The Orb of Magic

Chapter 5 - Spikey-Wikey

"Ahhh!" You shoot up out of you sheets and start to breathe heavily. As you look around,

you hear the chirping of birds a song and children playing outside. You look over to a

window to your left as you see the sun seeping in through the bottom of the blinds. You

exhale loudly and rest your eyes as you are relieved that the falling and light was only

a dream. You rub your eyes at an attempt to try to clear the blurriness of your vision.

When you rub them however, you realize that your face is covered in dirt. You lift your

arm and smell your arm pit only to be pushed away by a foul odor. I really need a

shower. You start to look around but a sudden banging can be heard above you. Your head

follows the noise as you assume that it must be Twilight. The supposed footsteps seem to

make its may down to your level with the door to your right slams open.

"Mystery!" You quickly jerk your head over to the door way to see Twilight standing in

the door way huffing loudly. "Are you okay?" Twilight snaps. Her mane and fur is ruffled

as she had just woke and the colors in her tail are mixed up. As you give a soft nod,

Twilight slumps to the floor and shows a sigh of relief.

"Sorry, I had a weird dream and I was falling as I woke up" You give an apologetic smile

as Twilight smiles back. You both stare at each other for a moment as you hear a small

patter above you when a voice calls down.

"Twilight, its like, nine in the morning. Why are you making suck a loud racket. It's

not like you haven't sent your report to the princess yet" You hear the patter of

footsteps descend down the stairs and over to where you and Twilight are. As you try to

look past the slumped unicorn to try and get a view of Spike, you notice a small twitch

on Twilight's face.

"Uh Twilight? Are you okay?" you ask the heaped mess. Twilight remains silent as she

stares at you as if she wants your soul. A few more twitches occur before she jumps up

suddenly and yells in a hurry.

"Oh no! I haven't sent a letter to the princess yet! Where is my calendar!?" Twilight

rushes around your room, opening drawers and removing books from the shelves when you

notice Spike entering the room.

"Twilight, your calendar is where it always is..." Spike opens up a drawer right next to

the door and pulls out a calendar that has a picture of a dark colored pony on it.

Twilight quickly snatches the calendar out of Spikes claws and starts to scan through

the days.

"Oh no! Today is the deadline. If I don't get a friendship report in today, then I'm

going to be..." Twilight gasps as her eyes increase substantially in size. "TARDY! Oh

no, oh no, oh no!" Twilight gallops out of your room leaving Spike behind with a bemused

face.

"Don't worry Mystery, she always obsesses over the smallest things. Do you want me to

make you anything? Food? A drink? Or do you need something specific?" The dragon walks

over to some books that have been thrown on the floor and starts to pick them up.

"Um" You hesitate as you remember that you stink and are in dire need of a shower. "Do

you have a shower?" You hold your breath waiting for some kind of negative answer. You

are surprised however, to hear the opposite.

"Yea, if you go up the stairs to the left then follow the hall, it's the second right.

Although..." There's the negative part "It might be a bit small for you, so it might be

a little awkward to get in, but you can give it a shot" Spike smiles at you as he

continues to pick up books and loose sheets of paper.

"Thanks!" You say before getting up and walking out of the room. As you exit you notice

some stairs that lead to a higher part of the house. "Wow... This is like some kind of

dream tree house" You whisper under your breath. As you follow the desired path you come

to a door that seems almost ridiculously small. After squeezing through the doorway,

your eyes open wide as you get a glimpse of the stupidly small shower. The top of the

shower reaches the bottom of your rib cage and the size is about the size of a pony

itself.

You remove your dirty clothes and take a few steps towards it before you stop to think

on how this is going to work. You slide into the shower awkwardly and find yourself

sitting down and crossing your legs, and you only just fit. As you look at the controls,

it's a button with a weird symbol on it and a lever with red at the top and blue on the

bottom. You press the button and to your expectation, water spews out from above the

shower. The water at first is extremely cold, but as you move the lever up, even the

slightest change makes the water become red hot, so you move the lever down again. The

water then become ice cold. This persists until you decide to settle with the cold

water. After deciding to stick to a temperature you realize that you will need some kind

of soap. As you look around, you are relieved to find some sort of bottle of liquid on a

shelf in the shower.

