September passed with a breeze and the friendship Spike had with the Dazzlings were good. They helped him when he needed it and when they needed help, he helped them. Spike wasn’t a book smart like Akiyama-San but he was a street smart, although, Akiyama-San is also street smart considering he lived on the streets for years. Spike hung around the Dazzlings quite a bit after school and they had a lot of fun. Just the other day, they had gone to Sugarcube Corner which was a little cafe and had quite some fun there. Spike had ordered a smoothie while the sirens ordered some other things.

October was getting chilly and Spike was liking it. The coldness soothed his scales. Spike thought it was nice. He was currently on his way to school. The Dazzlings apparently did not live far away from him, they told him they lived on the other side of the neighbourhood. Spike smirked inwardly and jokingly told himself that they got it so they could stalk him, although if he told the Dazzlings this they would whistle innocently and look away. Spike saw the school and saw that the Dazzlings were waiting for him and he smiled at them. A genuine smile he had not had on his face for years.

“Hello there, Adagio, Aria and Sonata.” Spike cheerily said, with a bow. He had opened up to them a little bit more as the weeks had progressed. He had not told them much, just that his father was mega-rich but he did see that the girls knew what he meant by that. He had yet to tell them about his mother, but he did not feel ready yet. He was planning on telling them but he did not know when he would do it. Maybe during Hearts Warming.

The Dazzlings smiled wildly and bowed back. Their arms were to their sides as they did this. “Hello, Spike-Kun~,” The three girls said in a cute voice. Spike grinned and shook his head at their antics. He had a feeling that Sonata had been teaching them some Neighpanese culture, not that he complained.

“How was your morning, stalking me like usual?” Spike teased making them blush. Spike’s heart fluttered as he saw their faces being flushed like that. Spike shook the thought out of his head. He was at school, he should not be thinking such thoughts. Especially not about his only three friends.

“No...” Sonata said, weakly and unconvincingly. Spike rolled his eyes but got butterflies in his stomach as he looked at her cute face.

“Anyways, shall we head for class?” Spike asked, looking at his right arm where a platinum Rolex had small diamonds around it. The Dazzlings thought that the clock fit Spike well with his body. Adagio’s rational mind was disappearing for each second that passed.

“Y-yes that would be wise,” Adagio said, flushed. She turned towards the school and walked with her sisters. Spike was following them and grinned to himself. He knew that he was hot. Any girl would want him. He is handsome, rich, powerful and caring.

“Man, I still shitting got it!” Spike cheered for himself in his mind. He followed the Dazzlings to their first class which was potions. Spike liked this class, he could make strength potions and stamina potions. Although, he would never use them on himself because he is already too powerful for even the Element Bearers to handle. The class had no windows and the benches were aligned three feet from each other to not bump into one another as potions was a pretty dangerous subject if you were not careful.

Spike and the Dazzlings sat together in the middle of the class. Spike sat beside Adagio and Aria. The leader is to his left and the aggressive one being to his right. Spike felt that both sirens were suspiciously close to him, but he did not say or do anything to stop it. He felt relaxed. He had a feeling that both of them felt his tenseness as he is always expecting the worst. he felt Adagio’s right hand around his lower back and It felt soothing. He relaxed even more. Sonata was sitting beside Aria to her left and she felt Spike’s tenseness relax and she smiled.

“I’m happy that you aren’t as tense, Spikey,” Sonata stated. She had given him that cute pet name because she wanted to call him something no one else called him. She watched as he smiled a little.

“I appreciate it. The only time I am relaxed is when I get into fights with street punks and gangster wannabes. But being here with you three is making me feel relaxed even more than the fights.” Spike admitted, his hands holding each other as he leaned back in his chair. The three sirens grinned inwardly.

Spike then took both Adagio’s and Aria’s hands and gave them a squeeze to show that he meant it. Both of them felt butterflies in their stomachs as he did that gesture. They held his hand and they felt on top of the world. Suddenly the classroom door opened and their teacher walked inside. Her name was Zecora and she was a Zebra. She noticed the three Dazzlings and Majima Junior in her class holding hands with one another and she smirked at them knowingly. They blushed while Spike looked like he always did like he did not care.

The other students then started filling inside of the class but they did not notice that the three girls and dragon was holding hands. When every creature was inside the classroom, Zecora started her class and told them that they would be trying to create gold. Actual liquid gold. Spike grinned, he could sell it on the black market. He could sell it for an expensive amount of money. Of course, in Equestria gold is not worth much unless if it is in bits, but in Neighpan it was very hard to come across as they do not have any potion maker that can make gold for them.

As the class was in session, Spike noticed that Sunset Shimmer was there. He groaned. He knew that the bacon-haired girl would confront him. She was looking at Zecora who was currently teaching about a potion that could heal without trouble no matter the climate. Spike listened as well but he felt her eyes on him. He grinned a little bit. She perhaps liked what she was seeing? Or perhaps she was jealous of his natural beauty and that he had three lovely sirens by his side.

