The dark legends of Equestria

Chapter 5: Spike's tale.

"So, are you going to tell us your story now?" Said an unamused Scootaloo.

"Hey! Relax! I said I was waiting for last turn" Said Spike.

"Well, this better be worth it" Said Sweetie Belle.

"Okay guys, Jeez, let's get this over with:"

I bet you wondered sometime when you first saw a dragon: What is this thing? Where did he came from? why? well, here is a story in first pony-person about a miserable creature and a monster many eons ago...

I was a young, healthy and ugly colt, and I didn't know why, but everypony hated me, they always looked down to me, they always laughed at me, I was blinded by my pain and suffering, maybe if I wasn't I would't had grabbed that rope and chair...

But, where? not inside my home, I hated my mother, but I didn't want to cause her a trauma, so, I ran to the farthest place in the city, because I was going to end my life, I was praying to the gods and adjusting my neck, but, suddenly, I heard a voice:

"What are you doing?!?!"

"Putting an end to this!"

"You don't have to do it this way! I believe I can help you!"

"Help me? you are just an old pony! Let me die at last!!"

"I can't do that now, young one"

Then, out of nowhere, he grabbed my hoof, when I fought back, he pulled with more strength than before, making me get out of my demise and fall off my chair. He dragged me to an old building, and he closed the door behind us quickly.

"Let me go!"

"Look, young one, I can help you, I know how you feel, but you need to listen"

"Damn, okay, but quick!"

"A life is something beautiful, but, what would you say if I tell you I can get you a new, completely different life without paying anything?"

"I'd say I'm interested"

"Look, after some experiments, I think I mastered the anatomy of ponies, I can transform you into anything or anypony you like, of course, there are some conditions..."

"Such as...?"

He pulled out a paper. "For starters, you have to sign here"

"And if I don't want to?"

"Well, that's the second condition." I noticed he was a unicorn when his horn started glowing. "You don't have a choice, now, stay still"

I tried to run, I tried to scream, but he grabbed me, I only remember him laughing maniaticaly before everything went dark. When I woke up, I was tied down to a chair in the middle of a dark room where the walls were covered by some kind of inscriptions about magic spells, also six or seven unicorns with dark hoods were standing around me, for some reason, I had a metal armor covering my body, and I felt a lot more grabby than usual, then, the mad pony entered the room with something white put on him.

"Did you sleep well my friend?"

"What happened? where am I?"

"You don't have to know that, just relax and let us take care of you"

"What are you doing to me? I swear, I'm going to kill you!"

"Son, I'm not afraid of you, you're going to stay there while we make history"

"History?"

"Yes, once we make a transformation of the whole body on you"

"What? No! You can't"

"Oh, yes I can, and watch me do it"

Then, he and his pals started to say some weird things, some knid of language I never knew about, but when they retrieved their hoods, their eyes and horns were glowing, and they fired some kind of laser directly towards me, the pain was intense, I couldn't open my eyes, because the pain wouldn't let me and because I was glowing too, my armor, it felt like my armor was being fusioned with my body, I felt like I was inside the sun itself, and all I remembered were the screams of my torturers, being them from pure pain and the voice of my psycho "friend" who pleaded for the experiment to end. And finally, everything went dark once more.

When I woke up, I saw nothing but the building we were in being reduced to dust, I looked to my surroundings and saw all the unicorns dead, they were spitting out blood from their insides, and my principal torturer? dead too, I found him decapitated when I removed a block from his head, and found him doing some really weird noises too.

Then I realized: I removed the block from his head without magic. I looked to my hooves, they weren't hooves anymore, I don't know what they were either, but I think the griffons have these things, I think they were called "claws", and I looked at my back to see if I was a griffon now, that idea was eliminated when I saw my back, and afterwards, my entire body, I had wings, but they were much different than a griffon's, and my body was covered in those things the reptiles have, I think they are called "scales".

I also realized two more things: My tail was longer and it was full of Spikes, and that, somehow, I was walking in two legs, everything was so confusing, but I had the urge to make everything mine, of course, things like these don't go unnoticed, the authorities arrived at the place, and when they saw me come out of the rests of the building, thry inmediately demanded my departure to the Far lands, in other words: Exile.

So, when you think your life sucks, remember this story, ask yourself who is the miserable creature and who is the monster again, remember the way my life was torn apart by a maniac, luckily, I found some other victim of those cruel experiments who turned out that she was a female specimen who ran away as soon as the experiment was going downhill, and then we reproduced, now, I'm the father of a new specie, but I didn't ask for it, remember the creature that I am, remember how lucky you are for just being you, remember the legend of...

Dragons.

Spike looked over to his friends like the rest did, they didn't look afraid, but they sure looked shocked, all of them had their jaws hitting the floor and they had their eyes open wider than dinner plates.

"He, I knew it, that would surely shock them" Said Spike to himself.