Tears of the Indifferent.

PonyVille Library 9:55 A.M.
Twilight Sparkle was happily filling out her morning schedule. "Gem cutting with Rarity at 10:30 then bring spike some treat at 11:30." She mumbled to herself as she put the list in her bag. The Purple Unicorn trotted over to a sleeping Spike. The baby dragon was tossing and turning in his sleep. "Spike time to get up." She hummed happily.

The dragon shot up screaming only to get a hoof shoved in his mouth. Twilight pulled away when he stopped hyperventilating. "I'm okay I'm okay." he panted looking around frantically.

Twilight smiled "Have you been eating late night snacks again?" her eyebrow raised to emphasize the question.

The little dragon snarled in response. "My nightmares have nothing to do with my snacks stop ragging on me!" he growled in an uncharacteristically harsh tone.

The unicorn gaped, taken by surprise suddenly she felt angry. Angry that after all she did for this little runt he would talk back like this. Angry that he would return her good intentions with rude responses. Her body trembled with unchecked rage. Twilight stormed out before she did anything Spike would regret.

Spike glared at the door as it slammed shut. Suddenly his feelings of anger and frustration melted away replaced by pure exhaustion. "Twilight oh what did I just do?" He whimpered. He walked into the darkest area of the library and began cleaning. "Why do I always come here lately." He thought to himself. Suddenly a tower of books began swaying and they tumbled onto the floor. The little dragon sighed explosively and moved to clean up the books when the scent of gemstones hit his nostrils. This scent having a dramatic effect on dragons caught his attention immediately.

The scent was drifting from underneath the pile of literature. Spike dug with the hunger only a gem seeking dragon could. Suddenly he found himself staring at the cover of a golden book. A black dragon head adorned the cover.
"A dragon book in PonyVille Library? These are supposed to be royal clearance only." He mumbled to himself.

"You thirst for answers little drake?" a deep rumbling voice asked. Spike yelped and scanned his surroundings frantically. A frightening idea crept into his imaginative mind. Spike looked down at the book and his heart skipped a beat, the dragon head on the cover was watching him.

"W-w-what?" He mumbled dropped the book and backed away. "A talking book t-t-that's crazy I'm hallucinating ." The little purple dragon stammered nervously.

"I am not a hallucination you have been linked to draconian literature. I am a magical aura designated to enlighten the future of Kaizer's squads under Luna's orders." The voice rumbled.

Spike shook his head "Luna, Kaizer, squads? I don't understand-" he was cut off by a blinding flash of light.

Unknown Location
Spike opened his eyes slowly and scanned his surroundings. He found himself in a well lit room, the white stoned walls, and towering ceiling seemed familiar yet alien. "Where am I?" He whimpered nearby a door flung open and a white Alicorn walked in slowly she emitted a powerful and regal essence. "Princess Celestia!" He called running towards the Eldest of the Royal Sisters. The Alicorn didn't respond and stepped past the dragon. Spike shook his head confused "Princess-" He was cut off by a massive claw sliding through his body. Spike looked down at the golden talon expecting to draw his last breath and to drown in blood, but no blood came, no pain registered. The claw lifted and Spike observed as a large body moved towards the Princess. Celestia had moved over to a window and was gazing out at the night.

"Madam the reports are ready debriefing can commence." The body attached to the claw spoke in a surprisingly honey filled female voice. As the owner stepped into the light Spike realized the owner of the talon was a purple scaled blue spiked female dragon.

"Thank you Eclipse... How are you doing with the egg?" Celestia replied in a whispering tone. slowly turning to face to face the female dragon.

"Scythe is preparing the chambers you gave us madam and I am not feeling any pregnancy effects yet." Eclipse reported.
she then looked out the window "Kaizer and his squad members are flying in I'll get the debriefing started." She walked out through the massive palace doors.

Celestia turned sighed heavily and turned towards Spike she opened her mouth. "Spike Spike oh my god wake up wake up oh god!" Twilight's voice cried out.

