Searching

(7 hours after spike left)

It was exactly 7 am. Celestia's morning sun was shining into the room of Princess Twilight sparkle. When Twilight had come home she had the best time with everypony coming over she had so much fun hanging out with her friends and the Princesses. It was one of the only times she had all of her friends over for quite some time and she enjoyed every second of it.

She had slept peacefully that night dreaming about her and her friends doing the same thing over and over but something seemed off. She had done the same thing in every dream. She talked with her friends laughed and smiled but in every dream she had something knawing at her. As if she forgot about something. She still had no idea what it was until she saw Spike in the kitchen making food and serving everything to her friends. She thought that he was happy and just being helpful but she didn't notice the small tears in his eyes every time he passes by her.

Twilight awoke in the middle of her dream when Celestias sun was staring to shine on her eyes. She slowly got out of bed and made her way to the door. She had finally got some well deserved rest. She was always so tired thanks to her princess duties and was never able to get a good night sleep because she was always thinking about wha to do as a princess. But she finally realized everything. She was a princess with her friends by her side. She wasn't alone. She was prepared for anything especially when her friends were with her.

Twilight woke up and realized she wasn't on the couch anymore she was back In her bed. Starlight or spike must have put her back to bed. She ended up falling dead asleep as she was looking at her memories book. She felt very happy seeing all the pictures of her and her friends accomplishments from the defeat of nightmare moon all the way to Starlight being reformed.

Twilight made her way to the kitchen and saw that there were a couple still left in her study. She decided to leave them there and let spike take care of them. Besides she needed to get ready she had a spa date with Rarity today.

Twilight made her way to the kitchen to see if spike was there cooking something. But to her suprise no one was there. She needed to eat something before she left so she just grabbed some cereal and ate. While she was grabbing the cereal she noticed a note on the counter.

It said" I'm going out to grab some groceries and some other things he back in a bit from Starlight".

Twilight read he note then all her worry began to fade. She figured Spike and Starlight would have been out since they weren't at the castle this morning. So she made her way to the entrance of the castle and left.

(2 hours later)

"Ok good bye darling see you soon". Rarity said as Twilight left the boutique.

Twilight had a wonderful time with Rarity at the spa. She felt so relaxed. She and Rarity had talked about a lot of gossip during here spa day. As she was trotting back to her castle she saw Starlight talking to Rainbow and Fluttershy.

Twilight decided to meet up with them and see what they were talking about. As Twilights gut aproched them she started to hear what they were talking about.

"So I ended up getting scolded by another ponies because of the spell I casted". She heard Starlight say as she aproched them.

Then they all started laughing. After they finished laughing they noticed that Twilight had arrived.

"Hey Twilight" they all said in unison.

"Hey guys" Twilight said "Whatcha up to".

"Nothing much just hanging out, Applejack asked for some help at the orchard but then we bumped into Starlight and started talking". Rainbow said

"Yup I needed some help at the farm so I asked Rainbow if she could lend a hoof" said applejack.

"And I just finished shopping and was about to come back to the castle" Said Starlight.

"Oh ya Starlight I saw your note and I wish you would have just told me you were leaving instead of leaving a note" Said Twilight

"Sorry but I thought you would want to sleep in since you fell asleep on the sofa" said Starlight.

"Well it's fine but next time please tell me ok" said twilight.

"Alright I will" said Starlight.

Applejack and Rainbow were already talking about something else when Twilight realized Spike wasn't with Starlight at the moment.

So she asked "Hey Starlight where's spike?"

Starlight looked at Twilights gut confused." What are you talking about Twilight I didn't bring spike with me".

Twilight looked confused as well." What do you mean I thought he was with you".

"No I didn't bring him with me I left by myself this morning to just pick up some groceries" Said Starlight.

"Well were would he be?" Twilight said now getting worried.

"Well let's look around maybe spike is around somewhere I'm sure he's here" said Starlight in a reassuring tone.

"What are y'all talking about" said Applejack as she and Rainbow trotted over to were they were talking.

"I thought Spike was with Starlight but he isn't so I don't know were he is" said Twilight.

"Let's look around town I'm sure we'll find the little guy" said Rainbow

(About 30 minutes later)

Rainbow was flying all across Ponyville asking ponys if they saw Spike. There was no luck. No pony had seen spike all day not even the cutie mark crusaders. The mane six and the CMC had all looked across ponyville.

"Where is he I've flown everywhere and I still can't find him" said Rainbow in a very frustrated tone.

"I don't know Rainbow but he's got to be somewhere" said Applejack.

"You don't think he went into the everfree forest or the badlands do you?" Said Fluttershy in her quiet voice.

"I don't know but we need to check at least I have no idea why he left" said Twilight.

"Oh I hope my poor Spikey Wikey is ok" said Rarity.

"Alright we should start searching the everfree but remember we need to stick together" said Twlilight.

Twilight, Rainbow, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy made there way to the everfree forest while Applejack brought the CMC home. As much as they wanted to help Spike it was to dangerous for them.

As the mane six proceeded through He everfree they all decided to slit into groups to cover more ground. They had not choice it was starting to get dark.

Rainbow and Fluttershy were a group and started to search over by the tree of harmony.

