XIV:
A little story between mother and son

The train arrived to Ponyville after a quiet forty-five-minute ride.

Spike was extremely quiet and nervous as he wondered if he have made the right thing by giving such knowledge to the Great Master and the Order. As a Knight of the Silence he knew he had a duty with the Order, and the Order said that every piece of knowledge had to be shared. But he may overdid. That spell was kept as a secret to the public for a reason.

Luckily for him nopony asked why he was so quiet and thoughtful. Everypony just assumed that he was just considering his options now that he graduated from high school.

“A’ bet ya’ feel weird returning to Ponyvill after four years, don’t ya’ parner’?” asked Applejack,.

Spike looked at her startled because how abruptly was taken out of his thought but just nodded silently.

Applejack did not insisted, she understood the kid had a lot on his mind.

They started to get off the train as they helped to carry Spike’s luggage. During his stay on Canterlot Princess Celestia insisted in buy him lots of clothing. Also he had lots of books from the academy, and his comic book collection.

“You won’t believe how much Ponyville have changed in the last four years.” said Twilight.

Spike chuckled. “Twilight you know I spent almost every weekend here, right?”

Twilight giggled ashamed. “Haha, you’re right, silly me! As I told you your old room would be waiting for you. There’s enough room for you to put your books and your writing machine. Unless you want to have your own study room, and that’s not a problem! We have lots of spare rooms in the castle. You also need a desk and a brand new chair, right?”

Spike laughed as he hugged Twilight.

“Twilight, take it easy!” said Spike. “Why are you this nice out of nowhere?”

The lavender alicorn looked away and cleaned a tear coming from her right eye.

“Don’t laugh okay? Is just that I am relieved and happy to have you at my side again. I know that you spent almost every weekend here, and all of your summer vacation too. But I missed you very much Spike. Also, I was very worried about you living in Canterlot with all the crime rates raising and the Knight of the Silence still making public every piece of knowledge they get their hooves into.”

Spike felt really guilty after that. What would Twilight say if she knew what he did, and the true purpose for him going to study in Canterlot? He shook his head to scare the dark thought again.

“Is good to be back Twilight. And I’ll be at your side as long as you need me!”

“No Spike, I understand you have to live your life. And if you want to go to college you can go!”

Spike hugged his mother. The others just watched them in silence as they enjoyed their little moment.

They didn’t say more as they walked to the castle, and the girls said goodbye as Spike went upstairs.

“Okay Spike, would you like me to help you unpack?”

“Sure, let’s do it together!”

In the end the two of them had a great time placing everything on Spike’s room. It was good to be back.

A new day began, and Spike went downstairs. He had something important to do. He had to speak with the person who have inspired him to become what he was now.

“Morning Spike!” greeted Twilight. “I made some scrambled eggs. And you already have plans for today? I was thinking we could…”

Spike smiled. “Whatever you have planned for us it’s okay. But I want to take a walk around the town first. I have a lot in my mind, and need to think about what I’m going to do now.”

“Want to discuss it with me?” asked Twilight.

“Later, let me think about on my own first, okay?”

Twilight did not insisted, and just smiled at Spike.

“You’ve change Spike. I can’t believe how mature you’ve become.”

“Thanks.”

After having his breakfast, Spike walked out of the castle.

He took a walk around the town, greeting old friends and noticing the small changes on the town, like the entire Cake family attending the family business. Or noticing that Mayor Mare finally retired and the one in charge was her granddaughter.

Then he finally headed to his true destination. The Everfree Forest.

He headed directly to the Royal Sisters Castle and walked into. He shivered.

Spike felt how seven shadows were approaching to him. He shivered again and stood in the center of the room.

“Hello Spike!” said a voice right at his ear as he felt a hoof on his shoulder. It felt like his mother’s hoof, but cold and dead.

“Is so nice to see you dear Spike! What do you want from us? A threesome? I am intrigued by the idea, and Night Terror won’t mind. Are you a virgin, Spike? Not for long!”

Spike closed his eyes in disgust but did not gave Midnight the satisfaction of an answer.

“I want to speak with Night Terror. Alone.”

Midnight looked at Spike and then she turned to her friends. “What do you say girls? Shall we give him what he wants?”

