"Spike?" Rainbow Dash asked her new drakefriend.

"Yeah?" Spike answered.

"Can I call you Spikey?"

"Yeah. You can call me that, Dashie," Spike said, playfully. Rainbow Dash grabbed him and kissed him before leaving to their respective homes. When Spike got there, he grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a letter, rolling it up and sending it soon after.
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Meanwhile, Celestia was in the middle of reading a book when a green mist appeared in front of her and formed into a scroll. She unrolled it and read, "Mom, I just got a marefriend! Don't worry, she loves me for who I am, not what I am. Love, Spike." Celestia smiled, she was happy that he was happy; that he found love. "Don't worry, Spike; if she really loves you, I'll help and support you in every way I can," Celesta said to herself. "But if she breaks your heart..."
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The next day, Mary was walking down the streets of Canterlot, pondering where Spike was. "Maybe Spike's on a mission in The Desert of a Thousand Miles?" Mary thought out loud as she past an alley way.
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So you're looking for Spike?" A shadowy figure said, causing Mary to jump at the sudden voice. "I am too." The figure walked forward, revealing a Shadowmancer in a black shirt and pants. "I might be able to help you."

"You scared the living crap out of me!" Mary shouted.

"Well I'm sorry, miss," the Shadowmancer apologized with a bow.

"Apology accepted," Mary said with less anger. "You said you can help me find Spike?"

"Yes. My friends and I want to ask him a few questions," the man explained.

"I have no clue where he is and nobody's going to tell me where he is," Mary said with disappointment.

"If you can show me how to get to the castle, I'll give you the information you need," the Shadowmancer explained.

"Ok, I'll do it," Mary said, as she led the way to the castle and told him where to find her as the two split up. The man walked up the stairs and saw two earth pony guards talking in front of the entrance. 'Thanks to that girl, finding Spike's going to be too easy.' The assassin thought before trying to walk through, only for one of the guards to grab the back of his shirt.

"Who are you?" The guard asked.

"I'm just a humble Shadowmancer," the man said.

The guards looked at each other before one of them said, "You don't seem dangerous. What’s your business here?"

"I'm here to take a walk through the castle and get some reading done in the grand library," the assassin lied. Seeing no immediate danger, the guards let him go and said a polite goodbye to the Shadowmancer. ‘Trusting fools.’ The assassin spent the next few minutes sneaking around, looking for the royal chambers, and found it behind the door with a sun carved into the door. 'Jackpot!' The assassin thought, carefully putting his ear to the door and heard a voice on the other side, so he quietly went to the next room.

In the next room, he saw a heart with a crystalline structure; Princess Cadence’s room. The assassin put his ear on the door and heard nothing. He smiled and went in the room, quickly spotting a blue bed with a bookshelf near it. The bookshelf had a variety of books from romance to graphic novels. He also saw an open closet that had mostly boyish clothes and only a few dresses. There were also quite a few sports posters around the room. 'Huh. The princess of love's a tomboy.' The assassin thought as he looked around the rest of the room. He checked everywhere, not finding anything that he could use to help him find Spike, so he left the room without a single trace of him ever being there in the first place.

The next room down the line was one with a door with a yellow compass etched into the door; Blueblood's room. The assassin listened in one last time; he checked the doors and heard no one. When he entered, he saw pictures of mares in seductive positions. He saw a bookshelf near the bed, just like in Cadence’s room, but it was filled with either pornos or 'how to win a girl's heart' kinds of books. 'So the tales are true; Blueblood just wants a mare.' the assassin thought. He found his diary, but it was just filled with his dreams about him getting the pretty girl. The assassin rolled his eyes and checked the rest of the room.

The assassin was getting annoyed, not finding anything that could point him to where Spike was, but he continued anyway. He stopped at a door with scales engulfed in flames etched into the door. 'This must be Spike's room.' The assassin thought as he put his ear to the door. He only heard silence and walked inside. He saw that it had posters of monsters and non-monsters helping each other and fighting as one, and like every other room, he saw it had a bookshelf near the bed, but it was much bigger and deeper than the others and the closer to the bed he found it was. The books were like Cadence’s, but there was a lot more and the books were a lot thicker. He checked everywhere, but he only found that most of his clothes were gone. He concluded that Spike wasn't in the city, but didn't find out where he was.

