Hope merely smiled as she started towards the door. Spike stayed where he was and looked from the happy sisters to his mother and then to his confused friends. Spike followed his mother out of the palace and towards a tree that grew near the palace in its gardens. “Mom? Are you okay?”

Hope smiled as she looked to the little dragon baby. “I’m fine, Spike. Thank you for helping me reunite the princesses.” She looked towards her bandage and noticed it was starting to turn a little towards the red side, same with the one she had used over her cutie mark. “I need to change bandages again, it seems. I just wish I wasn’t so close to here… to them… they might find out and…”

“It’s okay, mom. I’ll just re-bandage you and cast some healing spells that I know. You haven’t been looking up new spells, but I have. I’m sure I’ve got one we can use to help you!” Spike looked up wishfully to the old unicorn.

Hope sighed. She didn’t want to disappoint the little dragon. She looked up and noticed the afternoon seemed cloudless, with blue skies and birds singing. The day just seemed to be calling out to her with a healing glow of its own, but she figured that was just from her coming into the proximity of the three princesses. “Alright, Spike… let’s see what you can do…”

Spike nodded. He smiled weakly and checked to see if they were in a safe place. No pony would notice them unless they came right up to the tree and looked behind it. He started to gently hum a magical little tune that would put Hope to sleep. Once he was sure she was asleep, he started to undo her bandages. As he undid the ones just above her hooves, he saw them start bleeding intensely like they always did. She had been wounded by something that had managed to cause forever bleeding wounds, or so it seemed. Her best defense against it had been to use magical bandages so that she didn’t lose all her blood at once.

Spike looked towards his sleeping mother’s face. She was oblivious to pain at the moment because of his sleeping spell. She would only awaken when she was healed properly or he woke her up, that or when the spell wore off in half an hour. Spike sighed in relief as he started to clean the wounds. As he did this, he chanted his own little spell. He had been Twilight Sparkle’s assistant for years and his mother’s for a time as well, learning what he could from her and his adopted sisters. He knew how to invent spells that could do many things, but he was reluctant to share them until he tested them out, but this was an emergency in his mind.

“Scars from Nightmares, Torn off wings, may hope and magic heal all these things. May griffin talons never touch the wings of light again, may darkness never touch her light even then, so says the son of Hope.” Spike said this spell as he unwrapped the bandage around the center of Hope’s body. On her back there were stubs that were bleeding. She had once been an alicorn, and a powerful one at that, but she had only flown once before her wings were taken from her in a fight. After a few seconds, the stubs started to glow a bright gold. He smiled a little as a set of wings started to form from a golden light with a pink tinge on the ends. He then uncovered the cutie mark that was covered by a square bandage. The mark started to glow a little too. The whole mark had been scratched by what seemed to have been either a claw or thorns, but it had actually been scratched by the nightmare queen’s horn.

The top half of the mark was a sun with a red star in the center just above the center line. There was a white star also just above the sun. On the bottom, half of the sun was what looked like a moon half with a drop of water hanging off the bottom. The scars on it now disappeared as her cutie mark repaired itself. Spike smiled as his mother stopped bleeding for the first time in over a thousand years. He knew she was going to be fine. He sat under the tree and fell asleep with some hope of his own, hope that his mother would be happy being a princess again instead of an outcast.

Author's Note

So sorry if that's not what you expected to happen, but it is. The next chapter will be more... interesting I guess. Anyway, yeah I gave Spike more magic than he originally had. I mean, why not. He works with Twilight all the time, surely he'd have picked up a few spells and also from helping me in my valley with his sisters and aunt, but I've already spilled too much for now, have fun :D Hope you like it. :D