Chapters Prologue - The Frozen North
Prolog
It was snowing in The small port town of pony-stone, in fact, it never seemed to stop snowing some locals would say, But regardless it was snowing when the cloaked figure walked into town, the figure was wearing a black cloak, torn all along the bottom with some holes in it here And there, his head was covered by a hood his footprints indicated he was wearing boots, he was also, for some particular reason, leaning slightly to the left. No one in the town had ever seen him before. He said nothing, walking through the main street and down yet another street, as if he had been there before, right to the door of the Hydra-Head Bar, and in he went, the bar itself was nothing special, it was damp and drafty, a few of the locals-3 earth ponies and a Minotaur- were playing darts in the corner, a female Griffin and a unicorn were chatting by the fire rocking back and forth in their rocking chairs, and the bartender ,a brown pelted earth pony with a blue main, was serving an elderly Pegasus a drink when the figure sat down.
“What can I get for you?” the bartender asked as the figure sat down
“Id like some Vodka if youve got it,” the figure said. “and Id like to know if youve heard of a pony named Rusty Tom?” The change in the bar's atmosphere was almost immediate. The elderly Pegasus dropped his drink, the Griffin stopped rocking and the unicorn fell out of her chair, the 3 earth pony and the Minotaur, still in mid-throw, all stopped and stared at the figure as if he had just said an extra foul swear word. The figure, as if he had not noticed every pony else`s reaction, continued “I wish to visit him, so we can talk about something of the up-most important” the Bartender said nothing, nobody moved, everyone just stared at him, the figure looked around and said in mock surprise “I see you have heard of him, well if you would kindly tell me where he is, I can be o-” quick as a flash the figure moved to his left as the bartender attempted to stab him with a small knife that had been concealed beneath the counter,"-n my way" the figure finished as if nothing had happened.
The figure then, without any warning, dropped to the floor as a dart came sailing through the air, right where the figure's head had been, and hit the wall behind the bar, and again the figure rolled to the side, and almost at one a spiked metal bat hit the floor right where his head has been a mere moment beforehand, and still acting as if nothing had happened the figure stood up. the three earth pony ran at him, the figure murmured “that it.” and quick as a flash hi clawed hand emerged from his cloak and in an instant, as if by magic, he pulled a sword out of his hood and struck the 3 earth pony down in one mighty stroke, knocking them out, but not killing them, he stood there and said,"let`s all calm down and talk this out in peace." nobody moved, nobody spoke, everyone was holding a weapon. After a few minutes of silence, the door to the bar burst open and 2 Guards came in. After look at the figure and the 3 ponies on the floor, they drew their swords and one of the guards yelled
“drop your weapon and put your hands on your head” the figure looked at them and said
"why the hell would I do that?" and in a flash the figure jumped over the bar counter, grabbed a bottle of Vodka, threw the Bar-tender over the counter for good measure and ducked under the bar counter. the Guards ran over to the counter and found, in absolute surprise, that the figure was gone. on the roof of the bar, the figure was drinking the Vodka, his hood down.
"well shit" Spike said as he took another drink "I finally find a connection to that dammed Tom and the Guards show up" if Spike was still in Equestria he could of talked his way out of the situation, as it was he was in the Frozen North, there was no high ruler, no king, queens, princes, or princess, no there were only Mayors, or at least that's what they called themselves, in actuality each and every town in The Frozen North had its own personal Dictator. Sometimes theyd wage war on a neighboring town for the stupidest of reasons, Spike had personally seen a town war star over something as simple as, who had the best main, who was taller, one was even started over a hat! To say the least Spike felt little to no hatred or love to any town, but there was one person he hated to the extent that he was planing to kill the stupid colt, his name was Rusty Tom, and he was the Kingpin in a black market that sold drugss and ill gotten goods, the was known as StarDuster by all, and it was the immediate death sentence to any who dare say his real name in the Frozen North, all were scared of him, he was a huge Unicorn, and had a rusty brown pelt and main at birth. but ,using his magic, he had changed his natural colors, His pelt was gold, and he had made his mane look and move like stardust, hence his kingpin name, but Spike refused to use said name, Tom had done something to Spike that he could never forgive.
It was Spikes first day in the Frozen North when he met Tom. he had seemed very nice, paying for Spikes meal and even offering to pay for his room, but when Spike had got to the directed room he found a storage room and Tom had covered Spike`s mouth with chloroformed rag, when spike awoke he was aware of 3 things, his luggage with everything he owned a money inside, he was in the middle of a snowy field covered in frost, but what Spike noticed the most was the extreme pain that was emanating form his left shoulder, when he turned to look, the scream of pain and anger was heard for miles, his left arm was gone, and the tiny stump was bleeding profoundly. After that day Spike had trained his body for revenge.
