Spike struggled trying to pull his arms without success. The dragon tried to scream for help, but the tentacle only allowed him to make muffled noises.

The dragon looked at the black mist without understanding what it wanted from him. He then felt the tentacles holding him getting a bit looser, but the moment he tried to seize the chance to escape the grip, the black tentacles tightened the grip once again and the one holding Spike’s right arm yanked it behind him dislocating the shoulder.

Spike’s eyes went wide as he screamed at the top of his lungs as he felt the pain. Not content with the damage caused the dark vine entangled the drake’s wounded arm and used its strength to bend it and break the arm’s bones.

Between his muffled screams, the baby dragon could hear the mist chuckling. ‘It is…having fun?’ he thought frightened. He had never seen some…thing that could have fun doing that to somepony or somedragon else. He doubted even Discord would go this far for a joke.

But he wasn’t even allowed to think. The being trapping him repeated the same process with his other arm. Spike could feel his tears flowing for his emerald eyes as the pain he felt intensified.

He was too scared. He wanted to be with Twilight. They were supposed to have a calm afternoon and have some fun later that day. He wanted to see the pony he considered his sister again one more time.

However, the drake’s thought were snapped back to the pain when the tentacles holding his legs wrapped them as a whole. He started to shake a lot and his breathing intensified. He knew what the thing in front of him was about to do.

He gave another scream asking it to stop, but again only nonsensical sound could be heard.Spike then heard another laugh.

He trembled in both fear and rising anger. Spike felt that somehow the thing holding him captive could understand what he was yelling and merely made fun of him.

The being used the tentacle on Spike’s right leg to twist it. Spike was horrified with both the pain and the sound of his bones breaking. He threw his head backwards and let out another scream.

Without giving the dragon any rest, the entity proceeded to break Spike’s other leg. Tears flowed from Spike’s eyes, who was now sobbing in agony. He didn’t have the strength to scream anymore.

The drake though if he did anything to deserve this. He was sure that the thing in front of him was going to kill him. ‘Would twilight and the others cry?’ he thought with a heartache.

He didn’t want to die. He had some many plans for he future. Finally confessing to Rarity, have fun with his friends, growing up, having a family on his own, among other things.

Spike then tensed when another tentacle came from the black mist. This one was rigid and looked sharp like a sword. His breathing rhythm intensified as it approached his right eye.

‘Twi….I’m so sorry…’ he thought as he couldn’t even bring himself to close his eyes for the incoming attack.
But the blow never happened.

The mist and Spike flinched as they heard a familiar voice calling “SPIIIIIIIIKE? ARE YOU THERE?”

The dragon manage to turn his head to see the source of the voice from behind the tree’s leaves.
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Earlier, after twenty minutes Spike had left, while Twilight read her books she realized that she forgot to add a couple of herbs in the list she had given to her assistant.

She frowned because she had forgotten some important ingredients and she couldn’t delay her experiment for much longer since she needed all her ingredients fresh ‘Plus, Spike must have gotten there by now. I can’t simply tell him to turn around and go back to the Everfree Forest again just to get some plants. Ugh! How could I be so careless.’

She then had an idea. She would go meet Spike there and tell him about the missing ingredients and after they were done they could walk home together. She then decided to finish her book later and left her home.

Twilight trotted calmly towards the Everfree Forest hoping to find her assistant soon. When she got inside of the forest, she started to call his name, but after 20 minutes searching she couldn’t find him.

“I told him not to go deep into the forest!” she mumbled to herself before calling for her assistant louder as she trotted faster through the forest.

A few minutes later, she came across a basket full of herbs on the ground with the scissor she gave spike not far from it.

“Spike? You’re scaring me.” She called once again looking around getting even more worried. ‘I shouldn’t have sent him here alone…’ she cursed herself as resumed her search.

The continued to call his name as she trotted faster stopping every now and then to see if she could find him.

She was unaware about what was happening just above her.

Spike’s eyes went wide when he Saw Twilight looking for him. He tried t scream her name, but it was futile.

However, Spike’s attention turned to the black mist as more tentacles came out of it.

For the dragon it was clear what this monster wanted: ‘No! I can’t let it hurt her too!’ He thought as he tried to struggle again, which the mere movement made him almost scream in pain given the fact that his limbs were severely damaged.

