Chapter 13: Way to Rarity's heart

Ponyville: library

It's been 2 day's since Discord's attack on the castle.

I was lying on the bed in the quest room, looking up at the ceiling with my front hooves behind my head.

I was thinking about that mysterious alicorn that was at the castle. Who was he? Why did he help Discord? How was his magic stronger than the Elements themselves?

My train of thought was cut off by Jeff bursting through the door. "Jeff, I really just want to be alone and think right now."

Jeff flew towards me and landed beside me. "I know, you're still worried about that alicorn thing, but this is important you have to check this out." Jeff said as he tried to push me off the bed.

I rolled off the bed as Jeff was trying to push and he fell on the bed. He got up and started flapping in the air.

"Ok now that's out the way, follow me." Jeff said before he flew towards the door.

I let out a small sigh and followed him out the door. He led me up to the room with the balcony outside.

"Ok Jeff we're here, what is it?" I asked in a non-satisfied tone.

"Look." He said as he pointed to the balcony, I looked out to the balcony to see Spike leaning on the barrier.

I raised an eye brow. "What's he doing out there?"

I walked out onto the balcony and up to Spike. I then tapped him on the shoulder and he let out a small yell as he spun around fast.

When Spike saw that it was me, he put his hand to his chest and relaxed. "Oh Matt, it's just you."

I raised an eye brow as I looked down at him. "Yeah it's me, what are you doing?"

He shifted his eyes left and right. "I was…errr….nothing."

I gave him a suspicious look. "Yeah, a whole lot of nothin'. What are you looking at out there?"

I then tried to get passed Spike but he was trying to push me back. After a short struggle, I finally got passed Spike and I looked down to Ponyville to see Rarity walking through the street's carrying bags filled with different types of fabrics.

"Rarity?...Oh yeah, I forgot about Spike's crush on her." I thought before I turned to Spike.

Spike crossed his arms and turned to face the other way. "So now you know too, I know…..silly right?"

I walked up to him and placed my hoof on his shoulder, he turned around to face me. I smiled down at him. "Not at all, I understand what you're going through."

He gently pushed my hoof off his shoulder. "How could you know what I'm going through?"

"Because I felt the same after I met Twilight. You get feelings you can't explain, you think about her all the time and you keep feeling both nervous and happy around her." I said.

Spike then had a surprised look on his face. "That's…exactly how I feel. But every time I try to show my romantic side, I always get so nervous and embarrassed and then I mess it up."

Spike then sat on the ground and wrapped his arms around his knees so he was in a rocking position.

I tapped my chin. "Poor guy, he really likes her but he's too embarrassed to make a move. But maybe I can help him with that." I thought with a smirk on my face.

I walked up and placed myself beside him and wrapped my hoof around him. "Spike my friend, heaven's light has shined upon you once again…..for it has brought you…..to me."

Spike raised an eye brow. "Riiiiight, so how does that help me?"

"Spike, I'm gonna teach you how to be more confident so you can express your feelings to Rarity without any trouble." I said with a confident tone.

"How are you gonna do that?" Spike asked.

"I just gonna give you some romantic advice and when I'm done, Rarity will be falling for you in no time." I said.

Spike thought hard about it while rubbing his chin until he let out a small sigh. "Ok Matt…..I'll give it a try."

My smile grew. "Cool, so where's Twilight?"

"She's gone to Fluttershy's place for some reason." Spike answered.

"Excellent, that gives us time alone. Now let's get down stairs and get this thing started." I said before lowered myself to let Spike climb on my back. Once he was on my back, we headed to the stairs.

Once down stairs, Spike was sitting on a chair and I was standing in front of him with a chalk board behind me.

I pointed at the chalk board. "Alright Spike, welcome to your first lesson on expressing your feelings. Let's start off with something easy, practise talking. If you want a girl to like you then you have to know how to talk to her."

I then walked over to a shelf where Twilight keeps photographs of her and her friends. I grabbed a picture of Rarity and gave it to Spike. "Now, talk to the picture as if you were talking to the real Rarity." I said.

