Harry after an incident involving his cousin, he finds himself in a new world.
Harry after being beaten to the point of death, he is granted a second chance in another world. A new life where what he once thought was myth was real and he is going to take hold of his new life with both claws.
Harry Potter was once again running from Dudley’s gang. Most days he would have given the gang a run around for a bit, then let Dudley get a few hits in. At worst he would usually suffer a few bruises, it made it easier for Dudley to explain it away.
Today wasn’t like the other days, Dudley instead of having his shit eating grin he had an ugly malicious scowl. Harry’s legs were burning with the exertion. As he looked back, he didn’t notice the stick on the ground and tripped over. He rolled over only to see Dudley standing above him, a malicious glare.
Dudley slammed into his boot into Harry’s stomach over and over again. He screamed in pain, the assault ceased as he felt himself being lifted up from the ground. Dudley slammed him into the ground head first, he then proceeded to jump onto his chest. Harry gritted his teeth as he felt one of his ribs break. Dudley then began wailing on his head repeated.
Harry felt his vision fading, the last thing he heard was the sound of arguing before darkness swallowed him. A voice pierced the darkness “Harry Potter, you have succumb to a terrible fate. Still this is not the end for you, you still have a role to play in the fate of this world but for now it is not your concern.”
As soon as the silence settled in, he felt something hard around him. He couldn't move much, Harry couldn’t tell what was happening until he felt something pushing on him. Then that power surged, he winced as the light from the sun blinded his eyes. He shook himself only to see dozens of tiny equines staring at him in awe, he was sitting in a room. His head sticking out of the roof, he saw an equine far smaller than the rest with eyes glowing white. Her face contorting in pain as tears flowed down her face.
Harry closed his eyes and focused, after a minute he opened his eyes. He was now about the same size as the little pony rather than taller than the room. He tried to pull himself to his feet, only to fall flat on his face. He shook his head and crawled towards the little pony, wrapping her with his body. He felt the energy start surging into him as the little pony eyes returned to normal and she seemed to fall asleep. The sudden shift of wight caused him to fall backwards, her weight pinning him to the floor.
Harry laid there as several ponies galloped over, they tired pulled the filly off of him and glared at when him he belched flame at them “Give her to us, you monster!”
A tall pristine white pony then trotted over behind them, her aurora like mane flowing as if in the wind. She looked down at the other ponies with disappointment “The young drake meant no harm, the filly there hatched his egg.”
As the tall pony approached Harry hissed, a purple barrier surrounded the two. The pony smiled “I’m Princess Celestia, I wish to return the filly to her parents.”
Harry was interrupted as the little pony slowly woke up, the little pony tried to leave but he pulled her back. She looked at him with a smile “It’s okay, that the Princess. She’s friendly, I promise.”
Harry let go of her, the barrier he created vanishing. She trotted over to the Princess, he crawled closely behind eyeing the Princess.
Celestia smiled “Come over here, little drake.”
Harry was confused, what did she mean by drake. He crawled over, she smiled “Thank for helping Twilight.” He looked at the little pony, no filly. She must have been the Twilight that Celestia mentioned.
Twilight trotted over and gave him a hug “I’m gonna call you Spike, because of your spikes.” Harry thought for a moment, as Harry Potter he was miserable. Maybe Spike could be a new life for him. Two ponies then approached, a grey pony and a grayish blue one. Spike hissed, Twilight smiled at him “Those are my parents Night Light and Twilight Velvet, they won’t hurt you.”
Spike eyed them with suspicion for a moment before nodding. One of those other ponies frowned “Princess, a baby dragon has no place with a filly of that age. We should take care of him.”
Celestia turned to them with a raised eyebrow “That dragon created a very powerful magical shield that I doubt any of you could break. His natural pool of magic is quite large, do you honestly believe you can contain him. Beside he seems rather protective of Twilight.”
Spike held onto Twilight's leg. Celestia smiled “I was planning on taking Twilight on as my personal student. This will means she will be sleeping in a specially prepared room in the castle.”
Spike blinked in confusion as Twilight danced around him “YES! YES! YES!” Spike was lifted onto Twilight's back by a purple glow. He blinked in confusion, was that this magic everyone was talking about. It sounded like the weird stuff he did back home. Was this why he was mistreated.
Twilight Velvet looked up “Princess, please take care of our daughter.”
Celestia nodded “I will make sure she is safe. I wish I could stay longer but I have quite a bit of work to do. I’m sorry.”
Wit that Twilight followed Celestia, Spike laid there as he looked around. Ponies eyed him with a mix of fear and curiosity. The books he had managed to snatch from Dudley’s room did portray dragons as fearsome creatures and know he was one. At least when he met Dudley again he could give him a real scare. He looked up at the grand castle, that was in front of them.
The guard regarded Spike with curiosity but didn’t seem to be bothered by his presence, the inside of castle had banners of the night and day in an alternating pattern. Soon they headed up a set of stairs to a tower room with several bookshelves and a bed in it. Twilight yawned and she laid down on the bed, he curled up beside her. Eventually falling into slumber himself.
It had become a couple of weeks since Spike had been hatched, Twilight was a pony of habit and thus he followed her around. His physical growth had accelerated rapidly over the last two weeks, he had a pair of small wings and was about as tall as Twilight. He walking besides Twilight carrying a checklist, he frowned “Twi-light.”
Twilight blinked in confusion “You can speak?”
Spike nodded “I have been wanting to for a while but my body wasn’t ready. Still we need to meet with the Princess don’t we.”
Twilight’s eyes widened “I’m going to be late!” Spike sighed as she galloped off, him taking off in order to keep up with her. The guards watched as Twilight galloped down the hall, Spike flying right behind her.
The two entered Celestia's private study, it was a small room with a few cushions on the floor. Celestia smiled “Take a seat you two.”
Twilight took one of the cushions, Spike landed on the other “Thanks you for taking care of Twilight, Princess.”
Celestia smiled “No need formalities, in private call me Celestia.” She raised an eyebrow at Spike “Most dragons don’t learn to speak until far later in life and not as well as you either.”
Twilight blinked “He only started speaking today?”
Celestia gave him a weird look before shaking her head “Now let’s begin the lesson for both of you.”
Twilight blinked “Both of us?”
Celestia nodded with a smile “I was planning on teaching Spike once he learned how to speak, he is a type of dragon that is capable of spellcasting. The first one I have ever seen. I was expecting this after you graduated, but there is no reason he can’t start now.”
Celestia smiled “Now Twilight, you have done well so far but this is going to be a bit of a bigger challenge for you.” Celestia focused energy into he horn and dissapeared in a flash of light.
Twilight's eyes widened “Teleportation. I’ve been trying to get my hands of the spell but I haven’t been able to.”
Celestia frowned as she showed Twilight the book “This book is stored in the restricted section, only I or a senior professor are allowed to access the book. There was a few incidents in the past where someone who didn’t have the magical power to use the standard sell tried to forgo the safeties and ended up in multiple pieces. It wasn’t pretty.” She then levitated the book over to Twilight “Read it carefully, make sure you understand all of it.”
Spike frowned as Celestia gestured for him to follow her. He followed the Celestia to leave Twilight to her studies. Her turned back every now and then to make sure she was alright. Celestia frowned at Spike “Dragons don’t grow that fast, even the rare magical one.”
Spike nodded “To tell the truth I had another life before this one. It wasn’t a very good one and I have no intention of going back. My ‘cousin’ beat me to death.”
Celestia frowned “I have no intention of sending you back there. Still, I would like build a portal to that world. Maybe to learn about where you came from.”
Spike frowned “Well I’ll help you in any way that I can but my old world was much more violent than this one.”
Celestia smiled “Thanks for informing me. Now where do you wish to begin with your magical education.”
Spike rubbed his chin, he had an idea. He answered “I want to learn the basics first, than start practising defensive magic so I protect Twilight from danger better. I hope that isn’t too much trouble, Celestia.”
Celestia smiled “Not at all Spike. We’ll start with levitation and then a few minor transfiguration spells.”
Spike nodded as Celestia lifted a few books of the shelves with a glow of her horn, Spike frowned as he concentrated on the books and they flew upwards slamming into the roof. Spike grimaced “Too much power.”
Celestia smiled “Don’t worry too much, power control takes some time. Just keep trying to levitate the books in place, that tends to be the first step.” Celestia watched as Spike slammed the books into the roof repeatedly, she was interrupted as a piece of paper appeared in front of her. She caught it in her magic and frowned. She started to read it.
Dear Sunbutt
I’ve heard about your little guest and I have decided to give this to you. The co-ordinates for Spike’s former home dimension, 15 degrees wiggly, 10 degrees obtagoo, 809 woop wop. This will cause a lot of delicious chaos and I don’t have to do anything nor cause anyone to be upset. It’s perfect.
From your favourite Draconequus, Discord.
Celestia glared at the piece of paper, did she risk trusting his word. He was an unreliable source but what if he was right. Could she take such a risk, yet again Discord wouldn’t send them to a world that would be hostile. He wouldn’t wipe out all life on the planet for a laugh. Celestia put the paper away, she looked up to see Spike hovering the book a centimetre from the roof.
Celestia watched as he lowered it down “Good work Spike, now try and maintain that while having the book orbit your head in a circular fashion. That will help you gain greater control over it’s motion.”
Spike started rotating the two books in a circle, she turned around only to see Twilight still reading the book. She turned back only to Spike’s books fluctuating in height as he tried to spin them, she smiled.
A couple of hours later, Spike and Twilight were heading back to the tower when two of the examiners that he recognised jumped in front of them. The one in front of him had a dark blue coat and the other light blue, both had pale silver manes. The dark blue one growled “You’re coming with us.”