He looked behind him and saw that Sunset was looking at him. Spike made eye contact with her and winked at her before he looked ahead of him and paid more attention to Zecora’s class. he felt the amber skinned girls subtle glares at him and he grinned. That was his intention: making her glare at him.

Adagio herself felt the stares and looked behind her and saw that Sunset was glaring at her dragon mate. She grinned at her. She pushed herself a little bit closer to Spike, making the amber skinned girl look at her in confusion. She looked ahead to Zecora and listened to the instruction.

A few minutes passed and Spike was pared with the Dazzlings which earned him a wink from Zecora. They were going to create the healing potion and he had most of the materials he needed. Spike pulled out his very own Tonto and cut some garlic that was part of the ingredients. Sonata and Aria were told when to put in other things like certain medicine pills and whatnot while adagio brewed the potion. Spike was very careful when he cut, or well, for other creatures he looked like he was playing with the knife like the Changeling named Thirex “Gordon” Ramsey.

“Your good at this, Spikey, what made you so good in potions?” Adagio curiously asked. Spike grinned a little bit as he thought about how he was gonna answer the question, it was a good one as well.

“I don’t really know, I just remember that when I was sick that my mother brewed me a potion and I liked it she had brewed it so I asked her to teach me but I don’t remember how old I was. Ever since then, I have been good at potions.” Spike explained. The three girls were surprised but smiled nonetheless.

Where Sunset was standing, she was making the potion with the girl named Hana “Wallflower” Blush. Wallflower was really good at the ingredients, especially those that contained the plants. Sunset remembered the time when she had learnt of Wallflower’s presence throughout the school. She felt bad that she never knew much about her but Wallflower had admitted at it was her very own fault for using the memory stone. Sunset was concerned for her because every time she looked at Spike, she looked as though he was gonna explode any second.

“Wallflower,” Sunset whispered. The girl looked at Sunset as she continued to put ingredients into the cauldron. “Can I ask you why you look and seem afraid of Spike?” Wallflower looked like she had been caught doing something taboo and started working faster. Sunset looked at her quizzically.

“I-I don’t wanna talk about it.” Wallflower hastily told Sunset in a hushed voice. Sunset nodded slowly, taking in the girls appearance. The girl looked like she was going to get hit or something. This only fueled Sunset’s curiosity and that made it a lot worse for the amber skinned girl.

Sunset and Wallflower continued to work in silence and occasionally Sunset saw Wallflower look at Spike who was in no rush doing his work. Sunset also noticed the way Adagio swayed her hips at Spike. But the dragon did not seem to notice it or just plain ignored it. Sunset wondered which it was. When she finished the potion with Wallflower she walked up to the teacher and presented their work. Zecora gave a smile and nodded.

Sunset smiled and appreciated her own work with Wallflower. They went back to their bench and did whatever. Sunset pulled out a book and Wallflower did so as well.

Spike and his friends had just finished the potion and Spike proudly showed it to Zecora who inspected it and was amazed by how well the potion looked. It looked even better than Sunsets’! She praised him by lightly clapping so it did not bother the other students. Spike bowed down in a “Thank you” and Zecora did the same. She had never told any creature else, but she knew that Spike had magic and what family he came from but she could sense that he was good-hearted. She had even seen some of the noble acts he had done in Neighpan, Sotenbori and Kamurocho.

Spike walked back to the bench where the girls sat and gave them a grin. They grinned back. Spike sat down with them and looked back to see Sunset reading a book about magic, specifically the darker aspects of Fighter Magic. He grinned.

There were a few darker magic fighting styles that were hard to accomplish but you needed to have a dark-hearted soul or you could be golden-hearted and use it for good. You cannot be neutral. Spike himself? He is in nature good-hearted but he also has a lot of darkness in him that it is a surprise that he has not been corrupted by his own temptations.

Aria looked towards Sunset and raised a brow as she saw the book title: The Dark Fighting styles of Fighter Magic

“Are there dark magic in Fighter magic?” Aria curiously asked. Nothing was really much known about Fighter Magic. Even Seaquestria had not much information about it. Adagio and Sonata turned to Spike to see how he would answer.

“Yes there are actually, you need to be either gold-hearted or dark-hearted. I am a little bit of both so it was easy. The gold-hearted can use the darker styles to protect those in need while the dark-hearted use them for personal gain. Although, you cannot be neutral. It is possible to be gold-hearted by also have a dark soul at the same time. Like a demon kind of.”

They nodded in understanding, but then Adagio had a question she wanted an answer to.

“Is there any dark fighting magic that you know of?” Adagio questioned looking at Spike with a sense of worry in her eyes. She had seen what dark magic can do to some creatures. It is like a drug that never goes away.