"SPIKE SPIKE WHERE ARE YOU" said Rainbow.

"Uh spike where are you" said Fluttershy scared that something other than spike might hear her.

"Come on flutter he louder I'm sure we will find him somewhere" said Rainbow trying to give Fluttershy some confidence.

"Hey Fluttershy why don't you see if you can find any animals to talk to. I'm gonna go look around some more. Meet me at the tree of harmony ok?" Said Rainbow.

"ok just be careful" said Fluttershy.

"Don't worry nothing can stop Rainbow Dash fastest pony in Equestria" said Rainbow full of herself like always.

"Ok Rainbow just.... be careful alright" said Fluttershy.

"Don't worry flutters I'll be fine" said Rainbow as she began to fly off.

Rainbow dash made her way to the tree of harmony she looked around to make sure Spike wasn't there but then she heard talking. She couldn't make out who was talking but she know it was coming from inside the cave where the tree is.

then saw a flash come from the cave. She decided to look into the cave to see if anyone was there. She couldn't believe it. Spike was there standing next to some kind of portal. It was black and red. He looked like he was about to jump in it.

Rainbow quickly entered and called Spikes name afraid he was going to jump into the portal. He looked over his shoulder. They locked eyes for a second before spike took a step back. He looked scared Rainbow thought he was scared of the portal but she saw the look in his eyes he was scared of her.

Why would spike be scared of me? She thought. She kept her eyes on spike. He too another step back. He was right next to the portal now. Rainbow acting only on instinct started flying straight towards him afraid he was going to go into the portal. He did and the second she got to the portal it closed. Rainbow was confused to say the least. Spike was missing all morning and she had just saw him jump into a mysterious portal. Why?

Fluttershy had just come into the cave where dash was. She saw dash looking at the end of the cave wall.

"Um Rainbow" she said.

Rainbow turned around when she heard Fluttershys voice. Rainbow dash went up to her and said " I saw spike".

Fluttershy looked surprised. She didn't actually think spike was going to be out here. She thought they just couldn't find him in town.

"Are you sure it was him" said Fluttershy.

"Yes im one hundred percent sure. He looked at me when I said his name" said rainbow.

"Let's go meet with the others the sun has started to go down and we weee supposed to meet with them by now" said Fluttershy.

Fluttershy and Rainbow made there way out of the everfree forest where they met up with The rest of the mane six.

Rainbow explained to Twilight and the others about what she saw. Everyone but Fluttershy and Rainbow where shocked they didn't know what to do now. Twilight had just thought spike got lost or was getting something from seconds but no. From what Rainbow said he went into the portal willingly.

"Well now what" everypony turned to look at Applejack who spoke.

Everypony looked uncomfortable for different reason. No one knew what to do now.

But then Twilight spoke up " I think I know". Everypony turned to Twilight. " I think the best thing to do now is go to the princesses and find out anything we can".

"We'll leave tomorrow morning is that ok with everypony?" Twilight asked looked to her friends.

They all nodded there heads and went back to there own homes. Twilight would have to inform Starlight about what happend to Spike. And that she would leave with them tomorrow. Twilight had a lot to think about.

Location: unknown

Spike was happy to say the least. Happy is an understatement he was.......well he was joyful you could say. Mystic had done nothing but be nice to him. He gave him food a place to sleep and she even called him a friend. The only ponies he could really call his friends in ponyville were the CMC and Starlight. They both never did anything wrong to spike. At least Starlight didn't. Before the CMC got there cutie marks they would constantly beg Spike to help them with getting there Dragon cutie marks. It was annoying but it was all in good fun.

Some quickly got used to Misty using dark magic. It wasn't something he was afraid of because he saw who Misty really was. I very nice and beautiful mare who...... wait what. It is true Spike did start to have a crush on Misty but he only started to form one because she was very nice.

He base gotten over rarity a very long time ago and was actually just trying to be a nice friend to Rarity. But that still didn't help the fact that he knew she used to us his feelings for free labor. Misty was a very good friends and spike would help her anyway he could. She was nice and fun to hang out with.

But he still didn't know all about her.

Spike walked into the study room where she saw Misty reading one of her dark magic books. In a way she was like Twilight but less total meltdown when the ink goes missing.

"Hey Misty" Spike said as he aproched her.

"Oh hello Spike I'm just studying is there anything you need?" She looked up from her book and looked and Spike.

"No I'm fine just wanted to see what you were doing" Spike said as he sat next to her.

"Oh ok" she said as she looked back to her book.

"Misty I dont know if this is a bad time to ask but I kind of want to know about your past and everything. You never really told me how you got into the whole dark magic thing". Spike said with a hint of interest.

Misty looked up from her book and sighed. "I knew you would want to know about that Spike. Well if you want to hear about my past i suggest you sit down and get comfy because this is a long story".

Spike sat on the ground next to her and was prepared to listen to the story.

It wasn't just the story of Mistys life it was a story of how misty became Misty and Spike would hear every second of it.

Author's Note

Ok I'm sorry this took so long to finish a couple things got in the way but it's done now. Exit chapter I'm going to tell the tale of Misty.(BTW I decided to make misty a OC instead of a cannon character redisign because I think it gives her more depth on the way I present her to the story.