Love, why would you do this?

Authors note
To anyone who reads this, I salute you. This is my first attempt to write anything seriously, let alone clop, let alone gay clop. I doubt I'll be very good at this but I'll give it a shot anyway. No sex scenes in this chapter so you can be at ease. Unless you like that kind of thing. Don't worry, I won't tell. I'm hardly one to judge

Dusk Shine galloped through Canterlot as fast as his hooves could carry him which, admittedly, wasn't that fast. He needed to get to his study, fast. As he ran, everypony was giving him very strange looks. Couldn't they understand that this was a matter of National security? Dusk barged through the door to his study and took a deep breath- "SPIKE! GET YOUR LAZY ASS DOWN HERE!" he bellowed to his assistant who, in reality was lounging on a couch reading the latest issue of 'Playcolt' magazine.

"Gah, you don't gotta shout Dusk, I'm right here!" Said Spike, rubbing the side of his head before realizing he had incriminating evidence in his hands and hiding the dirty magazine behind his back with a sheepish grin. "And I'll do your maths homework for a week if you agree that you didn't see anything.

Dusk grinned and looked at Spike with a mocking stare "I didn't see you ogling some random Mares in revealing positions if that's what you mean, my little pervert." Spike blushed and tried to come up with a retort but was cut off by Dusk suddenly going from 'Embarrassing big brother' mode to 'Faithful Student' mode.

"Spike! Take a letter!" Dusk proclaimed. head held high. Spike sighed and got up from his couch.
"Do I have to?" He sighed, exasperated by his adopted brother's teasing and sudden change in mood. There wasn't much point to the question, he already knew the answer and was walking towards a desk with a pile of rolled up scrolls of parchment resting on it.

"Of course you do! This is a matter of national security!" Said the indignant stallion. Looking at his assistant/brother with a look of disbelief on his face that he felt was entirely appropriate considering the dire emergency that was currently taking place. Spike stared at him with a look that was impossible not to read as "Really?" Dusk just sighed and glared at his less than enthusiastic helper. "Just take the bucking letter spike" he said, feeling ready to explode.

"Alright, alright!" said Spike, raising his hands in the air as a sign of defeat. He found a quill and dipped it in a nearby Ink well. He looked towards Dusk. "Alright, go ahead" He said.

"Dear Princess Celestia" began Dusk as Spike began scratching the goose feather against the parchment. " I have discovered a dire threat which may very well concern the fate of the entire world. I have reason to believe that the mare in the moon otherwise known as 'Nightmare Moon' is going to return. I have done much-" Dusk was interrupted by a certain baby dragon giggling like a schoolfilly.

"Nightmare Moon?" he said incredulously, trying not to burst into full fledged laughter, and failing spectacularly. "Wait, wait, wait..." he said, finally breaking into a wheezing laughing fit. "The same Nightmare Moon that little fillies and colts are told will gobble them up if they don't go to sleep on time?" Spike let out a particularly loud burst of laughter and was practically doubling over. "Oh, oh my Celestia! This is too rich..."

Dusk simply watched his assistant ridiculing him. "Yeah, yeah laugh it up. But we'll see who's laughing when you see that I was right and you were wrong." Dusk looked at Spike smugly. "Anyway, I'm the princesses most faithful student! She's bound to take this seriously." Spike looked at him with tears in his eyes. Oh Celestia he really believes himself? Spike was struggling to hold in any more laughter.

"Anyway, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted." Dusk said, glaring at Spike with enough force to burn through him, the floor and halfway to Austramareia. He cleared his throat and began to dictate to a still chuckling Spike.
"I have done much research on the matter and all of the books I have read have said that 'on the longest day of the thousandth year, the stars will aid in her escape' I trust that you will see fit to make the necessary preparations and take action if need be. Awaiting a response, Your Faithful student, Dusk Shine" For a few seconds more Spike still scribbled on the parchment. When he was done he sealed the scroll with a wax stamp and sent it off in a gout of green flame. Dusk waited by the window, confident that his mentor had every bit of faith in him and would do what was necessary.

After a few minutes Spike let out a huge belch of green flame which formed into a scroll sealed with the royal insignia printed on the front of it. Spike picked it up in his talons and broke the seal with his claw. He unfurled the scroll and was about to read it when he noticed what was written further down the page. His face broke into a gigantic evil grin and he started to read aloud.

"My most faithful student Dusk Shine, you know that I have complete faith in you-" Spike started before he was interrupted by Dusk.

"Yes, well I am one of the most powerful and intelligent unicorns in Equestria after all.." He boasted, inspecting the back of his hoof nonchalantly.

Spike read on, unfazed by the interruption. "-but you simply must get out more! It seems like you have almost no friends and you spend all your free times with your nose buried in some dusty old tome." Spike's grin grew even more cruel and taunting as he saw Dusk's reaction to this.

"I-I-Well! I have friends!" He objected. Feeling betrayed that the princess thought about him that way.

Spike continued to read, despite the second interruption. "A stallion your age should be interested in things like chasing mares! Or, dare I say it, stallions." Spike almost had to stop himself from doubling over as he saw Dusk's lilac face go crimson at this thought.

"Stallions?! I- Well that is- Ugh!" Dusk looked like his brain was going to explode and Spike was loving every minute of it.

He continued to read. "You could at least stand to make some friends. So, that is why I am sending you off to Ponyville to oversee the preparations for the summer sun celebration." Spike smiled even more evilly. Social confrontation, the bane of Dusk's existence.

Dusk looked at the letter, shocked at what he had heard. According to Celestia he was apparently a socially awkward introvert who may or may not be a Colt-Cuddler. The thought was too much for him to take.

"Spike?" he said quietly and calmly, almost too calmly.

"Uhh... Yeah Dusk?" Spike asked, slightly unnerved by the creepy calm in the Stallions voice.

"Could you catch me please?" He said, before promptly fainting.