Spike looked down at the picture and gulped. "Well, Emm…..hello Rarity, you're looking….beautiful today…I mean, when aren't you?"

I gave a small smile. "Good good, keep it up!"

Spike then felt less nervous. "And your mane is so shiny and smooth. If there was an award for best hair in Equestria, you'd win it for sure."

"You've had a lot of time to come up with all this, haven't you?" I asked in a slight impressed tone.

Spike smiled and blushed slightly. "Well yeah, I've had a crush on her for a while."

"You can say that again." I said under my breath.

Spike raised an eye brow. "What was that?"

"Errr, I said it's time for the next lesson. Asking out, this is one of the hardest parts in a crush life. So you're going practise this on the picture, and go." I said.

Spike looks down at the picture again. "Emmm…Rarity….you know I r-really like you a lot and I know this great restaurant….so I was thinking…would you like to go with me there…and talk and stuff….if you want."

My smile grew bigger. "Well done Spike, I don't know why you're so nervous you're a natural. Now, time for the final lesson."

Me and Spike then walked up to a round table, Spike sat down at the table and I placed a candle in the middle of the table.

"Now, it's time for the date lesson." I said raising a hoof.

Spike looked at me with an unconfident look on his face. "What's this got to do with expressing my feeling?"

"Look, in moments like these it's always important to keep a cool head, you don't want to screw up on your first date do you?" I asked.

Spike turned his head back towards the table and crossed his arms. "No."

I gave him a quick nod. "Good, now for this next part we're not going to use the picture…well in a way we are, but this lesson requires you to keep your cool while on a date with a living pony."

"So, you're gonna put the picture over your face and pretend to be Rarity or something?" Spike asked raising an eye brow.

"Not quite." I said while smirking.

8 minutes later

Jeff was sitting on the other side of the table with the picture of Rarity over his face, I couldn't see his face but I knew he was pissed.

I then placed a hoof on Spike's back. "Ok Spike, just act as though you're on your date with the beautiful Rarity…even though it's just Jeff."

"You know, I don't need this." Jeff said with his face still covered by the picture.

I just shook my head and went back to Spike. "Now, show us what'cha got."

Spike then took a sip from his drink, put the cup down and looked at the picture. "You look lovely tonight Rarity." He said with water pouring out his mouth.

I gave him an awkward look. "That was wrong, wasn't it?" Spike said not even bothering to turn to me.

I gave Spike some paper towels so he could clean up the water. "Ya think? Let's try again, Jeff ya ready?"

I didn't get an answer; all I got was snoring coming from where Jeff was.

"Is he sleeping?" Spike asked.

I walked up to Jeff. "Jeff wake up." I said as I pushed him slightly.

"Wha?...Is the date over?" Jeff asked in a tired tone.

"No, you fell asleep." I said in a slightly irritated tone.

"Well can you blame me? The guy could put Pinkie to sleep." Jeff said witch made Spike frown.

I walked over to Spike. "Don't listen to him Spike, you'll get the hang of it. You just need a bit more practise."

Spike got off his chair and stood in front of me. "What's the point? I've been doing things for Rarity ever since I met her and she's never even thought about going out with me."

I tapped my chin. "Maybe there's another way to get Rarity to like you."

Spike sat on the floor. "Fat chance, once Rarity sees it's me she'll just turn me down."

Spike's frown grew bigger as I was trying to think of something else. Until I got an idea. "Wait, what if she doesn't see you and still learn of your romantic side."

Spike looked up to me with a confused look on his face. "What do you mean Matt?"

"I mean you can be anonymous, you can send romantic things to her but not let her know it's from you." I said in an excited tone.

Spike raised an eye brow. "Do you really think that'll work?"

I smirked. "Only one way to find out, wait here." I said before I galloped out the front door and into Ponyville.

10 minutes later

Spike was sitting on the chair by the table with Jeff, who had now taken the picture off his face. They were both waiting for me to come back.