That had been 20 years ago, many things about Spike had changed, he could make weapons in his atomic from the metals he ate and pull them out through his mouth, he could teleport himself short distances with his dragon breath, and he was a skilled fighter, being able to dodge things other wouldn't notice until it was to late to act. he wore a black cloak, a long black sleeved shirt with the left sleeve cut off, the collar and end the right sleeve being a dark red color,a dark red fingerless glove, long black pants, with a dark red tied in cloth like belt, and dark red boots. needless to say Spike stood out in a crowd. not that he cared. all in all he`d just beat the crap out of anypony who challenged him. the only place he was welcome was in a large village called Dimond cove. it was populated mainly by Dimond dogs. Spike had accidentally saved them from a rampaging snow yeti when he sneezed on it. but that is another story
Spike threw the empty Vodka bottle aside and teleported himself down the street(to a small unicorn filly across the way it looked like he just waked out of a wall) and started walking past the port, it was a short lived walk, Spike wasn't planning on stoping but he heard a mare scream and, seeing as he was all for justice he the ninja'd his way towards the scream, getting to the source within a few seconds, granted he was now in the crows nest of a ship but still, close enough to hear the next yell for help followed by a loud slap and a colt saying
"did I give you permission to make a sound you little bit-" he had to stop there cause by then Spike had hit him full in the face with a mallet. as it turned out it was a Pirate ship, Spike had no time to stop as the rest of the crew was there too, the battle was short and halfway over before the other side even realized there was a battle at all. Spike then saw the beautiful creature the pirate captain had slapped, she had a green pelt with a sea blue main, but the most shocking part was that from the waist down she was a dolphin.
"HOLY CRAP!" Spike yelled in absolute shock. the Merpony looked at Spike and said with a sniff
" thank you kind dragon." Spike just stood there as he looked at the Merpony. after a minute Spike managed to say
"noting to it ma'am". The Merpony looked at Spike and said
"I am Emerald star, and might I know your name my savior?",
"Names Spike" Spike said, managing to get over his shock and walked over to the Emerald "im guessing youll need my help getting back in the water then" Spike said
"yes" Emerald replied. without another word Spike went to the side of the ship and punched a hole few holes in the bottom to make sure it would sink ,then, holding her in a award way, took Emerald above deck, leaving the Pirates to their watery grave. Once upon deck Spike put Emerald on a dingy and lowered it to the water where she promptly returned to the water, resurfacing only to say "I shall tell the others of what you have done today dearest Spike." and then swim away leaving Spike staring after her in wonder and confusion.
Chapter 1- Dimond Cove
It had been 2 weeks since Spike had rescued the mere-pony, and in that whole time had been spent walking home, so its understandable that when Spike made it to his cottage in Dimond Cove he hung up his black cloak, went to his bed and slept for 2 solid days. Spikes cottage was medium sized and had 2 floors, the first floor had a rocking chair and a small lap with some books incase Spike got board, it also had a small kitchen with a fringe filled half with booze and half with Gems, with a few bottles of Honey in there incase he wanted to add some taste to the gems. there was also a closet full of letters from the main 6, celestia, luna, cadence and shiny armer, and Flurry heart. he wouldt mind so if it weret for the fact that almost all of Flurry hearts letters were overly sappy love letters. on the second floor was simply a a small bathroom and a large bedroom. he had a bed, lamp, books, and a shelve, and pictures from all who sent him letters. he had told them about Tom, but had scratched off the part of losing his arm and planing to kill the guy since they`d probably try to talk him out of it.
it was early when Spike woke up, and after donning his cloak and eating some breakfast, he left his home and was immediately bombarded with the sound of a party and yell`s of
"WELCOME BACK OUR MOST NOBLE HERO !!!" and in a flash Spike was pulled into a party by a dozen Dimond dogs all waiting him to shake there hands and such. Spike might of left, but the Dimond dogs knew him to well after 20 years and had made a Giant gem cake. needless to say Spike suddenly felt he could party for a bit. he might have stayed for the whole thing to if Jamie hadt handed him the note. Jamie was his neighbor, the owner of the local bar, and, unfortunately for Spike, she was the president of his fan club, and had tried on several occasions to trick him into marriage, these tricks usually involved love potions. today she was dressed in a brown fuzzy coat, a white tank top and pants that stopped a little below the knee. she was also the only Dimond-dog in town who want completely stupid. such as if he said he was leaving the others would leaving at that and the party would end, but Jamie would bring out something she knew Spike couldn't resist, like a Gem cake, and hed stay for a while, but he never drank anything she gave him. it was almost always a love potion in disguise. so it was without saying that Spike stopped drinking anything the residents of the town game him. but she was also the only person who had any luck tracking Tom, so when she tried to give him a drink, he declined, as she walked past to deliver drinks ,Spike found that both a drink and a note had mysteriously appeared in front of him. Picking it up he read the few lines that were on it
StarDuster will be passing threw Dimond Cove in 3 weeks time, hes called ahead and will be stoping at my bar on Saturday, this might be your best chance to kill him.
