Fulfill Your Destiny

Spike was running as fast as he could in the fields, trying to get away from Twilight and the others so they would leave him alone. He felt glad to get that out of his chest, but he felt that half of it wasn't alright with it, and was more depressed.

His patience was wearing thin, and desperately wanted to strike on Celestia And Luna ASAP. Tears were streaming down his face in sadness, and looked for the cave that led to the hidden base.

He ran faster when he saw the cave but then stumbled and tripped on the grass, wallowing in his misery. "I hate you." He referred to Twilight while weeping. "I fucking Hate you." And he buried his face in the blades of grass. He heard some footsteps and looked up. He panicked at first because he thought it was his so-called friends, but then it tuned out to be Gerald and Geraldine, going out for an unknown reason. They both noticed him and rushed to him to see if he was okay.

"Spike?" Said Geraldine. "What's wrong?"

"I'm fine." Spike replied and buried his face again.

"You seem upset." Said Gerald. "Would you like to come inside with us and talk about it?"

Spike didn't really reply but just have out a sad "Uh-huh"

"Okay. Come on, let me give you a paw." Said Gerald. He gently picked him up and placed him on his back. He baby dragon just laid on his back all depressed.

"So, could you tell us what's wrong?" Asked Geraldine softly.

Spike sniffled in his quiet sobbing and replied "well, I didn't reveal you guys, or the Dragonists, but I told off Twilight and the others off, and told the, how much I hate them and how I wished they would just die." He pouted

"You did that? Wow dude, I'm impressed." Said Gerald.

"And it's good that you didn't tell the, about us. Good job." Geraldine added.

The baby dragon wiped a tear from his face. "Thanks." Was all he remarked.

"So, why are you feeling down?" Asked Gerald

"Well, I just.... Hate them all and.... And..." Spike didn't really want to admit his shame so he said "I don't really want to discuss that. It's too painful."

"Oh. Alright."

"Well we are proud of you for showing some backbone at princess Twilight and the others." Said Geraldine. "Once again, good job."

Spike felt a tad bit better and said "thanks, guys. I jut hope we can finally get rid of them."

"Ah, Torygg and the others below us are already planning on invading the Crystal Epmire sometime soon. Right sis?"

"Right, bro."

"Really? How are all those letters coming along?" Spike asked. Remembering the plan involving giving every letter to the citizens and guards of the Crystal Empire.

"We are all finished. We will sent them out in a little while." Geraldine replied.

"Perfect!" Spike exclaimed feeling more better than before.

"I know. We will finally make our strike on Celestia for what they did to you." Gerald remarked

"And Twilight and the pony gang too. Don't forget about them." Spike pointed

"Right you are."

They went downstairs in the catacombs and were already back in the lair. "So, I'm wondering: what were you guys doing out there?" Spike asked

"Oh, we were about to look for you but then you saved us the trouble by coming to us." Geraldine blinked.

"Oh. Okay. Well, I would like to make a suggestion a out the invasion if you don't mind."

"Sure, Spike. You're the one who's gonna be king after all. What is it?" Said Gerald

"Do you think we can strike at nighttime? It would be a little more safer for us to strike there, and.... Besides, it's the oldest trick in the book." Spike suggested

"Yeah. We're there with you." Geraldine agreed.

"Yep. Sounds perfect, little buddy."

Spike smiled and then thought of something devious to do to the married couple that rule over the city that is his sole place of worshiping of a god. He decided that he should just wait and confront the, personally on the following night.

"Ah, Spike, there you are." Said a voice. It was Jack the lead minotaur of the militia. "I was just looking for you."

"Oh, hey Jack. What do you want?"

"We would like to know how you would want the letters to be sent to almost all of the Crystal Empire." The Minotaur replied.

"Oh, I think we should go to uncle Torygg about that. He's the leader of you guys." Spike reminded

"Ah. I see. Very well. Gaston, Tyrus, Imari, and the others might want to be notified about this as well." Jack reminded.

"Good idea," jack then followed Gerald and Geraldine to the largest room of the sanctuary where Torygg was talking with Emerald Fang, Imari the zebra, Tyrus the satyr, and Gaston the minoboar. They were all once again, maybe talking about Spike obviously. "Lord Torygg, Spike has returned with a plan "Ah, nephew. Welcome back. All the letters are hereby finished" Torygg greeted.

"I know. These guys told me already before we came down." He was still in his in his crying voice a little. Torygg slowly formed into a frown as he noticed the look on his nephews face.

"What is the matter, nephew?" Torygg asked.

"Nothing. I'm okay, uncle Torygg. Promise." Spike replied

"Come now, Spike. Please do tell your uncle what happened. You know we are all here to help you, right?"