Pin-Kill-Die shrugged. “We serve the Crown, don’t we? And he is your son.”

“And you are Royalty, darling. At least your living self is.” added Gothic.

“What makes him a prince too.” thought Jack the Reaper.

“So we can do this little favor for him. It’s a shame doesn’t imply killing anypony, but whatever. We’ll kill those who deserve it soon enough!” laughed Fleshy Smile.

“Yeah, aren’t we leaving? I want to be in Canterlot before it gets dark!” complained Undash.

Spike gulped. “What are you planning to do in Canterlot?”

“As much as I love you Spike, there are some things I can’t tell you or you’ll make our other selves stop us. Just be happy I am doing what you asked me, and let you talk to Night Terror alone.”

And the six creatures left leaving Spike alone with the undead version of himself. As big and fearful as he was.

“What do you want from me, kiddo? I have lots to do in Canterlot.

“What do you mean?” asked Spike.

Night Terror smirked. “The Knights of Silence and their apprentices have multiplied faster than in our timeline, and they are extending their shadows beyond Canterlot, but you already know that, don’t you?”

Spike remained quiet.

“But still, Celestia’s patience is running out. That in normal circumstances would be more than enough to end this, but the Knights’ strategy to make everypony as strong as them would be a problem. And also the knight’s patience is about to run out too. This would be interesting, don’t you think? Being chased and killed in the shadows, in apparent failed robberies.”

Spike gasped. “You are behind this! You started this way of series of murders!”

“Started, continue and will finish kid. This is about to blow up in everyponys’ faces. But the crown haves us to make sure it ends up in their favor.”

Spike grinded his teeth but he remained calm. “Thank you for keeping me informed about your plans, I’ll make sure to tell Twilight and the Princesses. But I did not come here for an update, I came here to thank you.”

“Thank me?” laughed the undead dragon. “Thank me for what?”

“For give me the motivation to find my strength, and be ready to protect the ponies I love.”

Night Terror nodded and smiled. “Yes. Is like I told you, being useless it’s a sin. Soon you’ll find the perfect opportunity to show your loved ones you are not a sinner anymore. But choose wisely kid. You chose to play a dangerous game.”

Spike noticed that despite the smile, his other self was in pain. Sadness was present on the edge of his dead eyes. He looked at Night Terror, noticing what was behind the bloodthirst.

“I’ll be careful I promise. So this is why you turned into an undead? Because you couldn’t bear the guilt? This is why you decided to turn your back on your life and embrace the unlife?”

Night Terror’s smile disappeared as he glared at the dragon.

“When we met you told me you were forced to change for the pony you loved, right?” continued Spike. “You didn’t change because you loved Twilight, but because you couldn’t protect her and decided to become her equal because you did not deserve to live after she destroyed herself.”

“Leave.” Mumbled Night Terror.

“What?”

“LEAAAAAVE!” shouted the undead dragon.

Spike felt that he should stay and comfort Night Terror, but decided escape since his he could sense that the undead dragon was about to explosed sooner than later.

He waved and disappeared inside his own shadow, as the dragon fell on his knees and let escape black tears from his dead eyes. Being useless was a sin, and the worse part was that he did not paid for his own sin but his loved ones. His mother and closest friends paid with their lives and deaths respectively. He punched the floor over and over, as the memories he worked so hard to repress came back to him.

He was about to destroy the entire castle, when Midnight appeared in front of him.

“What are you doing?”

Night Terror looked at her confused, but then he came back to his senses.

“The damn kid brought back some memories. But why do they hurt so much? I AM AN UNDEAD! I AM NOT SUPPOSED TO FEEL ANYTHING BUT BLOODTHIRST!”

Midnight let him scream and nodded. She looked around with a blank expression and looked back at her dragon.

“It all happened right here. The day you demonstrated how much you loved me by becoming a monster as I did.”

Night Terror grinded his teeth.

“Yes. Time travel must erased the marks of what we did here, but it was right on this room.”

Midnight sighed. “For countless years you were nothing but a pain in my flank. No matter how many times I commanded you to leave, you stayed here. I could finish you right there and forget about you, but I couldn’t. I looked at you right into the eye, and I knew I could never kill you. This is why I tried to reason to you, but you were convinced that you needed me to be happy.”

