Dear Princess Celestia
This is Spike, I don't usually write to you but something happened to Twilight. Last week when she came back from the market she was acting really strange. She kept scratching the back of her neck and when I asked about it she got mad and yelled at me. Every day I noticed her coat was getting darker and her hair was falling out. Twilight never goes outside anymore except for when she goes to the market to get food. Once I tried to go outside but she got mad and told me to never go outside. Maybe you could come to Ponyville and help Twilight. Until then I will try to get Twilight to see her friends.
Love Spike
Spike released an emerald flame from his mouth sending the letter towards Canterlot. He heard the door to the crystal castle open and close then hoofsteps getting closer and stopping in front of his room. He shut his eyes so that she would think he had been asleep.
He heard the door open as the pony came in and walked to the dragons bed. The dragon opened his eyes and jumped up when he felt the pony's warm breath on his neck. He saw something that he didn't expect, Twilight's coat was now a dark gray color and her skin had fallen off so that he could now see her bones. The purple pony jumped at the young dragon landing where he had just been.
The dragon ran to the kitchen and grabbed the first knife he could find. The unicorn came into the kitchen and growled. He turned around to see the pony "Twilight" he said raising the knife "I don't want to hurt you." The pony growled again and jumped towards the Dragon who swung the knife.
Spike opened his eyes to see a purple body covered in blood and the head by the wall on the other side of the room. The little Dragon couldn't believe he had just killed his best friend, the pony who hatched him and took care of him since he was a baby. He didn't know if he wanted to stay at the castle and cry or leave and never come back. He reached for the doorknob and opened the door to see the sun for the first time in a week.
The Dragon headed into town looking for the market to get some food, he felt that something was wrong but he couldn't tell exactly what. As he got to the market he saw that there were stalls out but no ponies were there. Heading to one of the stalls that sold carrots he looked in it and there were carrots but no pony was in it. When he heard groaning he looked in the stall again and saw that there was a pony that looked just like Twilight had, when the pony got up he stabbed it's head and it fell down again. He took some carrots from the stand and ran as far as he could.
The purple Dragon ended up somewhere in Sweet Apple Acres, looking around he saw something that looked like a tree house. The Dragon ran to the tree house to see what he could get from in there and maybe if he could stay there for the night, since it was getting late. He opened the door to see three fillies he recognized huddled in the corner, they turned to look at him and yelled "Spike!"
"How did you get this much food again?" Spike looked at the pile of food they had in the building "we attached a wagon to my scooter and I went and got food from town" Scootaloo answered. "Where will be going tomorrow?" Spike asked looking at the cutie mark crusaders "we'll probably stay here, why" Sweetie Belle said. "I need to get to Canterlot to talk to Princess Celestia." Spike said "Okay we can go tomorrow, we can put the food in bags and get weapons" Scootaloo said "and we can stay here tonight." They all agreed with the idea and as they got ready to sleep Spike thought about what happened and the journey they would take the next day until he fell asleep
