It was a late afternoon and the sun was going down. The new comer to pony Ville was lucky he arrived now as pinky pie was going to sleep like the rest of pony Ville. But he had his reasons to avoid her. He doesn’t want any pony giving him some unwanted attention. As he was walking around the town hall he saw a small castle at the edge of the small town,
“That were I need to be" he thought to himself.
It didn't take long for him to get to the castle. When he walked past the letter box he read "Princess Twilight Sparkle".
He was sure he was in the right place now. It was getting late and the temperature started to drop. He needed somewhere to stay. He decided to go back to pony Ville for the night. When he got back to pony Ville he saw there was a tree that looked like it had been blown up.
"No pony will bother me there" he said.
He made his way to the remains of the tree and found a small cave like hole that would shelter him from whatever weather the sky was going to throw at him that night. As he looked at the sky.
He said “Things will get better, I know they will” and that was his final words for the day as he drifted into sleep.
The morning was upon pony Ville and every pony was waking up. The new comer woke to the sound of a pink earth pony bouncing up and down in front of him.
”HI, Did you sleep here?” pinky pie asked surprised.
“Yes, and I need some time alone so if you would mind” he said.
Pinky found that a bit weird but from her experience with cranky sometimes leaving some pony alone can be a good thing.
“Okay dokey loki” she said as she trotted off.
Now there was other ponies around, he didn’t want to look suspicious so he pulled back the hood of the navy blue cloak he was wearing to revel his face.
His fur was a dark orange color. It was clean and looked like he took good care of it. His mane was a light brown color, neat and brushed to one side with a horn sticking out from a gap in his mane. His eyes are a golden brown but usually hidden by his hood.
It was time to make his move. He needed to see the Princess.
As he made his way to the castle for a second time. This time he could see it for all its glory. It sat atop what looked like a crystal tree with a big gold colored door at the base and a balcony that would have a great view of pony ville. A number of windows scattered randomly and one large tower in the middle with a massive crystal in the shape of the Princess’s cutie mark hanging of the side.
He slowly walked to the castle door and knocked. No answer. He knocks again.
A voice said “hang on. I only have small legs”.
You hear the pitter patter of small feet reach the door and it opens. A small purple dragon with large green eyes and a green underbelly.
“I’m Spike and welcome to the castle of Princess Twilight sparkle” Spike said.
“Hello Spike” he said in a soft voice “I have come to see the Princess”.
The little dragon said “I will check with Twilight to see if she is busy”.
Spike quickly scurries to another room in search of the Princess. He comes back a few minutes later and says
“I must be your lucky day. The Princess can see you now”.
“Thank you Spike” he said in a pleased manor.
He enters the castle. Amassed by the vastness of the inside. Bright purple walls and large columns of blue crystal, there wasn’t much decoration. But it looked alright
“It looks a lot smaller from the outside” he said in amassment.
”that’s magic for you” Spike said with a small grin on his face. When they reached the end of the hallway Spike said “here we are, the Princess is in here”.
“Thank you Spike” he said “would you mind if you left us alone please”.
Spike looking a bit confused said “ok, just don’t be too long she has an appointment with Princess Celestia in an hour”.
Taking that into account you walk into the room. Quickly realizing it’s a library. “I should have guessed” he said under his breath.
Not quite hearing you “what was that?” Princess Twilight Sparkle asks.
In a moment of awkwardness he says “what a fantastic library”.
“Thank you” Twilight said not picking up the small amount of sarcasm that he used.
“Anyway, who are you” Twilight ask in a very questionable way.
“My name is” he pauses for a few seconds.
The Princess raises and eyebrow…
“Shadow Dancer” he says.
“I don’t think we have meet before Shadow Dancer”. “No, no we haven’t. But I have come to seek your help Twilight”.
“YES, A FREINDSHIP PROBLEM” the Princess screams before giving Shadow Dancer a chance to carry on. She’s had a slow week on the friendship problems.
“I’m sorry Twilight but I have come here with a very different kind of problem”. Disappointed the Princess’s smile begins to fade.
“What would you like me help with then?” Twilight asks in a bummed out way.
