Being Purpleby AppleGothicChapters[Chapter 1] Connections[Chapter 2] Dunes[Chapter 3] The Great City of Viodashi[Chapter 4] What they saw that day[Chapter 5] The Importance of Being Purple[Chapter 1] Connections~~~Spike~~~ Spike gets shaken awake, "Spike...I need you to take a letter..." Spike slightly wakes up, and shuffles over to the writing desk, being accompanied by Twilight and the other pony friends, "What do you want me to write..." he says, rubbing the gunk out of eyes. "Dear Spike..." "Dear...Spike..." his eyes drift shut. Twi signals to the other ponies to join her, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SPIKE!!!" His eyes snap awake, "What?" he turns to see Pinkie had already set up Pre-party Party, During-party Party, After-party Party, and After-After-Party Party Decorations up. Spike smiles up at them. ~~~Amethyst~~~ A poking at Amethyst's side moves her awake. She stares up at a Brown mare, "Ammy, I need you to help me with a note..." "Wga?" the purple dragon rubs her eyes, to look at the blind pony, "What do you need?" "I need you to write up a letter to Avery, and tell her what happened over last week." Amethyst sighed, and gets up, and walks over to the desk, she begins to write, but she soon finds that her inkwell was dry, "Dear Avery, I wa- "Terra, wait a second...we need more ink..." "Oh...okay..." she shuffles uncomfortably, "I think that Green Meadows said he'd have some..." "Okay..." Amethyst gets up, and heads to the door, "You sit tight...and I'll-" She opens the door to a crowd of ponies, "SURPRISE!" Amethyst stares blankly at the crowd, but she does react to a pony's arms wrap around her, body, "Happy Birthday, Ammy...and thank you for everything..." she kisses the top of her head, and Amethyst sheds a tear. ~~~Spike~~~ "So, Spike, how are you feeling?" Spike sat on the couch, " Pretty Good...but I've been getting a feeling about this year..." "You are 5 years old now... How does that make you feel?" "Kinda good...but...I feel something is pulling me into-" he then realised that he was reaching at something to the west. ~~~Amethyst~~~ Sitting with a slice of cake in her hand, Amethyst sighs, "I could never do that to her..." Terra feels her way up to Amethyst, "Is there something the matter?" "I feel like something...calling to me..." she reaches out to the East, something wants me to go East...about 20 kilometres in fact..." "Then go to them..." Amethyst turns back to her disabled owner, "I could never do that to you...who'll care for you?" "Green Meadows will stay with me, he and I have gotten close over the years, and I think I would like to spend sometime with him. After I go to get my eyes fixed, I won't really need a guide, but you will always be a good friend..." Amethyst wipes a tear before it could roll down her face, "Thank you, Mistress Erium...I would like you to be able to see me when I get back!" The two hug for a while. ~~~Spike~~~ "Are you sure you want to-" "Absolutely..." Spike continues to pack stuff, Rarity standing across the bed from him, "I want to know what this connection between us means, I can feel that they have already started coming for me, and I would like to meet them half way." "But what about us?" "I..." he stops for a second, "I really don't know...*sigh* I hope that I'll be able to come back after all this is over, give you a big hug, and everything return to normal...I really hope so..." Rarity grabs Spike's face, "I just want you to know that you were the best thing in my life..." she plants a kiss on his lips, and they fall back, saying goodbye to eachother through sheer passion. Spike never had a better night with somepony. After Rarity's gift of pleasure, he picked up his bag, and walked out quietly, hoping not to wake her up from her rest. ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst slings a bag over her shoulder, and waves goodbye to her friends, and walks off into the distance. She gets a distances an mumbles, "You miss someone as well, don't you?" ~~~Spike~~~ After walking a considerable distance from Ponyvile he hears a gentle voice in the back of his head, "You miss someone as well, don't you?" "Yeah...I do..." he then looks around, not a soul in sight, "Wait...who are you?" "Who are YOU?" "I asked you fir-!" Spike cuts off, "Look at me...Talking to a voice in my head." "Listen...I don't know what you had to do, but I'm sure that we have our reasons for our pursuits of eachothers." Spike remains silent, "Twilight was like a sister to me, but she was more like a mother..." "I had to leave my owner, she was about to fix her eyes so she can see again..." Spike stopped, "I felt you stall, what's wrong?" "I never ASKED you to leave any of your friends." "Neither did I..." a silence persists, "I'm Amethyst, or Ammy for short." "I'm Spike...Nice to meet you..." After a long moment of silence, "It's funny..." Spike reacts accordingly, "Huh?" "I don't even KNOW you, and yet, we left everyone we loved just to see eachother..." "Why is that, I could turn around right now, and run back to my friends and family, and completely forget this ever happened!" he stops, then, after a second continues again, "But I can't..." "Maybe it's hardwired into us...I mean, why are headed out into-" "The middle of the desert..." Spike stops, and feels the yellow sand under his toes. He looks back, not a tree in sight, "I have a bad feeling about this..." "I know...but this place seems familiar, somehow..." Spike keeps walking, "You think so?" "Yeah..." He felt her stop, look around, and then continue. It felt strange, like they shared one mind. Then Spike thought, 'I wonder if she's attractive...'I wouldn't mind- "I HEARD that!" she yells back at him. She could feel her blush, which made him do the same. He laughs it off, "What...I didn't say anything..." She gives a snort, "Yeah right, Perv!" He walks on for a bit, then hears, 'I can't believe he said that...now I can't stop think about-' "I heard that..." "NO YOU COULDN'T! I-" "So did I..." A quiet moment, and then, "So...our connection gets stronger the closer we are...how about this..." In Spike's mind he saw a Purple Dragon, about his size, bent over, and presenting herself to him. Spike's face flushes, "I did NOT need to see that..." more laughing, "Do you just LOVE torturing