I fell to the ground a little hard, and I looked around now being in Celestia’s throne room, my throne room was in the dragon breeding lands. Celestia looked at us, as Twilight ran up to her. I got up making sure to look uneasy.

“Twilight, what’s wrong?” Celestia asked with concern.

“This isn’t my Spike!” Twilight shouted.

“What?” I waved a little. “What do you mean?”

“I can explain.” They looked at me. “I’m not from this, well world per say. My Twilight, Twilight Ever-Sparkle was going to kill me, I tried to counter with my own magic and, well I switched bodies with your Spike. I think my old body is dead and gone by now, along with your Spike.”

“Please tell me there’s something you can do, I need Spike!” Twilight begged and Celestia looked down.

“I am sorry Twilight, but there is nothing. I have heard of this before, happening, maybe once or twice, but it cannot be done again. He is stuck in this world, and our Spike is stuck in his world. You cannot go backwards, only move onto the next world. I am sorry Spike, but you will not be able to go back.”

“Thank god.” I said.

“God?” Celestia asked.

“Who is god?” Twilight asked.

“Oh it’s a deity, the creator of everything, a religion on my world.”

“Wait, then you want to stay here?” Rarity asked with tears in her eyes and I swallowed nervously.

“No,” Twilight growled. “I want my Spike!” Twilight said becoming angrier.

“Don’t be so child!” I shouted and covered my mouth, and they all stared at me. “I, I’m sorry, but this world is, is perfect!” I said sounding desperate. “Everything here is perfect, I’m sorry about your Spike, I truly am, but I don’t care.” I wasn’t about to let them ruin my fun for a stupid baby dragon.

“I need my Spike!” Twilight shouted at me.

“Here I don’t get raped, beaten, or yelled at for the littlest thing. If I would have to, I would fight for this world. That Spike is dead, I know I couldn’t have lived. The spell would have killed me, and I’m a million times more powerful than your Spike. I know that sounds wrong, and in so many ways it is, but please, I can’t go back even if you had a way to send me back there.”

“I am sorry Twilight Sparkle,” Celestia said. “But there is nothing you or I can do, I spent nearly a hundred years looking into it, Star Swirl the Bearded was from another world as well. He was from a world, ruled by a version of Spike.” I paused, I wanted to laugh, one of my greatest foes had disappeared from my world, and came to this one! Though he had started out as my ally in the first place.

“Wait what?” I asked, while it made my mouth water imagine tasting his flesh, this was fact was shocking, moving through worlds is hard and pinning down a certain time is very hard to do without the right amount of power. No two worlds moved at the same pace.

“He was a great unicorn, he passed a long time ago though.” I looked down. DAMN IT ALL! I wanted to kill him, that’s just not fair.

“I knew a Star Swirl from my world, he was a great friend and ally, he was, skinned by my Luna and eaten by timber wolves.” Their eyes went wide. Oh how I wanted that to be true, no I had done that to several ponies, just not him, he just up and disappeared. “Also even if your Spike is alive in my body, he, well he won’t be for long. I couldn’t even match Twilight from my world, she would kill him in seconds, my magic was only second rate to hers.” Tears ran down Twilight’s face and Rarity’s face as well.

“So you can use magic?” Celestia asked.

“Yes, my world is a few hundred years further along than yours I think. I was surprised that you didn’t have anything I was used to.”

“Celestia,” Twilight cried begging. “Please, please, do something, help me get Spike! I don’t want him to die!”

“It would have been a quick death.” They looked at me. “He wouldn’t have felt anything, I swear to you, he wouldn’t have suffered a moment. Many of my friends fell to the same fate, none of them suffered. It would have been over in an instant.”

“NO!” Rarity shouted crying.

“You will never be Spike!” Twilight shouted at me furious. She went over to me. “Get out of his body!” I stepped back.

“Please, killing me will do you no good!” She stepped back as if it had just punched her in the gut. “I’m a good dragon, please, I would have let her kill me if I knew. This world doesn’t deserve to lose an innocent dragon. Please find a way to morn him, but not with my corpse!” She fell back shaking as tears went down her face.

“Twilight, please go tell the others,” Rarity said getting up and Twilight looked at her for a moment. “I-I please I don’t, I can’t, I need to go!” She ran off crying.

If it wasn’t for the fact chasing her down would only hurt me in this position, I would have, and done so much more, I loved chasing my Rarity, but it was not the time or the place. I looked down acting sad.