Spike stood his ground, a barrier forming around Twilight and himself. He winced as the light blue one started casting a spell. He focused desperately trying to keep his barrier from fading. Them the two ponies were hit with a huge ball of fire from behind, sending them to the floo. A large white stallion with a golden mane dusted off his suit “It is quite rude to assault others in the hallways of the castle.”
The two examiners galloped away, the stallion approached “My name is Prince Blueblood. I’ll guide you two to your tower.” It was not too long before the two students of the Princess were back in their room. Blueblood waited until they locked the door before leaving.
After their lessons with Celestia the next day, Spike and Twilight were sitting in their tower reading books on magic. Spike closed his current book with a snap, this was the fifth book that day. He stood up only to see twenty five books next to Twilight. He groaned “Twilight, there is more to life than just books. I have only told the Princess this but I can trust you. I was reincarnated into this body. I during those twelve years never got to make friends, I spent all those years with everyone around me hating me or ignoring so they didn’t draw my cousins ire.”
Twilight blinked “Why are you telling me this?”
Spike facepalmed “Twilight, I don’t want you grow up alone and friendless. We are going out and trying to meet some new ponies, Preferably some who are not stuck up nobles, maybe meet some ponies closer to your age.”
Twilight complained “But I almost already have the teleportation spell down.”
Spike sighed “That’s fine. I won’t force you. Still I’m going attempt to make some friends.” Twilight frowned before returning to her book, he left the room and nodded to the two guards lazing around on their spears on either side “You two will keep her safe while I’m gone or else there will be trouble! Is that clear?”
The two guards fell over, Spike glared at them “Stop sleeping on the job! If I catch sleeping again, I will torch you hides!” He took a deep breath and headed down the tower. The two guards at the top of the stairs were sweating.
Spike flew through the hallways of the castle, he flew out a window and glided down to the city proper. Everyone seemed to stare at him as if he was some kind of monster. He grimaced as he walked through the city. He tried to wave at some ponies but they glared at him or ignored him. He grumbled “Just like home.” The few with parents whose children were curious pulled them away.
Spike sighed turning around. It seemed that without Twilight nopony was going to approach him. That was when a white unicorn filly with an electric blue mane grabbed him by the arm and dragged him after her. He frowned “Who are you?”
The filly grinned “Vinyl Scratch is my name. I want you to come with me!” Spike shrugged as he filly let go of his arm, he followed Vinyl into a strange part of the upper district. There were several ruined buildings, Vinyl pointed to what looked like an odd staircase made out of rock heading to the underside of the city. Spike frowned as the noticed there was no rail next to the stairs, just a huge drop that would be fatal for anything without wings.
Spike frowned as Vinyl headed down, he followed his wings at a ready. Soon he found that they were nearing a little cave under the city. Vinyl entered, Spike followed only to hear the sound of music. He smiled as he saw a gray Earth Pony filly playing a Cello, she turned only to grimace “Vinyl, why did you bring a guest? We are hiding out here, remember?”
Vinyl smiled “Relax Octi, he is a dragon. He won’t judge us for being different.”
‘Octi’ groaned “Vinyl, my name is Octavia. At least get it right when introducing somepony.”
Spike approached taking a seat on the soft ground of the cave “You look like normal ponies.”
Vinyl shook her head a she pulled a bunch of raw animal flesh out of her saddlebags and tossed it to Octavia. Octavia leapt on the bag, ripping it to shreds with razor sharp teeth. Vinyl frowned “Octavia is a Vrykolakas, an ancient species of pony from the Peneias Peninsula. They are the inspiration for the pony legend of vampires. They feed off flesh and the livers of other creatures. They also the inspiration for ponies interpretation of vampires. As for me I’m a Neuri, I am descended from a nomadic tribe of ponies who could transform into wolves. That was the inspiration for pony’s concept on werewolves.”
Spike looked at Octavia who was covered in blood, she trotted over to a pool of water in the corner and bathed in it cleaning off the blood. Octavia trotted over “I’m surprised you’re not scared.”
Spike raised an eyebrow “I’m a fire breathing dragon, I’m unsure of what you could do to hurt me?” He then shook his head “What do you two do for fun?”
Octavia blinked “Fun? We have been barely keeping ourselves alive.”
Spike shook his head “Let’s have some real fun, follow me.”The two fillies nervously followed him, heading towards the castle.
Octavia hissed “We can’t just enter Canterlot Castle willy nilly.”
Spike smirked “I live in the castle, it will be fine.” The two guards at the gate nod to him and the two fillies next to him.
Vinyl whispered “I love fun but are sure this is wise?”
Spike grinned “Follow me, this will be fun.” He guided them to the throne room, Spike saw the two guards standing beside the door. He instructed them to hide in a nearby room. He pulled out a rock out of his spikes and threw it down the hallway.
The two guards responded to the sound and galloped down the hallway. Spike rolled his eyes “The castle guard are the most easily distracted of all Equestrian military forces. It’s a boring job.”
Vinyl frowned “What are we doing?’
Spike pulled out a woopie cushion out of his spikes and pushed open the door. He walked over to the throne and slid it under the cushion. Octavia looked aghast “Are you...” He ran over and put his claw over her mouth. He dragged them out of the throne room and hid in the side room. He heard the hooves of the guards returning to their position.
Spike whispered “Octavia, you almost got us caught. First rule of a good prank is to be silent.” He then grinned “Now we wait.” Two hours later, they heard the sound of Celestia’s golden horseshoes touching the floor.
A minute later they heard the sound of a loud fart come from the room next door. Spike and Vinyl burst into laughter. An hour later Celestia burst in her face pink, she pouted at Spike “I’ll get you back for that.”
Spike smiled “Meet my friends, Octavia Melody and Vinyl Scratch.”
The two fillies looked nervously a her as he eyes them carefully before smiling “I’m glad you have made some friends but next time don’t prank me during court. It was really hard to not run out of the room and hide in a closet.”
Spike nodded before turning to them “Wish to meet Twilight? Just be warned she is bit of a bookworm.”
Vinyl smiled “Sure, we can meet your friend.” The three of them headed up the tower, to meet Twilight.
Spike, Vinyl and Octavia entered to see Twilight pouting on her bed. Spike deadpanned “What’s wrong?”
Twilight whined “I finished reading all of the books in the tower. What am I supposed to do now?”
Spike gestured to Vinyl and Octavia “How about you meet my new friends, Vinyl and Octavia.”
Twilight hopped off her bed, approaching the two with a smile “Hi. I’m Twilight Sparkle. What do you do for fun.”
Vinyl and Octavia looked at each other than a back to “We don’t know how to have fun exactly.” Vinyl continued “We did prank Celestia with Spike, that was fun.”
Twilight’s eyes widened “You shouldn’t prank the Princess, how you read some books. Book are fun.”
Octavia rubbed the back of her head “I wouldn’t mind that but we don’t know how to read.”
Twilight exclaimed “Let me teach you how to read!” She levitated down a huge book. Spike deadpanned as he looked at the book title ‘Senior Physics.’ Vinyl and Octavia looked at the book in terror.
Spike levitated down a much smaller book, ‘The Three Little Ponies and the Big Bad Timberwolf’. Spike smiled “This will be much more suitable for someone who is learning how to read for the first time. In fact.” He levitated two empty journals, an inkwell and a pair of quills over “The easiest way to teach somepony to read is to first teach then how to write. That way they learn how some words are spelled before stringing them together with punctuation and grammar.”
Twilight whined “But this book is full of such marvellous knowledge.”
Spike frowned “How can they understand the complicated terminology surrounding as Black Holes when they can’t even write their own name. Let’s start simply.” Spike turned to them with a smile “Write you own name on this paper. Don’t worry about getting it wrong.”
Octavia picked up the quill in her mouth while Vinyl used her horn to levitate the quill. A few hours past where Spike aided in teaching them the basics. Spike then smiled “That’s good enough for today. Now let’s go raid the kitchen for sweets.”
Vinyl grinned “Yeah let’s do it!”
Octavia sighed “Fine but we better not get caught.”
Twilight who was watching joined the three of them “I head they were baking a massive cake.” The four youngsters looked to each other with a smile before they left the tower. They snuck into the kitchen, the sound of Kitchen Nightmare shouting allowed them to sneak past undetected . A massive cake was sitting covered in whipped cream and berries was sitting on the benchtop. Spike and Twilight levitated the huge cake down.
As they snuck out Vinyl whispered “I’ve never seen any dragon do magic before.”
Spike grinned “I’m an exception, not the rule. All Dragons have magical energy in them but few can actually cast.” They heard the sound of shouting behind them. Kitchen Nightmare burst into the hallways, he saw them. They bolted as the Head Chef shouted obscenities at them that were in no place words that any foal should here.
Octavia panted “Why did we think this was good idea!”
Vinyl quipped “The allure of good cake was just too much to pass up. How you tiring, you are the Earth Pony here?”
Spike frowned “She is out of shape, the species advantage isn’t enough to overcome those who do a lot of physical activity. Not to mention being young means that advantage is not as great as an adult’s would be.”
Twilight whimpered “Um, Spike. He is gaining on us.” Kitchen Nightmare was right behind them.
Spike grimaced “Twilight, teleport yourself and Octavia away from here with the cake. We’ll catch up.” Twilight nodded, her horn glowed teleporting herself and Octavia away with the cake. Kitchen Nightmare shook his head from the flash of light as Spike and Vinyl continued to run away from Kitchen Nightmare.
Vinyl commented “What now?”
Spike smirked as they turned a corner, he turned around sending a wave of smoke out of his mouth. Spike dragged Vinyl out of the smoke and they then bolted. They made their way back to the tower where Twilight and Octavia were waiting with the cake.
Spike smiled as they joined the other two “Let’s eat the cake before anyone find it here.” Twilight cut the cake into pieces with her magic and they devoured the cake quickly.