me, or do you do this to ALL of your friends!" The laughing stops, "Are you purple?" "huh?" Spike was pulled out of his blush to be confused. "I saw you when I set that image to you...are you really Purple like me?" "Yeah...but what does that have to do with anything?" "Besides me having Sapphire fins, compared to your Emerald fins, we are the same race of dragon...Amethystine Dragons..." Spike felt like a bucket of turnips, "What does that mean?" "I think we were...Destined Lovers...rumagic di haurach in the old tongue..." "You mean we are supposed to be...mates..." A silence on the other side confirms it. Spike sighs, and continues traveling, knowing that his new life was just 15 Kilometres away. [Chapter 2] DunesChapter 2 ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst laid on a blanket, a small fire was created near her, and the flames reverted away from her, but not detracting heat. She felt Spike was asleep, "My mate snores..." she rolls over, looking up at the starry sky. She pointed at a constellation, tracing out Orion, the Pegasus. Then she traces Twilight, the Unicorn, located right next to Orion. She thn traced the heart of red stars that lay between them..."It's beautiful..." Amethyst turns to see who spoke, but nothing but air was around, "I didn't hear you get up, Spike..." ~~~Spike~~~ Spike lays awake, trying to sleep. Then, a line appeared in the sky. The line bent, connecting stars in the form of a Pegasus, then another forming a unicorn, the star lovers, "It's beautiful..." "I didn't hear you get up, Spike," Amethyst replied. "I never fell asleep, Amethyst..." "That's too bad...no wonder I couldn't sleep...one of us isn't tired..." "That makes sense..." Spike sat up, "I'm gonna keep walking...Nothing much to do out here anyways." "That makes sense..." She repeats, and then gets up, "I might as well do the same..." After the sun was up, Amethyst had stopped for something, "What's wrong?" "It's…it's nothing…" she pauses, "You can see it can't you…" In Spike's head, she was holding a Sandwich. Made from Pickled Rubies and a few tinplates of Topaz, "No…but I wish I had it…" "SHUT UP!" she yells at him, and she starts eating, "Don't make fun of me…" two voices were heard, one of her eating, and one as clear as day. "What do you mean…I like the-" "I'm sensitive about my weight…" she takes another bite, a hard crunching as she digs into the Topai(or Topazes…or-). "What that supposed to mean? Gem can't make-" "I DON'T CARE!"she takes another bite, 'Damn this thing is good…' she thinks to herself. and he smiles widely. "Okay…I'll also have something then…" he sits down, and pulls out a bottle and he pulls out a thin blue-stained Emerald. He starts sucking on the gem, and puts the jar away, holding the gem in his teeth, "you may think what you want…but I like the taste of gems." "Whatever…I just- the hell is that?" ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst sat there, eating her sandwich, "Whatever…" she takes another bite, "I just-" a loud sound from behind her caused her to turn around. She was just in time to see the plume of sand to start to come down, "…the hell is that?" "What is it?" Spike asked, "Is there something out there?" "I don't know…it-" right in front of her, a giant sand wyrm burst from the ground, it's flakey brown wings-like fins flash out, and it lets out a bellowing screech. Amethyst ducks out of the way of his mouth, slamming int the ground. his teeth were as long as a pony's leg, and something told her that getting hit was a bad idea. She ran, or tied to, as fast as she could, but the Draconic worm had coiled around, and blocked off her exits. ~~~Spike~~~ Spike feel terror. He tries to see what she's seeing, but he can't form her exactly. Then he feels…calm…then pleasure…then victory, and then came her voice, "Spike…you still there?" "Amethyst…what happened?" ~~~Amethyst~~~ "It's okay spike," she replied, "it's gone now…I think it just didn't want something a fraction of his size…" Spike was silent, "It's just good to know you're okay…" "Yeah…I'll keep walking now…" she said, steping over the mangled body of the sand wyrm, "how about you?" "That sounds good…just hope he doesn't come back to look for you…" She kicks the face of the odd draconic beast, "Okay…I'll be on the look out…" After about another day of walking, they were about 2-3 Kilometres away from eachother, when Spike replies, "Amethyst...do you see that in the distance?" She looks up, and out of the sand came a rising tower of Marble, making it reflect the sun, "You mean the tower?" "Yeah...We're getting pretty close to eachother, now..." "Yeah, it's pretty nice..." then she stopped, "That's a spire like that doing in the middle of the desert?" "Whatever it is, it's leaning us to it..." Amethyst climbs a rise in the sand and was looking down on a huge city, the denizens of which were out of range, but a soft purple glow engulfed the city. "Purple..." "Hm?" "Spike...I think we're home..." [Chapter 3] The Great City of ViodashiAuthor's Note [First: Sorry about not posting...Second: I've been sitting on this Story for half a Year now...stupid Lazy Brain...] [Chapter 3] The Great City of Viodashi ~~~Spike~~~ Spike walked up to a large Set of Doors that Lead into the city. He stopped, and noted that Amethyst was on the other side of the city from him. He sighed, "Well, Here we go-" The massive Doors were pushed open from the other side, a giant mouth of a Dragon was pushed through the crack in the doors, and A burst of Green fire was sent from it. Spike pressed himself against the wall, hoping that it didn't see him. He hears a group of voices trying to restrain the dragon, trying to calm it down. Spike took a wandering glance and saw them: Other Purple Dragons. They were about the size of the Dragon he had met once. The giant Dragon was also purple, and was a bit calmer now. He then shrunk. His size deflated and was then the size of the rest of them. He then took a few tentive steps into the gates, "Sorry you had to see that on your First Day in Viodashi, Little One." Spike Jumped at that voice. He turned and saw an older Dragon, with a excellent Beard if I might add, was standing between him and the inner Wall. He chucked, "Sorry...Your a skittish one, ain'tcha..." Spike collected