Tears of the Indifferent.

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Spike opened his eyes and groaned. He was outside Canterlot Castle, only it seemed darker. The normally bright and well lit entrance was dim and ghostly white. "Why am I here?" Spike thought confused. He tried to take a step towards the castle, but his body didn't react. "What in the name of Celestia is going on?" He hissed.

"Welcome to your next flash point kid. Hang on for the ride." The books voice rumbled.

Spike shook his head "Wait flash point I don't understand wait?!" The teenage dragon called. "I don't understand.. Why am I here?.." He whispered softly. The sound of distant voices caught Spikes attention, and he turned to see two massive male dragons walking towards him. "I guess I'm here to observe these guys?" Spike pondered.

"Lt. keep the squad running smoothly." The larger of the two adults said. He was a dark blue dragon with green spines.
The Lt. nodded and smiled.

"Yes sir captain Scythe I'm glad that I can be of service to you, and may you and your mate be blessed with egg." With that the smaller dragon took off and flew towards a distant mountain range.

Scythe walked past Spike towards the front gate of the castle. Spike felt his body move on its own drawing him behind the Captain. The gate opened and the female dragon he had seen in his previous vision walked out and embraced Scythe. "Welcome back Strike Captain, I didn't expect you to return so soon." She whispered in her honeyed voice.

Scythe smiled and nuzzled the female. "You know I can't stand be away from you Eclipse." He whispered. Eclipse returned his show of affection, and slid next to him. The two adult dragons walk side by side into the castle.

"Uh great I have to observe these love birds?" Spike thought feeling disgusted. He dragged his feet as he slowly followed.

"Kaizer gave me leave for a couple of days to help you with our egg. I know with Discord and nightmare's armies closing Celestia has kept you busy." The Captain said.

"Wait Discord, Nightmare? Twilight said they only existed together over two thousands years age. When in the name of Luna am I? Spike thought starting to get very nervous.

"You've answered your own question kid. Now get moving and no more whining." The book hissed in Spikes thoughts. The purple dragon sighed and continued to slowly follow the adults.

Celestia's Castle: Dragon Wing
The dragon pair lead Spike to a wing of the castle he had never seen before. The walls were strewn with gemstones, and artificial sunlight trickled down in separated sheets. This mixed the massive width of the area created scattered sunning platforms. "Wow this place is perfect for dragons!" Spike thought an astonished smile on his face.

Several adult dragons looked up from their sunning positions and saluted the pair. A pink scaled white spiked female dragon slithered out of an artificial cave entrance. She started hopping from paw to paw beaming at the approaching dragons. "Scythe your baaaaack oh goody I was taking care of your egg, and it's nice and warm! Now I didn't keep it warm, you know with me being a frost dragon that would be silly. No I had Aura help, because she's all shiny and warm, and -" The dragon tilted her head and began twitching her eyelid flickered a little.

"My word darling you simply must calm down." Called a soft voice from inside cave. "Kaizer didn't give the captain here time off to get his ears talked off." The voices owner a very regal looking white scaled and purple spiked dragon slowly walked to stand beside her twitching companion. "Ahem yes well, It is quite good to have you back captain. Now I'll just take shiver to the medical cave to calm her down. If you'll excuse us."

Scythe who had been smiling silently the entire time nodded. "Thank you Aura, I know egg sitting isn't how you would normally like to spend your day off." The Solar dragon just smiled and pushed the still twitching Shiver further down the castle wing.

Spike gaped his eyes on the dragon named Shivers smile. "Sweet Celestia it looks just like Pinkies." He whispered nervously. He always got freaked out by Pinkies smile and to see it duplicated with sharp fangs didn't help. Spike heard a solid thud and turned to see Scythe rubbing his chin. Apparently Eclipse had tail whipped him.

"What you do that for?" He whined and put on a hurt expression. Eclipse gave him a glare that could have pierced diamond.

"Those two are members of Kaizers elite squad, and you have them egg sit while we're away? They fight for all of dragon and Pony kind. Our son won't have a future if Maw takes over! You could have asked one of the actual guards to just patrol this spot." She hissed.

Scythe lowered his head to a submissive position and gently stroked his muzzle against his mates neck. "They said they would I promise they agreed to it. You know with you always being with Celestia, and me off on my patrols." He slowly worked his way up to her snout and their noses touched. Eclipse snorted then her eyes softened.

"Fine I'll let you off the hook for this one, you're lucky that I'm tired." And with that she slithered into the cave. Leaving a smiling Scythe behind to stand guard as Male dragons often do at the cave entrance.

Curiosity got the best of Spike and he walked through Scythe to pear into the cave. A tingling feeling crept through his scales as he passed through the adult dragon. The cave wasn't very deep but the room inside was wide. Eclipse lay stretched out her tail curled under her stomach. Within the coils was a small purple and green egg. Spike stopped and went stock still. "Those colors... No, no it can't be." He looked at his scales and spines, then back to the egg. "There the same? No dragon egg is suppose to have the same color." He gaped at the egg, and it began to glow. The light grew until it was blinding and painful to Spikes eyes. He tried to look away, but couldn't all he could do was stare.

