So long Old Friend

by Silver Butcher

Rating: teen
Tags: Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Death, Sad, Spike
Length: 3025

The Immortal Main 6 spend time with an old Spike

The Main 6 live their Immortal lives, doing all they can to make their Dragon friends last few years as happy as they can.

Alternate (and longer version) of Good Bye old Friend

This story has a Sequal - Reincarnation

the goal of this story was to make you cry in less than 600 words, tell me if I succeeded.

Published 2017-10-17 12:30:07 UTC
Last updated 2017-10-18 05:32:32 UTC

Oh! Fluttershy you've come to visit me

Spike was sleeping in the large underground cavern the Elements had made for him, He was the official Castle Guard, of course that had been in his youth, but now a day's he usually stayed inside, He had arthritis, and on some occasions his legs would give out and he'd crush parts of the huge City that had once been Ponyville, an to avoid large law suits he had been confined to the cave, of course his friends still visited him every day, and they all made sure he went for picnics and walks with them, they just had to be with him so Twilight and Rarity could catch him and make sure no hare came to the town, or more importantly him. It was one such day that Fluttershy came to visit him, Time had not been kind on the old Dragon

"oh, is that you Rainbow?" he asked with a Smile

"No, its me Spike" Fluttershy said sweetly to him

"Pinkie? I don't remember you having wings?"

"No, Spike it me Fluttershy" She said as she tapped his scales, checking for loss ones.

"Fluttershy?" Spike asked and after a small period of time the name clicked in his head "OH! Im sorry Flutershy, how longs it been? A year? Two?"

"I was here last week Spike" Fluttershy said sweetly, having gotten use to working with Spikes dwindling memory. "How are you today?"

"oh.....I'm fine how are you Rainbow?" Spike asked, Fluttershy sighed

"That was even faster than last week." she flew up and,using a magic wash cloth, went from scale to scale, polishing them one at a time. By the time she was done and had gotten back into Spike line of sight he said something that caught her completely off guard

"So hows Starlight doing?" he said in a merry tone. Fluttershy froze, a tear formed in her eye, but she quickly wiped it out and turned back around to Spike with a Smile

"Oh, she's doing fine" She lied "I'm sure she'll be coming back from the Hospital any day now." she turned to finish Spikes cleaning when he continued

"Hows Fluttershy" he asked causing her to freeze "It's been awhile since I've seen her, tho she does have a lot of animals to care for, but I'm sure she'll come see me sometime" he said happily, unaware of the tears slowly pouring on his hand, after a few minutes of organizing herself, she flew out of his view and did the back of his neck, after a few minutes she finished and was about to the Chefs to grab one of Spikes specially made meals when he saw her and said jolly

"Oh! Fluttershy you've come to visit me" she froze and turned to him

"You.....you......you recognized me" she said

"How could I not recognize you?" he said happily "How ha...." he cut off when he saw her crying "oh are you alright?"

"You recognized me?" she said threw tears "you haven't recognized me in years" she sobbed as she hugged his claw, Spike stared blankly at her for awhile, trying to figure out why a pony was crying on him.

Author's Note

poor Fluttershy.

Hello Applejack, how have you been

Spike looked at the pictures in the small book in front of him. He and Applejack were looking threw it. Applejack was laying on his hand as she tried to show him the pictures in the book that to him looked more like smudges than pictures, and after looking at the pictures on the page

"Is that Big Mac? He asked trying to see the small smudges before him.

"No, that's a picture of Granny Smith"

"oh....is that one Big Mac?"

"No that's one of Baby me"

"How about....that one"

"That's a Picture of Bloomberg," Applejack said with a chuckle, and after a sigh "there all gone now"

"Oh? Where did they go?" Spike asked

"A.....a better place," Applejack said

"can we go visit them some time?"

"Well....me and the other girls can't go there, we....were not allowed." She said. After a while, Spike looked at Applejack

"Can I go there someday? I'd like to visit them, I feel like I haven't seen them in a while" Applejack sighed

"One day....one day you will go there, but when you do go you.....you won't be able to come back either."