The being ignore the dragon’s attempts to break free since he was too weak and wounded to even be considered an annoyance.

Spike’s fear grew bigger as the tentacles got ready got ready to strike Twilight. ‘What can I do? What can I do?’ the drake thought desperately.

He then came up with something and hoped it would work. He inhaled as much as he could through his nose and tried to make fire to leave through it. Spike only breathed fire through his nose when he sneezed. He had never tried to do it on purpose before.

The green fire took the being by surprise who emitted a high pitched screech sound as it was set on fire. The being loosened its grip on Spike who manage to get his mouth free enough for him to shout: “TWI GET AWAY FROM HERE!”

Twilight was both surprised and shocked to hear her friend’s voice coming from the top of the trees which were now burning. She used her magic to clear the path and put the fire out. Her eyes went wide when she saw something holding Spike and when she used her magic to take a hold on her assistant to bring him safely to her, the mist used its strength to forcefully tackly the young drake against the nearby tree’s trunk. The impact hit right on his head and there was a crack on the tree.

Spike’s couldn’t even scream. His mouth was open wide, but no sound came from it. He soon lost consciousness as twilight used all her strength to take a hold of Spike and free him from what was holding him.

Once she levitated her friend near her she looked to the top of the trees in both fear and anger to try find who hurt her little brother, but she found nothing. Whatever held Spike captive was now gone.

She then paid full attention at the baby dragon floating in forn of her. His head was bleeding from the impact on the tree and his limbs were in a horrible state. Her expression showed horror and she feared for his life.

“Please hang on, Spike” she begged him as she teleported themselves to the Ponyville hospital.

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The cloaked pony blinked a few times before he regained his consciousness. He then realized he was over a bed inside of an unfamiliar house. It took him a while to realize he had passed out.

He got up and was about to leave when he run straight to Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Big Macintosh. Apple Bloom carried a plate with a glass of water with a straw on it with her mouth ,while her brother carried some apples in basked with his.

“Are leaving? You just woke up.” Sweetie Belle asked.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t stay here.” Said the pony, but his stomach growled as he saw the apples.

Big mac blocked his path and placed the basket on the ground and said: “Nope. You are stayin’. You gave the fillies quite the scare. I carried you here and I heard your stomach growling. By your look, you must be starved. Eat something. You are too weak to walk around.”

Apple Bloom placed he plate with the glass of water over a table near the bed and said: “Yeah. You were so hungry you were yelling at the trees.”

Her brother then looked at her then at the stallion with a bit of confusion. “You were yelling at the trees?”

“No! I mean…” he didn’t even know what to say. How could he even tell them what he was following.

His stomach growled again and he couldn’t help but to stare at the apples. They looked delicious to him and he had to make sure if it was okay for him to eat them: “May I?”

Big Mac nodded and said: “Yep.”

The cloaked Stallion picked a apple with his mouth and munched it. He was right. The apple was succulent and it was one of the best apples he had ad in a long time…

The strange stallion then realized that his face wasn’t covered by his hood and what remained from his horn gave a grey aura and he lifted it to cover his face.

The other four ponies imagined he did it because he was embarrassed because of his horn. And they were almost correct given the circumstance.

“You don’t have to hide your face with us. It’s okay, really.” Scootaloo quickly assured him.

“Sorry…” the stallion said a bit embarrassed. I haven’t had contact with other ponies in a while, so I fear the reaction I might have.”

“You are among friends! Mah sister would like to meet you too, but she isn’t here. She is helping another friend of ours, Fluttershy with some animals.” Apple Bloom said with a smile.

“Oh.” That was all the stallion could say before he picked another apple.

“That’s right. We haven’t introduced ourselves. My name is Scootaloo. These are Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and her brother, Big Macintosh.” She said using her right hoof to point at each one as she presented them. What is your name?” she finished saying.

The stallion almost chocked at his apple and he was hesitant for a while. He then said: “My name…is Cielo Gris”

End of chapter 3

Author's Note

Author notes:
1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.
2)I don’t own My Little Pony
3)Sorry for getting Big Mac and Apple Bloom's accent wrong. I'm not sure how to write them (the same will happen when Applejack shows up.)
4)"Cielo Gris" means "Gey Sky"