Beauty be gone

Spirit was far away when he saw the smoke rise from the little village. He looked at the little town covered in snow and saw the smoke rise from the it. He was tempted to go back down to see what had happened but then thought against it. If he went back, he would have to see her again and he thought that he wouldn't be able to leave her again without hurting her for good. He wrenched his eyes away from the scene and kept walking, his mind still trying to wonder what made him do these things for her. He had stayed there for two extra days after he knew he was being looked for which he would never do. He tried to think of what is that little emotion that always seems to make you do the craziest things for someone else. For years he had never felt this emotion on his travels. He had shut his emotions away from people for years now, just moving along form town to town making friends here and there yet he didn't let his emotion slip. Now in a town that wasn't that special he lost control. Why?

"The black air smells familiar" the wolf said. Spirit stopped and looked up at the smoke. He took in a long sniff of the smoke. He couldn't smell what ever his pack brother could smell so he took another wiff. There was something. He sniffed again, this time standing on his hind hooves. He was sure there was something there yet he couldn't tell what it was. He tried again.

No...

He began to run back towards the town as faster than he could have ever remembered. He almost ran as fast as when he was in his beast from. It was middle of the night when he stealthy got out of town avoiding the guards around town. It was mid day when he smelled the smoke from the town. It took him about two hour to get back to town. He ran through the town, running through obstacles and almost barreling people over. He was oblivious to his own tiredness and everything around him. Once he got to his destination, he stopped and felt his heart break. The house was almost gone. Only half of the house remained standing and the rest was a pile of rubble and ash.

Spirit didn't know what to think. He didn't even know how to feel. There was definitely something there in his heart but he didn't know what it was. He didn't move from there for a while, he stood there just looking at the wreckage of the house. Why? Why?

...

Rarity woke up feeling a bit groggy. She felt like something had happened but something had made her memory of last night. She tried to stand up and realized that she felt a bit heavier than she had remembered, it took her a while but she got up. It was too dark too see anything so she tried to summon up some magic to see if it would lite up the room to see a bit. She waited for the magic to glow yet it didn't come. She began to panic, she willed the magic to come to her but something was keeping it from coming to her. That however called upon some of the memories of last night. She remembered the conversation that she had with Sweetie Bell. She remembered the feeling of longing. She remembered the sadness. She remembered Spirit leaving. She began to sob in the darkness, she thought that if she cried enough, the pain would begin to decrees so that she could deal with it better. Then she heard a noise. The sound of a rusty gate opening , and then light burst into what she know saw was a cell.

"Well well, look who woke up!" said a very familiar voice. Rarity turned around to see the face of one of her tormentors when she was forced to collect diamonds for the dogs. It was the tall lanky one, he seemed to have a new air of prowess about him that was definitely not there the first time they meet. Rarity turned to see that she was strapped to the wagon that they had given her on her last visit.

"Why have you ruffians brought me back down here? Do you not remember what happened last time?" Rarity said with as much authority she could muster, which wasn't much.

"Oh yess, we remember well!" he said extend his arms out wide.

"Then you know that I can escape my predicament when I so chose, just as the time before" Rarity said this time adding some defiance to the words.

"Thatss where your wrong mule" the lanky dog said, he grabbed her throat and pulled out of the little cell. Once the dog had let her go she look around and saw that she was very deep underground as there was no sunlight reflecting off of the diamonds.

"If you decided to whine or complain. This foal will get a nice new golden coat." the lanky dog said and pointed to a corner of the cave. Rarity was horrified at what she saw, Sweetie Bell was in a cage above a vat of molten gold.

"So much as a peep" he said and nodded to wards the big dog next to the cage. he began to lower the chain and Rarity screamed "NO PLEASE! i wont complain just don't hurt her please!"

"Then get to work!" the dog yelled at her and she pulled the crate going along the cave marking the places where the diamonds lay. She wondered if she was going to root in the cave forever.

...

"Hello, Spirit?" a voice said behind Spirit. He turned to see one of Rarity's friends, what was her name?

"Twilight right?" he said. She nodded, she asked " Do you have a place to stay tonight?"

"No" he replied

"Then would you like to come to my place? the guards will be coming soon and-" she was cut off by the cry of rage that erupted from the guitarist. Twilight recoiled at the ferociousness and animosity of the roar the he emitted.

