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                      Emerald Hearts                       
                    -by BloodShadow12-                     
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                         The Dream                         
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The Dream
Chapter I: The Dream
        In a dark void where nothing is to be seen but endless darkness a young dragon was falling down he looked motionless. He started to open his eyes.
“Where am I?” the dragon said to himself.
He looked around to see he was all alone. Suddenly a light appeared under him that looked like a pillar.
“What’s that supposed to be?”
The dragon landed on the platform on his feet to see the platform had an image of a lilac unicorn.
“Why does this platform have Twilight’s face on it?” the dragon said looking puzzled examining the platform from all around him.
“So much to do, so little time” a voice said behind him.
The dragon jumped from the voice and looked all around him too see no one in sight at all.
“Huh?.....Who’s there?” the dragon called out in the void.
“Take your time don’t be afraid” the voice said again.
The dragon looked all around him and still no one in sight.
“What are you trying to tell me?” he asked
“The door is still shut” the voice replied
“Huh what door?” the dragon said scratching his head
The Dragon looked all around the platform and still there was nothing around him.
“Now step forward, Can you do it?”
“Step forward…umm ok” the dragon said as he began to walk in the middle of the platform he was standing on.
As he stopped in the middle the ground began to shake a little. Three stone tablets shot out from the ground around the dragon.
“What is going on here?” he said looking around to see a Shield appeared on top of one of the tablets.
“Power sleeps within you”
A staff appears on the other tablet.
“If you give it form…”
Finally the last tablet has a sword
“It will give you strength”
The dragon looked around him to see the three weapons around him.
“Weapons…for what?” he said looking around him to see why the weapons were floating on top of the pillars.
“Choose well”
The dragon felt confused, he started to walk to the sword.
“The power of the Warrior, Invincible courage, a sword of terrible destruction”
The dragon saw that the sword was cool and had amazing detail of it.
“Is this the power you seek?”
The dragon turned behind to see the other two.
“Hmm the sword does look cool but I wonder what the other two do” the dragon said walking to the staff tablet.
“The power of Mystic, Wisdom of magic, a staff of majestic spells”
The dragon saw how the staff looked like a rod.
“Is this the power you seek?”
The dragon stood there looking at the staff.
“I always wanted to be a good sorcerer like Twilight” he thought.
“Yes” he said
“Your path is set, choose one more”
The staff disappeared  as did the tablet.
The dragon turned to see two weapons left the sword an the shield.
“What does the shield do?” he said walking to the shield tablet.
“The power of a Guardian, Kindness to aid friends,a shield that protects all”
The dragon saw how the shield looked very protective like a castle.
“Is this the power you seek?”
The dragon looked at the sword and back to the shield.
“Power or to protect those around you” he said to himself.
The dragon thought for a minute.
“The shield” he said
“You have chose the guardian over the warrior..Interesting”
The shield disappeared as did the sword
“Is this the form you choose?”
“Uhh…I think so” he said worried
The tablets disappeared as did the weapons.
“so is that it?”
Nothing responded
“Hey! I’m talking to you!” the dragon shouted
Then there was a bright light in front of him that was so bright he fell back, but the dragon didn’t fall on the ground it felt as if it disappeared as well and fell to the dark abyss screaming.
He shut his eyes for a moment hearing  voice but it didn’t sound like the one before this one was familiar.
“SP….KE” the voice over him called
“huh?” the dragon said opening his eyes and saw a lilac unicorn in front of him.
“Spike!, what’s wrong you have been screaming as if you were badly hurt, you okay?”
Rubbing his eyes to look at his surrounding’s it was the library in Ponyville
“what was that all about?” spike said scratching his head.
“you were yelling this morning and I came to check up on you” the unicorn said while touching the baby dragon’s forehead.
“well twilight I had this really weird dream wher-“
“you were attacked by zombies?” Twilight interrupted
“No not that it was dark and lonely and there was darkness  all over me and-“
Twilight smacked him on the head
“OW!” Spike said rubbing his head
“you need to cut down on the donuts”
“But it felt real Twilight, too real” Spike said looking at Celestia’s sun rising.
“maybe you should go wash your face” Twilight said going downstairs to make breakfast.
Spike got up and was walking out of the room until he felt uneasy as he turned round to see a man cloaked in black.
“WHAT THE HAY!!” as he saw that he was standing there looking at the scared baby dragon.
“this world will be next” he said walking to Spike
“what?” spike was backing up until he felt that the door was closed and had his back to the door.
“soon to completely covered in darkness”
“look..I-I- don’t know what you’re here for or what you are planning but-“ Spike was explaining until he vanished in a puff of smoke.
“soon little dragon you will feel the darkness in you and destroy those you hold dear”
“SPIKE Breakfast is ready come down now!!” Twilight said downstairs
Spike looked all around to see no pony anywhere.
“maybe I eat too many sprinkles” spike turned and went downstairs.