himself, and his dropped items, "Um...hi! I'm Spike." He took out a book, "Last Name?" he was writing down a few things. "Sparkle...I guess..." "So you were owned by a Pony? For how long?" Spike replied cautiously, "Since I was born...And I just turned Five the other Day." He pauses, "Letter Barrer, I assume?" "Yeah...For-" He closed the book, "Okay, your application for citizenship has been sent." he then lights the book on fire, and Spike watches the Ashes Fly up, and then towards the tall Tower, "Every Dragon has Magical Abilities In their breath. Purple Dragons are a bit different, as your time with your owner has probably taught you. Purple Dragons are attune with raw magic, which is why their Princess uses Young Purple Dragons for Letter Carriers." Spike then feels something at the back of his throat, and he coughs up a bit of Flame, and the book with it. The older Dragon took the book from the air, "I'm Durrell, by the way...Gate keeper and welcoming committee...Yay..." He threw a clawful of Confetti into the air. His expression of 'I've done this a million times before' still on his aged face. He opened the book and started reading what was written, "I was supposed to meet someone here..." Durrell nods, "Yep, the book says as much." he points without even looking to the top of the tower, "She should be on her way to the top of that Marble Spire too, just follow the Wall, and you'll reach it." Spike nods, and adjusts his pack, walking past him and down the cobbled road. He noted that everything, from the street lights to the houses, and even the Bricks on the road had the same Purple glint to them. He felt oddly at home. He then walk straight into a wall. He looked down and saw that the road was following this other wall. Spike stopped and thought, 'Why is there a Wall in the middle of the city like this?' "Probably the same reason that I had to enter the other side of the city from you." He smiled, "Hey Amethyst...You heading to the-" "Tower? Yeah...the Guard said that this was called the "Glass Needle" and it is the only place that both halves of the City can meet." Spike looked up at it, "Why is that?" he then felt an image in is mind of her looking at it from the opposite side, "Ow..." "I think we're close enough that we're now seeing what each other are seeing without needing to concentrate..." Amethyst responds. After a minute of Walking, Spike speaks up, "I just noticed..." "What is it?" Amethyst was eating another sandwich. "Did you...notice that there's only Females on your side?" She stopped eating and thought, "Yeah...I'm guessing only Males on Your side?" "Yeah...You think that the Reason the wall is here is that-" Amethyst finished his thought, "Mating Season won' be as bad..." Spike looked confused, "I was going to say Segregation..." She smirks, "Well, we'll have to see, then..." ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst finished her sandwich, and then looked at the door of the Glass Needle. She opens the door to see a large Set of Stairs. She noted that Spike was looking at his own set of Stairs, and they both ascended together. As thy climbed the tower, the walls next to them looked like Mirrors, making them look like they were going on forever. Amethyst then noticed that the reflection to her right had Green spines, "Hey, Spike! Is that you to my Right?" ~~~Spike~~~ Spike looks Right and notices that they were staring at each other, "Um...Hello..." He continued up, still keeping an Eye on her, "So...What do you think is at the Top of the Tower?" She scoffs, "Who knows." He smiled, "It's kinda weird to see you do that, and then hear you in my head..." She smiled back, "I guess it would be..." Their thoughts were getting passed between them: Happy Memories with their friends and Familes, even some sad ones too. But after all of that, they feel like they've known each other all of their lives. Every Thought and Every moment was shared between them, some embarrassing, some saddening, but they felt as close as any two people could feel. And then the reached the last Stair. They looked at Eachother. They looked around the room, and then they saw a bed. Almost in reflex, they held each other, and felt eachother's warm embrace. And then they kissed, letting all of their emotions of Eachother flood back into their minds. When they took a breath, they felt that they had migrated to the bed, holding each other tenderly. Spike then got an awful feeling from the look that Anethyst was giving him. And maybe the fact she was holding him onto the bed, "So you've done this before?" "Yeah, but me and Rarity were Together long before this.." She tightened her grasp, "Then I'll have to Do better!" Spike Gulps. [Chapter 4] What they saw that day~~Spike~~ Spike opened his eyes. He looked around his room that the people of the city gave to him several months ago. He rubbed his eyes, hearing the soft groans of his wife in the back of his head. In the great spiral shape of the city, she was laying in a room almost identical to his, and in an identical house. He was told this layout was so that the two of them can always be connected, and never have an issue of running into a wall he didn't see on her end of the vision. She awoke, and moved to her feet, "You okay, Spike?" He sighs in response, "It's just been almost a year since I last saw my friends. She nodded in response, "I feel the same way...but we can't leave now...can we?" He shakes his head, "Not for a few more months...we still have to wait out another..." he looked at his wall, which, out of many things, held a calendar, "Month and a half...then we'll go to your place, which is closer, and then to mine. We just have to do our jobs until then." Spike got up, his slightly elongated body from maturity was still in the process of "getting used to". He grabbed up his bag, and headed out. He walked the gentle streets of the city to one particular building. He sighed, put on a helmet, and walked in. He was part of the new mining group that had started a bit before he came to the city. His job was to mine amethyst, which littered the sediment underneath the city. This was so they could sell the material to Textile and Manufacturing factories in Phillydelphia. He descended the elevator with ten or so other purple dragons so that they