"Yes." The baby dragon really quietly. He got off of Gerald's back and walked up to Torygg and e other members of the circle.

"So what would be the matter, young one?" Asked Imari

"I... I told Twilight and the others off. I told how much I hated them for what they did to me!" Spike began to become a little more loudl

"Spike-" Jack said, trying to calm him down.

"They are all evil murderers, bandits, and fucking evil bitches!" Then Spike broke down into tears again. He felt the mitt hand of his uncle gently stroking his relatively small body. The others were a little concerned about his temper, even though they are proud of him for talking back to his false friends.

"There ere, nephew." Said Torygg. "Please dry your tears."

"Oui, we are very impressed with you doing that. Very proud." Gaston added

"But we do not understand why you are feeling so depressed." Said Tyrus.

"Well.... I don't know. Maybe it's because I hate the, so much I want nothing to do with them, or I have some unknown guilt inside of me." Spike sobbed

"Oh. You still have some feelings for those elements." Said Imari

"No I don't." Spike protested

"Now now, no need to be rational." Said Emerald Fang. "It's alright if you feel that way. But you must understand that they use you."

"I just wish I didn't feel so guilty, because I really want to kill them all." Spike remarked.

"Don't worry Spike. It's only a phase. It will die down soon." Said Imari.

"Indeed, mon ami. Just wait a little while." Said Gaston.

"Some things require the element of surprise."

"I know. I know. Can... Can I at least come with you to the Crystal Empire, Emerald. I... i want them to believe me if they don't." Spike asked. "Many of them will, but I worry that there are some that don't believe me. Besides, it does get along of visitors after all. So, we might as well make sure that no one from ponyville, Canterlot, Manehattan or any other place like that hears about this."

"Way ahead of you." said Emerald Fang. "We'll keep it discrete from anypony else that are not Crystal ponies."

"Yeah, they'll listen to anything you would instruct them to do." Gerald added.

"Oh! and what about your appearance, Emerald. Many ponies are scared of dragons that are not Spike after all." the other griffon twin thought.

"Way ahead of that too, Geraldine. I'll just transform myself into a regular pony and blend in. I am the master of disguise after all." Then Emerald poofed himself into a regular, normal, everyday stallion that looked like a perfect copy of one.

"Oh yeah. Heh. I guess it will work then."

"Of course it will." Emerald gloated with pride.

"right, well, you should be training with your new blade some more, Spike. The longer you train, the better you will be with it." Torygg suggested.

"Okay." Spike grabbed his green sword and went into the training room to practice. Tyrus, Gaston, and Jack followed him there to be training partners to spar with.

While Rarity was still at Twilight's castle still comforting her about the loss of Spike's, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack arrived in Canterlot to talk to Princess Celestia about what Spike was talking when he was angry at them all.

"Rainbow Dash, are you still angry at Spike?" Fluttershy asked her as they were all walking

"Of course I am." Rainbow retorted. "I can't believe Spike just did that to us, and Twilight. Why the hell would Spike say those things and make Twilight cry anyway?"

"Calm down, Rainbow. I know that was mean of him, but I am sure there was an explanation for that."

"I know. That... wasn't like Spike at all." Fluttershy

"I know! we got to do something about this." Pinkie added.

"And what he said about Celestia killing his parents, that was just crazy talk." Rainbow said. "Celestia would never do something like that. She has a pure heart in her"

"I know, i'm not saying I agree with you, Rainbow." said Applejack.

"Celestia might be the only one that can help him out and talk with him about this." Fluttershy stated

Rainbow Dash gave a sigh. "Yeah. You're right. I doubt that Princess Celestia did that to Spike's mom and dad anyway."

"Only one way to find out for sure." Applejack reminded. They all went in front of the castle front doors with two guards standing on one side of them.

"Ah, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash." said one guard. "What brings you here to Canterlot?"

"And where are Twilight and Rarity?" asked another.

The four mares frowned with sadness. "That's why we are here, sirs." said Fluttershy.

"Are they ill? did they catch some disease?" asked a guard, starting to become deathly scared of what might happened?"

"No no no. It's not that." said Applejack. "It involves Spike, and.... we really need to talk to Celestia about it. Spike through a fit and made Twilight cry, so Rarity is back home trying to make her feel better."

"Yeah, so can you let us in? This is really important" Rainbow begged.

"Oh certainly. Come right in. Open the gates!" The guard ordered. Th double sided doors slowly opened until there was a small bang that echoed in the hallway inside. The four stepped inside the castle and walked upstairs until they went into the throne room where Celestia and Luna were sitting.