The assassin continued down the hall hoping that Luna's room would hold the secret to where Spike was. He stopped at door with a crescent moon on it. He listened and heard nothing. He entered and saw another bookshelf like Spike's and the books that filled the shelves were mostly history books. But he spotted at a little book on the top and walked over to it. He saw that it was bare and had only one color: brown. He opened it and saw that it was Luna's dairy. He flipped to the most recent page and saw where Spike was. He quickly closed the book and quietly exited the room. The assassin walked to the library to find out where it was and then exited the castle. He went to where Mary said they'd meet, a place called 'High Foods,' but she wasn't there. He waited at the diner for an hour before she came and sat at a table. "I found out where Spike is," he said as he took his seat on the other side.

"Where?" Mary asked, partially looking through the menu.

"In a town called Bloodville. Head out the east gate, just keep going straight and you'll hit it. But be careful, there are monsters in the Everfree Forest that'll want to rip your face off. But other than that, there's nothing else that want's to kill you."

"I'll be fine. I know that they won't do that or monster hunters will swarm there and kill every monster in sight," Mary said. The assassin got up and went to the hotel room were his fellow assassins were. He opened the door and saw the oldest assassin.

"Spike is in a town called Bloodville. It's just out the east gate."
"Good. We'll have a meeting tonight."

Two hours later, Mary was walking through Bloodville with the sun beaming down. She was getting frustrated; she stopped and tapped the shoulder of a blond haired mare with blue jeans and a red shirt. "Hello. Do you know where Spike is?" Only to scream a moment later as the monster's head fell off.

"Down," a voice said, as the body went down and grabbed the head. "Sorry, that happens a lot." The monster said as she turned around. "But I have seen Spike. He was over there the last time I saw him, and that wasn't too long ago." It said, pointing to a cafe.

"Thank you!" Mary said, as she ran to the cafe. While she was running, she saw Spike in a blue hoodie and red pants, Rainbow Dash in a white shirt and black pants, Rarity in a blue shirt and green pants along with her yellow hat, Pinkie Pie in a pink shirt and matching pink pants, Fluttershy in a black shirt and brown pants, and Apple Jack in a plated shirt and blue jeans. Spike and Rainbow Dash spotted Mary running towards them and they got a sly smile. The two kissed and surprised both Mary and their friends. Their friends all had happy smiles, knowing that Dash got the man she wanted, but Mary got furious and ran towards them. "What the hell are you doing with her!?" Mary yelled, as she pointed to Rainbow Dash.

"I'm his marefriend, Mary," Rainbow Dash said as she pulled Spike closer to her.

"Fuck you. You don't deserve him!" Mary said.

"No," Spike said coldly. "You don't deserve me. You are a whore and you just wanted me because I'm a Prince. Rainbow loves me for who I am." When Spike finished, Mary got angry and stomped towards the Everfree forest.

"Spike, you bastard! You will love me! Even if I have to kill that… Bitch!" Mary thought out loud as she ran.
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That night, the assassins were starting their meeting. "Guys. Sam knows where Spike is," the elder assassin said.

"He's in Bloodville: a town near the Everfree forest, which is just through the east gate of this city," Sam said.

"Well I'm not going," the female assassin said.

"Me neither," the youngest assassin said. Sam sighed as he rolled his eyes knowing that he was going to stay behind and watch over them.
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A Shadowmancer messenger in a pair of white pants, a white shirt, and a brown messenger’s bag was running through the halls of the Canterlot castle, stopping as he got to the throne room. He told the guards why he was there and they let him in, the messenger boy saw both Celestia and Luna as soon as he entered.

"Princesses," he said as he bowed, causing the two to look up from their scrolls.

"Why did you come here so late?" Luna asked.

"There's a message for you, Princess Celestia," the messenger said, as he grabbed a letter out of his bag. Celesta took it and opened with her telekinesis, reading it as soon as she could. The princess read faster and faster as she stared to panic. When she was done, she was frozen stiff with terror.

Author's Note

Derpy is a Dullahan is the headless horse man.
Edits done by Berirangu