could work in several directions at once. Spike got to work, he was tasked to mine straight down to see how deep the layers of The Lavender stone go. He was a bit nervious, he was told, fairly early on at that, that he's doing one of the more dangerous parts of the job. He prepared himself, and grabbed his gloves. Spikes gloves had tiny spears on the fingers to gouge out rock, and it was mainly a multi-purpose tool: able to be converted into a shovel and used by the city as weapons in some respects, it was one of the cooler things he's discovered about what a society with fingers can create. He worked in a large circle, making sure that the was always a way to ascend in case something bad happened to the tunnel he was building. Every time he found something, he placed it in a bucket that followed him down the mineshaft to allow him to work without worrying about being over burdened by the weight of gemstones. This was Spike's thirteenth day of working on this, and his mineshaft was about 8 body lengths wide and his was still finding a lot of material to help with the city. He was approaching what his supervisor called "The Dark Earth". The rock in those parts were heavy and had a distorted coloration than the previous layers of rock. Spike moved back up with his bucket, and went to his supervisor, a older Dragon with most of his back spikes sharpened to a point and held several chunks of them removed. "Dayolez. I found the Dark Earth. Can I get a more reinforced bucket to use since this one..." holding up his bucket with huge bents and strain marks on it, "This one has taken more abuse carrying the odd rocks up then the entire time I've been here." The dragon takes a careful look at it, "We'll replace it tomorrow, since the work day's almost up. Keep going for a bit, and if it breaks before then..." he chuckles, "Well, we're already replacing it, so there you go." Spike nodded, and continued working. His day ended an hour or so later, but he was still halfway filled in his bucket, and he had some time, since it took a bit to walk back up. He kept digging, and then his glove caught on something. He tried digging at it again, but his gloves couldn't pierce through this stone. He dug around it to see it in full. What he uncovered looked about the size of an egg, and heavier than the entire rest of the bucket combined. He was mystified but it's smooth appearance, and it's weight. He covered it back up, and then headed up out of the shaft. He dumped all of his collected rocks into a sorting bin, and placed the wounded bucket beside it. He was about to head up, when he noticed something strange. He looked back, but nothing was there. He then thought, "Hey...did you hear that?" Amethyst, who was home from her own work schedule nodded, "Yeah...I heard a voice behind you...it sounded like-" "Hey Spike!" he turned around, startled by the sound of Dayolez, calling to him, "Can you come here?" he turned around and saw him standing there with another bucket, "The new bucket just arrived...if you want, you can continue for a bit to test it out a bit for tomorrow." Spike considered it, "Sure...But...did you hear something?" He shook his head, "Not really? Maybe something on your mate's end?" "Didn't seem like it...but maybe?" He puts a claw on his shoulder, "Well, be careful down there...we don't want one of our best workers to become sick or something." Spike nodded, and took the bucket, moving back down the shaft to where he left the stone egg. He moved over the rocks, and looked at it, "So what are you anyways?" he looked at it again, and then put it in the bucket. After a little bit, he found another one, this one was slightly bigger, and weighed about the same. After a bit, he found five of them of all sizes, and each was a smooth cream color. Spike brought them up, and was satisfied that the bucket was able to carry them all up, and placed the largest near the sorting bin, since he doubted it would sort it through. he then took the smallest, half the size of the first one, and put it into his bag. He walked home, "Are you sure you should have taken one of them?" Amethyst was reading a book in her spare time. Spike shrugged, not sure what it is, but I know who might. Spike had been able to keep in contact with the princess, getting news about Twilight and her friends. He grabbed a box, wrote a letter on it, and breathed fire over it, sending the box to her. He smiled, knowing that she'd figure this thing out. ~~Twilight~~ Twilight Sparkle was working in her tree library when she heard a knock at the door. She opened it with magic, and turned to see Princess Luna standing in the doorway, "Oh...Luna. What can I do you fo-" Luna placed a box in front of her, the top of it had a letter from Spike on it, "What do you know about the space beyond the sun?" Twilight raised an eyebrow, "You mean the outlaying planetary objects or the stars?" Luna scoffed, "You Doth be my sister's student alright." she opened the box, and inside wasa stone about half the size of an egg, "Between the planets Sagittarius and Fentarius is a Belt of meteorites that most ponies can't see without being there themselves." she placed it away from her, "Most of them have odd properties, like the fact that this one might have been hollow, which many smaller ones inside of it." Twilighht looked at the strange rock, "And how do you know this?" "Because I-" Luna gets cut off by a large noise outside the tree. They both run out and see thousands of shooting lights scatter over the dimming sky, many crashing straight into the ground with a thunderous crash, "Oh, no..." "Twilight looked over, concerned, "What's going on?" Luna swallowed as she stared at a large moon-like object rising behind the other moon, "The Brother moon has returned." Twilight just looked confused at he large orb in the sky, "Luna...what IS that thing" Luna's coat darkened into a onyx purple, "My flagship..." Luna stood, her body in the form of nightmare Moon, and her eyes dead-set on it, "Retrieve Spike before the night is done...or we might never have a day!" Luna launched off like a bullet, at the large orb, and Twilight rushed back inside to grab his package, and focused hard on it. She reversed the magic on the box, send her and the box back to Spike in a flash. ~~To be continued?~~ [Chapter 5] The Importance of Being PurpleSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