XOXO Jamie
P.S. Enjoy your free drink.
Spike immediately dumped out the drink and ate the note for good measure.
"looks like ill be staying home for awhile." and so Spike did the only thing he could think to do, he went to Dimond coves port to get some fish for his dinner, when he arrived he found a very particular sight, a earth pony without his shirt and wearing a white sailors cap was waist deep in the freeze water screaming nonsense to the waves, what made it even weirder was that more screaming came from a whole bunch of pony`s on a ship some of them jumping off. Spike realized they were either under a spell or incredibly stupid, Spike simply walked into the water, up to the screaming colt he had first seen and gave him a open palm slap to the face, the colt was knocked out cold, Spike picked him up, went to the ship and administered his "treatment" to the entirety of the crew. after about 20 minutes or so they started waking up. and they all seemed to have no idea where the hell they were, the Captain of the ship, the first one Spike had slapped, shook Spikes hand and said
"Ive no idea where we are or how we got here but thank ya kindly my friend, last thing I remember was the most Beautiful song, then next thing i know, where here, and it seems some of our crew didnt make it to shore at all." in fact the ship it self was half sinking and the mast was broken.
"it seems" Spike said "that you almost didn`t make it here at all, what did this song sound like?"
"well" the Captain started"it sounded like, well.....like a... i think it wa-" it was then that Spike heard it, it was indeed a beautiful song, the words imposible to make out, but the voice it sounded familiar, as if hed heard it before. He was about to ask the Captain if this was, indeed, the same sound hed heard when he heard a splash, they were all jumping over board again!
"oh for the love of.." within a minute Spike had slapped them all unconscious and wrapped them up in some blackness he found on the ship. the sound continued and, feeling that more pony`s might kill them selfs if this kept up, he got on a dingy and set sail, looking to stop the sound before more pony got themselves killed over it.
Chapter 2- A Cute Little Dragon
Chapter 2- A Cute Little Baby
When Spike saw the little island in front of him he almost fell over board, right in front of him was something he had not seen since he had left equestria, on the island in front of him was fresh green grass, apple trees, flowers, and the snowstorm seemed to be avoiding the whole island, Spike got off his little dingy and ran right up to one of the trees and, with one mighty kick, made half a dozen apples fall from the tree, quick as he could, he gathered them up, sat down, and ate them, core and all, it was the first time in 20 years that hed gotten to eat apples. but unfortunately for Spike, he sound of himself crunching into the apples covered another, more serious noise, but Spike noticed as soon as he turned around that something was wrong, his little Dingy was gone, and in its place was a small pile of floating timber. but the biggest surprise was what had surrounded the island, a couple hundred merponys with a different asortment of aquatic animal parts below there waist, some where small and some were huge, and all of them were starring at him. Spike did the only thing he could think to do.
"Hi there" Spike said with a wave. the effect was immediate, they all started giggling uncontrollably.
"Hi little one" a merpony said "are you lost?" she asked with a smile. but other merponys were talking to, asking if he was lost, if he needed help, so on and so forth, it took Spike a minute to figure out what was going on. he was still, in the eyes of nature, a baby dragon, even though he was 42, that equaled about 2 years a half a month in dragon years, so to the merponys he was just a lost baby. Spike also found out pretty quick that merponys could control water, cause he found himself being picked up by a hand made of water and was promptly pulled into the larger body of said water, immediately all the merpony`s gathered around them and started saying things like
"Oh look at his poor little arm! were you driven out of your home"
"you look underfeed, I can get you some yummy gems if you need any" and so on and so forth it went for a good 3 and a half hour before Spike managed to convince them he was raised by ponys. but as it turned out that just made matters worse as they were now saying how sad it was that such a cute little baby was taken from his parents, and he should come live with them. they all turned a Crimson Red when he told them of Tom, and in a instant Spike know had a couple hundred new friends and Tom had a couple hundred enemies, but still refused to let such a young, parentless baby go out into the wilderness on his own. in fact, after hearing about Tom, a merpony who was part shark refused to let Spike leave her side. she was massive, around 17 feet long and with a shark fin on her back, she had a ponys upper body, but with shark teeth and shark like eye`s, she was a dark gray, her main was black, and she looked extremely pissed.
"Im gonna find that mean pony for you and give him what for!" she said,and after looking at the merpony for a second, Spike wondered if that meant she was gonna beat the shit out of Tom, or just plain out eat Tom. either way she was by far his favorite one of the currently gathered merponys.
"So" Spike said "were you all just hanging out here and i happened to stroll in, or did I do something worth noticing?" he was answered by the Shark merpony.