So much lying, this was going to be hard to keep everything straight, in fact I bet their Spike was just sitting in a dungeon somewhere in my castle! Probably panicked and confused, a spell like that wouldn’t have actually even tickled me, now that I saw the affects, it would only make me a bit annoyed. They were probably planning on a way to kill that Spike, but then again they did have to now deal with half my guard.

“I have to go tell everyone.” Twilight said teleporting and I reached out my claw toward her.

“Spike, that is your name?” Celestia asked, I swallowed a little.

“Please, I, excuse me if I’m rude, but in my world, you, well you were a monster, you raised Twilight to, to become something else. So please don’t mind my fear, I mean you no disrespect.”

“It is quite alright, Spike was my friend as well. I will miss him greatly, but I cannot morn yet, you are probably without home now. I do not see a way of you living with Twilight again, or in Ponyville in general.”

“I see, that is fine, I can make my own way.”

“But one thing is a little off.”

“What’s that?”

“I was informed of Fluttershy, and everything that conspired.” I frowned, this had completely destroyed my other lies, and she knew it. This Celestia was going to be much smarter than mine, which meant cunning of plans could not be overlooked.

“What about it?”

“I know the Chrysalis Queen is not back, the few blanks about what happen have now been filled, expect one. You attacked Fluttershy, do not deny it. You choked her, changed form, and kissed her, the only thing I’m confused about is. Why did she have a broken leg when you were found, she looked like she fallen from a tree.”

“We really were attacked by a creature, we fell out of the sky, but I might have taken advantage of the situation, a little bit.”

“Why would you do such a thing?”

“I, she, the Fluttershy in my world was my lover, she was, well this one, is so quiet, I, I’m sorry. She didn’t, I, I have no excuse.” It wasn’t exactly a lie, we had fallen in love, but only for her to turn on me later, I had enjoyed killing her above all else.

“You’re world must be a nightmare then.”

“No, it’s so much worse than a nightmare, because at least you wake up from a nightmare, there you don’t, you wake into one, not from. Fluttershy in my world was killed by a dragon, she was so wonderful, she was.”

“A great pony?”

“A great leader, she was the last leader of the resistance, when we lost her, everything fell. Over two thirds of the ponies alive died on that day, no one could stop it, and I was the last to resist. In fact I welcomed death, but in my last moments, I was, I was too much of a coward to die, and now.” Tears ran down my race.

WOW, I couldn’t tell you how long that’s been, I hadn’t cried since her death actually, and that’s because I was sad I didn’t kill her slower.

“Don’t.” I looked at her.

“I cost you your dragon’s life, an innocent dragon!” I shouted. “I am a murder!”

“No!” Her voice made me pause, and a real pause, not a fake one.

Her power made mine seem like a shadow. This Celestia, she was a god compared to me, she was so powerful, my body trembled and I fell back as shock went across my face. Even Luna and Celestia from my world weren’t anywhere near this powerful, or I wouldn’t have lasted a day.

“I.” I trembled holding my arm and she looked down. I had never been scared, and she scared me, this world just became my grave if I couldn’t get an edge on them. “Y-y-y-y.” I couldn’t even finish a word.

“I’m sorry, I did not mean to scare you.” I swallowed standing up. I was glad I didn’t show my true intentions, I would have been easily killed. It didn’t matter if they were hundreds of years behind, they had real power, more than I dared dream here. While my real power was cut from me, I still had more than my Celestia and Luna combine normally.

“It’s, fine,” I said realizing I was crying from fear. “Please, I didn’t mean anything, I’m just, I’m so sorry.”

“There’s nothing that can be done now, but from the sounds of it, your world has nothing left for you. If Spike is dead, then there is nothing that can be done, do not let wanting to live make you regret living over another.

“But.”

“Understand I loved Spike, and it is hard for me to say this to you, but it is not your fault. Do not let a mishap.” She cleared her throat. “Do not let a mishap be a bad thing. Now please, guard, go with Spike, and show him to a room. I must be alone for a while.”

“Yes Celestia.” Celestia got up and left.

I followed a guard to a room and I jumped onto a bed looking at my hands. They were trembling, the fear, the fear was delicious, even my own was priceless, I loved this world, devouring it would be so sweet.

“Spike.” I looked at a guard. “Do you need anything to eat?”

“Yes please.” The guard left and I fell back rolling up into a ball trying to slow my heart down, my magic stopped physical pain, but not the fast or hard beating of my heart. Each beat made me shake, I was just so small. I lay there for a while and a guard brought me food. I ate a bit of it and sighed.

