light had shot right out of Koenma’s finger and hit the wall completly breaking a pice of it apart; the dragon had to close his eyes as dust got into them as a result of the destruction. When he had opened them he noticed the wall had been mostly wrecked, completly suprised by how that technique while looking so simple was capable of that much destruction and he had a feeling that Koenma was simply holding back just to demonstrate.
“That is how you will defend yourself, the most basic of techniques the Spirit Gun while basic can be applied to literally any situation; and be a catylst to learning or developing new techniques as time passes” Koenma said as he sat back down into the chair; while Spike continued to stare at the wall slack jawed for a few moments.
“Now then Spike here's what I need you to do…”
Spike couldn't believe how obvious this mess was.
Sure he could get behind the idea that a toddler had taught him a very useful though basic technique,sure he could believe that his birth was more or less a fluke; sure he could even get behind the idea that he was given a second chance at life as soon as he completes one little favor.
But he just couldn’t belive that the person he was hunting whom had stolen this so called ‘moon amulet’ something that had originally be used to liuft the moon to change to day before Celestia and Luna had come into power, it didn’t make sense for the young drake that someone could steal something that could potentially destroy the world with whover was using said amulet with it. Though, to be truthfull he was mostly more annoyed that he was forced to walk past the Everfree forest again, not that it wasn’t dangerous it is just he had done this so many times that it had long since become so darn boring he hardly could be bothered with it.
It didn’t help matters any that he was going to have to walk through the streets of ponyville to get to the forest, which just so happened to be by Fluttershy’s house. Unfortunetly this would mean, you guessed it. Spike would have to go ahead and look for his friends whom were no doubt grieving right now just to check up on them, both for plot reasons and because of the fact he was worried especially after that outburst between Scootaloo and Diamond Tiara.
Finding out where the crusaders were was easy enough, fortunetly for him, Koenma had decided to drop him off nearby the farm where the Apple Family consintly worked at. Perhaps i am just mistaken and he simply walked there, either way Spike couldn’t stop himself from flying up a bit now that he was somewhat getting the hang of being a spirit, and what he saw was all 5 of the crusaders at the treehouse.
Diamond Tiara simply stayed outside refusing to walk inside to join Scootaloo whom Spike noticed was curled up into a ball, her best friends Sweetie Belle and AppleBloom were sitting right next to her and occasionally petting along her back or wings. It was a suprise to Spike to see the 4 of them here and not SilverSpoon anywhere, in fact now that he was suprised that SweetieBell and Applebloom were whispering to one another their eyes still red and puffy no doubt from all the crying from earlier. Spike had noticed that out of all 3 of them AppleBloom looked like she was doing wel at trying to hide how torn up she was about this in comparision to her friends.
With a sigh Spike stopped floating aroudn the treehouse and started to run on the path heading right into ponyville, the young dragon hardly payed much attention to anything he ran by. THough he had to admit he still found it strange when he ran right through all the ponies he normally would bump into if he were alive, not that he had any reason not too it just made it a bit more enjoyable; especially when said ponies got the shivers as soon as he ran through them.
Eventually after a few minutes he managed to reach the entrance to the EverFree Forest, the entrance almost looking like a long dark hallway with said darkness ready to embrace him on what could be a rather deadly journey; he had to stop as soon as he took yet another step forward. Spike had to take one last look at the castle made of crystals, shining bright despite Todays rather screwed up events, he put a hand over his chest as he stared at the castle for a few minutes as he thought about everything that he had gone through today and how his choice to help Koenma would possibly affect his friends and what kind of more screwed up situations he would get into in the future. It was only then, he thought about Twilight; it was odd in a way. In most situations Twilight would almost always leave him behind for her friends, and now it seemed like it was reversed where Spike had completly forgotten to pay twilight a visit to make sure she was holding up. He could envision AppleJack with a an hand on Twilights shoulders as she cried harder then she ever did as a filly, the rest of the girls no doubt circled around her in a tight hug as they tried their hardest to comfort the princess of friendship while trying to be in controll of their own emotions as well with a variety of results.
He then started to feel bad for Twilight now, he knows how important he really is to her even if she doesn’t always act like he is that important to her as he was always there by her side even when things got rough ever since he had hatched thanks to her magic. With recent events in mind, and the revealing of him and Twilgiths connection the young drake clenched his chest harder as he remembered the mischief the two of them caused together in canterlot before moving here to Ponyville.
With that image now stuck in his head, Spike had felt more determined then ever to complete this task set out for him by Koenma.
“Twilight, i’ll come back for you I promise. Big sis”
With that the rather teenage looking drake turned around towards the forest, looking back towards the castle for a brief moment one last time before he ran off full spead right into the forest mouth, the darkness swallowing him up as only the faint sounds of footsteps soon faded into darkness as the young drake finally begins what will only be the beginning of his journey.