“Yes, I do know some dark fighter magic, but don’t worry It is not as dangerous as you think. But, if I were to use dark fighter magic to make a large explosion without me having control over it, then yes, it can be dangerous, but I do not intend to blow up the school... yet.” Spike said the last part quietly while his friends looked at him with raised brows. Sonata on the other hand snickered as Adagio playfully hit him the back of the head and he looked at her offended.

When every creature was finished, the class was dismissed and everyone walked out of class. Spike was chatting with his friends and joking around when he heard the old bully shout for him as if he had done something he shouldn't have done at all.

“Majima!”

Spike turned around with his friends and they scowled at her. Adagio did not want one of the Element Bearers to make Spike feel sad because of the death of his mother. They glared daggers at her, showing her their displeasure of her being there. Sunset ignored them. The other students simply walked away, not wanting to face Majima Junior’s wrath.

What can I do for you, Shimmer?” Spike icily asked, making the amber skinned girl involuntarily shiver. The way he said it was so demanding and it made her feel weak and unprotected. She had her backpack on her back and she crossed her arms, leaning to the right.

“What did you do to Wallflower Blush?” Sunset tried to sound intimidating but she only sounded like a desperate police officer which reminded Spike of the ones in Neighpan. The one’s he did not personally know were always desperate for creatures like him to talk.

“Blush-San? I haven’t done anything to her, I just met her last month. Why?” Spike sounded confused and to some extent concerned. Sunset on the other hand did not want to believe it because of what he was capable of doing to her two friends. There was no way he had no idea.

“Stop playing dumb, I know that you did something to her. What did you do to her?” Sunset asked again, this time drawing the ire of the Dazzlings and that was let known when they literally growled at her like that one time during the battle of the bands which the sirens sadly lost.

“You dare call Spike-Kun a liar?! Did you not hear what he said?!” Aria was angry. Her friend and future husband did not do anything wrong! He just told Shimmer the truth and this is how she repays him?

“You know, Shimmer, you have a friend that is the Element of Honesty and yet, you can’t tell when Spike-Kun is telling the truth. I can tell by looking into his eyes that he is telling the truth. So why can’t you see it, you should because you have been in his shoes before.” Adagio was calm, it was calm anger, the most terrifying anger there is. Words can sometimes be more lethal than actual punches.

Sunset felt offended that she was compared to Spike. She did not walk around and beat creatures up because she felt like it!

“I have never, and I will never be inside of Majima Junior’s shoes. Wherever you got that idea from, you must be delusional.” Sunset sounded like she believed everything she said as well, making the Dazzlings raise their brows in unison order. Spike’s face hardened for what she had said. He doesn’t care what she thinks of him, but is she so stupid that she has forgotten about what she did?

“Oh? So you do not remember when you were the Queen Bee at school? Because I remember it clear as day. You ruled the school with an iron fist and you blackmailed a lot of creatures here. Tartarus, you even made Gilda do some of your dirty work so I must say that I am impressed.” Spike was calm on the outside and Sunset involuntarily shivered again. He knew how to make her shiver without trying. He looked like he enjoyed it as well.

Sunset felt herself remembering when she first started at Canterlot High. She ruled the school with an iron fist. The teachers were oblivious to her manipulative ways, and whenever some student was about to speak to the teacher, they decided against it because of what she could do. She had the power to ruin some creatures entire life by just spilling the beans. That is the type of power she had. When Twilight had shown her that there was another way, she then gave up her evil ways and she slowly was forgiven by every creature. Spike on the other hand did not give a shit. She could not find a single thing about him. She even tried searching about his father but the only thing that came up was that he had a successful building company but she found nothing else so she never attacked him.

“I have changed, you have seen it have you not?” Sunset demanded almost. She did not want to remember what she did in the past and yet she could never run away from it even if she wanted to. There would always be some creature that hated her and she knew it. For her, it was a fact of life.

“Yes, and yet you seem so drawn towards the darkness. Is it because you still desire something that only the darkness can offer?” Spike asked, his emerald green eyes burning in a way that made Sunset back away a little bit. It was like looking at the Devil. Charming, Handsome, Violent... She felt like she was his prey.

“I’m not surprised, you and I have that in common. It never goes away...” Sunset looked at him and felt a wave of shock take her over. he felt darkness? You cannot feel it when you are evil... “You learn to live with it though.”

“I’ll see you around, Shimmer.” Spike turned around with his friends and they walked away with smirks on their faces, feeling satisfied over the fact that they seemed to have broken her.

True to the thoughts, Sunset was left in the hallway looking at the retreating figure of Majima Junior and his fans that hope to get inside of his pants. Was there some truth to what he said? Does darkness never fully leave a creature. How would he possibly know about that? Many thoughts, but Sunset pushed them aside and walked in the other direction.

Author's Note

Hello, my Yakuza oath brothers! Here is another chapter and I hope you enjoy it. At the end of the arc, there will be something big happening, so stay tuned for that.