Instincts of the Dragon

Spike slowly got out of his bed when he woke up with a rather loud "SCREEEEECH" noise.

"We have arrived at the Crystal Empire, have a wonderful stay and we will be back in one month" said the conductor over the intercom.

Spike rubbed his head, remembering the rather odd dream he had. He dreamed that he was falling, all his friends being thrown into cages like animals, they were all calling for him, but he couldn't move, not even a muscle. He shook the thought out of his head, a bit disturbed by it.

Spike walked into the bathroom that his own car held, it was rather nice, heated toilet seat, nice sink with actual hot water, a large shower, a tub with jet stream attachments in it to provide extra heat in it. Spike walked over to the sink, put toothpaste on his toothbrush, and brushes his teeth.

"Hope there are some pretty girls in this "paradise" they've created. I don't wanna spend every waking moment with my friends." Spike said, finishing brushing his teeth.

He walked over to his vacation bag and pulled out his favorite red shirt, and his favorite tan khaki shorts, and he put them on, tucking his shirt in, putting his new steel toe boots on.

"Heh, lets kick this vacation off, shall we?" he said as he grabbed his vacation bag and walked off the train.

Spike waited around for his friends, wondering what the hell was taking them so long in the bathroom, and he bagan to voice out what was probably taking them so long.

"Well, lets see, Soarin is probably flexing in the mirror, Twilight's probably reading, Pinkie's probably either eating sugar treats or bouncing off the walls from sugar treat overdose, Rainbow Dash is probably bloating about how awesome she is, Rarity is probably washing her hair or bathing in perfume, Fluttershy probably found a hurt animal, and Applejack is probably eating apples" Spike huffed out, staring at the bathrooms. He took time to notice how beautiful the Paradise Shining Armor and Cadence have built, it really was amazing, and Spike couldnt stop feeling something off about it.

After what felt like forever, they all finally came out from the bathroom.

"Finally! What were you guys doing that took as long as princess Celestia's lifespan?" Asked Spike, rather irritated.

"We were getting ready, we woke up late, sorry Spike" said Twilight.

"Its called an alarm clock, "Genius"" Spike said, making everybody laugh except for Twilight.

"I'm smarter than you!" argued Twilight.

"Yes i can't argue with that, but your common sense is almost that of Sheldon Cooper" He said, everybody laughing again.

"Oh, be quiet! Let's just get our stuff to our hotel." Said Twilight before turning away.

As they walked to they're hotel, Spike got a strange feeling that they were being watched, and he stopped walking, looking around, and Fluttershy turned and looked at him.

"Spike? are you okay? Is something wrong?" Asked Fluttershy, stopping as well, followed by everyone else.

"Yeah....Yeah everything is fine, lets just put a little more quickness in our walking" Spike said, beginning to walk faster, looking back every once in awhile. When they arrived at the hotel, they checked with the receptionist and made sure Twilight's brother had made reservations to stay there, and a hotel employee showed them the way to their row of rooms, and then they get they're key cards.

"Spike, you'll have your own room again, like on the train." Twilight told Spike.

"Yay.....alone again..." said Spike, a bit of a sad expression on his face.

"Oh, um, Spike? if you want i can stay in your room, um, if you want." Fluttershy said.

"No, no its okay, Shy, you don't have to." said Spike.

"But i don't want you to feel alone, i can sleep in your room with you, um, if thats okay with you" said Fluttershy reassuringly.

Spike took a deep breath, held it for a moment, and breathed out, deciding.

"Alright, thank you fluttershy, i appreciate it." said Spike, smiling.

Fluttershy smiled back at him and looked at her card "room 127" she said.

Spike took the card, noticing everybody went into their rooms, and swiped their card, and opened the door for Fluttershy. "After you" he said.

Fluttershy picked her things up, and walked into the room "Such a gentleman"

When Spike had picked his things up and walked in, he noticed the room real quick. it was huge. it had a huge window  overlooking the Paradise, the trees poking up were astonishing. The kitchen had a large fridge and counters to make things on, along with an amazing looking stove and oven. The room had a huge TV built on the wall across the room from the bed.....wait....there was only one bed. Spike immediatly started blushing and sweating up a storm.

"Umm, Fluttershy? There is only one bed..." he said.

"oh...i'll sleep on the floor, you can take the bed." She said.

"No, no, your the lady, i'll take the floor."

"Well......we could....sleep together, um, if that's okay with you." she said shyly.

"Yeah....yeah that's cool with me."he said, smiling a little bit.

"Okay...when did we have to be at the castle for skydiving?" She asked.

"um...he said 1." Spike said.

"That's in about a half hour, should we leave and go now?" asked Fluttershy.

"Yeah, we should. Wanna grab some food after we skydive?" asked Spike.

Fluttershy frowned, she wanted to, but didnt have cash "um, im sorry, i dont have any cash with me at the moment." she said.

"Pfft, you think I was gonna make you pay? I'm paying for the both of us" he said.

Fluttershy smiled and said "okay, should we go?"

"We should" Spike said.

As they walked down the street leading to the castle, Spike took one look at Fluttershy, and looked away, blushing. He liked Fluttershy, he liked her alot, maybe even more than he liked Rarity. He tried to ignore it, but when he looked at Fluttershy again, she was blushing and looking down as well, he thought for a split second that it was because she liked him too, but he shook that out of his head, thinking 'why in the world would she like someone like me?'. They were quiet and unspeakng the rest of the way there.

When they arrived in the skydive lobby, Everybody else was waiting, includng Shining Armor.

"Well since everyone is here, we can get started." he said. Shining had shown them how to clip the harness, and where the parachute cord was on the parachute bag, and where the spare parachute cord was.

After they were instructed for about 10 minutes on skydiving, they made their way to the plane, putting their harnesses on and securing themselves and putting their parachutes on. Pinkie wouldn't stop pulling the cord so they kept having to either give her a new one or fix her current one, the first option happening a lot, so that whole thing ate up a good 15 minutes. When they finally did get in the plane and up in the sky, Fluttershy was having second thoughts, and she turned to Spike.

"I-I dont think i can do this!" she shouted when it became her turn to jump.

"I know you can! I believe you can! Just jump! no problem!" he said to her reasurringly. "S-see you on the ground!" she said before jumping, Spike not following long after.

As Spike free fell, he felt the amazing feeling wind flow through his hair, making him feel relaxed, and he looked at the scenary. The magic spell had worked! They were on islands! With real water, amazing looking trees, and fishing ships on the water! it looked absolutely amazing. He looked down to see he almost was ready to pull the parachute. He pulled it and he felt an amazing amount of resistance preventing him from falling any further, and he slowly fell, smiling, knowing that was the best time of his life. He looked down to find his friends, and he started freaking out when he saw men trying to attack them and tie them up, to which thy succeded by the time he landed.

"Run Spike!" Twilight yelled.

Spike turned and ran, only to be greeted by a huge fist to the face, knocking him off his feet, and he goes unconsious, and before he went under, he heard an amazingly familiar voice.

"Take them to the warehouse for recording, dont start ransom videos before i get there"

"Yes comander Sombra"