[Chapter 1] Connections~~~Spike~~~ Spike gets shaken awake, "Spike...I need you to take a letter..." Spike slightly wakes up, and shuffles over to the writing desk, being accompanied by Twilight and the other pony friends, "What do you want me to write..." he says, rubbing the gunk out of eyes. "Dear Spike..." "Dear...Spike..." his eyes drift shut. Twi signals to the other ponies to join her, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SPIKE!!!" His eyes snap awake, "What?" he turns to see Pinkie had already set up Pre-party Party, During-party Party, After-party Party, and After-After-Party Party Decorations up. Spike smiles up at them. ~~~Amethyst~~~ A poking at Amethyst's side moves her awake. She stares up at a Brown mare, "Ammy, I need you to help me with a note..." "Wga?" the purple dragon rubs her eyes, to look at the blind pony, "What do you need?" "I need you to write up a letter to Avery, and tell her what happened over last week." Amethyst sighed, and gets up, and walks over to the desk, she begins to write, but she soon finds that her inkwell was dry, "Dear Avery, I wa- "Terra, wait a second...we need more ink..." "Oh...okay..." she shuffles uncomfortably, "I think that Green Meadows said he'd have some..." "Okay..." Amethyst gets up, and heads to the door, "You sit tight...and I'll-" She opens the door to a crowd of ponies, "SURPRISE!" Amethyst stares blankly at the crowd, but she does react to a pony's arms wrap around her, body, "Happy Birthday, Ammy...and thank you for everything..." she kisses the top of her head, and Amethyst sheds a tear. ~~~Spike~~~ "So, Spike, how are you feeling?" Spike sat on the couch, " Pretty Good...but I've been getting a feeling about this year..." "You are 5 years old now... How does that make you feel?" "Kinda good...but...I feel something is pulling me into-" he then realised that he was reaching at something to the west. ~~~Amethyst~~~ Sitting with a slice of cake in her hand, Amethyst sighs, "I could never do that to her..." Terra feels her way up to Amethyst, "Is there something the matter?" "I feel like something...calling to me..." she reaches out to the East, something wants me to go East...about 20 kilometres in fact..." "Then go to them..." Amethyst turns back to her disabled owner, "I could never do that to you...who'll care for you?" "Green Meadows will stay with me, he and I have gotten close over the years, and I think I would like to spend sometime with him. After I go to get my eyes fixed, I won't really need a guide, but you will always be a good friend..." Amethyst wipes a tear before it could roll down her face, "Thank you, Mistress Erium...I would like you to be able to see me when I get back!" The two hug for a while. ~~~Spike~~~ "Are you sure you want to-" "Absolutely..." Spike continues to pack stuff, Rarity standing across the bed from him, "I want to know what this connection between us means, I can feel that they have already started coming for me, and I would like to meet them half way." "But what about us?" "I..." he stops for a second, "I really don't know...*sigh* I hope that I'll be able to come back after all this is over, give you a big hug, and everything return to normal...I really hope so..." Rarity grabs Spike's face, "I just want you to know that you were the best thing in my life..." she plants a kiss on his lips, and they fall back, saying goodbye to eachother through sheer passion. Spike never had a better night with somepony. After Rarity's gift of pleasure, he picked up his bag, and walked out quietly, hoping not to wake her up from her rest. ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst slings a bag over her shoulder, and waves goodbye to her friends, and walks off into the distance. She gets a distances an mumbles, "You miss someone as well, don't you?" ~~~Spike~~~ After walking a considerable distance from Ponyvile he hears a gentle voice in the back of his head, "You miss someone as well, don't you?" "Yeah...I do..." he then looks around, not a soul in sight, "Wait...who are you?" "Who are YOU?" "I asked you fir-!" Spike cuts off, "Look at me...Talking to a voice in my head." "Listen...I don't know what you had to do, but I'm sure that we have our reasons for our pursuits of eachothers." Spike remains silent, "Twilight was like a sister to me, but she was more like a mother..." "I had to leave my owner, she was about to fix her eyes so she can see again..." Spike stopped, "I felt you stall, what's wrong?" "I never ASKED you to leave any of your friends." "Neither did I..." a silence persists, "I'm Amethyst, or Ammy for short." "I'm Spike...Nice to meet you..." After a long moment of silence, "It's funny..." Spike reacts accordingly, "Huh?" "I don't even KNOW you, and yet, we left everyone we loved just to see eachother..." "Why is that, I could turn around right now, and run back to my friends and family, and completely forget this ever happened!" he stops, then, after a second continues again, "But I can't..." "Maybe it's hardwired into us...I mean, why are headed out into-" "The middle of the desert..." Spike stops, and feels the yellow sand under his toes. He looks back, not a tree in sight, "I have a bad feeling about this..." "I know...but this place seems familiar, somehow..." Spike keeps walking, "You think so?" "Yeah..." He felt her stop, look around, and then continue. It felt strange, like they shared one mind. Then Spike thought, 'I wonder if she's attractive...'I wouldn't mind- "I HEARD that!" she yells back at him. She could feel her blush, which made him do the same. He laughs it off, "What...I didn't say anything..." She gives a snort, "Yeah right, Perv!" He walks on for a bit, then hears, 'I can't believe he said that...now I can't stop think about-' "I heard that..." "NO YOU COULDN'T! I-" "So did I..." A quiet moment, and then, "So...our connection gets stronger the closer we are...how about this..." In Spike's mind he saw a Purple Dragon, about his size, bent over, and presenting herself to him. Spike's face flushes, "I did NOT need to see that..." more laughing, "Do you just LOVE torturing me, or do you do this to ALL of your friends!" The laughing stops, "Are you purple?" "huh?" Spike was pulled out of his blush to be confused. "I saw you when I set that image to you...are you really Purple like me?" "Yeah...but what does that have to do with anything?" "Besides me having Sapphire fins, compared to your Emerald fins, we are the same race of dragon...Amethystine Dragons..." Spike felt like a bucket of turnips, "What does that mean?" "I think we were...Destined Lovers...rumagic di haurach in the old tongue..." "You mean we are supposed to be...mates..." A silence on the other side confirms it. Spike sighs, and continues traveling, knowing that his new life was just 15 Kilometres away.