"Oh," Spike said and after a short silence he looked at Applejack with eyes that seem to be glowing, his eyes seemed brighter than they had earlier, she hadn't seen them like that for years. "You're telling me they all died aren't you?" Spike asked as he looked at her. Applejack sighed

"You were there, you attended the funerals of so many, but your so old Spike, your memory is failing you, half the time you don't even recognize us, and when you do, you never remember talking to us afterward" Applejack sighed and looked at Spike who looked at her,

"How long have I been in the cave?"

"It's.....its been a very long time, most ponies nowadays don't even believe you exist, most just think your a myth" Applejack sighed once more and looked at Spike for his response but it was too late, the light in his eyes was dead and after looking at her for a moment he smiled

"Oh, hello Applejack, how have you been?" Applejack sighed but smiled

"Oh I'm fine Spike I've just brought this here book with me so we can look back on old times" And so Applejack flipped back to the beginning of the book and began again "this is a picture of Trixie and Starlight flying kites, and here's a picture of Me and Bigmac...." and so it went on like this for hours, but Applejack never got far, as Spike always forgot what they where doing.

Author's Note

Applejack cries on the inside.

Thanks Rainbow

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

Thank you Rar..

"I'm sure you just have a little cold" Rarity said to a shivering Spike as she used her magic to slowly dress Spike in a scarf, a Big hat, and a huge Blanket, she had made them all for him during the Winter months and always made new ones every year, not that he ever remembered, but still, her big old Spikey-Wikey deserved the best, as he had always helped her in her time of need, she would never forgive herself if Spike got sick simply because of something she could easily prevent.

"Are you warm now?" she asked sweetly, Spike opened his eyes and looked at her, he was still shivering, and it seemed to be getting worse, Rarity turned back around and looked around room, then she saw them, in a small pile, where the blankets of the past, she used as many as she could to cover Spike, but once three of them where on him Spike moved in a flash and had torn off all the blankets

"N..no I D..d..don't wa..want them" he struggled to say, as he tore off both the hat and the scarf and lay back down "I...It....its.....its time" he struggled to say "I.....its so....so c.c.c.c.co..old, I Ju...ju...just want to go ba...ba...back ou....out...outside" he looked at Rarity, his body was failing him, but for the first time in thousands of years his mind wasn't "I..I...I wa..want to....to spe....spend my last.....last moments....u...u...und....under...the....the....the sun...with my.....fr..fr...friends" he finished, struggling to breathe, Rarity approached her friend and tried to touch him, but jumped back, his scales where freezing, some of them actually had frost developing on them, his time was up, his fire had finally died, he had only a few minutes left, before he too left. Rarity, mustering all her might Surrounded herself and Spike in a magical aura, and with a large Flash, they were teleported out of the cave and into the castle Courtyard, His entire Body took up the Crystal castles lawn, wrapping around the entire exterior, and the nearby town panicked, but Spike just looked in awe at the setting sun, and tears came out of his eye's freezing before they left his head.

"It’s...it’s...it’s Beu...beautiful," He said as his voice began failing him, "Thank you Rar..." he stopped and Rarity turned and looked at him, and as she looked at him she broke down into tears. Spike was looking at sunset with such joy in his eyes, but his eyes were dark, his life force had left him. Spike the Dragons time had finally come.

"Your welcome...my little Spikey...Wikey" Rarity choked out as she magically shut his eyes.

Author's Note

tears...so many tears.

Did you invite him Pinkie?

Spike was sleeping, as that was how he spent most of his time, when he was awoken by the sound of a Cannon, he opened his eye's and saw before him a small party, with Pinkie Pie next to it

"Happy Birthday Spike!" Pinkie yelled, even though she knew it was not his Birthday, Spike didn't Know that. A grin showed across his face

"Is it my Birthday? wow, I forgot, guess I've lost track of time" Pinkie put a record on and gave Spike a cup of Punch in a magically enlarged cup, with an anti-spill spell so Spike could drink from it with his shaky hands. While Pinkie got Spike a Piece of Cake, Spike looked around expectantly

"Are you looking for presents?" Pinkie asked, she didn't have one, but that was because Spike would forget what he was doing by the time he had unwrapped it.