You slide out of the shower, slightly aching as being in a cramped shower and trying to

wash yourself was a little hard. Even the fluctuating water temperatures didn't help.

You look around and try to find something to wrap around yourself to no avail. You open

the door enough to fit your head through and peek around the corner. "Uh... Hello?!" You

yell.

"Hi there!" You jump back in panic of the voice being so close without seeing anything.

"Whoa, careful" Spike starts to push the door open when you jump up and slam it shut.

"Uh, is everything okay in there?"

"Yes. Sorry" You slightly open the door and peek out again. "Do you have something I can

wrap around myself?" You look at spike promisingly "Like a towel?"

"Yea sure" You watch Spike quickly run off into a different room until he arrives with a

small purple towel. "Here you are! It's Twilight's but I'm sure she'll be fine with it.

Why are you hiding behind the door by the way?" You look at the towel and think for a

moment.

"For privacy" Spike gives you a confused look when you continue "Anyway, thanks Spike"

You show a warm smile as Spike pulls an extremely pleased grin before he runs off into

another room. You back up and dry yourself as much as possible before you wrap the towel

around you. You grab your clothes off of the floor and walk out into the corridor. As

you make your way down to your previous room, you notice Twilight darting around a huge

room energetically "Hi Twilight!". Twilight doesn't see you, so you decide to make

yourself noticed. You walk into the middle of the room and repeat yourself louder. "Hey,

Twilight!" The unicorn slows down to greet you before continuing to race around the

room.

"Hey Mystery" You notice that she seems busy so you decide to question on what you

remembered from the day before.

"Twilight? You seem busy, are we still going to Rarity's?"

Twilight stops in her tracks before turning towards you "Oh no! I forgot about our

plans. Mystery, I'm really sorry but I have very important things to do so I can't make

it to Rarity's." Twilight's head shoots up "Oh I know! I'll send you over with Spike! He

always likes to visit her! Can you tell him that he's going to take you?"

"Uh sure"

"Thank you so much. I will make this up to you! I promise!" Twilight quickly speeds off

into another huge room full of books. You exhale loudly and make your way into the room

you slept in. You shut the door behind you as you sit down onto your makeshift bed. You

close your eyes as the sound and smells of nature flow around the room.

"This place always smells nice" You cheerfully whisper. You smile before you realize

that you should probably get dressed and go talk to Spike. You look at your clothes and

frown. "I need new clothes" You think for a moment as you realize that ponies don't wear

clothes so where would you find someone who will make you some. Reluctantly you put on

your old dusty clothes. You wrap the towel around your neck and make your way up to

where you last saw Spike.

"Spike?" You hear some banging in a room to your left before you get a reply.

"Just a second!" You wait for a moment before you hear a loud crash in the room. You

burst through the door to see spike poking out from the bottom of a huge pile of books.

"Oops" Spike squeaks.

"You need a hand?" you question. Spike at first waves his hand to gesture no, but

quickly corrects himself.

"Actually, Your pretty tall. You think you can put this book up

there for me?" Spike hands a book over to you. You look at the book which is titled

'Dangerous and rare creatures'. You look down and pout slightly.

"I'm not dangerous... I think" You mumble. You reach up and slot the book into the

correct space before you look down at spike as he hands you another book.

"And can you put this one here?" He points to a place that barely you can reach. As you

walk over to the book's destination, you decide to speak to Spike.

"Twilight said that you should take me to Rarity today, if that's good with you of

course" Spike jumps up out of happiness before shouting almost.

"Aww yea! Sure thing! Right after this book" Spike hands you another book called 'A

Dummy's guide to housing guests'. You show an amused face after reading that title.

