Stolen hopes

New chapter! Hope you enjoy it as I did while writing it. Any opinions, Ideas, or mistakes I made please tell me

Hello there, the angel from my nightmare

The shadow in the background of the morgue

The unsuspecting victim of darkness in the valley

I cannot sleep, i cannot dream tonight

I need somebody and always

This sick strange darkness

Comes creeping on so haunting every time

And hear your voice of treason

Will you come home and stop this pain tonight

Stop this pain tonight...

Spike was walking from right to left, everything was spinning, and he was reeling. After several drinks at the Brewery hooves, he was dancing on the tables, singing and trying to seduce some mares. Now he was there, heading to his home.

“Twilight is going to be maaaaaad” he thought while chuckling

He was now in front of the door, or the doors? Spike couldn’t figure out what was going on, he was dizzy, and very confused, in his desperation for help he started to yell.

“Here is Spikey!”

Twilight was just opening her eyes when she heard all the shouting, “Oh by Celestia! What is this dragon doing?” normally Spike didn’t make a lot of noise; he really didn’t make any noise, he was now quiet and very discrete. Twilight got up of the bed rubbing her eyes, just to get annoyed by another scream.

“Twi, open the doors! I’am heeeereeee!”  Spike shouted

“Could you shut up?!” a stallion said from a window of a house “My family and me are trying to get some sleep over here!”

“Oh, I am so sorry, but I really don’t give a buck!” Spike said “Why don’t you come here and say it to my face?”

Twilight reached the door, afraid of what she could see on the other side of the door. A violent dragon? Will she be able to control him? Of course, she will! This was a piece of cake.  What she was thinking?  Some magic there and here would take that dragon down, but what she needed to say to him was going to wait until tomorrow.

“What do you think you are doing?!” Twilight shouted while opening the door

“Hey twilight! how you doin’?” Spike said

“Yeah! That’s it! go home you little coward!” the angry stallion said

“I will…I will deal with you…tomorrow!” Spike said almost falling to the ground “I put him in his place, didn’t I?”

“Come here Spike, you are drunk” Twilight said levitating the dragon inside the library

“Oh Twi, I drunk funny stuff, you should have been there…it….was…amazing” Spike said while he fainted

Twilight levitated her number one assistant to their bedroom, He was already knocked up. She grabbed some blankets, took the dragon inside his bed and then wrapped him. He looked so innocent every time he slept. How an, expected to be a giant and scary dragon, could look so adorable? Twilight couldn’t answer that, but what was her priority now was telling Spike the secret she kept for too long.

“Where I am?” Spike was in a dark place, he couldn’t see nothing only listening to what appeared to be a trotting “who is there?!” he asked

Silence

“I said, WHO IS THERE!?” Spike was getting angry but also scared, in anytime somepony or something could attack him

“Oh, Spikey- Wakey, you don’t have to be so mean darling” a voice said

Spike stood there frozen.  He couldn’t believe what was going on, was this real? No, he saw what happened five years ago, he was there, watching but somehow everything felt so…real. He even could smell Rarity’s perfume.

“Why so quiet, darling?” Rarity said while walking in front of Spike, they were now in the carousel boutique, He was standing there confused and holding some gems, what had happened?

“Spike, it’s everything okay?” she said

“Uhh…yes, everything is...okay” He was looking in all directions, everything was fine, it was like nothing ever happened.

They were in her bedroom, Rarity leaved the dress she was working on and approached to Spike’s face just to stopping herself from a few inches before touching

“You can tell me if anything is bothering you” She said while getting her hoof around spike’s face gently rubbing his lips. Spike was getting really nervous, he saw himself in a mirror, he was blushing hard. She got closer, so close Spike dropped all the gems he had been holding

“Are you nervous?” Rarity said while chuckling

Spike was now frozen; she was too close to him. He always pictured this moment in his head, how it was going to be, how much he waited for it and now he was there frozen, nothing coming to his mind and scared. Why he didn’t say or do something? He has the opportunity he always waited for and the only thing he was doing was getting blushed

“Good move, champ” He thought

“Let me help you” Rarity said pushing him into her bed

Spike was resting in one of the places he always wanted to be, Rarity was in front of him slowly climbing in top of him. Their looks met, and then both know what each other was thinking.

“Does it feel good?” Rarity seductively said

“Ye…..yes…” Spike could barely talk, he was in heaven

“Let me do all the work Spikey-wakey, you just rest and enjoy”

Spike closed his eyes; this was beyond anything he imagined. He was lost in his thoughts and didn’t realize what has been happening to Rarity. She was becoming darker, her mane was disappearing, her body was becoming larger, and her teeth were now two fangs like a snake.

“I don’t want to rush you Rarity but could you…start?” Spike was finishing asking when he realized about the giant dark snake he was seeing ready to attack him

“How about now spike?” the snake rushed to attack him

“NOOOOOOOOOO!!!” Spike shouted while getting up.

