Spike’s Heart Chapter 7

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Spike’s Heart

Chapter 7

The Awakening and Confrontation

“Your name Spike, right?” “What happen to you, Spike?” “I said stop, Spike!” “Thanks Spike. Thank you for saving me.” “Spike…”

Deep within the drake, a reddish haze that stretches forever in the darkness, that is what’s left of Spike’s mind. Within the red fog a single green flame ignites. The green flame is push to the ends of the drake’s mind where the darkness is all that exist beside the haze. Going deeper and deeper the name, Spike, vibrates from the edges of the chaotic haze to its center that blows in torrents of storms. Constantly, the dark red will wrap around in the vertex. Slowly, green and blue lights began to escape one by one out the stormy haze and gather to the single green flame. When there was enough, they combine and continue to solidify forming to a shape of a translucent dragon without wings. With his eyes close, the dragon floats away from the haze into darkness, but more lights follow his body forming a trail of greens and blues behind him. As his body finally stops in the darkness, a shiny blue string wraps around him forming a long trail that disappears in the distance.

Left alone in the silent dark the glowing drake eyes slightly opens. “Spike? I’m Spike.” Spike eyes snap fully open, he sees nothing but darkness and the blue string, but he can’t feel anything. “This is a dream? Can it be…something else?” He said quietly grabbing the string attach to his chest. His claws faze through the blue ray of light. “It’s warm and it can hold me here, but… I can’t touch it. Transparent claws? And I don’t have my wings. Did something go wrong with the potion Zecora gave me, or something happen after I drunk it?” Spikes stops talking to himself to listen. A voice is coming through from a distant place but coming closer as if it is right behind him. Turning around the blue ray passes through him forming a diamond shape screen. The image was blurry, but quickly it clears to show someone he never expected.

“Is that… CHRYSALIS? WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING!” Shouting out, speechless to what he is seeing. There in his arms was the dark form of the former changeling queen. A being, who was always set on her revenge, is peacefully resting her head upon his chest without a care; it is also surreal that he sees her smiling as she sleeps. It completely different compare to the angry expression the last he saw her. ‘Is the world ending. How I end up sleeping with the enemy?’

As if responding to his thoughts the blue rays form another screen showing him his actions after drinking the potion. This place has no meaning of time. A couple of months are reveal onto him, and within moments he began to understand. He was shock by what he has done in this forest. As the final moment scenes end, the second floating screen disappears from existence. He looks back toward the first screen of the sleeping Chrysalis.

“I guess the potion did work. I didn’t know a dragon can be so strong. Or maybe it was just because that drake was me.” Sighing, he looks at the changeling with a hint of pity, “I really save Queen Chrysalis, the enemy of Equestria. Not only she attacks us during Shining Armor’s wedding, but she almost imprisons everyone in those foul cocoons. Mom will be shocked to know that she was living in the Everfree all this time. Oh! She is waking up…” Spike began showing a strange expression looking at how her body was pressing on him. Accidently, her lips reach over, quickly brushing against his chin, and suddenly a sense of attraction had faintly come to fruition. “No. Calm down, Spike, it just skinship between former enemies nothing more. Yes! Dahlia, Lily, and Zecora are waiting too... they must be worried. I need to focus on escaping this place. All this might not even be real. But still I might be developing weird habits. Is this maturity or a dragon’s nature?”

Turning away from the glowing screen, it fades away into nothingness. He looks seriously towards the string of light that connect to him with the dark unknown.

This place has no up nor down anything dealing with direction is pointless. One can only follow what is there, and nothing but this string of light was here, beckoning him to follow its glowing trail. With a single thought, the string starts to wrap around his see-through body as he heads along where it begins.

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“Spike?” Chrysalis slowly opens her eyes to feel the drake is up and ready to go. Feeling smoothness of his scaly tail wrapping around her. She hears the official morning growl coming from below. She is lifted away from her warm dragon bed and out over the mountain of hides that cover them during the chilly nights. Sighing she comments, “Really, Spike, it’s the same thing every morning for the past few weeks. Don’t just lift me up. It’s embarrassing. You must give respect to your queen. Honesty, I starting to think you like to manhandle me. Am I your queen or your favorite toy?”

She looks as the drake exits the hide pile to see him grinning as he looks at her helplessness.

“Stupid dragon…” She begins to mumble a few more words with an angry expression. He lowers her down to see that her wounds have completely heal and she wasn’t skin and bones anymore. The color of her coat looks healthy and the magic within her had increase a little. She was no longer wasting away, with the share of meat he catches.

He put her back on the hides and heads to the exit turning once to give her a warning growl before leaving to hunt.

“Bye!”, Chrysalis hurriedly says before he left.