I then burst through the door with a bookey of roses in my mouth. I walked up to Spike and laid them on the floor.

Spike raised an eye brow. "What are those for?"

"They're for Rarity, we're gonna take them to her place and you're gonna place them on the door step, ring the doorbell and run away. Easy as that." I said.

Jeff crossed his wings. "Matt, that's never gonna work."

I waved a hoof. "Sure it will, we just need something on it to seal the deal, something that says I admire you from a far." I tapped my chin and tried to think of something.

Spike raised a hand slightly. "Well…Emm…I have these love poem's upstairs and-"

"Well why didn't you say so? Let's see'em." I said cutting Spike off.

Spike then headed up the stairs. After a few minutes, he came back down the stairs with pieces of paper in his hands.

He walked up to me and held out on of the sheets. "Here they are Matt."

I grabbed the paper in my mouth and took it over to the table to lay it down to read it.

Once I reached the table, I laid the paper down and started reading it. After reading the poem, I turned my head to face Spike. "Spike this is really good, did you come up with this by yourself?"

Spike smiled and blushed slightly. "Well…yeah."

I was amazed by how he could wright something like this by himself; I then gave him a big smile. "Well, we've definitely found our anonymous message. Now, let's get over there and do this thing."

Spike then had a nervous look on his face. "You mean, right now? As in…right NOW, right now?"

I walked behind him. "Yes right NOW, right now let's go." I then suck my head through his legs and scooped him up onto my back, grabbed the roses in my mouth and galloped out the door.

After we were gone, Jeff was just sitting on the table. "I'll just wait here then."

Rarity's Boutique

Me and Spike were hiding behind a bush in front of Rarity's place, watching Rarity walk inside and shut the door behind her.

I turned my head to Spike. "Ok Spike, she's inside. Now take to roses, go over there, place the roses on her doorstep, ring the doorbell and run back here before she answers it."

Spike picked up the roses. "Oh is that all?" he said sarcastically.

"We're about to find out no GO." I said as I pushed him out the bush. He then made his way towards the Boutique.

Once he reached the door step he gulped, placed the roses by the door, rang the doorbell and ran as fast as he could back to the bush.

"You do it?" I asked as I poked my head out the bush. "GET DOWN." Spike yelled as he jumped over the bush while tackling me to the ground.

The moment we hit the ground, Rarity opened the door and looked around for whoever rang her bell. She then noticed the bookey of roses on the ground.

"I wonder who could have sent these." She asked herself as she picked the bookey up with her magic and went back inside with the door shutting behind her.

Me and Spike then got up off the ground and looked to the door to see the roses were gone. "Nice, she's taken them. Now let's get out of here before somepony sees us."

"I'm with you on that." Spike said before he climbed up on my back. Once he was on my back, I galloped off back towards the library.

Meanwhile, Rarity was sitting on her big red chair smelling the roses. She then pulled the roses away from her nose. "These are lovely, who could have sent them?"

She the noticed the note attached to the roses, picked it up with her magic and hovered it in front of her face and stared reading it.

A poem to Rarity.

There are times of when I feel so lonely, and I need the concert of a beautiful pony.

The light of the sun cannot compare, to the glow and shine within your hair.

All the diamonds in the world will weep, over the sparkle within your eyes I meet.

In all the days that I'll live through, my heart will always belong to you.

Rarity was stunned by the poem's words. "That was the most beautiful thing I've ever read, who could have written something so heart-warming." She thought. She looked at the bottom of the note only to find the words From your secret admirer.

Rarity's eyes widened slightly with a small smile on her face. "A secret admirer? I have a secret admirer."

She then got off the chair and jumped up and down on the spot while screaming in an excited way.

Library

Me and Spike burst through the front door and slammed it behind us; I was breathing heavily trying to catch my breath.

"Well…..that was…..fun" I said between breaths.

"Do you think she liked it?" Spike asked before climbing off my back, I then turned around and sat down in front of him.