[Chapter 2] DunesChapter 2 ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst laid on a blanket, a small fire was created near her, and the flames reverted away from her, but not detracting heat. She felt Spike was asleep, "My mate snores..." she rolls over, looking up at the starry sky. She pointed at a constellation, tracing out Orion, the Pegasus. Then she traces Twilight, the Unicorn, located right next to Orion. She thn traced the heart of red stars that lay between them..."It's beautiful..." Amethyst turns to see who spoke, but nothing but air was around, "I didn't hear you get up, Spike..." ~~~Spike~~~ Spike lays awake, trying to sleep. Then, a line appeared in the sky. The line bent, connecting stars in the form of a Pegasus, then another forming a unicorn, the star lovers, "It's beautiful..." "I didn't hear you get up, Spike," Amethyst replied. "I never fell asleep, Amethyst..." "That's too bad...no wonder I couldn't sleep...one of us isn't tired..." "That makes sense..." Spike sat up, "I'm gonna keep walking...Nothing much to do out here anyways." "That makes sense..." She repeats, and then gets up, "I might as well do the same..." After the sun was up, Amethyst had stopped for something, "What's wrong?" "It's…it's nothing…" she pauses, "You can see it can't you…" In Spike's head, she was holding a Sandwich. Made from Pickled Rubies and a few tinplates of Topaz, "No…but I wish I had it…" "SHUT UP!" she yells at him, and she starts eating, "Don't make fun of me…" two voices were heard, one of her eating, and one as clear as day. "What do you mean…I like the-" "I'm sensitive about my weight…" she takes another bite, a hard crunching as she digs into the Topai(or Topazes…or-). "What that supposed to mean? Gem can't make-" "I DON'T CARE!"she takes another bite, 'Damn this thing is good…' she thinks to herself. and he smiles widely. "Okay…I'll also have something then…" he sits down, and pulls out a bottle and he pulls out a thin blue-stained Emerald. He starts sucking on the gem, and puts the jar away, holding the gem in his teeth, "you may think what you want…but I like the taste of gems." "Whatever…I just- the hell is that?" ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst sat there, eating her sandwich, "Whatever…" she takes another bite, "I just-" a loud sound from behind her caused her to turn around. She was just in time to see the plume of sand to start to come down, "…the hell is that?" "What is it?" Spike asked, "Is there something out there?" "I don't know…it-" right in front of her, a giant sand wyrm burst from the ground, it's flakey brown wings-like fins flash out, and it lets out a bellowing screech. Amethyst ducks out of the way of his mouth, slamming int the ground. his teeth were as long as a pony's leg, and something told her that getting hit was a bad idea. She ran, or tied to, as fast as she could, but the Draconic worm had coiled around, and blocked off her exits. ~~~Spike~~~ Spike feel terror. He tries to see what she's seeing, but he can't form her exactly. Then he feels…calm…then pleasure…then victory, and then came her voice, "Spike…you still there?" "Amethyst…what happened?" ~~~Amethyst~~~ "It's okay spike," she replied, "it's gone now…I think it just didn't want something a fraction of his size…" Spike was silent, "It's just good to know you're okay…" "Yeah…I'll keep walking now…" she said, steping over the mangled body of the sand wyrm, "how about you?" "That sounds good…just hope he doesn't come back to look for you…" She kicks the face of the odd draconic beast, "Okay…I'll be on the look out…" After about another day of walking, they were about 2-3 Kilometres away from eachother, when Spike replies, "Amethyst...do you see that in the distance?" She looks up, and out of the sand came a rising tower of Marble, making it reflect the sun, "You mean the tower?" "Yeah...We're getting pretty close to eachother, now..." "Yeah, it's pretty nice..." then she stopped, "That's a spire like that doing in the middle of the desert?" "Whatever it is, it's leaning us to it..." Amethyst climbs a rise in the sand and was looking down on a huge city, the denizens of which were out of range, but a soft purple glow engulfed the city. "Purple..." "Hm?" "Spike...I think we're home..."
[Chapter 3] The Great City of ViodashiAuthor's Note [First: Sorry about not posting...Second: I've been sitting on this Story for half a Year now...stupid Lazy Brain...] [Chapter 3] The Great City of Viodashi ~~~Spike~~~ Spike walked up to a large Set of Doors that Lead into the city. He stopped, and noted that Amethyst was on the other side of the city from him. He sighed, "Well, Here we go-" The massive Doors were pushed open from the other side, a giant mouth of a Dragon was pushed through the crack in the doors, and A burst of Green fire was sent from it. Spike pressed himself against the wall, hoping that it didn't see him. He hears a group of voices trying to restrain the dragon, trying to calm it down. Spike took a wandering glance and saw them: Other Purple Dragons. They were about the size of the Dragon he had met once. The giant Dragon was also purple, and was a bit calmer now. He then shrunk. His size deflated and was then the size of the rest of them. He then took a few tentive steps into the gates, "Sorry you had to see that on your First Day in Viodashi, Little One." Spike Jumped at that voice. He turned and saw an older Dragon, with a excellent Beard if I might add, was standing between him and the inner Wall. He chucked, "Sorry...Your a skittish one, ain'tcha..." Spike collected himself, and his dropped items, "Um...hi! I'm Spike." He took out a book, "Last Name?" he