Twilight commented after they were finished “I wonder who the cake was for?’
Octavia raised an eyebrow “That is a good question?” Vinyl, Twilight and Octavia turned to Spike.
Spike shrugged “Probably it was baked for the Princess.”
Spike’s two new friend and his sister paled. Twilight levitated all the books and built a massive fort “Princess Celestia is going turn me to stone then banish me to the moon then stick the moon inside a sun in another dimension.”
Spike blinked as he saw Octavia and Vinyl huddling up to her, he deadpanned “The Princess won’t hurt any of you or she will have to go through me.” He started to grow until he was as tall as the room “Isn’t that friends and family are for?”
Octavia looked at his massive head as it peaked into their little bookfort “You’re huge!”
Vinyl grinned “That’s awesome!”
Spike shrunk back down to his normal size “I can’t do it for very long and I don’t like being that big for very long but it can help.”
Meanwhile back in the kitchen Kitchen Nightmare was rushing to get another cake baked, shouting louder than usual. Chefs were running back and forth as quickly as they could. None of them wished for the Princess to miss out on her cake.
Vinyl, Octavia, Twilight and Spike were in the tower. Vinyl came over with a book that read Ancient Siege Weapons. Vinyl shouted “Why don’t we make one of these, they sound like fun. They cause explosions.”
Twilight trotted over to Vinyl and opened the book, she opened and after quick skim she nodded “That does sound like fun, I could come with a plan.”
Spike ran over and smiled “Maybe if we put it on tracks it could move? We could even build a safety cabin for ourselves that could double as a control system.”
Twilight grinned “Let’s go and purchase the supplies. I have been saving up my stripend for a big project and this could be it.”
Octavia joined them “Are you sure this is a good idea?”
Vinyl nudged Octavia “Relax it’s going to be fun.” Octavia sighed as Twilight and Vinyl put on their saddlebags while Spike put on his backpack. Octavia followed suit and the four of them left the tower. Vinyl was grinning the hole way, Spike and Twilight were giggling to each other. Octavia looked at the three of them with concern.
Twilight smiled passing a bag of bits to Octavia and Vinyl “You get the gunpowder. We’ll collect everything else.”
Vinyl grinned galloping off, Octavia following in close pursuit. Spike and Twilight found their way to a shop that read Metallic Mechanisation’s Workshop. Spike entered first Twilight behind him, a massive stallion with a silvery coat and a short greying mane was behind the counter. Electronic and mechanical parts were everywhere. Twilight trotted over and put a large bag of bits on the table “We need 50 tons of steel, 200-300 high end computer chips and 40 metres of track treads as well as a high end track.”
The stallion frowned “This sounds like a big project for one so young.”
Spike frowned “We wanted to do a big project and we need a lot of materials.”
The stallion chuckled “I was just like that when I was young, name’s Iron Plate. Do you want it now?”
Spike nodded “We do.” Spike wondered how the others were doing.
Vinyl and Octavia where in a firecrackers store, Vinyl grinned placing the bit bag on the table “We want 500 tons worth of gunpowder.”
The owner was a red mare with an orange mane, she shook her head “Why should I sell you three anything. You are way to young to handle raw gunpowder.”
Vinyl complained “But...”
The owner shook her head “I am Flash Fire, I don’t just don’t provide...”
Octavia rolled her eyes before staring at the mare, her eyes glowing a pale grey. Flash Fire’s eyes glowed the same colour “You will provide us with 500 tons of gunpowder and then take our bits, you will tell no-one we were ever here.”
Flash Fire nodded wordlessly, as she did head to the back Vinyl looked at Octavia “You are quite scary, you know that right?”
Octavia rolled her eyes “I am a pony that eats liver, I’m supposed to be scary by definition.” Flash Fire dumped a huge bag of gunpowder and took the bits. The two fillies left the building and met up with the others at the castle gates.
Spike frowned “So where do we go to put all of this together?”
Vinyl smiled “To our secret hideout, it would be the perfect place to build it.”
Twilight raised an eyebrow “What secret hideout?” After they showed Twilight the hideout “This place isn’t big enough for our purposes.”
Spike grinned “Well then let me expand our hideout.” Spike focused growing three times his normal height and began digging through the dirt. The other three exited the hideout why he worked, an hour later they Spike walked up and let them in. They entered only to see of a huge chasm 500 metres deep and 500 metres wide, a huge staircase made of dirt leading down to the bottom.
Octavia raised an eyebrow as they headed down “Isn’t this overkill, it’s massive.”
Spike shook his head “We can do bigger things in here later. We can do all kind of science experiments, engineering and other projects down here.”
Twilight’s eyes widened as her mind raced through the possibilities. They reached the bottom and started building. Spike started using his fire breath and claws to mould the steel into shapes he wanted. Twilight and Vinyl started assembling shells. Octavia put together the treads and tracks forming the base. Spike attached the base central chassis and Twilight got to work putting the mechanisms together. Finally the attached the 200mm cannon onto the top of the central chassis.
The four of them looked at the assembled vehicle in front of them, Twilight beckoned to them “Time to test out her functionality.”
Spike nodded as Vinyl grinned “Let’s fire this baby up!”
Octavia sighed “Let’s not make a mess.”
The four of them jumped entered the top of the cabin, Twilight took the driver’s seat. Vinyl took the seat next to her, Octavia took the Navigator’s chair while Spike was in the Cannoneer’s seat. Twilight sounded off “Octavia use the sight scope to map out our movement and relay me information. Vinyl activate command prompts 1,5 and 9. They labelled with those designations. Spike, ready the cannon for firing.
Twilight grinned as the others attended to their duties “Prototank Mark I, ready for to go.” Twilight pulled the ignition. The Prototank accelerated quite quickly for a vehicle of it’s weight.
Octavia frowned “Aren’t you going to fast!”
Twilight giggled as she turned the Prototank with ease “Give me more credit, I know what I’m doing.” She then turned to Spike “Fire the cannon.”
Spike grinned as he fired upward the huge explosion shaking the entire area, Octavia gulped “Um are you sure building this thing was a good idea. We could destroy Canterlot with this thing if we tried.”
Vinyl laughed “Relax, we aren’t going to do that. This place is perfect for testing such explosive, relax will you.”
Spike frowned “We should reinforce this place, if we continue the whole place could collapse on our heads.”
Twilight nodded “That’s fair but once we do that we can really start building this place up.”
Over the next week they were able to use the materials they gained from Spike digging the huge base and used the bits they acquired to reinforce the whole area. They were even able to create separate areas for different task types.
Twilight and Spike walked into the lab area only to see several large pods scattered next to the lab entryway. Spike frowned “What are those for?”
Vinyl frowned “Safety, I’m all for explosions. They are easy to predict, we know what explosions do but experiments could do anything. These machine create body doubles of us for us to control when we do anything dangerous. Our real bodies will be safe in these, they lower into the ground and are surrounded by reinforced titanium shells.”
Twilight smiled “That very impressive Vinyl, let’s use them then.”
Octavia frowned “You need to insert a sample of genetic material into the machine first.” Twilight put her hoof down while Spike put his claw down, they both winced as they felt something cut them. Spike and Twilight got into the machines and they started filling with a strange green liquid. They felt the entire world go dark and then a moment later they opened their eyes only to step out of separate pod in the lab.
They turned around to see Vinyl and Octavia’s bodies being put together, their skeletons forming then their organs then their muscles followed by skin and fur. Spike winced while Twilight looked like she was going to vomit. When Vinyl and Octavia got out, they provided a bucket for Twilight to vomit in.
Octavia raised an eyebrow “You handled that better that I thought you would, I was expecting to need a second bucket.”
Spike shrugged “I was reincarnated into this body from another world where I was beaten up on a regular basis by my cousin. This isn’t much of a bother to be honest.”
Octavia blinked in confusion “Who would beat up a dragon?”
Spike chuckled “I wasn’t a dragon in my past life, what I was wouldn’t have been able to do even slightest thing against a pony. What wouldn’t even leave a scratch on you could kill my old body.”
Octavia frowned “I see.”
Twilight shouted “Come on you two, I have an idea for something to build!” They bolted following Twilight and Vinyl, Twilight grinned “To power everything we need, we are going to build one of these.”
Vinyl looked at the piece of paper, there was detailed blueprint labelling the entire construction “You wish to build a nuclear reactor, it sound very dangerous based on what you have said here. It can generate a tremendous amount of power but we will need full anti-radiation suits for all of us even with our copy bodies. They won’t hold together for very long in those conditions.”
Spike frowned “Where did you find this?”
Twilight grimaced “The book was in my library, I assume the previous occupant of the tower left it there. I memorised the whole book, it was the first time I was tempted to destroy a book. It was supposed to be in the heavily restricted section. The only pony who had the key to that was supposed to be the Princess, I returned it to her and after I explained everything she took it from me immediately.”
They got to work on building lead lined suits in order to construct the main power source for the building. The four of them then constructed two rooms, one for the suits with lead coated door leading into the reactor room. Even with their suits, the three equine clone bodies dissolved within the hour. Spike on the other hand seemed to have no problems, heck his suit broke down and he was unharmed in the high radiation environment.
Spike had brought the other three radiation suits into the other room before continuing construction. Once he was done the other three looked at him in confusion, Twilight exclaimed “How are you unharmed?”
Spike frowned “I’m unsure. Maybe dragon are immune to nuclear radiation.”
Octavia frowned “The stories do tell that the Dragon and Equestria were engulfed in a massive war. Celestia was stated to use the power of the sun against the dragons and while many did die those that didn’t grew stronger. The radiation of the sun no longer capable of harming them, and that resistance was passed throughout the entire dragon population.”
Vinyl nodded “The radiation output of the sun would make our reactor like a little candle. The sun could output enough nuclear radiation to fry the entire planet a million times over.”