The reason the stallion roared at this point was that he finally realized what one of the things in his heart was. One of the two things he finally understood was rage, anger, fury. He knew that they weren't going to protect anyone from a werewolf or anything but he knew that there wasn't another werewolf around so its was their fault for her being gone. He looked at the wolf and said " Find her scent brother I shall be back by sun rise meet me back here then" the wolf nodded and began to look for a small trail.

"Wait Spirit what are you doing? Curfew is almost here we have to get back to my place" Twilight said trying to keep pace with Spirit who was briskly walking towards the barracks. Twilight had a hard time keeping up an with the large stallion who was walking through everyone.

"I am sorry citizens but we cannot allow you to enter the barracks" said a guard who raised his spire to stop Spirit from entering the tent. Spirit turned to look at the solider and said calmly"Where is your captain?" the soldier didn't hear it but there was some restraint in his voice. The soldier repeated "I am sorry citizen but we-"

"WHERE IS YOUR CAPTAIN?' Spirit said furiously with a yell. The soldier recoiled in obvious fear and hastily said "H-h-h-he is in the b-b-b-back of the barracks", Spirit broke the spear in the soldiers hand and walked past him leaving him in fear and shame. Spirit walk through the barracks radiating anger and an animal like presence that no one tried to stop him or even get in his way. All the guards avoided him as he moved towards the small section of the barracks that was the Captain quarters. Spirit threw open the flap to the the Captains quarters, the captain who was in a meeting looked at the stallion said "Excuse me sir but I am in a very important meeting so could u-"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAVE HER?" Spirit yelled into his face. The captain sighed an nodded to the others in the room, as they left he turn to Spirit and said " I am sorry but to save her... What was her name again?"

"RARITY" he yelled slamming his hooves onto the table breaking all four legs. Boulder Stong didn't recoil which surprised everyone who was watching through the flap of the room. Boulder Strong waited a minute then said " I am sorry that we couldn't save her but the guards say that they didn't see anything out the ordinary and the guards that did see something, there were too few to any-"

"DRAGON SHIT!" Spirit interrupted " there were guards everywhere last night, how could there have not been enough to save her?"

"There might have been a lot of guard but that doesn't mean that there is little space to for them to occupy. And the fact remains that who ever took this mare is not who we are here for!" Boulder retaliated.

"You are the princess' hired guard, your job is to protect her people with your lives. You call yourself guards yet you don't even bother yourself with some small creature that holds a grudge. You should be ashamed of yourself. Let me tell you, if she inst found alive, I am coming for you bastards" Spirit said and walked out of the barracks followed closely by Twilight. Boulder Strong turned to a soldier and said "Keep an eye on him would ya?"

...

"What was that?" Twilight said looking at the guitarist. He let a long held breath and said "A threat,"

"to the royal guards?" Twilight asked disbelief written all over her face.

"yup, now I believe this is your house" Spirit said, Twilight looked up and said "Wow it is. Wait how did you know?"

"Rarity mentioned you lived in a tree." Spirit said with some sadness in his voice. He opened the door and let the lady through, from inside Spirit heard a voice yell "Twilight were have you been, your dinner has been getting cold and... Who's this?"

"Spike this is Spirit, he is the one that Rarity talked about yesterday" Twilight said

"oh" Spike said with some disdain, he turned to Twilight and asked very hopefully "So is there anyway news about Rarity?"

"No not yet, Spirit did have a talk to the captain about their jobs"

"What did he say?" Spike said making an bad emphasis on the 'he'.

"He told them that they did do their job right and that they should have protected her"

"Don't give advice you don't follow" Spike said in a low voice which was intended to be to himself but Spirit heard this and with his already angered state he said "What is your problem?" speaking to Spike. He laughed, "Well considering that you were there you should have saved her!" Spike yelled.

"Spike please? he is just as sad as you are bu- "

"No let him hate, i understand his feelings but i wasn't there to do anything" Spirit said his sadness overcoming his rage.

"Then why did you leave her? Alone? By herself when there is a Lycan on the lose!" Spike yelled.

"Because I have some secrets that can hurt others" Spirit said quietly, ended the conversation. Twilight looked at Spike with a 'why did you do that!' look and they watched Spirit get up on the coach of the library and put his hat down over his eyes. He would go hunt in the morning