Underneath

Twilight didn’t get any sleep that night. She stood guard by Spike’s bed with a protective bubble around it. A few nurses and doctors went to the dragon’s room to see what was the source of the noise.

The lavender unicorn had to explain to them about what had happened. They were worried that a monster had come to the hospital and almost killed one patient. A doctor then worried that more patients might be attacked and asked Twilight about what she could do to protect them.

The purple unicorn had initially thought to cast a protective shield over Spike’s room, but after hearing the pleas of the medical staff, she couldn’t ignore that other patients could be attacked as well. Besides, she felt it was her duty to make everypony feel safe there.

She had asked her brother, Shining Armor, about the shield spell he had cast over Canterlot after he came back from his honeymoon. The spell could be set to block just certain beings or every creature. Placing a filter, however is certainly more magic draining than set the spell to block every creature.

From the window of Spike’s room, she cast the spell to form a bubble around the hospital. The pink energy coated the hospital and dome’s length was just two inches from touching the building. She didn’t want to tire herself to make a bigger shield because she was going to have to renew the energy every twelve hours or so and she had to go hunt for the thing that tried to kill Spike.

But she was going to have to wait until morning to do so. She doubted that this creature wanted to hurt anypony else but Spike, because, otherwise, it wouldn’t go such length just to attack Spike.

She hoped her theory was correct and she quickly left the room to explain the doctors, nurses and other people in the hospital that the shield was supposed to ward against any non-pony or dragon creature that tried to break inside. This way, nopony would be prisoner inside of it and it wouldn’t stop new patients from receiving the proper treatment.

Twilight had added Spike as an exception too because she wasn’t sure how long she would have to search for this creature or if her assistant would get better quickly or not.

The purple mare decided that if Spike got well enough, she would take him home and protect him there. It would be much easier for her to do it there instead of a place where so many ponies could get hurt in a fight.

After she explained everything to the hospital staff, she returned to Spike’s room. He was still asleep. It frightened her that if she had been a minute late, her friend would be dead. She also hated herself for even sending him to the Everfree Forest in first place.

‘This always happens…Spike tries to give me an advice, I don’t listen to him and something bad happens. Why do I keep doing this?’ she thought as she closed her eyes and nuzzled her little brother’s face in hopes it would wake him up.

But she knew why she didn’t listen to him. It’s because whenever she starts with an interesting experiment she can’t stop doing it until she finishes it. There were a few times when Spike had to forcefully close the book and force Twilight to stretch her legs.

Twilight had no rest that night. She remained on guard the entire time. She remained in the room only moving at times to look at the window and see if the monster was lurking outside.

At 3 a.m., however, she saw something odd on the streets. It was a cloaked pony. This strange pony walked near the hospital and looked at the pink barrier. Then Twilight could see some grey light coming from inside of the hood and what seemed to be a glowing trail formed on the ground leading somewhere away from the hospital.

It was then when Twilight remembered what the fillies had told her earlier. About a stallion who was hunting down some kind of creature in their town. She thought this was her chance to talk to him and finally learn what she was dealing with.

She then shouted from the window: “You’re Cielo Gris, right? I think we should talk..” but then she quickly placed a hoof on her mouth as she remembered that no only it was late at night, but it was a hospital and the ponies there needed their rest to recover.

However, once she yelled, the stallion quickly looked up, he saw Twilight looking at him. That made him panic and quickly started to run away from there. ‘I should have known who was responsible for this barrier. I need to run fast.’ He thought as he fled.

“Hey, wait!” She shouted again cringing for making a loud noise again. She then teleported to the ground and started to pursue the stallion. She ran as fast as she could in the middle of the night after the cloaked colt.

Not wanting to be caught, Cielo Gris used his magic to make some dust arise from the ground hoping it would be enough to ditch Twilight Sparkle. However, he didn’t count on how powerful the Element of Magic really was.

Twilight’s horn glowed as she quickly dispersed the dust cloud and, once she had a clear view, she teleported again a few feet in front of the cloaked stallion and used her magic to bind him.

“I’m really sorry for being rude, Mr. Cielo, but my friend has been attacked and I need all the help I can…” She started saying as she took his hood off revealing his face.

Twilight’s jaw dropped as she stared at this so-called mysterious pony called Cielo Gris. The stallion lacked the horn and his eyes weren’t consumed by dark magic, but she recognized that face anywhere.

“Sombra????” She shouted.

Meanwhile, at the Hospital, a nurse had gotten inside of the room to replace the I.V. fluids for Spike. She could swear that Twilight should be there, but she shrugged it off thinking that she probably had left home. Once she finished with her duty, she moved to the window and closed it. It wasn’t a warm night and the cold wind could make the small dragon sick. After that left the room. After a few minutes, the baby dragon’s breath was slowly increasing and he was starting to sweat.

His face started to twist as he tried to move his body on the bed. He was soon panting loudly and the sheets were drenched in his sweat when he finally opened his eyes.

His irises were red and the white area was now a bright green with a purple mist coming out of his eyes. He looked around and said with a strange smile and muttered to himself with a raspy and strange voice: “This wasn’t part of the plan, but I might use the cards I have.”

With a chuckle ‘Spike’ sat on the bed and green and purple magic enveloped his casts, destroying them. He could feel that the limbs were still broken, but this only made his smile grow larger as he cast another magic around his limbs, making his scales have a much darker purple tone.

He then jumped from the bed and walked normally to the window. It was night time and he had to hurry before Twilight arrived. He opened the window and climbed it. It was fairly tall, but that didn’t pose a problem to him.

However. His worry was about the barrier, whose boundaries were just outside of the window. He tried to touch it and for his surprise, his hand passed through. ‘Spike’ then cogitated that the barrier was supposed to prevent the mist from getting inside.
He thanked his good luck and jumped down the window. The landing impact made Spike’s legs make a noise of damaging even further his bones, but he didn’t care. The magic around his body allowed him to move as he please no matter how wounded the body was. After all he couldn’t feel any pain, but Spike certainly could.

He then hurried and ran towards the Everfree Forest to meet with the rest of his body. He grinned as he run for finding such useful new host for him.

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 the wait to write this chapter.