was writing down a few things. "Sparkle...I guess..." "So you were owned by a Pony? For how long?" Spike replied cautiously, "Since I was born...And I just turned Five the other Day." He pauses, "Letter Barrer, I assume?" "Yeah...For-" He closed the book, "Okay, your application for citizenship has been sent." he then lights the book on fire, and Spike watches the Ashes Fly up, and then towards the tall Tower, "Every Dragon has Magical Abilities In their breath. Purple Dragons are a bit different, as your time with your owner has probably taught you. Purple Dragons are attune with raw magic, which is why their Princess uses Young Purple Dragons for Letter Carriers." Spike then feels something at the back of his throat, and he coughs up a bit of Flame, and the book with it. The older Dragon took the book from the air, "I'm Durrell, by the way...Gate keeper and welcoming committee...Yay..." He threw a clawful of Confetti into the air. His expression of 'I've done this a million times before' still on his aged face. He opened the book and started reading what was written, "I was supposed to meet someone here..." Durrell nods, "Yep, the book says as much." he points without even looking to the top of the tower, "She should be on her way to the top of that Marble Spire too, just follow the Wall, and you'll reach it." Spike nods, and adjusts his pack, walking past him and down the cobbled road. He noted that everything, from the street lights to the houses, and even the Bricks on the road had the same Purple glint to them. He felt oddly at home. He then walk straight into a wall. He looked down and saw that the road was following this other wall. Spike stopped and thought, 'Why is there a Wall in the middle of the city like this?' "Probably the same reason that I had to enter the other side of the city from you." He smiled, "Hey Amethyst...You heading to the-" "Tower? Yeah...the Guard said that this was called the "Glass Needle" and it is the only place that both halves of the City can meet." Spike looked up at it, "Why is that?" he then felt an image in is mind of her looking at it from the opposite side, "Ow..." "I think we're close enough that we're now seeing what each other are seeing without needing to concentrate..." Amethyst responds. After a minute of Walking, Spike speaks up, "I just noticed..." "What is it?" Amethyst was eating another sandwich. "Did you...notice that there's only Females on your side?" She stopped eating and thought, "Yeah...I'm guessing only Males on Your side?" "Yeah...You think that the Reason the wall is here is that-" Amethyst finished his thought, "Mating Season won' be as bad..." Spike looked confused, "I was going to say Segregation..." She smirks, "Well, we'll have to see, then..." ~~~Amethyst~~~ Amethyst finished her sandwich, and then looked at the door of the Glass Needle. She opens the door to see a large Set of Stairs. She noted that Spike was looking at his own set of Stairs, and they both ascended together. As thy climbed the tower, the walls next to them looked like Mirrors, making them look like they were going on forever. Amethyst then noticed that the reflection to her right had Green spines, "Hey, Spike! Is that you to my Right?" ~~~Spike~~~ Spike looks Right and notices that they were staring at each other, "Um...Hello..." He continued up, still keeping an Eye on her, "So...What do you think is at the Top of the Tower?" She scoffs, "Who knows." He smiled, "It's kinda weird to see you do that, and then hear you in my head..." She smiled back, "I guess it would be..." Their thoughts were getting passed between them: Happy Memories with their friends and Familes, even some sad ones too. But after all of that, they feel like they've known each other all of their lives. Every Thought and Every moment was shared between them, some embarrassing, some saddening, but they felt as close as any two people could feel. And then the reached the last Stair. They looked at Eachother. They looked around the room, and then they saw a bed. Almost in reflex, they held each other, and felt eachother's warm embrace. And then they kissed, letting all of their emotions of Eachother flood back into their minds. When they took a breath, they felt that they had migrated to the bed, holding each other tenderly. Spike then got an awful feeling from the look that Anethyst was giving him. And maybe the fact she was holding him onto the bed, "So you've done this before?" "Yeah, but me and Rarity were Together long before this.." She tightened her grasp, "Then I'll have to Do better!" Spike Gulps.
[Chapter 4] What they saw that day~~Spike~~ Spike opened his eyes. He looked around his room that the people of the city gave to him several months ago. He rubbed his eyes, hearing the soft groans of his wife in the back of his head. In the great spiral shape of the city, she was laying in a room almost identical to his, and in an identical house. He was told this layout was so that the two of them can always be connected, and never have an issue of running into a wall he didn't see on her end of the vision. She awoke, and moved to her feet, "You okay, Spike?" He sighs in response, "It's just been almost a year since I last saw my friends. She nodded in response, "I feel the same way...but we can't leave now...can we?" He shakes his head, "Not for a few more months...we still have to wait out another..." he looked at his wall, which, out of many things, held a calendar, "Month and a half...then we'll go to your place, which is closer, and then to mine. We just have to do our jobs until then." Spike got up, his slightly elongated body from maturity was still in the process of "getting used to". He grabbed up his bag, and headed out. He walked the gentle streets of the city to one particular building. He sighed, put on a helmet, and walked in. He was part of the new mining group that had started a bit before he came to the city. His job was to mine amethyst, which littered the sediment underneath the city. This was so they could sell the material to Textile and Manufacturing factories in Phillydelphia. He descended the elevator with ten or so other purple dragons so that they could work in several directions at once. Spike got to work, he was tasked to mine straight down to see how deep the