So long Old Friend

Rainbow was doing the one thing with Spike that he was still able to do, taking a load off and laying on his warm back while he slept, threw out all the years she had distanced herself from others, not wanting to have to go through what she had to go through when her family and Scottaloo had left her, but she had a soft spot for the old Dragon, back when he had been younger he had been a walking mobile base, at one time there had been a small base on his back, but throughout the years, and all the battles they had been through, Spike was too old and fragile to do anything but keep things warm. Rainbow looked around the cave

"How long have you been stuck in here?" She asked the sleeping dragon in a whisper "two? three thousand years? and how much longer are you gonna stay? what will happen when you.....NO!" She said with a sudden tone shift "I refuse to think of that, even when.....it finally happens to you, I'll make sure nopony in all of Equestria ever forget what you have done for this world, even the littlest thing will be remembered." Rainbow looked at him and sighed "even when your long forgotten, I...no WE will make sure you live on! Even after all these Centuries, we've kept all our friends in our memories, we refuse to forget them! because....because they don't truly leave us until we forget about them!" Rainbow looked down and Jumped, during her speech to the sleeping Dragon, He had awoken and was looking at her, she expected him to say something Senile, what he actually said was nothing even close

"Its good to know when I finally pass from this world, I'll still be here, even if its only in your heart, it's a nice thing to think when my soon to pass time ends *yawn* Thanks Rainbow" and with his bit said, Spike closed his eyes and fell back to sleep. Rainbow was confused as all hell, but once what he said had fully processed, a look of fear flashed in her eye

"Wait, Soon to pass!?" she Flew off his back and did the only thing she knew about testing a dragons health, she flew down, and started a small fire, Twilight had learned and passed the knowledge on to her and the others that you could find out a dragons health by simply lighting a fire, and placing it on its back, A dragons internal fire, strong and full of heat, would only absorb a little of it at a time and the flame would slowly die, but if the fire was weak, then it would take all the heat at once. Rainbow lit a torch and touched Spikes back, just as it made contact, it went out. there was a moment of silence

"TWILIGHT!!!" She screamed as she flew out of Spike cavern