"Ah, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack." Celestia said in her motherly voice. However, she noticed so,etching was amiss for she also recognized the absence of Twilight and Rarity.

"Your majesties. We got a problem." Said Applejack while she and the others bowed to the to allicorns.

"What's wrong and, where are Twilight and Rarity?" Asked Celestia.

"That's why we are here, Princess." Rainbow sighed.

"Twilight is feeling.... Really depressed to say it nicely." Fluttershy stated.

"It's Spike. He was absolutely angry with us. All of us." Pinkie stated

The two princess' looked at eachother for a brief moment then looked at the four mares in front of them again.

"What happened?" Asked Luna

"Well, he said that we just treat him like a slave, and he cursed at all of us." Fluttershy answered. "You... Probably do not want to know what he said to us."

"Let's just say they were..... Dirty." Rainbow added

"What else?" Celestia asked becoming more concerned.

"He said that we are not really his friends and that we just use him as a slave, but that is the exact opposite of true." Pinkie pointed.

"And he had this really weird idea of you killing his parents before he was born." Said Rainbow with a scoff

Celestia was stunned and shocked to here what Rainbow just said. She never thought that somepony would bring up the things she was never proud of.

Luna was as equally stunned as her older sister was and didn't utter a word. They both had their mouths slightly agape with shock and horror

"Your majesties?" Said Applejack. "You okay?"

Celestia finally replied by saying. "My little ponies, let us show you all something."

"What do you mean?" Asked Pinkie.

The larger princess sighed with sadness and bowed her head in an unknown shame. "One thousand years ago, months before I had to banish Luna, there was a place called Dracotopolis. It was a place where all dragons can settle in. Dragons were not always the greedy monsters you see them now."

"What about it?" Asked Rainbow Dash

"Well, it was where Ponyville is. It was a long way back before Ponyville was founded by the Apple family." Luna stated. "We had mutual relationships with the dragon rulers. King Green Claws, and Queen Purple Scales."

"Those were Spike's parents?" Asked Fluttershy

"Yes." Celestia flatly replied. "I... I did something very wrong."

They all gasped with horror. "You actually did kill his parents?!" Rainbow shouted in shock.

"How could you?!" Fluttershy angrily said

"We were trying to find ways to benefit our people when we couldn't find any agreement on anything. We did not want to, but we had no choice. They forced it upon themselves for us to.... Teach them a lesson. Me and my sister." She began to shed a tear. "We did execute the king and queen."

They all gasped

"How could you do such a thing?!" Fluttershy exclaimed. "You are a horrible princess!"

"Fluttershy calm down." Said Applejack.

"She wasn't finished." Luna stated.

"Thank you, Luna. We both did a horrible thing. We were really guilt stricken and spend nights wishing we can take it back, but we couldn't."

Fluttershy was the one that was the most mad out of the four. "You are both evil! You two call yourselves princess'? Oh, how I wish I can just take large hammer and just-"

"That's enough, Fluttershy." Said Applejack. "What's in the last is done."

"Yeah, Shy. Calm down." Said Rainbow Dash.

"We are really sorry of we did that, Fluttershy. We are sorry to all of you for this." Said Celestia. "We just wanted to help our race. I found Spike's egg and decided to keep him safe with me from any harm."

"It was all our fault we turned dragons into greedy demons." Luna adde

"I can't believe this!" Said Pinkie Pie.

"Well, we might talk about this later, Celestia. I don't even know if I can even ever forgive you for this!" Fluttershy said

"That's no way to talk to the princess'!" Said an angry guard to her.

"Sargent, please. Leave us." Celestia calmly ordered.

"Very well, your majesty," said the guard as he went out of the throne room.

"Maybe we can help you find him and we can talk to him." Said Luna

"I think you helped quite enough, Nightmare Moon!" Said Fluttershy, continuing her spitting on the princess'. She mushed her face against Celestia's. "you don't even deserve to live for what you both did." Se felt Rainbow Dash restraining her.

"Come on Flutters. Calm down." Said Rainbow, struggling to keep her under control.

Fluttershy sighed in sadness, realizing that cursing at the princess' would get herself nowhere but hurting herself. "We'll deal with you evil strumpets later."

"Fluttershy!" Applejack scolded.

"Yes, I said it."

"Enough!" Said Luna.

"Luna's right. We need to go find him and talk some sense into him if we can." Celestia said.

"Of course we'll find him. We have to." Said Rainbow.

"Well, come on y'all. Let's get our friend back." Applejack instructed proudly

Despite talking to the princess' the four felt really guilt stricken about what they thought was treating Spike like a slave all these years of him being a so-called "assistant to Twilight and them. They all went out of the room, and hoped on the train back to Ponyville.