The Evil Within

                                                                                   The Evil Begins

I could feel a weird sensation in my head as I slept. I was having another nightmare in which I saw a dark and tall figure saying to me, "Join me Spike."

     Again, like any other night that this dream ocurred... I woke up in a cold sweat screaming. The weird thing was, the figure was not menacing to me, and instead had a kind of calming effect to it. It was still nightime and my sensless and horrifying screams obviously woke up who I saw as my mom, Twilight Sparkle. She immediately rushed to where I was and said to me in a concerned/scared voice, "Spike, what's wrong! Are you okay?"

     Like all the other times that this happened before I said as if on command, "Nothing Twilight, just another bad dream. I can handle it, I'm a big dragon now.... now go back to bed."

     The purple unicorn nodded back to me and trotted back to her bed. I elicited a sigh of relief as I sat down on the ground and thought about what the figure was saying to me in my dreams. "Join me Spike." I said to myself. "What the hell did it mean by that?"

     Regardless of what it meant, I could not sleep anymore and decided to take a walk outside of the library. The door opened silently for me as I slowly closed it. I then felt a weird presence coming from the Everfree Forest, like something was beckoning me to come into the area only known for darkness. Against my better judgement, my "dragon senses" got the best of me and I ventured into the forest. After what seemed like many hours of walking, I came across what looked to be ruins of a castle from long ago. I stared in awe at the large, eroded structure and continued to walk towards it. Once I reached one of the massive walls I sat down and said to myself, "How could something like this be here, it's so magnificent... and this place is so dark."

         -Unknown to me though, was that I would be getting an unexpected visit from someone that I never knew, but in a sense did.-

      mysterious and deep voice than came somewhere from the side of me and said, "Yes it is pretty magnificent isn't it Spike?"

     My blood ran cold as my name was called out by the voice and I said in a scared tone, "How do you know my name?"

     A sound of walking was heard until it stopped right next to me and the hooded figure kneeled down on one knee and removed the hood upon his head and said, "I wouldn't be a good big brother if I didn't remember my only and little brother's name would I?"

     I looked up at the tall dragon that eerily walked on two legs like me and was the same purple and green color and said, "I have an older brother?"

     He stared at me with a look of shock and said, "Yes Spike, sorry if I scared you. I forgot that you never knew me because you were taken before you even hatched... my name is Damien and I'm your older brother Spike."

     I was both shocked and overjoyed at this revelation as I asked, "So you were the one calling me and asking me to join you in my dreams?"

     He answered, "Yes, sorry if I gave you a scare but I wanted to let you know that we are the only one's left in our family... do you want to know what really happened to our parents Spike?"

     "Yes I would Damien, but not right now. I have to get back to Ponyville before Twilight flips out that I'm gone, do you want to come with me?" I asked.

     Damien gave a malicious inward smirk to himself and said, "Sure Spike, let's go."

     Inwardly though Damien was thinking to himself, "My little brother Spike is going to flip out when I tell him what happened to our parents, He will finally understand... and I will take my little brother back from the grasp of these ponies. He will be my apprentice, and will become evil in due time."

We both walked side by side like we had always known eachother through the Everfree Forest. Oddly, I felt at home with my brother Damien. It was a feeling that I had never had when I was around any of the ponies... was this a sense of belonging? My brother noticed me deep in thought due to my puzzled look and asked me, "Spike, is everything okay with you?"

"Yeah, everything is okay Damien. I'm just taking all of this in slowly. Finding out that I had an older brother came as a shocker, especially since I got approached by you in the dead of the night. In fact, how do I even know that you are my real brother, and not some imposter?" I asked with a puzzled look.

Damien sighed and lifted up his arm revealing a strange mark written in the dragon tongue and said," look under your arm and you will see that I really am your brother."

I lifted my arm up, and sure enough, I had the same mark that he did and I finally knew that this man standing before me was my own flesh and blood, sending a warm rush of happiness into my body. Ponyville then came into view as I stated, " Well, looks like we are almost here. You know what Damien?" I asked after my statement of location.

"What Spike?" he asked with a brotherly grin.

"Let's not go back to the library. I want to give Twilight a scare." I said with a grin.

Damien let out a hearty, yet quiet laugh and asked, "So I take it that this Twilight has been your caretaker all these years?"

I responded, "That's correct, I viewed her as my mom for quite some time... and she is quite the egghead."

"Well, that's nice to hear, but she wil never be able to replace our real mother who you could not meet because of the fact that she is gone... and I will tell you that story later." Damien said with a hint of sorrow in his voice.

I looked up at my big brother and to the horizon. Celestia's sun was just beginning to peak over the horizon and I knew Twilight would be getting up shortly. What she would wake up to though would be a shock to her and every other pony because I would not be there. Instead, I would be with my brother Damien.

I looked at Damien before the sun finally peaked and said, "Hey, do you think that you could be my guardian someday?"

He looked at me with a sense of pride at my statement and responded, "Of course Spike. We're the only real family that we both have left. We are the draconic brothers."

Hey. E. Shadows here... and that was the first chapter of the story "The Evil Within". We now know that Spike has a brother who is seemingly evil and obviously has plans for his little brother.... but what? Next chapter: "Two draconic brothers in ponyville! A shock in the early morning hours!" coming soon.