Spike was a very interesting dragon. He was kind, he was caring, he was loving, and he was sweet. Now though he seemed dull. Empty if you will. Instead of being the vibrant cheerful young dragon everypony knew him to be he chose to be eerily calm. Refined. He walked everywhere and almost never spoke.

This of course led Twilight to worry. She thought that somebody had replaced him and that he was secretly a Changling in disguise. With the green fire and different personality it made perfect sense to her. She told Celestia about it and she dismissed it as nothing but Twilight knew something was up. It was probably just like when nightmare moon returned. Except this time it was boring. Yes she may have eavesdropped on Celestia telling Luna to meet Spike in the gardens when the evening came and yes she kind of took this opportunity to spy on them but it didn't matter! It was for the good of Equestria!

Right now Twilight could see him, a cane in hand as he walked forward to the central gardens. It was more open here and it had a wonderful view of the moon. Spike walked forward then stopped and looked up at the moon. Then he just watched it. He didn't move for minutes. He didn't even look like he was breathing. She couldn't even see him blink. When he did blink though it was when an audible sound of hoofsteps were heard approaching the same place. Said hoofsteps were soon muffled by the grass and were then silenced altogether when the source of the noice stopped several feet away from Spike.

"So Luna... allow me to start us off with a question..." He started as he looked up to the moon. He didn't move or even flinch. Not even a twitch was seen. Only his mouth moved now. "Do you still have dreams?"

The reply was slow to come, and when it came it was hesitant. Luna was visibly nervous.

"No Spike. We only traverse into others."

"...Very Well. Now, would you traverse into my own later tonight? I beleive that we have a viewer and they are not meant to hear these words."

Luna seemed to be confused by this as Spike turned to face the moon princess. Twilight on the other hand was confused and scared. She didn't know what to do. Had he found her? Was he lying and just trying to intimidate anyone who may have been watching? If so then it worked because Twilight teleported straight to her room. Sure it may have taken all her magic reserves and blown her cover but still.

Over within the garden was Spike and Luna. Spike had chuckled a small bit and a smile came to his face.

"Well, that was interesting, was it not? Come. Ignore what I said about the dreams and let us simply walk. I will answer your questions as you please" He told her as he began to walk past her, his left hand being held behind his back as walked forward with the stylish cane in the other.

Luna followed beside him, somewhat nervously but she seemed to be a slight bit more calm than before. They had even started an amount of small talk and several minutes passed as they walked. Then the conversation went to Spike and Luna had decided to ask the question she had been avoiding. After Spike pointed out her stalling of course.

"So Luna, what Is it that you wanted to know?"

"Well young Spike... we were wanting to know about our first encounter... when you summoned your weapon to our neck we felt as if you drew your power from us... we want to know if you did to be honest, so... did you?" She asked him.

Spike was silent for several moments then spoke up.

"Partially so."

Luna's ears had perked up as he spoke.

"I draw my power from the cosmos and that of which is around me. Mainly the stars."

He explained as they walked. Luna looked to him curiously. That was certainly something.

"Thats... interesting to think about. How is that possible though?"

He grimaced slightly as he recalled his memories of traveling through the nightmare.

"That is something I would rather not delve into."

"...It mustn't be that bad... is it?"

She asked curiously after she hesitated for a few moments. She was growing slightly worried for the drake. He had become more distant in the span of a few moments. Maybe she shouldn't have asked him that question? Well it was too late to revoke it now. He had let out a breath then looked behind himself and up to the moon. His whole body turned to face it and it was almost like he was looking at something.

"Luna... you have done some bad things in your past, yes. But in the past of where I was, their sins put everything you have done to shame. Your dreams would be tainted with the nightmare of which they brought upon the world and you would see things that shouldn't exist."

His voice was cold when he spoke his reasoning. The words held a small amount of pain in them as well, almost as if he was looking at something that hurt him as he spoke. Maybe it was regret? Luna didn't think on it and had instead looked at the ground, as if she felt guilty for asking the question.

"We are... we are sorry for asking that Spike. If you don't want to speak of that then We can avoid it entirely. We didn't quite know that our question would hurt you as it did. We would be glad to make it up to you though."

She told him. The last part sounded hopeful, as if she was a child who wanted to make a friend smile. Which was somewhat true in this sense, except Spike wasn't a friend... he was Spike. She didn't know what he qualified as now.

"Would thou be interested in a game of chess?"

Spike seemed to look back at her because of this and her small flicker of hope in making it up to him began to rise higher, as if it were a match that was being tossed into a pile of damp kindling. It was attempting to catch flame to be honest

"Very well Luna. It has been a long while since I've been able to play simple games that include strategy and thought."

He reasoned. The kindling of hope caught fire and she clapped her hooves together happily.

"Wonderful! We shall clear our schedule of any duties for the night." She announced cheerfully.

"Please do meet us in our chambers in ten minutes time. The guards will know to let you through."

"Very well. I shall leave you to go do as you wish princess. Besides, I have something I would like to do right now as well so this works out quite well." He told her.

She simply smiled. "Alright. We shall meet you later then. Farewell Spike."

"Farewell Luna..."

As he said his goodbye, a small smile came across his lips. With that spoken the two left each other at a casual pace and began to tend to what they willed.

Author's Note

So, how Is this going? Is the pacing well? Should I add certain details? Let me know! I want to get better and stuff so ye.

And to all those who have become interested in this; Thank you. It means a lot to me really. So thanks.

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