Chapter 8 : Cure In Progress

The ponies and dragon ran through the Everfree Forest as fast as they could go. Spike was checking every once in a while to see if he still held the key to Twilight's cure in his claws. He sighed every time he saw that the grey fur was still in his grasp. When he looked up from checking on the fur, the baby dragon noticed that the they were slowly gaining more ground that him. Spike realized that his legs were not as long as theirs'. He stopped abruptly when a large, black werewolf jumped out on the path in front of him, snarling. He turned tail and ran, but he didn't get far before a slightly smaller mocha one stalked out of a bush. "Help!" Spike cried as the werewolves slowly advanced towards him. Spike suddenly bumped into something. He turned around, expecting one of the others, but to his horror, he was standing in front of the huge brute none other than Twilight. "Uh h-hi T-T-Twi..." Spike stammered. He looked into the beasts eyes, but didn't see the lively, kin expression that pony-Twilight's eyes held. Instead, he saw savagery and coldness in the eyes of the dark lavender werewolf. The red light of the blood moon shone upon the two as Twilight raised her claws with a snarl. Spike felt utterly defeated. He backed away slowly, tears streaming down his cheeks as he waited for the inevitable. Twilight seemed to hesitate. Spike looked up at her with watery eyes to see that her face was less tense, her snarl leaving and her mouth just hung open. The two werewolves behind them also seemed to stop in their tracks, staring up at the sky. Spike also looked up to see that the sun was just appearing above the hills. A crack that made Spike cringe came from Twilight, making her roar in pain. The other two werewolves had already collapsed and were writhing with pain as they shrunk in size. Their yelps and whines turned to screams and moans as their snouts shortened and their paws turned to hooves. Eventually, three uncoincious ponies surrounded Spike. He cautiously approached Twilight as she lifted her head and looked at him with groggy, pained eyes. "Huh? Where am I?" She stood shakily to her hooves and looked at the other two ponies. A grey one with an auquamarine mane that had a green-outlined black dragon as a cutie mark stood up and looked around, confused. The other pony was a light chestnut with a black mane and a wolf cutie mark was already up and running away towards the cave. The grey pegasus approached Spike and Twilight. "Woah, what happened?"

"That's what I'm wondering." Twilight responded. She looked down at Spike, who was huddled against her leg, staring in fright at the other pony. "Spike? What's the matter?"

"T-t-that's on wolf the werewolves that was chasing us!" Spike replied, giving details about the whole situation to the two.

"Werewolf?" The pegasus replied in shock. "How could this be?" He started pacing. "Oh, forgive me, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Dragonfeather, but most people call me Dragon." Twilight and Dragon shook hooves and started walking towards Ponyville.

"My friend Fluttershy is helping with the cure for me. Tell me, do you know which werewolf infected you?" Twilight asked, looking at the scars on his cutie mark.

"I'm pretty sure that it was the one I was with, the brown one." Spike suddenly brightened up and ran back to the scene where he was attacked. He scanned the bush where the brown werewolf attacked from, and there it was. A tuft of brown fur. Spike smiled and ran back to the others, both claws clutching both of the ponies' cure. He smiled gleefully and ran back to the others. "Hey! Dragonfeather!" Spike ran up to the werewolf-pegasus and proudly showed him the fur. Dragonfeather's face seemed to light up, and without hesitation, he took the fur.

"My friends are working on the cure right now." Twilight said as she started trotting down the path towards Fluttershy's cottage. "Follow me!" Spike and Dragonfeather ran ad caught up to the lavender unicorn mare.

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A sickly green liquid was bubbling in the cauldron. A zebra mare was putting herbs and powders, and finally took out a flower that looked like a horseshoe. She took off the horseshoe part and dropped it into the mix. It sizzled and popped, and finally it turned a bright orange. She smiled in satisfaction. Nearby, a yellow pegasus mare watched closely as the zebra mumbled words in hot native language. "Oh, Twilight..." Thought the pegasus. "You'll come back to us eventually..."

Alright guys! That's the end of book one! That's right, there's more books! I'm planning to have about 3 books, each 8 or more chapters. No more short chapters! I hope you enjoyed book One of Curse on Equestria!