The Rise of Spike the Dragon

By: MasterBrony Forever

I would like to thank Jorge Nagorski for Pre-Reading and Editing!

And a very special thanks to MC-W1SH for his help with the a revised build up!

DISCLAIMER: This is a non-profit fanbased work of prose. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the property of Hasbro, and the reinvention of the lovely Lauren Faust. No copyright infringement is intended, please support the official release.

“SPIKE WHERE ARE YOU?!” a lavender unicorn yelled.

We are at the home of Twilight Sparkle and her faithful assistant Spike. Spike is a small baby dragon, with purple scales. His under belly, spines, and eyes that are a brilliant emerald green. He was assigned as to Twilight Sparkle by her mentor and ruler of the land Princess Celestia.

“I heard you,” Spike called from the upper floor of the library. He walked down the stairs so as to see Twilight, “What do you need,” Spike asked rubbing the back of his head.

“I need you to pack my bags for my visit to Canterlot,” Twilight said frantically rushing around the library floor looking for anything she may need.

‘Oh yeah that’, Spike thought in frustration, ‘I got woken up so early because of that message.’

Spike’s dragon breathing was altered soon after Twilight hatched him. He could use it to send and get messages that Celestia and Twilight exchanged. For him this could be a pain if he was sleeping or carrying out a conversation with somepony. It was one of the many things that annoyed him overall.

“Spike did you even hear me?” Twilight said, getting the young drake out of his trance.

“Huh…yeah whatever.” Spike said flatly.

He went up to the room he and Twilight shared and reached up her bed to get out a rather over sized suitcase. He loaded the usually thing Twilight forced him to pack whenever she left for Canterlot. Once he had tripled checked everything was ready, so Twilight wouldn't go crazy over not having a certain quill again, he lugged the suitcase down the flight of stairs to an angry looking mare.

“What took you so long? I have to leave now!” Twilight stomped a hoof out of impatience.

“Well maybe if you would have helped it would have been down faster,” Spike rebutted, blowing a puff of smoke and clenching his fist.

“I don’t have time for this,” Twilight said taking the bags.

Spike had been fed up with Twilight and how she pushed him around all the time. Even when he did everything exactly the way what she wanted him to, he never got any words of thanks from her. Spike was being used like some kind of rag, one that could be thrown away once it has outgrown its usefulness.

He thought back to the previous week...

Spike slowly opened his eyes when he heard Twilight calling his name. "SPIKE, GET DOWN HERE NOW!" She screamed.

Spike sighed, Twilight and her friends had just gotten back from Canterlot the night before. She had been too tired, as she put it, to do anything other than pass out on the floor. And that's just what she did.

Spike clambered out of his small basket and slowly walked down the stairs. He remembered the past weekend, he found a letter left by her, stating that she, her friends, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders had all left for Canterlot on an important assignment. Which really ticked him off. He was more mature than the Cutie Mark Crusaders. It was still a mystery to him why they wanted to bring them. If anything, the Cutie Mark Crusaders would just jeopardize the mission.

"SPIKE!" Twilight called again, even though the young drake was directly behind her.

"Jeez, Twi." Spike groaned as he covered his ears. "Care to tone it down a bit?" He asked.

Twilight spun around and faced Spike. "Spike," She said, as calmly as possible. "Do you care to explain this mess?" She said, motioning to the library floor behind, which was filled with mounds of disorganized books.

"Oh, yeah. About that." Spike said nonchalantly. "After you got home from Canterlot, you fell asleep at the bottom of the stairs, I had to carry you up and put you into your bed. I thought that you would stay there, but you didn't. You got up in the middle of the night and took all the books off of their shelves." He finished.

Twilight stared at him for a few moments, "Spike, tell me the truth. Why are all the books out of place. Did you do this?" She asked sternly.

Spike's jaw had fallen open. Twilight hadn't believed him when he told her what she had done last night. "Twilight! I am telling the truth. I saw you with my own eyes. You got up, walked down the steps, and proceeded to remove every book." Spike explained.

"Uh huh, so what you're saying is that I did this?" She asked, obviously getting frustrated.

"Exactly."

"Well, then." She said. "That is the biggest lie I have ever heard! I wouldn't do something like this. You know what I think? I think that you didn't do your chores over the weekend and this is what happened." She said motioning, once again, to the mess behind her.

"But, Twi..." Spike started to say.

"No 'buts'. I want you to clean up this mess right now!" She said, her voice gradually rising in frustration.

Spike finally gave in, "Fine." He said.

Twilight seemed to calm down a bit as she watched Spike start putting back the books.