"I don't know, but me and Twilight are going to see her and the others tomorrow at the café, so I can ask her then."

Spike then grew a big smile on his face. "I just can't believe I actually did this. I mean, I never had the guts to do something like this but I did and it's all thanks to you, thanks Matt." With that, he gave me a tight hug around my hips.

I smiled down at him and returned the hug. "Don't mention it buddy." We then heard a fake cough from somepony beside us.

We looked down to see Jeff with his wings crossed and an eye brow raised. "So, how was Rarity?...Not that I would know or anything."

Me and Spike looked at each other and then back at Jeff with sheepish smiles on our faces.

Meanwhile: Far away dark mountains

One of the silhouetted alicorns was in the throne room sitting on its throne.

Then another silhouetted alicorn entered the throne room with Discord by its side, the alicorn then kneeled down to the other.

"Brother, I have brought you Discord like you asked." the male voice said.

The other alicorn then came down from his throne and walked up to Discord.

"So what's this all about?" Discord asked in a not so interested tone.

"Well Discord, I've been giving it some thought and found a way that you can redeem yourself after your little blunder at the castle." The dark male voice said.

"Hey, we all make mistakes." Discord said.

The alicorn gave him a slight glare. "I can't afford mistakes Discord…..and I can't afford interruptions ether so that is why you're here."

Discord raised an eye brow. "What do you mean?"

The alicorn turned around and walked over to the large green pool. "I have noticed lately that the green Pegasus Emm….Matthew I believe his name is, and his friends have become somewhat of a nuisance and….I think they're too dangerous to my plans to be kept alive….so, you're going to go back to Ponyville, find this Matthew and kill him and any other pony who stands in your way." The dark male voiced alicorn said turning his head to face Discord.

"WHAT?" Discord yelled with his eyes wide open.

The second alicorn took a step forward. "With all due respect Brother, why not send me to kill him? I will crush him and all of Ponyville with just one hoof." The second male alicorn said.

The other alicorn raised a hoof. "No, we cannot reveal ourselves just yet, but everypony has already seen Discord so he will be the one to kill him."

Discord then had a nervous look on his face. "Well….then we're going to have a problem because….I only make harmless chaos. I don't actually kill anypony….it's just not me."

The alicorn the approached Discord slowly. Discord was so full of fear that he fell to his knees and lowered his ears.

The alicorn then lowered his head so he was glaring down at Discord. "You will make it you…..or we will take away the two things that are most close to you."

Discord was shaking slightly. "L…like what?"

The alicorn grinned evilly. "Well…first, we'll take away half your magic and your name. After that you'll no longer be known as the spirit of chaos and disharmony; you'll be known as the spirit of NOTHING. And they all count as one of the things we'll take."

Discord gulped hard. "Th…then what's the second?"

"The second…is." The alicorn then leaned in to Discord's ear and whispered something to him that made Discord's eyes shoot open in horror, the alicorn then pulled away from Discord.

"You wouldn't, you can't." Discord said in a horrified tone.

"I would and I can, but you can prevent this from happening as long as you do exactly as I say exactly how I say it….are we clear?" the dark voiced male alicorn said.

Discord then lowered his head "Yes….we're clear." He said in an upset tone.

The alicorn grinned evilly again. "Good…..now go, you have a job to do."

With that, Discord got up off the ground and snapped his fingers. In a flash of light, Discord was gone.

The second alicorn then walked up to the other. "That fool is now under our control, but I still think you should have let me go. What if Discord tries to bail out?" the male alicorn said.

The other alicorn then turned around to face his throne. "Then you and our sister will have the pleasure of punishing him if he does, but you're going to make sure he doesn't disappoint me." The alicorn said as he walked back to his throne.

The second alicorn nodded his head. "As you wish brother." With that, red flame formed around the alicorn and when the flames faded, the alicorn was gone.

The alicorn on the throne then gave an evil smile and chuckled evilly.

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Goodnight everypony.