”As a colt. I wasn’t allowed to go to magic kindergarten because, because. That’s not important but what I’m trying to say Twilight is, would you mind teaching me magic”.
Completely throw off by his question “uuhhh, I don’t know, I really should talk to Princess Celestia, and I can’t just teach someone I just met magic, there’s a lot of thing I would have to consider if I was to do this, and a lot of rescheduling to do”.
Shadow Dancer’s face was looking a little disappointed. Cutting the Princess’s sentence short.
”ok” he said in an upset tone as he turned around and headed to the door.
“It wasn’t a no”. The Princess always did like a bit of a challenge. But was this a bit too far. She had been a student of Celestias for a long time now, was she ready to teach for herself. ”luckily for u I have a meeting with Princess Celestia later, I will discuss the matter with her then. But first, earlier you going to say something and you stopped yourself. Why? What where you going to say?”.
Turning a round with a worried look on his face. “I will tell you if you promise not to tell another living soul”.
“Ok” said the Princess. She was very confused at why he had said that.
”not even Celestia”.
Oh ok now he was pushing it. Not telling her friend would be easy but now that he precisely said Princess Celestia. That must mean it’s a bid secret. “I don’t know”.
“Please Twilight” Shadow Dancer begged.
“Ok, ok. I won’t tell the Princess”.
Untying the knot that was keeping his cloak on, Twilight gave him a bit of a weird look. “What are you…”she stopped suddenly. Seeing a pair of big, dark orange wings. That was what he was hiding.
“Twilight, please don’t tell anyone”.
In shock of seeing something completely unexpected. “WINGS, wings. He has wings, wings, wings, wings, WINGS” she panted as she trotted around the library with a very upsetting expression on her face.
Fearing that he broke her, he tried to calm the Princess down by grabbing her shoulders and shaking wail saying “calm down, it’s not a big deal”. That seemed to have made it worse for him.
”NOT A BIG DEAL” she screams only 4 inches at most away from his face. Hearing Twilight scream. Spike runs into the room. Not even noticing the fact that Shadow Dancer is an alicorn. Quickly running over to Twilight and having a private conversation with her.
“What’s wrong Twilight?”
Quickly realizing that this secret was going to be hard to keep” I can’t say, I made a promise”.
“Well, can’t have you braking a promise, as long as you’re ok Twilight. You don’t have to tell me” the little dragon said in an understanding voice.
Quickly putting his cloak back on before Spike noticed the extra appendages. Spike turns to him. He gives him a look of confusion. With that expression still on the little dragons face. He walks over to Shadow Dancer
“What did you do” he said loud enough for him to hear but not enough for Twilight to make out what he said.
All Shadow Dancer did was shake his head.
Spikes face went to a face of frustration. He walked out of the room. “I think we pissed him off” Shadow Dancer said.
“What made you think that??” Twilight said in a sarcastic voice. “Anyway, I will talk to Spike later, and I promise I won’t tell anyone our little secret”.
“Thank you Twilight, when are you free next. I would like to know if can learn magic” he said in a hopeful voice.
“I’m free tomorrow from 12 to 5. I was meant to have lunch with rainbow but the wonder bolts wanted to see her desperately. I think she is finally going to join them anyway, I will see you tomorrow”.
“Thanks Twilight, hope things go well with Princess Celestia, bye” he said as he backtracked throw the castle to show himself out.
Once Twilight new Shadow Dancer had left she went to talk with Spike.
He was in his room. “Spike, are you in there?” .No reply. Twilight opened the door to see Spike sat on his bed with a book. It looked like a daring do book. She was slightly proud of him. As she stepped forward she noticed it was the 5th book, “wow, did he read all that”. Spike looked up from his book. “Spike?” Twilight asked “are you ok?” Spike looked over at Twilight.
“Yeah, I’m fine”.
“Do you want to go to Sugar Cube Corner?”
“What about the meeting with the Princess?”
“I still have 20 minutes” Twilight said.
A smile forming on Spikes face.
After their cupcakes at Sugar Cube Corner, Twilight flue off to have her meeting with Princess Celestia.