Spike frowned “I wonder how this would affect me when I return to my true body.” Spike used the pods to return to his true body. He then entered the lab area, he entered the nuclear reactor room without a suit. He felt something inside him change and he grinned. He fired a beam of blue energy out of his mouth. He raised an eyebrow “Interesting.”
Spike joined his friends “It seems I can fire radiation out of my mouth like I do with fire but it comes out more as a beam of energy.”
Twilight frowned “That is a very dangerous power to have, the energy output would be enough to vaporise almost anything. I advise you don’t use unless you really have to, I doubt anyone other than another dragon or an Alicorn could take that.”
Spike frowned “So be very careful.”
Vinyl nodded “Basically, now let’s get all of this hardwired. Still I advise you still use a clone body from now on in the lab just in case.”
Spike nodded, his clone joining them in minutes. Soon the four of them had linked up the entire building to the nuclear reactor and turned it on. Octavia frowned “We should construct an AI to run the facility while we are away.”
Octavia frowned “We should also build a host body with sensory inputs so it can go out and enjoy the world. We don’t want an end of the world incident because of a rogue AI.”
Twilight frowned “More importantly it would be immoral to trap an intelligent sapient being inside a computer for it’s entire life. That would cruel.” The other three nodded as they got to work on their new project.
Twilight, Spike, Vinyl and Octavia were in their hideout. It had been a month since they built, the four of them formed a blanket company that sold their products that were made in their lab. They were standing next to the Tiger Heart Mark 1, the first model they had a fully completed functional version of.
Vinyl smiled “This is going well.”
Spike frowned “Sally, it’s time.”
Sally’s mechanical voice echoed “Oh joy.”
Octavia smiled “We get to show our new friend the town.” Twilight nodded with her own smile. The four of them galloped over to a metal pod, Spike pressed a button.
The pod opened, a mechanical filly hopped out. She gave them a hug as she smiled “Thank you for this.”
Twilight rubbed the back of her head “Sorry we didn’t build your body sooner Sally but we had a lot of other work to do.”
Sally giggled “You worry to much, the fact that considered that my well being despite the fact that I am just a AI you created to run your little factory.”
Spike shook his head “You are more than just an AI, you are a friend to all of us. Smart too and good company to have around.”
Vinyl grinned “Let’s go and get you a milkshake from the local cafe.”
Sally blinked as the four of them escorted her out of factory “But My body is mechanical I can’t eat or taste things.”
Octavia grinned “We added taste receptors and a molecular recycler to turn food into materials your body can use for repairs.” As soon as the five of them headed towards Donut Joes, their favourite shop all the ponies scattered for the hills.
Spike groaned as they entered “We are carrying any explosive on us nor flamethrowers or other devastating weapons on us today.” At that exact moment Sally activated a strange command and then thousand different weapons merged from her body.
Twilight, Octavia and Spike turned to Vinyl “What the heck were you thinking! Her body is not to be a weapons factory.”
Vinyl grimaced “I was worried someone might try to capture her and try to replicate her body for their own ends so I built a ridiculous number of weapons to her body so that will never happen.”
Sally retracted her weapon “Relax, I have no need to use them. Now let’s have a fun time.”
Donut Joe chuckled “That was quite a show. Scared quite a few ponies, anyway how can I help you?”
Spike tossed twenty bits onto the table “Five milkshakes please, we are showing Sally around Canterlot.”
The five of them took their seats as Donut Joe got started “So how did you meet this young filly.”
Twilight frowned “We invented her and built her body. Still she is just as much a person as anyone else.”
Donut Joe raised any eyebrow “What are three gonna come up with next, a cure for magic fatigue?”
Octavia blinked “We invented a potion that prevents magic fatigue for a week. Once you’re done your magic will be inactive for the next week. Our current project is an enchantment matrix that will nullify all dark magic within an area, it had shown quite a few small scale results. It works by pumping out a tremendous amount of light magic.” Donut Joe turned back, focusing on making the milkshakes, he didn’t want give them any more crazy ideas.
Meanwhile across the dimensions a very serious witch by the name of Amelia Bones was looking down at a piece of paper brought to her attention. It was the former file on Harry Potter, it was updated yesterday. His name was now Spike Firelight Potter. His magical guardian was Princess Celestia Skystar, Wise Guardian of Earth Ponies, Great Diplomat of the Unicorns, Sky Sentinel of the Pegasi, Great Spirit of the Day, Glorious Ruler of the Day, Matriarch of Equestria and it’s territories.
Amelia Bones grimaced “I will need to speak to this Princess Celestia if I am to prevent an incident. I wonder if I can send an owl to their location.”
Far away from the Ministry in the heavily home of the retired Auror Alastor Moody, a tabby cat strode up to the door looking around as it did so. The tabby cat shapeshifted into the Professor McGonagall who knocked on the door. The door opened slightly as Moody’s gruff voice echoed “Who’s there.”
McGonagall whispered “Braveheart, I am the Loyal.”
The door opened letting her in, she walked past Moody whose magical eye was watching her. Before he could say another word, another voice spoke “Braveheart, I am the Ambitious.”
Moody opened the door and Lucius Malfoy entered. Moody eyed the both off them before gesturing them to enter. The three of them entered a special room that was black as night, the room locked up behind them as it lit up. Four chairs were around a table, Moody turned to McGonagall “Helga, is Hogwarts doing well.”
Helga nodded “It is Godric, still I wish we could speak more often but Dumbledore is hard to hide things from.”
Moody turned to Lucius “Salazar, any word on Voldemort’s return.”
Salazar shook his head “Hardly, Rowena is more knowledgeable on that than I. She is such a good actor, if I didn’t know who she was I would guarantee that she was insane.”
Godric nodded “We know he has cursed Rowena’s Diadem, Helga’s Cup and your Locket in order to bind his soul to the world.”
Salazar frowned “Also his diary and the ring of Gaunt. I have been keeping track of my descendants. The last one was the body of Harry Potter, it has been incinerated. I made sure of that.”
Godric frowned “I still can’t believe you are on our side, you hated muggle-borns and muggles in general back then.”
Salazar smirked “They are a lot more capable than I first thought, while me and my family’s main manor house is fairly old school. I own several more mundane properties with spells hiding them from both muggle and magical sources. Each is full of muggle amenities, I have a PC, TV and a whole stockpile of legally acquired muggle weapons.”
Helga blinked “Muggle weapons?”
Salazar chuckled “I have tested them against dragon scales, they pierce right through them like a knife through butter.” Godric and Helga looked at him in disbelief, weapons that could slay dragon so easily.
Spike, Spike, Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia were inside their personal armoury. Four plasma pistols were on the shelf. Spike frowned as he picked up his plasma pistol, he winced slightly as it registered his name.
Vinyl frowned “It was a good idea to gene lock these. Now only we can use them.”
Twilight nodded “They are Grade 4B weapons, as are the tanks. We need to build a sealing place for them to.”
Spike frowned “Maybe a powerful dimensional sealed location that will collapse the dimension if entered without authorisation.”
Octavia nodded “I agree, we can get Sally on that. This is too important to have it get interrupted by something.” They leave the reinforced titanium bunker and then leave through the base exit, Sally joining them as they left. On their way back to Canterlot Castle an owl materialised in front of them.
The confused owl looked around “Who?” It then flew towards Spike, Spike frowned as he saw the letter in it’s talons. It landed on his arm and he took the letter.
Spike opened it, Vinyl, Octavia, Sally and Twilight looking over his shoulder. It read
To Spike Firelight Potter
We have recently found that your file has changed, I request that you come in person so we can confirm the changes alongside your magical guardian Princess Celestia Skystar. This is of great importance, so I expect you to arrive soon.
From Amelia Bones, Head of Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the British Ministry of Magic.
Spike grimaced “I need to speak to the Princess.” He showed the letter to the others.
Vinyl grinned “Will we be able to come with you?”
Twilight frowned “Of course we will go with him, Spike is our friend.”
Sally smiled “I can keep the systems running even across dimensions, I will come with as well.”
Octavia smiled “Well let’s get going.” The four fillies galloped behind their dragon friend towards the castle.
The guards let the five of them through, the castle staff weaved around them as they bolted toward the throne room. One of the guard frowned “Princess Celestia has returned to her study, you better head that way.”
Spike gave him a thumbs up “Thanks.” The five of them turned tail, one of them running with the other four galloping behind through the hallways to the Celestia’s study. When they arrived Spike knocked on the door “Princess, I got a letter from the other world?’
Celestia opened the door allowed the five of them to enter, Spike placed the letter on the table “This is the letter.”
Celestia read over the letter a few times before nodding, she grimaced “I was hoping to have some more time before we did a portal field test but it seems that fate has forced my hoof. I’ll rearrange something so we test the portal tomorrow. I suggest you get some rest tonight while I tend to this.”
Later that night as the five of them were sleeping, Spike started to glow a dim red. Sally was the first of the four fillies to wake, she raised an eyebrow as she saw laying on something massive and purple. Sally saw the green spikes on the dragon’s back, she tapped him “Spike.”
Spike’s much larger form stirred, the three fillies slid off his back onto the squished remains of their bed. Spike turned around, he blinked “Sally, have you gotten smaller?’
Octavia started to stir as Sally shook her head “No. You have grown, from what I can tell dragons such as yourself can grow to massive sizes.”
Octavia sat up as Vinyl and Twilight stirred, she looked at Spike “Who is that?”
Sally rolled her eyes “I’ll explain once the other two wake up fully.” Twilight and Vinyl sit up as well and look at Spike. Before they could say anything, Sally facehooved “That is Spike, he has just grown larger and I’m not sure as to why. There is no information available on this aspect of dragon biology.”
Vinyl and Octavia shout “What!”