Spike's head suddenly rang, and his back spines felt like hot nails driving into him. "You have finished step one kid your next mission will come when you hear the song of a mother not named." The Black dragon book whispered, and with that the flash of light returned.

PonyVille Library 10:50 P.M.
Spike opened his eyes to find he was lying in a pool of blood he slowly got up to look down at a very frightened looking twilight. Sudden realization hit him Twilight was smaller than him. "Twi did you-" Spike slapped his paws against his snout, his voice had changed. Then he realized his snout felt longer he began panicking. "Mirror I need a mirror!" He rushed towards the library mirror and gaped. A teenage dragon gaped back at him. This transformation was far different from the one he had experienced in the past. His snout was longer and his body was muscular and evenly proportioned,but that wasn't all. "I have wings!" Spike exclaimed flapping his new appendages.

Twilight walked up next to him "Spike you've been rambling and going in and out of consciousness what happened to you?"
she whispered in a frightened tone. Spike looked at her frowning and her hugged her.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you Twilight I didn't-" The dragon suddenly turned to the door as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed across the sky striking just outside the library. "There's no storm scheduled for today." He whispered.

"What? Your worried about a storm? I need to run tests see what happened to you. Was it a magical transformation, or do dragons just grow that fast or-" The rambling unicorn was cut off by a loud knock at her door. She walked over to the door and opened it to reveal a very wet, very tired looking Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash come in come in the weather is much too hostile for you to be outside!"

"Thanks Twilight.." Rainbow whispered hoarsely. She slowly edged inside her wings were extended in an awkward position covering her right flank. A small shadow moved along with Dashes movements.

"So you brought a little friend?" Twilight asked tilting her head and arching an eyebrow. The shadows movements stopped and Dash went stiff. Scootaloo pulled a hood off her head and stepped into the light. Thunder boomed and she made a small whimper and slid against Dash. The older pegasus instinctively nuzzled the little filly and whispered comforting words.
"Why is Scootaloo out with you this late shouldn't she be home with her par-" She was stopped by the fiery glare in her friends magenta eyes.

Scootaloo whispered some words to Dash who smiled slightly and nuzzled her. "It's alright Twi won't take you away we can trust her with this." She looked up at a slightly confused looking Twilight. Rainbow let out an exhausted sigh and told Twilight about the events that lead to Scootaloo be under her care. To the cyan mares surprise her friend smiled and chuckled happily. "You find this funny, is there something funny about Scoots situation?!" Dash growled.

Twilight shook her head. "No no It's just I believe I can help you." She walked towards her podium and scanned some pages. She used her magic to scribble a list then levitated it to Spike who had been observing from the shadows. "Spike get these books for me please." He grunted and slithered deeper into the library.

"That was Spike? He got big, again hes not going to tear PonyVille apart again is he?" Rainbow Dash teased returning slightly to her cheerful attitude. Thunder cracked and lightning flashed causing Scootaloo to leap and cry into Rainbow Dash's chest. Rainbow looked up to see Twilight scribbling busily. Dash stroked the orange pegasus' mane softly and hummed softly rocking her gently. She didn't know why she was doing it, but these actions felt necessary. Rainbow closed her eyes and held Scootaloo close. "I'm here it's alright I'm here."

Twilight finished her note rolled it up and levitated it to Spike who had a saddle bag of books. "Thank you Spike i'll handle everything else. Oh and send that letter to Celestia as soon as you can." Spike grunted and burnt the letter on the spot he then curled up in a dark corner and drifted off to sleep.

The purple unicorn smiled and took the saddle bag back to Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. The pegasi were sleeping Rainbow's head protectively covering scootaloo's. Twilight smiled and placed the bag next to them. She turned and walked upstairs. "Rainbows a good mom and she doesn't even know it." She thought to herself happily.

What Twilight didn't notice was that a certain golden book had been placed in the saddle bag. The Black Dragon head seemed to smile at it's mission being completed. "You've done well initiate." It's voice whispered in Spikes dreams causing him to yawn and fall deeper into slumber. The book was quite pleased, quite pleased indeed.