A Spiked Life

Chapter 2 - The Dream
by LightningStrike34

Twilight's POV
While I was busy sorting the books from one of the moving boxes I had heard a thud and turned my head to see what had happened, I saw Spike was on the floor with several scratch marks among his scaly reptilian-like body and tried running over to help him only to see My Brother's trophy and the shelf giving way onto his tired looking face, I tried using my magic to levitate the statue out of the way but it fell so fast I simply didn't have time to catch it. "Oh no no no no no, even after I said I would be there for him if it happened and I blew it!"

'ButitallhappenedsofastandtherewasnothingIcoulddo' I started hyperventilating like somepony who essentially witnessed a murder, "Ok Twilight," I said to myself. "Don't freak out, that wont help Spike in this situation; I just need to see if he's okay, all I need to do is check for any external damage and I'll help from there." Walking over to his side I levitated the trophy and shelf off from top of him, his face had a nasty black eye on the left side and blood dripping from his right nostril, when I saw this I was hyperventilating again and stopped after a brief moment. "Oh Spike I'm so so so sorry."

Levitating Spike in my magic I sprinted my way into town to find the nearest hospital.

Stephen's Perspective
Waking up felt like coming out of a drunken stupor only without the alcohol fucking with your brain, when I came to I saw nothing but an empty black void of nothingness as far as the eye could see. "What the hell? Where am I? Did that stupid book kill me and now I'm in the afterlife? Great, just great." My voice echoed through the endless abyss of darkness, never fleeting from any direction, after what I assumed 10 minutes passed I tried walking through only to realize I was floating.

"Is this supposed to be some sort of Nightmare because if it is it's pretty drab, needs more zombies and sparkling vampires." Soon after I said that a decaying zombie corpse sprouted from the "ground" and soon after came Robert MOTHERFUCKING Pattinson Sparkling like he did in that one scene in the Original Twilight Movie. "Holy shit, what the hell?" I started laughing uncontrollably, "Am I having a Lucid Dream right now? Holy shit! I can create stuff out of thin air in here."
Poofing the zombie and Robert Pattinson away I imagine myself on a Pirate Ship sailing across the seven seas with my crew of Merry Men drinking and having a good time.

While I'm busy drinking some wine one of my crewmates walks up to me and gives me a metaphorically spine crushing hug. Setting me back down it shows me he's a big guy with short unkempt brownish-blonde hair that extends in several messy strands. "Hey there captain," He says with a hearty laugh. "I see yer enjoyin' me wine eh? S'is some good work I did, I give it a First Mate Bucky seal of approval Heh-heh." He gives a solemn wink

I chuckle, "Hell yeah, this wine is the shit, it's the best I've ever had, good work." I give him a thumbs up, "Now you go back to your duties or have some fun ya hear? Can't be a merry crew of pirates with our spirits low and our stomachs a rumblin' can we?" I give him a pat on the back and he heads on over to meet the rest of my crew as we set sail for a Volcanic Island.

Twilight's POV
Twilight was in a rush, galloping through Ponyville as fast as her legs could handle, fervently searching for the Hospital clearly not thinking to ask for help and with tears in her eyes she collapsed on the ground and Spike shook from the sudden stop. "Um Twilight, what the hay is going on with you today are you um... are you okay?" Looking up Twilight spotted Rainbow Dash sitting on a cloud with a concerned look on her face. "You really don't look to good what happened to you, "Rainbow Dash spotted Spike's Face as she spoke. "Err more importantly what happened to him, that's a pretty nasty accident, I should now from experience that Black Eye mixed with the dribbly nostril is not a good sign for anypony. Or in Spike's case Anydragon." Rainbow Dash flew down to Twilight's Level

Twilight took a deep breath and let it out, "Long story short, Spike fell off a Ladder when I asked him to help put my Brother's Buckball Trophy on one of the shelves, a step broke, the shelf gave way as both it and the trophy fell and hit him before I had the chance to catch it. I'm trying to find a Hospital so I can help him recover."

Rainbow Dash had her mouth open before closing it saying, "If you need to find a Hospital I know the way, it's just down this path as you take a right after half a mile. C'mon, let's get going." Rainbow flew to the Hospital as Twilight was hot on her trail following her like a moth drawn to flame. "Don't worry Spike, you'll be just fine."

Stephen's Perspective
"Oy captain, we's be ap'roachin' the Island. Let's have ye a toast before we head a'shore what ye say?" Says one of me crewmates Private Richard Long, A Short but stocky Half Asian and Irish Lad with Scruffy Ginger Hair.
I gratefully accepted his offer as we walked over to the nearby table to propose a toast to our new discovery.

"I propose a toast to me cap'n and the rest of me crew that t'would we set foot on this yonder isle there will be new riches for us to plunder as far as the eyes can see, let us rejoice in anticipation. Now let us Toast, TO UNTOLD GLORY!!!"
The rest of the crew repeated him in unison as we all chugged our wine as we set ever closer to the island.

"Who simply knows what untold riches await."