"How about that, gets you thinking doesn't it? Don't think to long or time will pass you by." The booked whispered with dark humor.

Celestia's Castle 4 days later
"Ahhh make it stop, make it stop please!" Spike yowled as his scales felt like hot irons burning into his flesh. Suddenly everything went dark, and the pain melted away. Spike blinked and slowly color began to return. He found himself looking into a pool of red liquid. It was slowly flowing under his feet he looked up to see his reflection in some kind of mirror. He jumped back and gasped as realization hit him. He was looking at a dead dragons eye. He backed away and the rest of the corpse came into view. It was the body of the Lt. from Scythes squad.

"How many survivors?" A nearby voice asked. Spike looked up to see Scythe standing next to a teal colored Alicorn. "How many of my men made it back alive?" Scythe asked through gritted teeth.

The Alicorn shook her head slowly "None not even the Royal guards survived. I'm sorry, but Lieutenant Scimitar made it to outpost 12 then bled out. I am truly sorry for your loss Captain." She whispered.

Scythe nodded "Thank you Sahara, that means a lot to me." Scythe sniffed then his eyes widened. "I smell blood magic." He hissed.

Sahara's horn glowed and she nodded. "Correct it's a message, I'll leave you to read it." The teal Alicorn walked over towards another dragon body this one torn in half, and along side it pony skeletons.

Scythe inhaled deeply, and spoke in a language Spike somehow understood. In Pony terms his words would have been
"Follow the blood to show blood drawn." Suddenly red mist rose from the body and engulfed the area around Spike and Scythe. The mist in front of them cleared and they were looking through the eyes of Lieutenant Scimitar.

Scimitar was flying behind two other dragons across a burning expanse of land. "What happened here Lt.?"
one if the dragons asked.

"I'm not sure Sergeant, the patrol schedule said this area was farm land." Scimitar replied. Four Pegasi wearing royal guard armor flew into sight.

"Lt. this isn't right this fire isn't from burn cropping, it's not natural either this place had rainfall yesterday." One of them reported. "We should land in a place not set aflame, and sco-" The was cut off by a loud screech as one of the lead dragons fell on top of him set aflame by a fireball.

"Contacts, contacts!" The sergeant roared "Evasive maneuvers everyone, we need to get the hell out of her-" A flash of black scales passed by slamming into the sergeant ripping him in half. Blood flew out of his mouth into Scimitars eyes. The Lt. gasped and rubbed it away and glanced around at the two guards that hovered next to him.

"Report what in the hell is going on?" Scimitar bellowed. One of the guards landed next to the sergeants upper torso and placed a stick into the burnt ground.

"Distress signal sent sir back up shou-" Another life was extinguisher mid sentence as the guard was crushed by a massive dragon foot. An enormous Black dragon over six times the size of a regular full grown looked down at scimitar. Blood dripping from his claws, and spines as he blotted out the sun.

"Kaizer Maw.." Scimitar whispered fear growing in his voice. The final guard hovered next to Scimitar.
"Corporal we cannot hope to defeat Maw we need to retreat." Scimitar whispered.

"Retreat? Oh I think not their is no retreating from a God mortal." Maw hissed his very voice shaking the earth.

The corporal gritted his teeth "Sir outpost 12 is nearby you can make it if I buy you sometime." He whispered.

"No I have a better chance of holding him off..." The little Pegasus gave him a look of grim defiance. "Very well good luck Sergeant." The guard smiled at his promotion and charged the black monstrosity gripping a lance with his teeth, and sending it hurtling towards Maw. The weapon shattered and vanished before it got even close to its mark. "I'll see you in the afterlife sir." The guard said in the mental link each squad kept up for long distance communication.

Scimitar heard the crunch and scream. He knew the guard was dead. He knew it had been painful. He knew it was to give him time. Scimitar spotted a small fort in the distance. As a long dark shadow blotted out the sun, and a single massive wing beat shook the earth. "See you in the afterlife... I'm sorry Captain." And with that he inhaled flipped around and shot flames at the oncoming Maw. He saw the teeth larger than his head, and he knew it was for nothing.

The image vanished and Scythe began to shake. His eyes had gone dead. "My squad the dragons I had been flying with for years had been killed. Killed by the King they once flew under."

Spike could hear his thoughts, Spike could feel his pain, and somewhere Spike knew his mother was watching. Watching as Captain Scythe his father died inside, and nothing anyone did would make the pain go away. Spike closed his eyes "I'm ready to wake up now." The book didn't respond it only did as it was asked.

As soon as Spike left the blood magic behind and returned to his world the book began to think. Thinking wasn't something it liked to do it brought out memories , things it wished hadn't been recorded.

"I hate my job."