The Evil Within

                                                                        Spike Joins Damien!

     I looked over to the source of the noise and shook my head saying, "They just don't give up do they Damien?"

     He looked over at the ponies walking towards us and answered, "It seems so Spike. Just remember, keep your cool until the time is right."

     Instead of walking in the opposite direction of the ponies coming towards us we simply stayed right where we were until I heard the same voice that had spotted us saying, "Spike... You and your brother are going to get yours for what you said about the princess!"

     I smiled at this and walked towards them saying, "Rainbow Dash... You still havn't learned to let things go have you?"

     I could see how my statement made her a little flustered as she responded in an angry voice, "I am the element of loyalty, and I will never let thing go that test my loyalty towards anything... especially the princesses!"

     All I could do was shake my head and sigh. My brain then seemed to become a little clouded with the darkness I had just aquired, after learning the fate of my parents, and stated in a maniacal voice while pointing to Damien, "Okay my dear, if you put it that way then I am loyal to my brother... the man who saved me and opened my eyes."

     The mares stared at me dumbfounded at what I had just said. It seemed that my actions blatantly went against everything "the old me" stood for and what the princesses wanted me to think.  I could see the horrified looks that they all had in their large eyes and I laughed. This laugh wasn't normal though and was maniacal in nature.

     Twilight then had tears welling up in her eyes as she chocked out these few words, "Spike... what are you doing?"

     I was about to say something else until Damien coughed and put out a clawed hand to his throat. He then swiped it across which meant "Not yet" to me.

     I nodded to him and stopped talking. Damien smiled at how I controlled myself, not revealing our plans too early.

     He then nodded as I changed my demeanor quickly and stated, "What the heck, what happened?"

     Pinkie Pie then hopped on over to us and stopped in front of me saying, "You weren't acting like yourself silly, but apparently everything changed back to normal."

     I nodded, trying to play stupid, and apparently it worked on the ones I have been calling "friends" for years.

     I then looked at all the elements and said in a apologetic tone, "I'm truly sorry for all of this, whatever I did, please forgive me."

     Everypony looked at me then a happy Rarity said, "We forgive you darling, who can stay mad at you?"

     Smiling, I walked over to the ponies and gave them all a hug. I had to fake the facade and apparently I was doing a pretty damn good job at it. We then all started walking back to what we were doing before the fiasco as I fell back next to Damien.

     He gave me a thumbs up and said, "Spike, you are doing better than expected. You kept that facade up like a champ and even played stupid. You fooled the element of honesty for Celestia's sake."

     Shrugging I replied, "I learned from the best... and I will try to get a meeting with the princesses for us to start our plans."

     Damien laughed and said, "You give me too much credit Spike, and that would be excellent... imagine the looks on their faces when they find out you and I are evil hahaha!"

     I laughed along with him as we continued walking down the cobblestone path towards the library in which I had lived in for many years. From there on out I had officially joined my brother Damien's side... but nopony knew it yet.

-Sorry about the short chapter. But, this chapter is a prelude to a much larger chapter which would obviously be chapter five. This chapter was created for the sole purpose of officially showing Spike joining Damien's side aka joining the dark side. Until then.... Next Chapter: The Plans are Revealed... Spike Shocks All!

-E. Shadows