After you put away the book, Spike starts tugging on your leg. "Okay. Thanks, ready to

go?"

"Uh, well yes" You smile. Spike runs out of the room as you follow. You make your way

down the stairs and notice the door to the house.

"Twilight! We're going out to Rarity's now!" Spike yells as you both continue to the

main door.

"Okay! Sorry I couldn't come!" Spike steps forward and opens the door for you. He smiles

and put an arm across his chest as if to gesture you to leave first.

"Thanks!" you exclaim. As you leave the building, Spike follows anxiously before

slamming the door shut. "So which direction are we going?" Spike points a claw towards

the large village in front of you.

"Straight through town!" As you gulp and worry about the attention you might draw, Spike

picks up on your anxiety. "Don't worry about the looks you might get, the ponies that

might get worried, the ponies that might run away or the blood curdling screams you

might hear. It's only because nopony has seen you before, or any other human. Or have

even heard of a human at all! Anyway, Follow me" Spike's worlds of comfort had not done

much to ease your concerns as you cautiously start to follow.

As you begin to approach the village you notice a few ponies catch sight of you from a

distance. The ponies just seem to be staring at you before Spike interrupts your staring

contest with the village. "So have you met any of Twilight's friends yet?"

"Uh... I've met Butterfly? Or something like that I think. And unfortunately I've had an

encounter with Rainbow Dash" You frown at the thought of Rainbow Dash's hostility.

"It's Fluttershy and why unfortunately with Rainbow Dash?" Spike looks back for a moment

with a curious look upon his face before turning back again.

"I had a pretty bad run in with her when I first came too in this world. And by

unfortunate, I mean that she almost killed me"

"What?! Rainbow almost killed you? That's not like her at all!"

"Yea and even when I spoke to her after, she didn't even apologize properly. At the

time, I was pretty hyped up on pain killers I think so I did say to her that It was

cool. But now I'm fine... It is not cool" Your voice begins to pick up volume as you get

angrier as your thoughts continue.

"Calm down there. Don't worry about it. I'm sure there's a reason for her to act like

that. She's never done anything that severe before so it is a little confusing. As you

calm down, you notice more and more ponies staring in your direction as you enter the

village. The ponies just stand there motionless while that stare without a sound.

"Uh... Spike?"

"Yea Mystery?"

"Can we pick up the pace? The ponies that are staring at me are getting kinda creepy..."

"Uh sure. Sorry, I didn't know how fast you can walk or run because Twilight said that

you were having trouble walking yesterday, but today you seem fine. Later on we should

have a race. Just to see how fast you can run!" Spike seems to be walking about twice as

fast now thankfully as you pass more and more staring faces. As you continue, you even

notice other types of animals like bunnies or birds seem to stare. Are all animals in

this place trying to creep me out?

As you look around, less buildings seem to be in the area which also means less ponies.

but one building seems to stand out, directly in front of you. "Uh Spike? Is that where

we're headed?"

"Yep! It's the carousel boutique. Home to the most beautiful pony ever! Rarity!" Spike

seems to close his eyes as he must be remembering something about Rarity or the

building. "It's also her shop. She makes designer clothing and sells them to the public!

How awesome is that?!"

Rarity makes clothing? If she could make me some new clothes, that would be just

amazing. That is if she knows how to make human clothes. As you approach the building,

you notice that the shop-home hybrid seems to be some kind of merry-go-round. Great. So

a pony, who makes pony clothing owns a shop that is shaped like a merry go round. Like

that can get weirder.

As you approach the building's front door, Spike quickly runs up and knocks on the door

a few times. After waiting a few seconds a beautiful voice can be heard as the door

slowly opens "Hello? Oh Spikey-Wikey! What a nice surprise, and you must be thwoahahah!

Look at those dirty clothes! What a crime! I must make you a new and fashionable set as soon

as possible!"