Crossing Worlds

Twilight Sparkle woke up, as she would do any day. Except, this time, it was different. Everything hurt. Her bones, her throat, her joints, her head, her everything. She groaned in pain, but stopped midway. Her throat hurt immensely. She needed something, anything to cease the pain.

Water, She thought. I need water!

She began to lift her arms in preparation to push herself off her bed, but the pain was just too much. At that moment, she noticed something else; her noses was clogged with dry snot, her eyes crusted with "eye boogers", as Twilight Velvet called them. Was she sick?

Wait a minute, sore throat? Have I been crying?

Crying. For some reason, the action was significant, but Twilight couldn't place why. Then, it hit her. The mirror! She had been sucked inside it. And Spike...What had happened to Spike? She strained her head to look around her room. It was the same room she made above the library. The place she called, Home. She spotted green under a blue blanket. With all the power she had, she sucked in a deep, cooling breath. She let out a loud roar. Said roar turned into a low moan as soon as the word escaped her lips.

"Spiiiiike."

She went into a coughing fit, discomforting her poor throat even more.

"Ow..." She mumbled, soft enough to not cause any pain.

Luckily, the coughing fit had caused the Potential Spike-thing to stir. The creature lifted itself to it's feet, letting out something that sounded like a yawn. The blanket dropped off of the creature's body. Revealing a very tired purple-scaled and green-spined baby dragon adorned in Spike's clothing.

"Twi? Aw man, what time is it?" The dragon asked, rubbing it's eyes. Twilight would have screamed if throat wasn't sore. So, as a substitute, she stared at the purple creature with utter horror on her face. She knew this dragon, even though she had only saw him once. It was Spike's first stage of greediness. His greediness had turned him into a full dragon. He became older the greedier he became. Luckily, he reverted back to normal by the end of the day, even if he caused some...Property damage. So many angry letters...

The creature finally opened it's eyes. His mouth was agape in shock at first, then formed into a smile. A very big, large, creepy smile. The small reptile leaped onto the poor girl, his smile had reached far beyond the confines of his face. The dragon leaned as close as she could to the princess' face.

"Ohmigosh hi, Little Horsey! I dunno if you're a background horse or not, but I love you and the Mane six and stuff, so can I hug you!?" .

"Uh, what...?" Asked the very confused girl.

"Oh, sorry," The creature apologized. "My name's Spike Sparkle, and I love you guys! I'm a Bro-rse, and I watch your show!"

"Show? Wha- gah! Ow. Spike? Spike, you- ah- dragon again..."

"Wait a minute," Said the purple dragon, the smile formed a serious frown. "Twilight?"

"Of cour- Ow! Grr...Yes."

Spike's eyes widened, and he jumped back, landing on Twilight's stomach, knocking the wind out of her. He stumbled backwards, falling flat on his rear. He then pointed an accusing finger at Twilight.

"B-but, you're a horse!"

Twilight, being Twilight, would have normally shot back a sarcastic comment or waved off the boy-turned-dragon's silliness. But, she didn't, because at that moment she was fighting to get air inside her lungs.

"What happened to you, Twilight!?"

"What happened to me?" Twilight answered, finally breathing properly again. "Spike, you're a dragon!"

"...I'm a what?"

"A dragon."

"What?"

" A Dragon! Cough cough...Ow."

"A dragon?"  Spike said, lifting his fingers to his face. Except, they weren't fingers. They were sharp, purple claws. Spike could do all but stare in shock. "How did this happen?"

"Seriously, Twi, how did this happen!?" He shouted in a panic. "I don't remember gathering up any stuff! I don't even remember getting a really classy and pimp-like fedora!"

"I honestly don't know, Spike. Maybe it had to do with the mirror?" She wondered, not really talking to Spike, just pondering out-loud really.

"The mirror!? I thought that that was a dream!" Spike cried, exasperated. "I mean, if it did exist, wouldn't it just come out t5he other side!?"

"You're righ-"

"You know what? No. Stop. I just can't take you seriously anymore."

"What? Why!?" Twilight asked, slightly offended. "Gah! Cough cough cough Owww....

"Because you're a horse!"

If Twilight wasn't in pain, she would have laughed. The idea of being a horse, when she had been a human her whole life and that had never changed, was ridiculous. She held up a hand.

"Spike, that's absolutely ridicu-" But, she stopped mid-sentence. For she was to busy staring in utter shock at a lavender stump that she once thought was her hand.

"Told ya so." Spike mumbled under his breath. Not that Twilight could have heard him, anyways. Twilight, at the time, couldn't do anything. TwilightSparkle.EXE had stopped working. Please try again later.

"Uh, Twi? Twiii?" Spike, on the other hand, or other other hoof, if you will, was taking this rather well. Twilight let out a groan, pushing some of the mucus up. She then swung back her head letting it hit the pillow.

"This is the worst day..." She trailed off. Her assistant crawled towards her, and patted her shoulder in reassurance.

"Don't worry, Twilight, I'll make some breakfast," He said, smiling. "And then, once you feel better, we'll find a spell to reverse...this."

"Okay," Twilight sighed. "Thank you." Spike hopped off the bed, running downstairs to cook something up, pondering if he should just make something cold, like cereal. Twilight then rolled onto her stomach and buried her head in a pillow.

This is going to be a long day. She thought.

Then, something occurred to her. Something that shocked her and made her hair, er mane and fur stand on end. They were in the library. The library that was their home, sanctuary, a place the had grown to love over their four years of living there. The same library Tirek destroyed.