Hide and Kill

Spike watched as the sun went down and the barrier rose from the trees that surround the castle the old castle on the hill. He looked around at the other contestants for the monthly game. He can recognize a few ponies that come for every game, besides himself, but he couldn’t see the one that he was hoping to come to try this game. Then he felt a tap on his shoulder. He jumped as he winced from the remembrance of last game. When he turned around to see the chest of Ember, his friend, and dragon lord. Ember said as she bent down to look at him in his face, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.

Spike shook his head and said, “You didn’t scare me, just tapped a sore spot. I’m glad you could make it.” When she stood back up, he gave her a quick hug and saw the coordinator was talking to Twilight. He grabbed her claw and started dragging towards the small stage.

Trixie was trying to do magic to impress others to drop out, Starlight trying to get her friend to come down, and a bunch of others was telling her to go away, Then she was levitated of and dropped on the ground as Ms. Harshwhinny got on the stage and Twilight stood next to them. Before Twilight could say anything, Ms. Harshwhinny cleared her throat and said, “Welcome to this month’s game. Let me go over the objective and rules. The objective is to be the last one alive, with each kill, you win one point, and if you are the winner, it’s worth five points. The rules are to not kill after the game’s done, to settle any grudges, do that next month’s game, don’t place your kill in any situation that they might die after the game is done. Alright, let’s see who’s new.” As she looked around, she added, “I see that we have a few new faces tonight and Octavia, are you and Vinyl going to be playing as well?”

Spike looked over to see Vinyl and Octavia standing there. Octavia nodded and said, “Yeah, I have to make it up to Vinyl for an argument.”

Ms. Harshwhinny nodded and said, “Okay, I’ll leave you to get started on hiding and when the clock chimes, you can get started. Twilight could you come with me to let me out?” Twilight nodded and waved to Spike before headed after her.

Spike turned on his heel and started heading towards the castle, but he was pushed to the side and landed on his butt. When he looked up, He saw Gilda’s face in his. He almost jumped out of his skin. She said, “What are you doing here? You are ridiculous and pathetic. Just stay out of my way.” Spike brushed himself and wondered why she was here and who invited her to the game. He shook his head and headed off to find a good hiding place so that he’ll survive to the last few. He decided to be in the library. When he got there, he smiled since it was the same like last time that he was there. He could hear chattering echoing throughout the halls, Then the bell that was placed in for the game chimed it’s reverberating low chime. The castle grew eerily quiet, then a quick scream that made his heart leaped into his throat with the realization that this game won’t be the same as before.