Night Terror nodded. “You told me you were monsters, and someone as pure as me would never be happy with the six of you. Not anymore.”

“Do you remember what you did next?” asked Midnight.

Night Terror smiled. Of course he remember.

Alternate timeline:

“I am a monster! Get out of my side Spike!” shouted Midnight as she tried to push the now adult dragon out of her lair.

“Then make me go! If you really ant to get rid of me, kill me. That’s the only way.”

Spike looked at the undead who was his mother, waiting for a reaction. He knew he crossed the line, but he hoped that by saying that the real Twilight would come to the surface.

Midnight just glared at the dragon.

“You can’t. Now I now my mom is still there. And I am not leaving without her!”

“STOP CALLING ME THAT! I am not your ‘mom’ Spike. Not anymore.”

The rest of the undeads came to see what was going on. They were used to the exchanges between Midnight and Spike, but this time it was different. Most of the time they argued until Midnight lost her patience and knocked him out. But today, she seemed angrier than usual.

Also it seemed like Spike took a decision. They could see the resolution in his eyes.

“We are monsters Spike. You have no place between us.”

Spike punched a wall. “In that case all I need to do is becoming a monster myself, right?”

Midnight sighed. “If you are capable to prove to me that you are a monster just like us I’ll accept you at my side. But you are Spike, the purest soul in Equestria. You demonstrated it by staying here in a desperate attempt to save us even if we are beyond salvation now.”

Spike nodded. “I will prove it to you.”

He turned around and started exiting the castle for the first time in months.

Midnight smiled, when he comes back they would be gone already. The better way to deal with this was to get as far as possible from him.

But out of sudden Spike turned around and pinned Twilight to the floor.

“I am a monster too. Showing what I’m capable of won’t convince you, so I’ll let you feel it. Tell Twilight, what kind of depraved bastard would do this to his own mother?”

“I am not your… AAAAAAAAAH!” She could feel no pain, but this got her by surprise.

To everypony’s surprise, Spike’s masculinity penetrated Midnight over and over as she struggled. But the dragon was bigger and stronger than her.

“You are a virgin don’t you Twilight? Not anymore, and neither do I.”

The dragon continued raping Twilight until he finished.

“Now I’ve claimed you as mine. Tell me, was this enough to convince you I am a monster too, or shall we go for round two?”

He threw Midnight to the other side of the room, and jumped over him again. “I am curious, did you regenerate your hymen too?”

He lifted Twilight’s tail, when he was pushed suddenly smashed against the wall by Midnight’s magic.

Spike shivered as he noticed she was furious. “You are dead Spike. You are so fucking dead.”

She created a knife and aimed to the dragon’s neck. He closed his eyes resigned to his fate. He knew this was a possibility.

“Go on.”

Midnight was about to cut his neck. Spike was not even struggling against her magic, he was just waiting for the inevitable.

Finally she dropped the knife.

“I can’t.”

Spike looked at her. “I knew it.”

“Shut up! You proved your point, you are as sick as the rest of us so you can stay. One one condition.”

“And what is it?”

“You’ll take responsibility for what you did. First you’ll finish this here an now. Then you’ll become into an undead too, and will change your name.”

“Why?”

“Because I would never forgive myself if I push my son to become what I am now, so you can’t be my son anymore. From now on you are my undead lover.”

Spike nodded. “Understood. From now on my name is Night Terror, a creature of nightmares just like you six.”

Current timeline:

“I do remember what I did. And as twisted as it was I feel no remorse.”

“I don’t know what your other self wanted to talk you about, Night Terror. But I never blamed you for our failure. You were a kid and could not help us, and I understand. I want you to stop blaming yourself for something you could not control.”

The dragon sighed.

“And also, I want you to know that I couldn’t be happier to be at your side. I am a selfish creature, and having you at my side for eternity is the greatest reward I could have. I love you Night Terror.”

The undead dragon smirked.

“Shouldn’t we head to Canterlot?”

“We have some time to enjoy ourselves before we go. Would you like to revive the moment that change our unlives forever?”

Author's Note

And we have another window to the other timeline showing how Spike became Night Terror and Midnight’s lover. Anyway next chapter I would reveal which spell Spike gave to the Knights. I hope you liked it, and

Read ya’ later!!