Twilight meanwhile levitated out a notepad out one of her saddlebags labelled dragons “Interesting.” She did the same with a quill and inkwell as she began taking notes on Spike. For the next hour Sally helped Octavia and Vinyl to adapt to the increased size of Spike while Twilight took his measurements.
Then there was a knocking on the door, Celestia’s voice came form the other side “May I enter?”
Twilight dropped everything, opening the door and letting Celestia in. Celestia looked up at the Spike who at least three times her height “The Titanus gene has already activated at such a young age. You will need a tremendous amount of energy to activate that gene so early, what have you been eating?”
Spike turned to Twilight “Um, when you asked me to dispose those nuclear fuel rods I couldn’t dispose of them safely. They were too dangerous, so I ate them so that they wouldn’t pile up in some storage room until we ran out of space.”
Twilight groaned “Spike, I told you not expose yourself to that level of radiation. What if it did something unexpected?”
Celestia frowned heavily “You actually built a nuclear reactor somewhere in Canterlot. That was an incredibly reckless thing to do, that could very easily wipe out all of the city. I would ask that you shut it down.”
Sally glared at Celestia “Excuse me but I need that to function. My computer system requires that power to keep my systems running. I am not going to die just because you want to shut down my power supply thank you very much.”
Celestia turned to the other four “You created a fully functioning AI system, that is marvel. I’ll allow you to keep her running but can you allow me to get some of the researchers to perform some tests.”
The three living ponies looked nervously at the Princess, Spike however was not so easily shaken “No Princess, we will not. Sally is not some toy for some scientists to take apart, she is a being with the same cognitive and emotional reasoning as any organic being. She is our friend. I will not budge on this.”
Celestia smiled “You are quite right Spike. Now if believe you wish to test the portal come with me. We need to make sure everything works, Spike nodded as he focused on his body shrinking down to his previous size and this four friends followed him out. Three glaring at Celestia while one looked very nervous.
Spike, Vinyl, Octavia, Twilight and Sally followed Princess Celestia into a recently constructed wooden building surrounded by guards. Inside the building was multiple high tech machines similar to what they had in their lab, they were connected to a completely clear silver mirror. Guards were in position inside the room as well, ready for anything.
Celestia commanded “Turn it on!” The scientists in the room began flipping switches, the machine whirring to life as the mirror glowed with magic. It then pulsed for a moment before settling.
Spike grimaced “Well there’s only one to find out if it worked. I will go first, I can fly and I am very resilient. Besides I know my world better than all of you do, so if we end up there I’ll know what to do.”
Celestia nodded “Very well Spike, I’ll trust your judgement.”
Spike marched towards the portal, he touched the mirror and stepped through. He looked around and gritted his teeth. He could see the tree where Dudley beat him to death. He looked around checking for people, he then stepped back through “The coast is clear!”
Celestia nodded “I’ll go through as well.” Spike jumped aback through the portal, Celestia followed. Spike frowned, she was still a pony and he was still a dragon. This would definitely cause a scene. Before he could say another word, his for friends appeared out of the portal.
Spike groaned “You weren’t meant to come through. You should...”
Spike turned around as a spell flew over his head
Spike turned around to see five people, he growled “What was that for!”
The one at the front raised an eyebrow “A dragon that can speak, that is new. Nevertheless, the ministry’s laws are absolute. You are to come with us, magical creatures are not to roam unattended, failure to comply will result in execution.”
Spike growled “Princess take my friend through the portal and if anyone other than I exits from the other side of the portal turn them to ash.”
The leader growled “Stop them!” Spike roared as he grew to his full size, the wizards and witches turned to him firing off spells. He rolled his eyes as the spells bounced off him.
Spike grimaced “I will kindly ask you to stop before I am forced to use violence.” He then felt an explosion knock him over, it didn’t hurt but it had ticked him off. He charged up a blue burst of energy fired at the stupid wizard who blasted him. The wizard created a shield in front of him only for it to blown apart as he was completely disintegrated.
The leader shouted “Auror command, we need back up!” Spike frowned so they were called Aurors huh and he must be the leader of the squad.
Spike shouted “I suggest you stand down before this gets really ugly!” They began flinging spells at him as more Aurors began teleporting in. Spike took to the skies flying into the clouds as they fired bolts of magic at him, Spike grimaced. In his eyes their teleportation spells were so poorly executed. He frowned as they summoned brooms and took to the skies.
Spike growled as their spells simply splutter out against his scales. He crossed his arms “I’m not impressed you know.”
Spike noticed something out of the corner of his eyes. Spike dodged out of the way, a missile flew past slamming into one of the wizards and exploding taking down several of the flying Aurors. The Auror commander shouted “What was that!”
Spike grimaced “That was a missile. It is a weapons used by those who don’t have magic you moron!”
The Auror commander shouted “How dare you insult me I am Beedle Morgan!”
Spike growled “Well Beedle, I suggest you stand down otherwise more of those will keep coming to strike at me and you are in the wrong place.” Spike then vanished in a flash of light, a missile flying thought the place were he was detonating on contact with a cloud.
Beedle growled “That can’t be a muggle weapon, those fools couldn’t design something this advanced!”
Spike dodged out of the way as a fighter jet flew past. Spike growled as teleported over to him “Does that look like something you guys made!” Spike dove towards the ground shrinking in size, the other wizards followed him. He flew back towards the portal.
Spike smirked as he saw Celestia alongside 200 pegasi guards, 100 earth pony guards and 300 unicorns guards staring down the 70 Aurors. Before the Aurors could even fire a spell the guards were on them, within a minute all seventy of them were bound and their wands confiscated.
Spike frowned as he stared at Beedle who was with the two of them “Do you know someone by the name of Amelia Bones?”
Beedle grimaced “I do, she is my boss.”
Spike grimaced “Give him back his wand so he can kindly inform her that Spike and Princess Celestia have arrived. She is awaiting our arrival.”
Celestia returned his wand and he teleported away. Celestia turned to Spike “Are you sure that was a wise decision?”
Spike nodded “We didn’t come here for a fight, they started it and we finished it. Hopefully we can find a peaceful resolution to all of this.”
Meanwhile Beedle ran through the ministry, Amelia Bones glared at him as he barged into her office “What is the meaning of this intrusion?”
Beedle grimaced “I responded to wizard reports of a dragon appearing in Little Whinging. I brought some Aurors to transport the dragon only for all of them plus the backup to be captured by a bunch of ponies. Then the leader of the ponies Princess Celestia and the dragon was called Spike.”
Amelia growled “That Spike is Spike Firelight Potter, formerly Harry Potter and that Princess is his magical guardian. As such I am going there to negotiate, you are now banned from field duty. Engaging a dragon in public with more than ten Aurors was foolish. I will need to send a team of Obliviators to Little Whinging.”
Amelia Bones was sitting next to two people in the middle of a field. The three of them were sitting across from Spike and Celestia. She gestured to the short portly man beside her “This is Cornelius Fudge, the British Minister for Magic.” She then gestured to the toad-like woman wearing an obnoxious amount of pink “This is Dolores Umbridge, his Senior Undersecretary.”
Celestia smiled “Then you must be Amelia Bones?”
Before Amelia could respond Dolores grimaced “Why are we hear to talk to these beasts? They are clearly beneath us.”
Fudge raised his hand “None of that Dolores, they were able to easily capture an entire team of Aurors and lock them up. Clearly that are more than the mere beasts.” He then turned towards Celestia as Dolores pouted “I’m hoping that you could release the Aurors back into our care, they maintain an important role in maintaining law and order.”
Celestia smiled “That can be arranged, however I would like you to tell me more about your world.”
Spike glared at Dolores as Fudge nodded “The Magical Community has been hiding from the non-magical population for a long time. There was a time when anyone with magical was labelled as evil and killed. The magical community was much smaller then, our kind constantly hunted by those who feared us. Now we hide from the Muggles.”
Celestia frowned “I would like to learn more about their culture as well. Would that be a problem for the wizarding community?”
Fudge cast his gaze over to Umbridge again before shaking his head “That will be a problem. The ICW will take great offense to that.”
Celestia nodded “I suggest you talk to them and make it clear that we want to learn more about your world. I would appreciate if you could acquire as much muggle literature on their technology and culture as possible for our benefit. I will gladly pay you handsomely for it.”
Umbridge rose quickly “Why do you need anything about muggles, they are clearly inferior to the majesty of our magic.”
Spike burst into laughter “Y-your magic couldn’t anything to my scales on the other hand if I got hit with a muggle missile I would have been gravely injured. Maybe if I was fully grown I could have taken one of them without an issue.”
Amelia frowned “Enough Umbridge. That is not why we are here.” She then turned to Spike “You are a Hero to the Wizarding World even if you don’t realise it yet. Your previous identity, Harry Potter had been praised for defeating the Dark Lord who threatened all of Wizarding Britain about a decade ago. As such is would be wise for you to attend Hogwarts as your parents did when you turn eleven in a year.”
Spike frowned “Could my friends attend, I have four of them and I don’t know enough about this place.”
Amelia frowned “I don’t see why not, if they are the same age as you they could very easily receive a letter.”
Celestia smiled “I will provide all the funds necessary for their schooling. They could learn a lot from your world.”
Fudge nodded “I will arrange a meeting with the goblins to set up an exchange rate.”
Celestia trued to Spike “I will handle matters from here. You can return to your friends.”
Spike nodded with a smile running back through the portal. Twilight, Vinyl, Octavia and Sally were waiting outside the portal building. Spike smiled “You four should be able to come with me to their magic school.”
Vinyl frowned “I wonder what they think about us, creatures that are similar to vampires and werewolves.”
Twilight smiled “Relax, it will be fine. A school won’t threaten it’s students. It should be the safest place in the world.”
Sally nodded “A place of education should be safe for us.”
