Silver Hollow

Twilight walked around the castle, looking for Spike. She had found some slime that he didn’t clean up after she specifically told him to clean the study room.

“Spike are you in here?” Twilight asked as she opened his bedroom door. His room was messier than usual. Stuff was scattered across the floor and the blanket was gone from his bed. “This place is a mess.” She muttered under her breath. He obviously wasn’t in his room. Twilight turned around to leave, but stopped when she kicked something. She looked down to see a green journal laying on the floor. She picked it up and inspected it closely. It didn’t have a cover picture or a title.

“I’ve never seen this book before.” Twilight thought outloud. She flipped open the book to the first page. Her eyes widened at what she saw.

“I yelled at him for him calling me mom? I’m sure I would remember that.” Twilight said with a nervous chuckle. She read through another page, and another. Her ears flattened with each page she read. A knot tied up in her stomach.

“I’m a terrible friend.” She muttered.

Rarity sat on a picinic blanket, sipping on her tea. Applejack took some bite from her fritters as Fluttershy hummed to some nearby bird. Rainbow Dash flew around in circles, Pinkie Pie hopping behind, trying to copy the moves from the ground. Rarity looked up from her cup.

“Oh look it’s Twilight.” Rarity commented. They all looked up to see Twilight flying over to them quickly, holding a green book in her hooves. Twilight landed next to the picnic blanket, clearly out of breath. The birds that were near Fluttershy flew away at the sudden movement. Pinkie Pie zipped over to her and looked at the book.

“Oooo, is that a new spell book?” She asked while inspecting the book. Twilight shook her head.

“It’s Spikes diary.” Twilight stated. Everyone gave her an uneasy looks while Rainbow Dash grinned.

“Are ya sure that we should be reading that? It seems mighty private.” Applejack asked. Rainbow Dash flew over and covered her mouth.

“Read it, I wanna hear his most embarrassing secrets!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed with a grin. Twilight shook her head.

“This is serious, we haven’t been treating Spike well.” Twilight explained. Rarity tilted her head in confusion.

“What do you mean, we’ve been treating him just fine darling.” Rarity said as she took another sip of her tea. Twilight opened the book and began to read one of the passages.

“Dear Diary, today Rarity made me carry all of her luggage when we went to Manehatten. I don’t really mind, I’ll do anything for her.” Twilight read outloud. Rarity let out a nervous chuckle.

“I might have made him work too hard.” Rarity admitted. Twilight went to another page.

“Today Pinkie Pie interrogated me and forced me to say that none of her friends liked her. It really scared me.” She continued reading. Pinkie Pie’s ears flattened.

“I didn’t mean to scare him, now I feel bad.” She said while gazing at the ground.

“Fluttershy keep treating me like I’m an animal and not a thinking creature.” Twilight read out. Fluttershy let out a soft gasp.

“I had no idea.” She said in shock, hiding her face into her mane.

“Rainbow Dash put dragon sneeze flowers in my food as a prank, and I almost choked to death.” Twilight read as Rainbow Dash looked guiltily.

“I did go a little overboard on that one.” Rainbow Dash admitted.

“My friends left me on a piece of melting ice and I fell into freezing water. They all laughed when woke up. Sometimes I think they forget that I’m cold blooded and coldness can kill me.” Twilight finished reading. Everyone muttered to each other.

“I had no idea we treated him so badly.” Rarity stated. Everyone nodded there heads in agreement.

“I feel terrible.” Fluttershy said. Pinkie Pie looked at the ground sadly before breaking out into a wide grin.

“We can throw him an ’I’m sorry party’!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed. Everyone agrees happily.

“We can give presents and show how much we appreciate him.” Twilight stated. Rarity stood up from the blanket.

“I can make him a special bow tie.” Rarity said as she flipped her mane.

“I can make some gem treats for him.” Applejack stated.

“Hopefully my bird friends don’t mind singing him a song.” Fluttershy muttered.

“I can give him front seat tickets to a Wonderbolts show!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed while doing some cool tricks. Twilight smiled.

“I’ll find him and tell him the good news.” Twilight said as she teleported away. She appeared in town hall and looked around. She turned to a passing mare.

“Have you seen Spike?” Twilight asked. The mare shook her head and kept walking. Spike couldn’t have been that far, it was a small town.

Twilight had been searching for hours and still hadn’t found Spike. She had even checked the forest and he wasn’t there. She stood in her castle with her friends sitting in front of her.

“So none of you have seen Spike since yesterday?” Twilight asked her friends. They all shook there heads.

“You don’t think he left do you?” Fluttershy asked. Twilights ears flattened.

“From how we’ve been treating him I wouldn’t be surprised.” Twilight said sadly.

“Pinkie Pie, you go check Yakyakestan, Fluttershy, check the Hive, Applejack, check Mount Ares, Rainbow Dash, check Griffonstone, and Rarity, go to the Dragonlands. I’ll go check all the places in Equestria.” Twilight stated. They all nodded there heads and left the castle. Twilight teleported out of the castle and appeared in Appleloosa. She looked around to see many ponies wearing cowboy hats. She levitated a picture of Spike and flew over to a stallion.

“Have you seen this dragon?” Twilight asked. The stallion inspected the picture before shaking his head.

“I need to find him.”

Twilight flew around Canterlot, tear stains on her cheeks. She had looked everywhere else in Equestria and she couldn’t find him. Ponies were giving her odd looks because of her frantic nature. She had searched all of Equestria and couldn’t find him. Her friends had gotten back and couldn’t find him either. Ember, Prince Rutherford, Thorax, Queen Novo, had sent some creatures to look for him. A few griffons volunteered to help too. Her last resort was Princess Celestia. Twilight burst into the throne room, causing a few guards to jump in surprise.

“Hello Twilight, what brings you here?” Celestia asked. Twilight whimpers before breaking down into tears. Celestia gave her a look of concern and waved her hoof, signaling for the guards to leave the room. Once they left, Celestia walked over to Twilight and wrapped her wing around her body.

“What is wrong?” Celestia asked. Twilight sniffled and held up the picture of Spike.

“Spike ran away because we haven’t been treating him well and it’s all my fault!” Twilight exclaimed. Celestia rubbed her back comfortingly. She levitated a quill and scroll, writing something down.

“I can send him this letter and we’ll find him.” Celestia stated as she let the magic evaporate into the air. The letter burst into flames, quickly turned to ashes. Celestia and Twilight gave looks of surprise. “That’s not right, it should have sent.” Celestia said in confusion. Twilight let out a gasp and left from under Celestias wing.

“He must have taken the anti magic potion! I made it for when we caught Chrysalis.” Twilight explained. She looked down at the floor, starting to tear up again.

“I’ll send out some guards right now.” Celestia said. Twilight nodded her head.

“I know that we’ll find him.”