The Frendship of a Dragon

Spike looked around the crumbling castle. It never really settled with him no matter how many times he came here with twilight and the others. Even with their recent restoration on the castle there was only so much they could truly do seeing how the castle had been laid to ruin long ago and abandoned shortly after.

“Spike? You’re still not scared are you?” Twilight asked shaking her head slightly.

Spike whipped around to face her laughing nervously and waving his hand around as if to wave the question off.

“What of this silly place? Course not.” he laughed again though shrunk some, “I mean we’re just in a crumbling creepy castle in the middle of the Ever free forest, full of trap doors and corridors, and a shadow pony made from nightmare moons leftover magic. Who would be scared of that?”

Twilight rolled her eyes as she continued forward. Spike watched her for a second before running after her.

“Spike you know that story is just an old ponies tale. Plus even Luna said that it was impossible for that to be true.” She said in her usual skeptical tone.

“I know but, still the story had to come from somewhere Twilight.”

“It came from a frightened pony whose imagination galloped off from them.” she stated simply as the walked into the library. “Ah books how I’ve missed them. We have to make sure to bring more back to the castle.”

Spike inwardly groaned knowing when she said them she mainly meant him. He wasn’t really complaining he would do anything for Twilight. She was his only family after all and that meant more to him than his own comfort. Sighing quietly he followed her into the large room with ceiling to floor bookshelves.

Suddenly he saw a shadow move quickly out of the corner of his eye. Gasping he jumped back looking for the cause of the shadow.

“C-calm down spike you’re just seeing things . Yeah just seeing things.” he whispered to himself trying to calm himself down.

Looking around one last time he quickly rejoined Twilight’s side. It always felt safer around her which was understandable Twilight was always great with magic and now she was a princess. Don’t mess with me was practically buzzing in the air around her.

Smiling as he felt a small bit of comfort return to him he began to help Twilight pull books from the shelves and organize them into piles varying by genre. In all honesty he rather enjoyed the quiet of when they worked on cleaning or organizing. Granted it could get boring and tiresome but, that could be said for practically everything.

Hours seemed to fly by as they worked though neither really minded. As Spike was reaching for a book on one of the higher shelves he nearly lost his balance when Twilight let out a small squeal of delight.

“Spike! Come check this out!” she yelled clapping her hooves together excitedly.

“What is it?” he asked carefully making his way down rolling his eyes when he saw the thick book next to her hooves.

“I found this amazing book that talks about some history I never even heard of!” she beamed beckoning him closer.

Spike rolled his eyes again but smiled as he came closer gulping slightly at a picture of a strange creature caught his eye on the page.

“Listen to this.” she said smiling as she tapped her hoofs happily. “Long ago after the fall of Discord there was a hideous monster that came to Equestria.”

“Um how is that good?” Spike asked not understanding.

“Well it’s not it says the monster destroyed villages and enchanted ponies. Even went as far as nearly burning this place and the forest to the ground.”

Spike blinked at her then tilted his head giving a shrug. “Still not seeing why you’re so excited.”

“Well that’s just it the monster was very unique it had the head of a horse, neck and front legs of a dragon then it’s hind legs were that of a horse and the tail was like a fish! Can you believe it! This creature was even more strange and confusing than discord.” She chuckled before continuing, “Anyways apparently Princess Celestia and Princess Luna in order to protect the ponies used their magic to vanquish the beast but, it wasn’t enough to completely stop the monster instead the two sisters enchanted a gem that would contain the beast and the magic within the creature. Isn’t that amazing?”

“Uhhh...sure?”

Twilight’s smile fell before huffing and turning back to the book. Spike sighed as well knowing twilight was upset at him for not really finding an interest into the story. Well the whole thing with a dragon body was cool and stuff but, it was sort of terrifying also. Taking another look around he listened as his stomach growl slightly.

“Hungry?” Twilight asked smirking a bit, “I told you to grab something before we left.”

“Yeah, yeah. Hey do you think there are any gems still in this castle?”

Twilight tilted her head a bit in thought before thinking. “It’s possible why don’t you go look for some and maybe you’ll find more books along the way!” she smiled at him.

“Wait...let me get this right you want me to go exploring in this weird castle full of traps and stuff by myself?”

“Yep. Though you don’t have to go if you don’t want to.” she said turning to him. “I know that you’re scared of this place and i don’t want you to get hurt if you panic or something.”

She smiled fondly at him draping one of her wings over him as a hug. Spike smiled at her hugging her back before stepping back and puffed his chest out bravely.

“Don’t worry I can go on my own besides what could go wrong?” he chuckled as he left the room.