Twilight grinned “I can’t wait to read all the new books they could have. An entire new world of knowledge!”
Spike whispered to Vinyl “We may need to drag her out of the library at some point.” The five friends headed to Donut Joes to relax.”
Meanwhile in the Wizarding Prison of Azkaban, the Dementors, the wardens of the prison floated around their dark cloaks hiding their true forms from the world. In a single cell, Bellatrix Lestrange was laughing madly to herself.
Her cousin Sirius Black was trapped in a cell nearby. A man whose sanity held strong by the need for vengeance against the man who had cost the lives of his friends. The mad laughter of his cousin was almost worse than the Dementors. He growled in his silence.
Meanwhile in the mind of his cousin a tall woman stood over a little girl. The little girl cried “Let me out!”
The woman looked down at the little girl “Bellatrix, there is nothing for you out there anymore. I needed your form to fix this world.”
Bellatrix cried “So you ruined my life, trapped me in my own mind. Made me into a monster. Rowena, I thought you were supposed be a hero.”
Rowena let a cold chuckle “Godric was the hero, even Salazar was a hero in a way. Helga while smart was not willing to make sacrifices. They all work with their current host, or in Salazar’s case the two merged their souls becoming one person. I was the only one ever who was willing to make sacrifices. My bloodline is a tool to better the next generation.”
Bellatrix sobbed to herself as Rowena watched coldly, uncaring of the little girl’s misery “Maybe you should accept the coldness of reality.”
Bellatrix opened her eyes for the first time in years, her body felt wrong as if twisted. She felt the pangs of hunger gnawing away at her, the cold misery in air eating away at her mind. She began sobbing. In that moment Sirius Black froze as the crying was something he hadn’t hear in years. He couldn’t stand the crying. His eyes glowed yellow as a howl echoed throughout Azkaban.
Twilight, Spike, Vinyl, Octavia and Sally were awoken by the sound of something banging on the window. An owl carrying an envelope, Spike ran over and opened the window. The owl flew onto in dropping a letter into Spike’s claw before flying out as fast as it came. On the envelope it had the names of all five of them, Spike called out “Girls, come over here and look at this.”
The four girls galloped over, Twilight frowned “This is from Hogwarts. Do you think it is our invitation?”
Spike frowned “Only one way to find out.” Spike opened the letter “It seems you were correct but I have no idea how we are to get these books.”
Sally frowned “The Dark Force: A Guide to Self Protection sounds very important as does the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.”
Vinyl grinned baring her teeth “Three of us are already fantastic beasts when you really think about it. Octavia loves eating livers and I am a predator.”
Octavia frowned “I doubt we will be in their books, we are very different from what creatures exist in their world.”
Meanwhile at Hogwarts Dumbledore was sitting at his desk, looking over various notes. Plans he had made in the past as well as a few notes that were no longer relevant. He frowned at the papers, Harry was gone or at least changed. He had visited the Hall or Prophecies several times the prior year. The prophecy he was following was no longer valid. He was interrupted by a knock, he smiled “Come in.”
Professor McGonagall entered “Headmaster, I am here to discuss Spike Firelight Potter and his friends. They are far from our usual students.”
Dumbledore frowned “I’ve heard from Fudge that Spike is actually the reincarnation of Harry Potter. I didn’t expect his family to be so cruel, I suggest you meet with them and get them to Diagon Alley as soon as possible. They will draw too much attention if they try to go alone.”
McGonagall nodded “I will do that. Is everything okay in here, I smell smoke.”
Dumbledore nodded “I decided to let things play out for now, I hardly have enough information to make a plan. Besides, maybe it’s time for me to let the new generation take control of their future instead of an old fool like me deciding the future for them.” He then chuckled, pulling out a piece of candy “Sherbet Lemon.”
McGonagall sighed “Just this once.” She pocketed the sweet as she left the office. Dumbledore smiled as put his own candy in his mouth. McGonagall headed for the flu in her own office and after pulling a handful of flu powder and throwing it at her feet “Ministry of Magic.”
McGonagall was surprised to see the Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge waiting there for her. Fudge smiled “You are here for the special students, you should head to Little Whinging to meet up with them. We have set up a small building there to act as flu gate.”
McGonagall nodded “Thank you Minster, I’ll be on my way.” McGonagall returned to the floo to travel to Little Whinging. She popped out in what appeared to be a small cabin around a portal. She raised an eyebrow at the small armoured equines guarding the doors, she gazed at one of the guards “Can introduce me to Spike Firelight Potter and his friends?”
The guards nodded “We have been briefed on this. Follow us.” McGonagall followed the guards through towards a floating portal. One of the guards frowned “We haven’t been able to anchor the portal to something yet on this side.”
The other frowned “Go through, the Princess will be with you shortly if she is not already there.”
McGonagall nodded “Thank you.” She stepped through, the transition was strangely tranquil. It was far more stable then any portkey she had used. She saw the equines, some had wings, some had horns and some had neither. Then a taller mare approached her mane flowing behind her head, she had both a horn and wings. McGonagall bowed “You must be the Princess they were talking about.”
Celestia smiled “I am Princess Celestia, I will introduce you to Spike and his four friends.”
Before McGonagall could reply, the ground shook violently, Celesta groaned “They must have had another incident with their lab.” There was a sudden gust of wind as a huge purple dragon flew above them covering the entire city in shadow for a few seconds before the dragon shrunk in size.
The dragon landed on the ground. Four small equines, one made of metal hopping off his back. He then shrunk down to smaller than McGonagall. Celestia frowned “What happened?’
Twilight pouted “Our nuclear reactor almost went into meltdown.”
Celestia was about to panic only for Spike to frown “I ate it, it tasted bad but it can’t hurt anyone anymore. It made me way too large though.”
Sally eyed McGonagall “What is this strange monkey creature? Did it escape from a zoo?”
Octavia gasped “You can’t just say that to someone, do you have no tact!”
Sally shrugged “I speak my mind, I see no point in holding my tongue. Honesty is the best policy.”
Vinyl poked Octavia as the Princess watched “We shouldn’t keep the Princess waiting?”
Celestia smiled as they stopped bickering “This is one of the staff at your school. She is going to take the five of you to collect your school supplies.”
McGonagall nodded holding a golden key “Young Potter has a vault, I believe you should hold onto this. Now I’m afraid we will have to make a stop at the Leaky Cauldron before going into Diagon Alley. Be careful, some shady individuals do come in there.”
Vinyl grinned hopping into the portal “A new world awaits.” The other four soon to be Hogwarts students sighed as they followed their friend. McGonagall followed after them, Celestia smiling as they left.
McGonagall approached the five new students “Do you know how to use the flu?” The five of them shook their heads. McGonagall frowned “You must throw the powder in the jar next to the fireplace and shout where you wish to go. Now one at a time, I will follow behind you.”
The five of them did as she said and she followed them. When McGonagall arrived all the wizards and witches looked at Spike, Vinyl ,Twilight, Octavia and Sally with caution. McGonagall frowned “They are students at Hogwarts or will be soon, they may have a unique appearance but I assure they will cause no harm to anyone providing they don’t try to hurt them. The dragon here is actually the reincarnation of Harry Potter.”
Spike was swarmed by witches and wizards asking him questions. He growled belching a bit of flame “Get back! NOW!” As they stepped back “One at a time or else I will cook you.”
Most of them were offering him empty platitudes and shaking his claws. None of that bothered him, one man though who approached caught his eye, he was a pale young man field with nervousness. One of his eyes was twitching. McGonagall frowned “This is Professor Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts this year.”
Quirrell stammered, grasping Spike’s claw “P-P-Potter, c-can’t t-tell you how p-pleased I am to meet you.”
Spike smiled “Well it is good to meet you too professor but we must be going. We need to get supplies for the school year.” They were hurried along by McGonagall into the nearby alleyway and she tapped several bricks on the wall in sequence with her wand before hurrying them into Diagon Alley.
Twilight frowned “That Professor seemed very nervous. Did we do something?”
McGonagall shook her head “No, the stories say he encountered a vampire in the black forest as well as a hag.”
Octavia raised an eyebrow “Would he be scared of me I wonder. I mean back home my kind are the basis for Vampire Legends.”
Sally frowned, “We have more important things to do than talk.”
McGonagall eyed Octavia for a bit before nodding “We need to head to Gringotts Bank, Spike has a vault there which will be used to pay for all your school supplies.”
As they made their way through the Diagon Alley they saw shops selling various goods, some of which they had never seen before. The one nearest to the entrance was selling cauldrons, another shop Eeylops Owl Emporium-Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown and Snowy was pretty self explanatory.
At the end they saw a snowy-white building that towered over the surrounding shops. Besides the door was a member of a species they couldn’t recognize, He was taller than the ponies but two heads shorter than Spike. He had a swarthy, clever face and a pointed beard. Twilight noticed his long hands and feet. McGonagall informed them “He is a goblin, they are the ones who run Gringotts the Wizarding Bank.” The goblin bowed as they entered, a pair of silver doors engraved with the words.
ENTER, STRANGER BUT TAKE HEED OF WHAT AWAITS THE SIN OF GREED, FOR THOSE WHO TAKE BUT DO NOT EARN, MUST PAY MOST DEARLY IN THEIR TURN, SO IF YOU SEEK TREASURE BENEATH OUR FLOORS A TREASURE THAT WAS NEVER YOURS, THIEF, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, BEWARE OF FINDING MORE THAN TREASURE THERE.
Sally frowned “It seems robbing this place would be highly unwise.”
Vinyl nodded “As much as I love to cause mischief this is not the place.” The group entered the bank.
They entered a large marble hall, McGonagall passed a tiny golden key to Spike “This is the key to your vault.” They saw about a hundred goblins sitting on tall stools behind a tall counter, some were scribbling large ledgers, weighing coins on brass scales and examining precious stones.