“Spike! What’s going on? What happened?” Twilight came running to the bedroom, she was holding a pan in a defending position and levitating a book: “cooking for dummies” ready to be thrown

“umm…nothing…just a nightmare”

“Spike…your arm!” Spike locked down to his arm, it was bleeding from what it seemed to be like two holes

“What the bu….?” Spike thought shocked, was the dream real? It really happened! The snake attacked him in the moment he woke up but that was just his imagination, it was just a nightmare… or it wasn’t? Twilight grabbed some bandages from her auxiliary kit “And you thought that was a bad idea” she said while wrapping his arm.

“Spike, what happened? How…how this happened?”

“I…I don’t really know how to explain it… I was having this nightmare and I was with…” he stopped

“And?”

“Doesn't matter, thanks for the help Twi, I can get it from here” he stood up and walked to the bathroom.

Twilight knew perfectly with whom he was dreaming, Spike talked a lot while sleeping. He had some nightmares before but this was too much, and so, she decided it was time to tell him the truth

Spike stood in front of the mirror, his face was no longer the one of a baby, he had adult fractions and maybe if he convinced Twilight he could get the moustache again

“I looked good” he thought.

But this was not the time to think about that, the dream, the attack, the snake, everything felt so real but… was it? His arm proved it, the pain but it was a dream! He woke up safely in the library, in his bed. He knew that this kind of stuff didn’t happen; Nopony ever waked up with scars from a dream, not that he knew. He saw the mirror, he reached to his green emerald eyes and looked at them, suddenly they turned black and started to glow

“What… is… going…?” He was interrupted by a strong headache

The pain was indescribable, he felt something was crushing his head and taking over his mind. He fell on his knees putting his hands over his head. He looked the bathroom the walls were starting to disappear as well as the ground. He was falling in an endless hole, the pain increased as he was falling, was too much of what he could bear

“STOOOOP!”  He shouted

Everything stopped. It was over? No, but the pain had disappeared. He stood up only to fall on his knees once again; the pain returned and was stronger this time. He could hear some voices whispering

“Join us Spike”, “Don’t be afraid”, “Shadows will be your new family” the voices were shouting inside his head. He could see eyes getting out of the dark with twisted smiles, he never felted so scared before. The figures were trying to reach him with what appeared to be claws.

“Leave…me….ALONE!” Spike shouted with all of his strength, he felt powerful, like nothing could hurt him anymore. He stood up firmly and roared with fierceness, now he was scaring the figures. He was changing, green flames started to cover his body. He saw in his back that something was growing, suddenly, a pair of wide and large wings appeared. The wings seemed sarp on the sides, making them great weapons, his tail had now thorns, and his eyes were glowing. He saw himself and then to the figures.

“I… said...LEAVE ME ALONE!” he yelled

He found himself again on the bathroom. Everything was back to normal except for his blurry vision, whatever had happened to him drained all his energy, in a last effort of getting help he thrown a vase, it had worked. He heard Twilight knocking the door and next seeing her coming inside the bathroom just to scream for help, before he fainted.

Spike woke up.  He was not in his home. The ceiling was white and so the walls, he could notice that the bed wasn’t as comfortable as his own, and he was connected to these machines. Trying to get any information he could hear two mares talking outside the room.

“What happened to him?” the voice of the mare was unmistakable, it was Twilight

“We are not sure, we think that is psychosis or perhaps he suffers from…” the doctor stopped

“From what?!”

“From schizophrenia” the doctor put his hoof in Twilight’s back “we are sorry”

“But his arm!, I saw him!”

“You were there when that happened?”

“No, I…wasn’t”

“Some patients with these kinds of mental disorders tend to hurt themselves because they believe that their feelings or actions are controlled by an outside force. This is called delusion of control.”

Spike couldn’t believe what the doctor was saying, it was ridiculous, he woke up with his arm bleeding, and the dream felt as real as whatever happened to him with the dark figures, the pain couldn’t be part of a delusion. He tried to stand up from the bed, taking off all the cables connected to him, making the machines fall down. The sound alerted Twilight and the doctor. Before they looked inside his bedroom, Spike took them out of the way in an attempt to escape

“Security we have a runner!” the doctor alerted

Spike run and crossed the hall, he was now in front of a group of guards blocking the exit. The only way to getting out was taking down everypony. He clenched his fists and run towards the guards, a guard tried to tackle him but Spike quickly jumped above him, he grabbed a guard and with all of his strength pushed him to the others guards making them to fall. The way was now clear, he could see the light of the day, he opened the door but before he could even put a foot outside something made him stop. He was frozen. Finally, he felt dizzy and his vision got blurry once again.

“OH! Come…on” he finally fainted

“Thanks Princess Celestia” Twilight said “I couldn’t do it”

“You are welcome Twilight, now, let’s take Spike back to his room”

“Did you bring what I asked for?”

“Yes master, take it”

“Excellent, now with this I am one step closer to complete the plan”

“But…Master, why do you want the dragon?, he’s still weak”

The Dark pony looked at his slave, approached to him and suddenly, he grabbed his throat and lifted him

"For now...just be patient"