"Oh no, im just waiting to see who's coming, or is this one of those parties where you take me to it" He asked excitedly, after he ate his cake he continued looking around (and after being reminded by Pinkie several time's what was going on) he finnaly asked her "did you invite Shining? I think I missed his last Birthday and I'm afraid he might me miffed at me" Spike said to a Pinkie who's Mane had gone flat, Spike had indeed missed Shining armors last Birthday party before he had died, and it had been something he had regretted, as it would have been the last time he could have seen him, instead he got to see him again in a casket.

"oh! I know, I'll give him his present" Spike said suddenly, snapping Pinkie out of her thoughts, he attempted to get up, but failed, he said and pointed to the giant Dresser he never used " Could you grab it for me Pinkie, I think it's still in their, I asked Twilight to put a spell on it so it would stay safe...I....why did I ask her to do that?" he pondered as Pinkie went to the Dresser and opened the pony sized door, or at least she tried to, the door crumbled to dust at her touch.

"wow, has it really been that long?" She asked as she walked in and looked around, almost everything in the dresser was gone, worn away from thousands of years of not being touched. but among the dust was a small, nicely wrapped box, Pinkie picked it up and Read the little tag

To: Shining

From:Your little Bro, Spike. Happy 83 birthday.
Pinkie, unable to resist, opened the box and found a little framed Picture of a Young Shining Armor and Spike. next to the picture was a handmade Card.
Look what I found, We use to be so young. Lots of Love, Spike.

Pinkie wiped her eyes and left the dresser to Find Spike had fallen asleep again, Pinkie walked over and patted his snout.

"Happy 6,756th Birthday Spike" she said as she took the Box to Twilight.

We will always love you

Spikes Funeral was a private affair and only the elements of Harmony and Discord attended. He was taken to a very special place Discord had created on the Elements request, he was taken where all their other friends had been taken. A place where flowers never died, where the Graves and their inscriptions never grew old and dull, a place where they could all be at peace. And a proper place to say goodbye. the entire Grave yard was a floating island in a space that didn't exist, and Discord had created a new Island next to it for every Special burials, here was where Spike was going, with the only other two that was there. he would be laid to rest next to his wife, Starlight. their time together had been short, but now they could be together forever. and next to his unnamed child who had died with his wife in child birth. Spike would finally be with the family he never got to be with. The Funeral was long, every pony wanted to say so much, but it was Twilight who said it all

"Here lies Spike Sparkle" She began "He was a great Brother, a Great Husband....and would have been the best father. He had a long life, and he has done to many heroic things for me to name, but thats not why where all here, where not here to Honor a hero, where her to say our...our last Good-byes to him, to send him on his way, to tell him we loved him and still do, and will continue to forever. He may be gone. and we will never get to see him again..but we will never forget him, he was my first friend..." Twilight was on the verge of breaking down when her friends joined her

"He was the kindest Dragon there ever was" Fluttershy said with a quiver as she tried to hold back the tears and placed a yellow Gem in the shape of a Butterfly on his Grave

"He was always happy and full of joy" Pinkie said, as she placed a Pink Gem in the shape of a Ballon on the Grave

"He was always Honest and happy to help" Applejack said as she placed an Orange Gem on his Grave

"He was loyal to the end, and never left anypony behind" Rainbow said as she placed a Blue Gem on his Grave in the shape of a Lighting Bolt

"He was Generous, and will always be my little Spikey Wikey" Rarity said as she placed both a White Crystal on his Grave and the Fire Ruby he had given her so long ago on his grave

"He was my First Friend, and was the Best assistant you could ever hope to have" Twilight said, placing a purple Gem in the shape of a Twinkling Star on his Grave

"And we will always love him, and we will never forget him, and we hope he and Starlight are up there right now, playing with their little filly" They all said as one. And as soon as they stood back, Discord snapped his fingers and Spikes Grave glew bright for a second and once the glow died they could now see the 7 Gems embed in it and a small inscription

Here lies Spike, The Brave and Glorious best Friend of the Elements of Harmony. May he rest in peace.