With nothing but silence in the den, she sighs, “It feels like something is different with that dragon today. I really want to know what going on in his head.” Yawning she mumbles, “Sleeping is better than just waiting for him to come back. It’s for the best.” She lies down on the large and very soft rabbit hide, falling back to her peacefully dream.

As she falls back to sleep the morning sun slowly rises in the sky shining into the rocky clearing surrounding the cave. As the light enters the cave opening, making contact to Chrysalis sleeping figure. She starts to stir awake. Yawning as she lifts her head, with her eyes slightly open, she makes her way outside heading to the river to quench her thirst.

At the river edge she finishes drinking and feels refresh, spending awhile to enjoying the faint twinkles coming from the naturally active everfrees zipping across the water surface. Smiling, she walks back to the den.

After some time, the excited insects scatter hiding into the forest as a dark figure’s shadow zooms across the river.

A few hours away within the forest, the drake hunts but nothing is around. Coming out of the dark shadows, he tries to sense for prey, but everything has vacated the area long ago. The forest is still; the forest almost feels like it is scared stiff. The forest was quiet, and the forest was never quiet. Smelling the air flowing through the trees, he senses something unfamiliar in the wind. This strangeness is closest to the feeling of danger. He quickly turns back, running to the den.

In a series of green flashes, trees seem to zoom pass him, as he blinks constantly across the forest. Leaping across marshes, streams, and falling trees, he continues to gain more speed, slowing starting to release yellow flames over his limbs, turning into a yellow streak. Moving faster than before where the streak passes, a slightly burnt trail of flickering flames is left behind. He can feel something threatening. For the first time, the drake feels like he’s prey for some monster. Killing intent is getting stronger; the closer he comes to the den. Spines erect across his back, his body can sense the danger, and he runs faster.

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“YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME WIZARD!” A malicious voice rumbles down from the atmosphere, that includes a falling shadow. The figure lands in front of Spike and Chrysalis cave; they been living in for the past month.

BOOM… The ground shakes as the stone is crash under its feet and causing a cloud of dust to cover the area.

At the cave, Chrysalis stays close to the entrance when a dark figure appears from the sky. When she heads out, she sees the dust start to settle. The proud shape of a creature with its large wings spread behind its back as it stands straight upright. When the creature sees her, it tills its head showing a confuse stare.

It sees a dark female unicorn-like creature, that after glancing at him; she instantly causes the immense rocks of the area to glow a faint green and raise high above into the air.

“THERE’S NO WIZARD HERE! LEAVE, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE!” Chrysalis shouts out angrily at this creature.

Using the little power, she has recover to force him to leave her nest. She feels frighten as the creature still have not left. Making the boulders to all gather above it, and she threatens to kill, “LEAVE NOW!”

A dangerous light flash within its eyes, becoming a deeper crimson. It smiles with a mouth of sharp teeth without a care about the deadly rocks hanging in the air.

“How can I leave? You not a wizard, but you must be a witch. Witches are very similar to wizards. So why will I leave?” the creature says, as he walks forward.

“DIE!” Chrysalis slam all the boulders down on it. However, the boulders hit a black shield and stop moving. Surprise she stutters, “W-what are you?!”

“Hahaha! Is this all you can do? You a very weak witch!” The black barrier quakes sent the boulders away, forcing her to dodge. “You not like those pony witches, but you are unique.” Walking out of the dust, right in front of her. It sends a dark bind that catches her. It takes a closer look at her with its small eyes. “Oh! I remember now. You are a royal changeling. Sadly, eating bugs like you will give me bad indigestion. So…JUST DIE!”It sends another dark bind that rapidy approaches to her.

Smack!

“I’m the top predator king of this forest.” He says while absorbing back the energy waves.

Chrysalis is knock away high into the sky, sailing through the air like a broken kite. Heading headfirst into the gray boulders of the rocky surroundings, her eyes close cringing her teeth, daze from the attack.

The creature spring into action, appearing suddenly above Chrysalis falling figure, preparing to crush her when she lands.

Chrysalis open her eyes a few meters away from the boulders, seeing the dark shadow heading to her. Her wings won’t stop twitching and stop working. Her magic is still too weak. Falling, all Chrysalis can do is protect her head, while knowing it will not change her fate.

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In the recesses of a drake’s mind, time is meaningless; however, Spike felt like years have pass in the darkness when he finally arrives in front of the deep red haze.

He spent that time thinking about varies things:

His life in Canterlot and in Ponyville where he made so many memories and accomplishments. Equestria is connected to him, and he indebted to so many for their care in his life. There were some rough points, but he will protect his home. He will protect them even if they fear what he has become.