"our dear friend Emerald told us a young lost dragon saved her from pirates, since she was in no shape to help you, she asked use to go looking after you to see if there was some sort of problem, we are in the frozen north and most dragon`s hate it here, now I see there is indeed a problem."
"Dont suppose you know what that song was that was learning making ponys jump out of there ships? Spike question was answered almost at once.
"oh, that was use, we were looking for you but realized we had no idea where to look, so we were trying to get some boats to come here so we could ask, yours was the only boat that came, so we stopped singing." now little one, from what i understand you live in a place with a large port."
"aye" Spike agreed.
"and this Tom will be visiting said town?"
"aye" Spike agreed again.
"ok so lisen to me, I will be waiting in the bay for you, on the day he arrives, I want you to lure him to this bay, and fight him, since you want to kill him, ill give you the chance, but if you go down, im gonna break every bone in this Tom`s body with pure water presser. is this alright?" Spike though for a second and said
"alright."
"good, now hop on, I`ll take you to your home, but I want you to come check on me every day! got it?"
"got it." Spike replied, he climbed on her back and it was right then that Spike had just been basically adopted by a merpony and didn`t even know her name."mind if I ask you name ma'am?"
"my name is Angle little one."
Chapter 3 - Invitation for Visitation
Chapter 3- Life in The Crystal Empire
everyday for Flurry heart was the same, cause every day she did the same thing, every day during the week, she`d get up at 7 and have breakfast with he mother and father, then from 7:30 to 12 she would had private classed from her tutors, from 12 to 1 she had free time to eat lunch and relax, then from 1 to 3:40 she had the rest of her classes, then from 3:40 to 7 she had free time, then at 7 she ate dinner, then cleaned herself up and went to bed, and it was like this every day, and on the weekend she got to do her extremely large pile of homework. even though she was 39 he mother had told her
"your and alicorn, youll live for thousands of years, so i want you to continue your studies until your at least 40, ok?" shed agreed, her mother new best, but life had been fun for her for a while, especially when Spike moved to the Crystal empire so he could tutor her. shed had a blast with him as her tutor, theyd go outside and study nature instead of read a book about it. hed take her on trips to ancient ruins instead of showing her a picture from a book, hed even made her favorite snake, s'mores, in the middle of a lesson instead of taking away her soda. shed had fun with Spike as her teacher, to much fun in fact, Luna had come to crystal empire to tell Cadence and Shinning that Flurry Heart was having incredible inappropriate dreams about Spike. after a very uncomfortable week, Flurry found out that Spike was to be replaced, but just before there last lesson Spike dropped a huge bomb shell on everypony, he was packing up his stuff and leaving Equestria, why? he said he felt the need for a change and since hed just lost his job now seemed like a pretty good time. The next day he was gone, but hed promised hed wright to Flurry Heart and the main 6 every week on Saturday, since it was the only way they'd let him leave. and today was the day. Flurry Heart was sitting at her desk, waiting for it to arrive. finally it arrived, she tore of string holding the scroll together and read.
Dear Flurry Heart.
I was over joyed today when I found a small island with out any snow on it, first time ive had an apple in years! I am writhing to you as I always do, to ask how you are, it was been a hell of a long time since I left Equestria and moved to cold ass place. have i mentions that it neve stops snowing here, its nice at first, until you fall in the water, thanks for the picture of you last time, you seem taller, also that regal dress looks ridiculous on you, next time send me a picture of yourself in clothes that dont prevent your breathing, a T-shirt and shorts or something, I am doing fine. also, since I'm so tired of being cold all the time, Im coming to visit the Crystal empire in a few week`s.
P.S Never come to this cold ass place, I might stay in equestria.
Lots of love,- Spike.
"OH MY GOSH!!" Flurry heart screamed, so loudly that all the windows within 20 feet shattered. "HES COMING TO VISIT!! OH, OH,OH!! WHAT SHOULD I WEAR! WHAT SHOULD I SAY!!!" she kept asking thes question to herself until Cadence Knocked on her door.
"Honey, what`s wrong?" she was answered with Flurry Hearth trowing open the door and tackling her.
"YOULL NEVER GUESS WHOS COMING TO VISIT!!"
"Wh..who`s gonna visit?" Cadence asked in surprise
"SPIKE!!! HE`S COMING TO SEE US FOR THE FIRST TIME IN FOREVER!!" For the next 3 hours the whole castle was in complete and utter pandemonium as Flurry Heart tried to calm down long enough to right a reply to Spike. until she finally managed to wright a letter to Spike.
-back in the frozen north-
Spike was at his home eating his Dinner when he got his reply, he caught the scroll, opened it and read the small message it had inside
Dear Spike
Can`t wait to see you again
XOXO Flurry heart
Chapter 4- Assasains in the Night
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