Spike and his friend head down the hall, McGonagall following behind. Spike and his friends bowed their heads before the goblin at the head desk. The goblin nodded to them. Spike handed the goblin his key “I would like to withdraw some coins from my vault.”
The goblin nodded to them “Very well Mr Potter.” He then called out “Griphook!” Griphook, another of the goblins, came out to guide them to Spike’s vault.
The group followed Griphook through a door out of the hall. Griphook held the door open for them revealing a stone passageway lit with flaming torches. There was a steep slope in front of them with little railway tracks on them. Griphook whistled, summoning a small cart hurtling up the tracks towards them. They all climbed in, the cart easily carrying all of them. As the cart sped through the interconnected maze, Twilight commented “These carts seem to rely on some kind of magic that I don’t recognise, I wish I had more time to study them.”
They all felt a cold gust of wind as they passed an underground lake with huge stalactites and stalagmites emerging from the ceiling and floor. Spike grit his teeth as he saw dragon flame but kept quiet. The cart stopped at a small door in the passage wall, as they got off Spike handed Griphook the key to open the door. Griphook unlocked the door revealing of mounds of gold coins, columns of silver and piles of bronze knuts.
McGonagall explained “The gold coins are Galleons, Seventeen of the Silver Sickles make a Galleon and Twenty-Nine Knuts make a Sickle. You shouldn’t require too many coins for your supplies.”
Spike frowned “I doubt it, given our body shape we will all need custom robes. Not to mention my robes will need to be fireproof which will cost extra.” Spike began gathering a decent horde of galleons and putting them into his carry bag of expenditures.
Spike, Twilight, Sally, Vinyl and Octavia under the watch of Professor McGonagall left Gringotts. Octavia looked around “Where should we go first?”
Sally suggested “We should get our uniforms sorted, they will take extra time for the fitting.”
Twilight nodded “I agree, we should go there first.” The others nodded, Professor McGonagall following her charges. They approached Madam Malkins Robes for All Occasions. As they entered the shop they saw a squat, smiling witch dressed all in mauve.
Madam Malkin raised an eyebrow at McGonagall “Are these five students for Hogwarts?” At McGonagalls nod she turned to them “To do the custom work will be two hundred Galleons per uniform.”
Spike placed three thousand Galleons on the table “Three uniforms for each of us. Don't want to risk having no uniforms.”
Madam Malkin frowned, “Come over here, we will get your measurements done.”After two hours of measurements, Madam Malkin nodded, “You all should return later to pick up your uniforms.”
Octavia bowed “Thank you ma’am.” After the others offered their thanks, they then headed off to collect their other supplies. They had to drag Twilight out of Flourish and Blotts after she wanted to buy one copy of every book from the store. Spike did add a copy of Curses and Counter-Curse to their purchase list, knowing what curses could do and how to counter them was useful information.
They were able to acquire their cauldrons,scales and potion ingredients without much trouble. McGonagall guided them to Eeylops Owl Emporium where Spike and Twilight got an owl each. Vinyl and Octavia opted out, Vinyl was worried that Octavia may eat the poor birds and Sally would not want bird poop getting on her circuitry, it was a nightmare to clean.
Spike’s was a beautiful snowy owl which he named Hedwig while Twilight’s owl was a light amber colour. She named him Owlowiscious. McGonagall nodded “The final thing is to purchase your wands.We will go to Ollivanders, his family have been making wands for generations.”
As they approached the narrow and shabby looking shop, Vinyl frowned “It doesn’t look like much.”
Octavia slapped Vinyl “Show some tact, we don’t what upset the owner do we?” Vinyl groaned in response. As they entered they saw a single wand laying on a faded purple cushion through the dusty window. It was a tiny place which made the entrance quite crowded, McGonagall having to sit on the single spindly chair just to give space for everyone else.
The five of them saw thousands of narrow boxes piled up to the ceiling, they also could feel a strange magical presence. A soft voice said “Good afternoon.” An old man stood before them, his wide, pale eyes shining like the moon through the gloomy shop. He approached “An interesting group all of you, his eyes laid upon Sally slightly more than the others”
Spike stepped forward first, Mr Ollivander “Well, now Mr Firelight. Let me see.” He pulled out a tape measure with silver markings “Now which is your wand arm?” Spike held out his right arm. Spike frowned as the tape measure was measuring him while the enigmatic wandmaker was taking down boxes from shelves.
Mr Ollivander said to the group as he did so “Every Ollivander wand had a core of powerful substance.We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers and the heartstrings of dragons.” Spike glared at him sternly, his left arm placed over his heart. Mr Ollivander chuckled “I am no dragon hunter, I only receive heartstrings from dragons who have caused grave harm to people.”
His spiel being interrupted he started getting Spike to try various wands, snatching them away as soon as they were used. After thirty boxes, Ollivander was beaming “Quite a tricky one aren't you.” He then pulled out a larger box “This is a most unusual wand, Fir and Dragon Heartstring. Eighteen Inches. Very Powerful. Be…” A burst of dragon flame came out of the end as Spike waved the wand. Ollivander grinned “A very powerful wand, very suitable for a dragon.” Spike frowned but stayed silent.
Vinyl’s wand ended up being a twelve inch wand made of dogwood and Rougarou hair. Ollivander frowned as a wolf face burst out of the end of the wand “That wand was made by my grandfather after returning from Louisiana. Rougarou hair wands have a penchant for dark magic.” Ollivander was surprised when Octavia’s wand was made using the same hair as Vinyl’s but with ten inches rather than twelve and was made of reed. Twilight’s wand was an eight inch walnut wand with a unicorn hair core.
Ollivander then turned to Sally “I know exactly the wand for you.” He wandered into the back. He soon returned with a strange metal box finely engraved, he opened revealing a wand made of a fine metal with a soft blue glow being emitted across a series of engravings.
McGonagall frowned “I have never seen a wand like nor has a wand such as this ever been made, metal makes for poor wands.”
Ollivander nodded “Indeed but this was not made by me. Eight hundred years ago, my ancestor received this wand from a strange man wearing a garish mismatch of clothes. He handed him this box. He said ‘One day you will meet a group of four strange witches and one wizard. The strangest of the group will be gifted this wand.’”
Sally looked at the eleven inch wand “What is it made of?”
Ollivander frowned “Titanium with a core of Enchanted Plutonium. To contain the radiation he said.”
Sally took it from Ollivander “The engraving reads Discord.” She turned to the others “Do you know anything about that?”
Spike paused for a moment before clicking his claws “I remember reading a legend about a powerful figure sealed away one thousand years ago. He could bend reality to his whims, change the fabric of time and space. Even bring back the dead as vile husks, all for the sake of his own amusement. I didn’t think he actually existed but it seems I was wrong.”
The five young students knew they had to ask Princess Celestia a few questions about this. McGonagall followed, worried about this strange and powerful figure entering their world.
Spike and his friends returned to Madam Malkin’s shop to pick up their robes. Madam Malkin showed them their clothes “You should try them on before you go.” She then nodded to Spike “I have put every protective enchantment I can think of on yours. I’d rather not have them break.”
Spike nodded “I agree.”
Vinyl frowned as she put on hers “It feels so restrictive. Why do they wear these anyway?”
Octavia frowned “Well from what I can gather humans don’t have tails or fur so their private parts would hang out for everyone to see.”
Twilight frowned “More importantly when it gets cold, your body would be exposed to the cold with no protection. That would explain why they started wearing clothes, to keep warm in colder climates. Although couldn’t they just do something about the climate to make it warmer?”
Spike shook his head “Unlike in our world, weather here happens by itself. Humans in the past had to survive in a world where the weather is just as much the enemy as other animals were.”
McGonagall frowned “Well we should be getting back, thank you Madam Malkin for your help.”
Madam Malkin smiled “Thank you for coming early, it makes things easier on me.” With that they left, returning back to Equestria.
At the portal, Spike bowed “Thank you Professor for helping us.”
McGonagall nodded “It was my duty as deputy headmistress, I will see you when you arrive at Hogwarts.”
Twilight smiled, eyes glowing with excitement “I can’t wait for our first day!” Spike and the others followed her through the portal. Once they made their way into the castle.
Spike frowned as they entered “I need to speak with the Princess, can you give me some time.”
Sally nodded “I have some diagnostics to run. Something was slowing down my system for no reason before we left and I didn’t have time to do anything.”
Twilight smiled, “I have some experiments to run once I put my stuff back in our room.”
Spike nodded “We should drop off our school equipment first.”
As they headed for their shared room, Vinyl frowned “We need to get some more food for Octavia. Once we have done that we can return to the castle.”
After dropping off everything, Spike went looking for Celestia. Spike found Celestia enjoying a cup of tea at the meeting table alone, Celestia smiled “Hello Spike, it’s good to see you. Do you need something?”
Spike frowned “Do you know anything about a being that goes by the name of Discord?”
Celestia lowered her cup to the table “Where did you hear that name?”
Spike frowned “I first found it in a book but then the wand-maker on the other side of the portal mentioned a man by that name wearing mismatched clothing providing a wand for one of us to one of his ancestors eight hundred years ago.”
Celestia frowned “That is highly concerning, he was sealed away by that time. I’ll keep a closer eye on his seal so he doesn’t cause any problems. In the meantime you should prepare for going to Hogwarts.”
Spike nodded “I will get some rest, while we have some time off.”
A few days later, Spike,Twilight, Octavia, Vinyl and Sally were met by Cornelius Fudge. Fudge frowned, providing them with enchanted cloaks “These will make you appear human while you are in the muggle world. Those who don’t have magic don’t know of the magical world and we intend to keep it that way for as long as possible.”
Sally nodded “We understand, that conclusion is logical.” The five of them put on their cloaks.