layers of The Lavender stone go. He was a bit nervious, he was told, fairly early on at that, that he's doing one of the more dangerous parts of the job. He prepared himself, and grabbed his gloves. Spikes gloves had tiny spears on the fingers to gouge out rock, and it was mainly a multi-purpose tool: able to be converted into a shovel and used by the city as weapons in some respects, it was one of the cooler things he's discovered about what a society with fingers can create. He worked in a large circle, making sure that the was always a way to ascend in case something bad happened to the tunnel he was building. Every time he found something, he placed it in a bucket that followed him down the mineshaft to allow him to work without worrying about being over burdened by the weight of gemstones. This was Spike's thirteenth day of working on this, and his mineshaft was about 8 body lengths wide and his was still finding a lot of material to help with the city. He was approaching what his supervisor called "The Dark Earth". The rock in those parts were heavy and had a distorted coloration than the previous layers of rock. Spike moved back up with his bucket, and went to his supervisor, a older Dragon with most of his back spikes sharpened to a point and held several chunks of them removed. "Dayolez. I found the Dark Earth. Can I get a more reinforced bucket to use since this one..." holding up his bucket with huge bents and strain marks on it, "This one has taken more abuse carrying the odd rocks up then the entire time I've been here." The dragon takes a careful look at it, "We'll replace it tomorrow, since the work day's almost up. Keep going for a bit, and if it breaks before then..." he chuckles, "Well, we're already replacing it, so there you go." Spike nodded, and continued working. His day ended an hour or so later, but he was still halfway filled in his bucket, and he had some time, since it took a bit to walk back up. He kept digging, and then his glove caught on something. He tried digging at it again, but his gloves couldn't pierce through this stone. He dug around it to see it in full. What he uncovered looked about the size of an egg, and heavier than the entire rest of the bucket combined. He was mystified but it's smooth appearance, and it's weight. He covered it back up, and then headed up out of the shaft. He dumped all of his collected rocks into a sorting bin, and placed the wounded bucket beside it. He was about to head up, when he noticed something strange. He looked back, but nothing was there. He then thought, "Hey...did you hear that?" Amethyst, who was home from her own work schedule nodded, "Yeah...I heard a voice behind you...it sounded like-" "Hey Spike!" he turned around, startled by the sound of Dayolez, calling to him, "Can you come here?" he turned around and saw him standing there with another bucket, "The new bucket just arrived...if you want, you can continue for a bit to test it out a bit for tomorrow." Spike considered it, "Sure...But...did you hear something?" He shook his head, "Not really? Maybe something on your mate's end?" "Didn't seem like it...but maybe?" He puts a claw on his shoulder, "Well, be careful down there...we don't want one of our best workers to become sick or something." Spike nodded, and took the bucket, moving back down the shaft to where he left the stone egg. He moved over the rocks, and looked at it, "So what are you anyways?" he looked at it again, and then put it in the bucket. After a little bit, he found another one, this one was slightly bigger, and weighed about the same. After a bit, he found five of them of all sizes, and each was a smooth cream color. Spike brought them up, and was satisfied that the bucket was able to carry them all up, and placed the largest near the sorting bin, since he doubted it would sort it through. he then took the smallest, half the size of the first one, and put it into his bag. He walked home, "Are you sure you should have taken one of them?" Amethyst was reading a book in her spare time. Spike shrugged, not sure what it is, but I know who might. Spike had been able to keep in contact with the princess, getting news about Twilight and her friends. He grabbed a box, wrote a letter on it, and breathed fire over it, sending the box to her. He smiled, knowing that she'd figure this thing out. ~~Twilight~~ Twilight Sparkle was working in her tree library when she heard a knock at the door. She opened it with magic, and turned to see Princess Luna standing in the doorway, "Oh...Luna. What can I do you fo-" Luna placed a box in front of her, the top of it had a letter from Spike on it, "What do you know about the space beyond the sun?" Twilight raised an eyebrow, "You mean the outlaying planetary objects or the stars?" Luna scoffed, "You Doth be my sister's student alright." she opened the box, and inside wasa stone about half the size of an egg, "Between the planets Sagittarius and Fentarius is a Belt of meteorites that most ponies can't see without being there themselves." she placed it away from her, "Most of them have odd properties, like the fact that this one might have been hollow, which many smaller ones inside of it." Twilighht looked at the strange rock, "And how do you know this?" "Because I-" Luna gets cut off by a large noise outside the tree. They both run out and see thousands of shooting lights scatter over the dimming sky, many crashing straight into the ground with a thunderous crash, "Oh, no..." "Twilight looked over, concerned, "What's going on?" Luna swallowed as she stared at a large moon-like object rising behind the other moon, "The Brother moon has returned." Twilight just looked confused at he large orb in the sky, "Luna...what IS that thing" Luna's coat darkened into a onyx purple, "My flagship..." Luna stood, her body in the form of nightmare Moon, and her eyes dead-set on it, "Retrieve Spike before the night is done...or we might never have a day!" Luna launched off like a bullet, at the large orb, and Twilight rushed back inside to grab his package, and focused hard on it. She reversed the magic on the box, send her and the box back to Spike in a flash. ~~To be continued?~~
[Chapter 5] The Importance of Being PurpleSomething has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.