“Celestia gave me this to give you.” I looked at the guard and he gave me a scroll, I opened it and looked at it. Tears stained the paper from Celestia’s tears. This Spike was dear to them, something important, and I had taken it, the feeling was beautiful.

“Spike, I am sorry I lost myself in front of you, my Spike was a dear friend of mine, as was he with every pony. He will be greatly missed. It is not your fault, please understand and accept that, Twilight and her friends will probably not be happy with you, I have informed them of what you’ve done. Their rage will be high, but I explained what happen, they will understand it if comes from me. You should probably go live with dragons, there is no place for you here. If you need anything please ask, and the guards will supply you with what you need.” I looked at the guard handing it back.

“Celestia said give you anything you need, and then lead you out of the castle.” I chuckled a little bit. If I wanted to I could go back, it would be relatively easy to switch minds again having already reversed the spell, and she wouldn’t suddenly kill my body if it started acting like a baby, at least not for a while.

“No I don’t need anything, thank you.” He stepped to the side wanting me to follow him, and I hopped off the bed. He held out a small bag.

“Some gold bits for you to buy food or anything else, Celestia said to give you it.” I took it looking inside. It had a map, a small bag of gold bits, some gems, and a small bag of food, a basic travel kit for a dragon. I followed him out of the castle not running into any pony along the way, not even guards. We got out of castle and I let out a sigh of relief.

“Thanks.”

“No problem, just take my word if nothing else, stay away, I’ve never seen Celestia so saddened by something.”

“I get the feeling ponies don’t die around here.”

“Only from old age.”

“Got it.” I turned and started walking till I was out of sight. I groaned making wings grow out of my back, and changing color to my normal colors so I wouldn’t be noticed. I flew for a while before getting too tired and landing.

Ponies looked at me as I walked down the street, the sun set and I sighed sitting down against a wall tired. I hadn’t gotten used to this body yet, in fact my wings would only carry me so far, and changing form took too much energy to do.

I probably had a teleport or two in me, but where was I going to go? It was going to take me years to gain enough power to do much of anything, and even then, I couldn’t even challenge that Celestia, much less beat her. I could only imagine at this point how powerful their Luna was, and their Twilight Sparkle. The three together could probably kill me in seconds. I didn’t have a chance in battle.

“Everything alright?” I looked at a weird creature. “Oh I’m sorry, my name’s Discord, you may not know me, but whatever has gotten a baby blue dragon, so blue?” He asked chuckling a little.

“I’m not sad, just a little tired.”

“Oh, shouldn’t you be in the nesting grounds?”

“You don’t know much about dragons do you?” He chuckled.

“I guess I don’t, care to inform me?”

“I’m looking for a gem, and not a normal one, it would be very large, about the size of a castle. Do you know where one might be?” He paused.

“I can’t say I do, this gem must be very important, for you to go looking for it at such a young age.”

“Not really, actually it won’t matter if I find it or not, I don’t want to go back where I came from, this place is so nice. If I went back now they would.” I chuckled, I would probably kill them all.

“They would what?”

“Kill me.”

“Is that so.” I yawned. “Well if you don’t want to go back, then stay here. Surely there would be no problem with that, some nice pony will take you into their home.” I chuckled a little bit, and looked up.

“If I don’t go back then someone innocent will die in my place.” His eyes went wide and his head twisted around.

“Quite the predicament you have, how long do you have to decide? Or how long do you have to look?”

“I probably have a day, maybe two at most, then he’ll probably be put to death for my mistake. Of course I would only be going in his place.”

“Is he your brother?” I smirked a little.

“No, this is his body though.”

“Body switching can be nasty business.”

“What do you mean? Have you done it before?”

“Yep, found out if the mind of the original body dies, then the body dies as well, doesn’t matter if another mind is in the body or not. The body will slowly reject the new host till it stops working and dies.” I stared at him.

“What?!” I shouted as I got up.

“Yeah, sorry for the bad news.” I chuckled a little bit.

“Oh this is so not my day.” I growled as I teleported to the throne room and Celestia looked at me with surprise.

“Spike, what are you doing here?”

“I just found out if your Spike dies, I die! That means I’m still alive, my body is still alive on the other side, then I can return to it.”

“I told you before it’s impossible.”

“No it isn’t, I saw the spell they used, I know how to reverse it, I can return to my body, then I can teleport back here with my body, possibly. Both of our bodies and minds would be alive. All I need is a list of things, some large paper and engraving blood.”

“Engraving blood?” A guard asked.