Fudge frowned “We will have to travel the muggle way. Carrying luggage through the floo is a bad idea unless the floo is specially made for that.”
Twilight frowned “Then how are we supposed to get to the station?”
Fudge crossed his arms as a large station wagon pulled up in front of them “Took them long enough to arrive.”
Octavia frowned “What is that? I haven’t seen anything like that back home.”
Spike grinned “It’s a car, a motorised carriage that is powered by engine and doesn’t require it to be pulled by ponies. They are able to move much faster and go on for far longer than a carriage.”
Octavia growled “Enough discussion, we will be late if we don’t get going!” After getting their luggage in the car they hopped inside.
Vinyl looked at the huge buildings towering in the distance “They are bigger than anything back home!”
Fudge frowned “Muggle are quite capable, I feel we have neglected a lot when looking at structures such as that. Hmm.” Once they arrived at the King Cross Station, they looked around confused. There was no sign of the platform.
Twilight asked as Spike loaded their carts “Where’s the platform?”
Fudge pointed to the centre pillar between platform nine and ten “Platform nine and three quarters is between those two. You can see the Weasleys there now, they should be able to help you.”
Spike nodded “Well let’s go.”
The five of them approached a plump woman talking to four boys, all with fiery red hair. Octavia asked “Could you show us how to get onto the platform?”
The plump woman raised an eyebrow “Why are you three wearing cloaks?”
Vinyl frowned “We have some secrets that it is best that the muggles as you call them don’t know about?”
The plump woman smiled pointing “Don’t worry, just walk towards the barrier between platforms nine and ten. If you are feeling nervous, you might want to do a bit of run.” Spike ran into the barrier, Twilight followed by Octavia and Vinyl then Sally bringing up the rear.
A scarlet steam train was in front of them, a wrought iron archway with the words platform Nine and Three Quarters was behind them. All five of them took off their cloaks only to scrunch their faces at the smell of smoke. Everyone was staring at them. Vinyl waved her hooves “What, you haven’t seen a unicorn before! Stop fucking staring at us!”
Octavia smacked her “Vinyl, that was very rude!”
Spike frowned at them “You can give her a pounding on the train, now let’s get on.”
Spike increased to twice his current height to carry their luggage inside. Hedwig and Owliscious were sleeping in their cages as they made their way through the train and found an empty cabin. Sally frowned, “Everyone was staring at us.”
Twilight blinked “I thought that might be a normal thing around here.”
Spike finished putting the luggage where it needed to be before shrinking down to his regular size. He shook his head “That is not the case or else they would have been staring like that at each other.”
Sally was about to speak when two of the red haired boys burst in, then ten plasma cannons extended out of her body “Explain why you two are here!”
They shouted in unison “That’s awesome!”
Octavia groaned “Sally, put the weapons away. They aren’t a threat.” Her eyes then narrowed “I would like an introduction before we talk.”
One of the two pointed at the other one “He’s Fred, I’m George.”
“Fred” turned to George “I thought I was George.”
Spike sighed “You two are trouble, I can tell.”
Fred nodded “Oh I forgot.” He then turned to them “Don’t worry about the people at the station, seeing Hogwarts first Dragon and Unicorn students gave them a real wobbly.” Twilight levitated a book out from her luggage and began reading much to the shock of the two boys.
Vinyl frowned, closing the door “It’s like they have never seen a unicorn before.”
Spike frowned “Equine species here are not capable of speaking any language and I think magical beings are the same given their reaction to me when I first arrived.”
They felt the train starting to move only to have their door opened again, a pale boy with blond hair was standing there with a disapproving look on his face. Two thickset extremely mean looking boys flanked him. The pale boy sneered, “Since when did we allow animals to attend school.”
Spike smirked standing up “When those ‘animals’ were powerful enough to wipe the Wizarding World off the face of the planet. So tell me, what is the point of this little meeting?”
The pale boy glared at Spike “To show you that I, Draco Malfoy, am superior to you lesser creatures.” He then turned to the two boys beside him “Crabbe, Goyle. You know what to do.”
Crabbe and Goyle clenched their fists as they approached, Spike sighed as Crabbe swung his fist. Crabbe’s fist slammed into his forehead, Crabbe howled in pain. Sally raised an eyebrow “Do they not know that dragon scales are much stronger than steel?”
Spike roared at them and the three bullies scurried from their cabin. A moment later they heard footsteps followed by a girl in her Hogwarts robes entering their cabin. She nodded to them “I’m Hermione Granger, I haven’t read anything that said they allowed magical creatures in as students?”
Twilight rubbed her head “I don’t know the exact details but from what I read it is a political thing. I haven’t been able to get my hooves on those books yet.”
Hermione smiled “You like books?”
Twilight grinned “I love books, I have brought some from home in my luggage. How about we swap some books.”
Hermione's smile widened, Spike, Vinyl and Octavia pulled Sally out of the room. Sally frowned “Why did we leave them?”
Octavia frowned “Twilight loves books, she is a little book crazy and pulling her away from them takes a combined effort of all three of us. There is Twilight and someone who seems exactly like her. We are going to let them book each other to exhaustion.” A few hours later they saw the school in the distance as the sun vanished from the sky.
Spike, Sally, Twilight, Vinyl ,Octavia and Hermione exited the train. They saw a huge figure almost twice as tall as the people they have met and five times as wide. His black hair and bushy beard were wild and untamed. He called out “Firs’ years! Firs’ years over here!” Once everyone was accounted for, he called “No more’n four to a boat!”
Spike frowned “That means one of us has to be one another boat.”
Hermione put a hand on Twilight’s withers “I’ll take care of Twilight, we can talk about books together.”
Octavia nodded “That would be wise.”
Everyone boarded their boats, Spike saw Twilight and Hermione joined by Ron and another nervous looking boy. The fleet of small boats glided across the lake, which was as smooth as glass. Hagrid yelled as they approached “Heads down!” Everyone except the ponies had to duck their heads to avoid hitting the roof of a dark tunnel hidden by a curtain of ivy.
They arrived at an underground harbour and climbed onto rock and pebbles.After the very large man provided a toad to their fellow first year, all the first years clambered up a passageway They then walked up a flight of stone steps before arriving at a massive oak door. The very large man knocked three times on the door.
The doors swung open, Professor McGonagall descended down the stairs. The very large man said “The firs’-years, Professor McGonagall.”
Professor McGonagall responded “Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here.” She pulled the doors open revealing a massive entrance hallway larger than the one in Canterlot. They followed the Professor along the flagged stone floor, they could hear voices from a doorway to their right. Professor McGonagall shoved the first years into a small empty chamber off the hall.
They crowded in, standing way too closely together save for Spike and his friends who felt others staring at them. Professor McGonagall said “Welcome to Hogwarts.” She began to explain that the Sorting Ceremony would distribute them into different houses, Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. Spike, Sally, Octavia, Vinyl and Twilight thought this was very odd. It’s as if they wanted their students to hate each other.
Professor McGonagall said “I will return when we are ready for you. Please wait quietly.”
Spike raised his eyebrow as Twilight gasped “Ghosts are real!”
The ghosts that floated into the room immediately took notice of them but before they could get too intrusive. Professor McGonagall returned, causing the ghosts to float away. She commanded the first years “Now, form a line and follow me.” They all formed a line, Spike ended up behind Draco Malfoy much to his annoyance.
They walked out the chamber back across the hall through the double doors into the great halls, countless candles floated above the table that were covered in food and where the older students were sitting. Soon they all ended up facing the other students with the staff behind them. Professor McGonagall put a four legged stool in front of them, she then placed an extremely dirty, frayed and patched pointy wizard’s hat. A rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth and then the three organic ponies covered their ears while a pair of earmuffs materialised on Sally.
Spike on the other hand was growing in size as he held his ears, he felt his head hit something when the sound stopped. Everyone was staring at him in shock, Spike gently picked up the hat with the tip of his two claws “Stop singing, my ears are very sensitive to sound.” He then placed the hat down.
After returning to a more acceptable size, an elderly wizard with silver hair stepped forward “While that was quite a display, we should return to the sorting.”
Out of Spike’s friends, Sally was up first. The Sorting Hat spoke to her “A synthetic being fueled by logic, you belong nowhere other than, RAVENCLAW!” Sally matched over to the Ravenclaw table
Twilight was the next, she raised an eyebrow at the sorting “Hat, how do you work? Can I take a look at you?”
The Sorting Hat responded “No” before appearing to chuckle at her pout “One seeking knowledge such as you belong in, RAVENCLAW!” Twilight teleported next to Sally.
Next was Vinyl, The Sorting Hat responded “You are very brazen and eager for trouble. You belong in Gryffindor!” Vinyl bounced ecstatically over to the table.
Octavia was the next member of their friend group, The Sorting Hat frowned “You are curious and calm. I think you belong in…”
Octavia frowned “I would prefer to be in Gryffindor, Vinyl can be dangerous when she gets a fun idea.”
The Sorting Hat shrugged “Everyone in Gryffindor does dangerous stuff, they are the daring types. Are you sure about this?” Octavia nodded, the hat responded with far less enthusiasm “Gryffindor.” She trotted off slowly.
Spike was the last of his group, the Sorting Hat seemed nervous. As soon as the hat was put on his head. The Sorting Hat shouted “GRYFFINDOR!” Spike saw as he headed to the table that the hat shivered.
After a few more people were sorted, the elderly wizard from earlier stepped forward “Welcome. Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts. Before we begin our Banquet, I would like a few words and here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddiment! Tweak!”
Spike looked at Octavia and Vinyl with confusion, they held similar looks. Twilight and Sally had similar looks on their faces, they raised an eyebrow as food materialised into existence on the plates. Spike started putting food on his plate, wondering how classes were going to start.