While Twilight was relaxing with her morning coffee, Spike's mind was full of thoughts. Making me clean up her mess. Dumb Twilight. Hmmph, all I ever do is act as her slave. That last thought stopped his work. It was right, all he ever did was act like her slave. And what do all slaves eventually do? They revolt. And that is what Spike was doing right now. Revolting.

"Hey Twi." He called from the messy floor.

As Twilight walked out of the kitchen she started to get angry again. "Spike, I thought I told you to clean up your mess."

"No." He stated matter-of-factly.

"What did you say?" She asked him, her patience wearing thin.

"I said, no. I will not clean up your mess."

"And why won't you clean up your mess?" She asked.

"Because I don't want to.” He replied, his voice getting louder.

Instantly Spike was lifted up by Twilight's magic field and was carried off to there shared room.

"Put me down!" Spike yelled.

"Fine then," Twilight said dropping him onto the floor. "Well until you learn to behave you are on a time out."

Spike was rubbing him rump in pain, which instantly stopped when he heard what Twilight had said.

"You can't do this!"

"Watch me," She said closing and magically locking the door.

"Twilight! Twilight!" Spike shouted as he pounded on the door, "TWILIGHT!"

“STOP!” Spike roared, his eyes glowing bright.

Twilight turned around and was about ready to scold him again when until she saw the expression of pure hatred and rage. Twilight was a little startled at first but stood her ground.

“What do you want Spike?”

“I want you to stop treating me like a slave!” He huffed.

Twilight was aghast at this, never before had Spike been so enraged about anything.

“I don’t treat you...” She was cut off by a jet of green flames being shot at her. She yelp and jumped away as felt the heat from the flames.

Spike turned to face her and began to walk forward, his fist clenched. Twilight backed away until her flank bumped against the far wall.

“So you don’t classify leaving me here to do all the chores while you go out and have fun on adventures? Making me clean all the messes you make! Not even getting a ‘Thank you Spike’!”

Twilight was shaking slightly in fear of Spikes fury, "Spike, please calm down.” She said, quivering.

“Calm down?! Calm down?! I will not calm down! You and you're friends always take advantage of me! Rarity uses my feeling for her as a tool, to make me work for her so she doesn't have to! I don’t even love her anymore! I hate it when Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie me about my lack of wings! I hate it when Fluttershy just thinks of me as a BABY! Do you know how that feels?! Of course you don’t! You know what else I hate?! I hate how you leave me out of every single adventure you go on! Now more than ever! You brought the BUCKING Cutie Mark Crusaders! I am more mature than they’ll ever be! YOU ALL ARE THE WORST! THE ABSOLUTE WORST!!!!! "

Spike was shooting fire with every breath now. Twilight was laying on the ground covering her head with her hooves as the flames flew through the air around her. Every once and awhile embers or just the flames themselves would catch on her giving her serious burns . She was practically crying at this point, praying to Celestia he would stop so she could talk to him.

Then was a moment of silence and all that could be heard was the heavy breathing of a little baby dragon. Twilight opened her eyes to see Spike, but all she saw him making his way for the door, he was leaving.

“Spike wait,” Twilight squeaked out grabbing Spike’s tail between her teeth, while trying to think of a way to keep Spike from leaving.

Spike felt his tail being tugged back by Twilight, “Let GO!”

*SMACK*

Spike’s claws made contact with the lavender unicorn cheek. The sound rang out through the library as Twilight fell to the ground. Twilight couldn't move for a moment, once she could she put her hoof up to where Spike had his her. She felt a warm liquid like substance leak from her cheek onto her hoof.

Spike looked at his claw with an emotionless expression, the red liquid oozed down in his claw at an extremely slow rate. It was blood, Twilight’s blood.

“Sp-Sp-Spike...”

Before she could speak again he gave her another hit, but this one much stronger then the last.

Spike looked to the unicorn, “Consider that a warning. If you try to stop me or find me I will make sure you get more than a little cut.” With a flick of his wrist he flung the blood from his claw onto the floor next to Twilight creating a crescent moon.

And with that he walked out the door and closed it. Never looking back, never to return.

Twilight was left in the middle of the main floor of the library crying and bleeding. Thinking about what she could have done to prevent her number one faithful assistant from leaving. She cried until she couldn't cry anymore as she passed out...

I know it was a little dark near the end for the first chapter but you should have seen the Dark tag. But not all the chapters will be like this, I may throw something dark in every now and them but it will adventure for the most part.

Again I would like to thank Jorge Nagorski for Pre-Reading and Editing, and very special thanks to MC-W1SH for his help with the a revised build up!