The true hearted.

As spike walked cautiously towards them his heart started to race. He could sense an evil presence but it was vague. When spike could see what he was up against. It was something that he only thought existed in the few books that twilight owned. All it was was a puff of smoke that changed color constantly and inside it were nightmares and darkest secrets. The thing though was that only you could see them and the aura around this thing was so strong it made spike hold his stomach. As the puff spouted at the crusaders some more, "Look you three fools i know that he is near i can sense him but his aura is too strong to pinpoint directly."

The crusaders started to back up against a tree and the puff cackled. it started to move closer to them and spike just sat there hoping that it would fly off. The crusaders start jumping on each others head and screaming frantically. Spike finally steps out and throws a rock at the puff. Feeling its sights turn towards spike he starts to regret it. But he doesn't hold his ground. He stands up and clenches his claws into a fist. "You leave those three ponies alone. They haven't done anything to hurt you."

The crusaders flee and spike wished he could do the same thing but he had to stay until he knew they were safe. "You know fool i wasn't going to hurt them i was just going to frighten them until they told me where you were hiding. now that you're here i don't have to do the hard part.