He is a dragon. A dragon is a proud creature. This is in their blood flowing in the veins. Pride is one of the traits that were missing. He knows his faults in the past. He will overcome them. Unlocking his magic potential is only the beginning in improving himself. Dragons are ancient and powerful, but magic is limitless. He is both. The chance to change his life is in him.

He understands the fact he’s a dragon. The magic flowing within him will not leave but will continue to change him as well.

“I understand what I must do to reunite with my body.” Spike says, as he reaches the edge of the red haze. “It all comes to accepting who I am. There is no good or bad, only me. The potion has awakened my instincts; now, it’s up to me to completely reform myself.”

Placing his ethereal hand against the haze, the shining string covering his waist submerges into him as red flames spout from his hand. Seeing his hand on fire without feeling any pain but strength. Spike grins, “Maybe Zecora’s potion shattering my soul wasn’t such a bad thing. Ok it’s time to go. My gut telling me something’s wrong by these flames anger.” He leaves the darkness and enter the red fog.

Passing the first layer of the haze, Spike begins to feel a force pulling him as he falls though the crimson clouds in a red sky. Coming to see a bloody sea below him. As he falls, the sea starts to tremble and turn as it opens. Popping out of the depths a massive black dragon head roars opening its mouth to swallow him.

Looking down, Spike didn’t cower but laughs, as he says, “You want to consume me for control, but you can’t. You are just my instincts. We are one. You don’t have to worry. Once we are one, you will never be repressed again. We need each other. NOW COME TO ME!”

When the black dragon swallows Spike’s ethereal form, it red eyes change to green as blue flames spread all over it and disappears. The sky slowly turning blue and the ocean settles slowly restores to a golden color.

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When Chrysalis was a moment from certain death, a bright flame figure shot out of the forest and jumps wrapping her up in his arms. Speeding along like a yellow comet far away from approaching deadly creature falling above.

Chrysalis opens her eyes to see she was in Spike arms as he was covering in yellow flames. The flames didn’t hurt her. She looks at his eyes to see the red turning green and his black scales turning a deep purple. As he carries her away, blue flames begin to cover them, and the dark green curse ring reappears on his finger as he takes it off, easily.

Confuse she can’t understand what going on. Looking to Spike, Chrysalis asks, “What is happening to you? Heh!” She looks at him, shock, as he smiles down at her.

Smiling, Spike says, “You are misunderstanding many things. Let see where I should start?” He pauses looking up pondering as he continues running. Chrysalis whack his chest. “O-ok, I came into the forest to cure my illness, but things got complicate; I turn wild with a potion. I must learn to hunt with my instincts, you see. The potion isn’t totally effective on me, so I’m sane” He enters the forest again. “Now, the creature behind us is a mutant Kreelix, it is my best bet to be cure if I can defeat it.”

Shock, Chrysalis questions, “What is the ring? And a Kreelix?”

“It is a safety measure. It is very dangerous for a wild dragon appearing in Ponyville or something.” Spike shrugs his shoulders. “Now, I took it off before speaking, because I needed to explain to you some things before fighting this creature. The Kreelix are predators that devour magic and gain some traits from the beings they eat. Kreelix are rare, but mutants are almost unheard of, from all the books I read. I don’t know if I should be happy, being able see one now? Ha-ha.”

Chrysalis places her head against his shoulder and closes her eyes, she asks, “Why did you save me?”

“Well dragons have instincts and I did found and save you a few times. Basically…” Spike pokes her nose, smiling as she opens her eyes, “You are mine… I protect what’s mine. It’s that simple”

Blushing, she quietly mumbles, “Stupid dragon” as she sees his spines rising.

‘Crap, he faster than I thought!’ Spike looks behind to see a dark shadow, he increases the yellow flames that now cover him entirely, slowly gaining some distance.

“Why do the flames don’t hurt me?” Chrysalis says, looking at the flames around her.

“I gain complete control of fire. So, it burns what I want to burn, it harmless to you”, Spike answers absentmindedly.

“Are we being follow?” She asks.

“Yes, it will seem the Kreelix is playing with his food before the kill.” Spike snorted.

“Why are you not fighting?” She hits his chest playfully.

Rolling his eyes, Spike says, “I can’t fight him with you in my arms, so I’m running away to that mountain ahead. But running over there is not needed. Take a deep breath and hold it. Nod when you’re ready.”

Confuse, Chrysalis nods when she ready, and a green flash cover them, and they disappear.

She can hear Spike’s deep voice speaking to her: “I’m sending you to a safe place. You will see a zebra, a sprite, and something else. Tell them everything and they will not hurt you. Tell them to stay there until I return. You cannot help me. They cannot help me. Only I will fight for my life.”

The voice stops, and she feels Spike letting her go.

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Author's Note

Sorry for the wait. Enjoy the chapter as I work on the next one! Happy for comments.