“That’s dark magic,” Celestia said. “It is forbidden in this land.”

“I don’t care, get me some.” She got up. “Very well, but it will take me a little. I’m not sure how long.”

“Think of it like this, every second you spend here is a second he loses, that I lose to Twilight.”

“Fine, I'll get it, give your list to that guard and he will fetch it.” She ran out of the room and he brought me everything I needed. I set everything up and she came back two hours later with a bottle. She handed it to me.

“Good, this is perfect.” A flash of light made us turn and Twilight appeared from a teleport spell.

“Twilight.” Celestia said surprised.

“I realized that I want you dead,” she said growling at me. “I don’t care if you are from another world. I’m going to kill you and make sure Spike doesn’t suffer, I don’t care if it’s impossible. I’ll make it possible, no matter what.” Her horn glowed with a dark magic making me get up.

“Twi.” Celestia started and I held up my hand to Celestia stopping her. I needed to absorb a magic blast or I wouldn’t have enough power for a return trip. I quickly pulled a gem from my bag. Twilight fired at me and I held up a black gem absorbing all the magic power she shot, and she stopped after realizing I had absorbed her blast.

“Thank you Twilight, that’s exactly what I needed.” I ate it feeling the power course through me.

“Twilight stop,” Celestia said quickly. “This Spike was lying, he realized that there is a way to save Spike, and that if he dies then Spike dies, or if Spike dies, then he does. So don’t try to kill him again please. I had never thought about using dark magic to cross worlds, it is normally so wrong I never even considered it, I made it forbidden for a reason. Also Star Swirl the Bearded never knew how he came here, so we never really figured it out.”

“Wait, so he knew a way?!” She shouted furious as tears went down her face.

“I thought your Spike was dead!” I shouted back, I looked at her. “I didn’t realize till later that we are connected! I don’t bring the dead back!”

“You can bring the dead back?” A guard asked and I rolled my eyes.

“Yes, I’ve done it before, raised an entire army to fight for me, it was wrong, but it had to be done, or well, it might have been done in vain, either way. Stop please, let me finish, once I’m done you can kill me, everyone knows I deserve far worse after all this.”

“Do it Spike.” Celestia said. I started writing with a quill after dipping it into the engraving blood. I finished after a while and smiled seeing the seal. The paper dried with perfect writing. Celestia and Twilight stared at it.

I chuckled a little seeing it. Seals were different from spells, they didn’t use direct magic, making it impossible to stop one which is properly casted. They use magic from the things around it, they offer better magic usage, but take longer to do. They could often times be considerably more costly to use though.

“Wow, this is amazing.” Twilight said wiping her eyes.

“No, this is war magic,” I said grimly. “There is nothing amazing about this. The price of casting this one spell, will be the lives of dozens of ponies in this world, taking every last bit of magic from their bodies to cast it. They won’t even bit a speck of dust once cast.”

“What?!” Twilight shouted.

“Twilight,” Celestia said. “That blood, links to ponies which are brain dead, they were all going to pass soon anyway, and I got consent from their families. They would rather let them die in honor than in a bed.” Tears went down Twilights face. “And they know it is to save Spike, they dearly love Spike.”

“I know, I know, but that’s so sad.”

“If it makes you feel any better.” She looked at me. “They won’t suffer anymore, being brain dead is no way to live. It’s only another way to make others suffer. One too many times did my friends go brain dead, too many pony won’t let them die, they are only living corpses, not living ponies.” I smirked a little, I couldn’t hold it back much more. This world was just too funny.

Personally I had done it to Flutter- birdie’s forces because it would take supplies, soldiers, food, water everything to take care of them. Many ponies were too kind to let friends and family die, because they were brain dead, it more than often than not that it caused entire armies to split apart because of it.

However this Celestia could be an even greater monster than me, mostly because she could kill with kindness and ponies would thank her for it.

“That doesn’t make me feel better.” I smiled, a weakness I could use later.

“Good, then you aren’t a monster.” Condemning evil yet plainly doing it, this world was more wonderful than I could imagine. When I took it over, I could see ponies begging for me to kill them.

“Thank you.” Celestia said. I felt the paper and it glowed. I closed my eyes breathing out the magic, and then in as everything changed around me.

“I’m back.” I whispered opening my eyes on the inside of a dungeon ceil inside my own castle. I grinned widely feeling my power unlock in this world, this was far from over.

Author's Notes:

okay had forgotten to add where a gem came from and that Celestia actually was wrong about being able to jump worlds, fixed it for those who have already read it
also added in spells and seals are different