My Little Hunchback Of Notre Dame

Chapter 9

Once Applejack and Apple Bloom were out of sight, Spike climbed up the tower. As soon as he reached the edge, AJ appeared, and grabbed his claw, startling him in the process. "Howdy there. Ah'm looking for the earth pony." AJ said. "Have you seen her?" Spike got angry at the pony soldier, and took a swing at him as he said "Whoa, whoa! Easy!" Spike grabbed a torch, and started swinging it at AJ as he said "No pony soldiers! Sanctuary! Get out!" As they went down the steps in the tower, AJ said "Wait! All Ah wanted was to-!" Spike interrupted him as he said "Go!" "Ah mean her no harm!" AJ said. Spike growled, and said "Go!" He swung the torch at the pony soldier several times. AJ finally drew his sword, and pinned the torch against the wall as Spike grabbed him by the collar of his uniform. "You tell her for me, Ah didn't mean to trap her here. It was the only way Ah could save her life." AJ said. "Will you tell her that?" Spike didn't respond, and AJ said "Will you?" "If you go. NOW!" Spike said. "Ah'll go." AJ said. "Now, will ya'll put me down please?" Spike realized that he was holding AJ in the air, and he gently placed him down on the steps. "Oh, and one more thing." AJ said. "Tell Applejack she's very lucky." "Why?" Spike asked. "To have a friend like you." AJ said as he put his sword away, and walked off. Spike just stared in confusion.

As Spike walked out of the tower, and made his way to his room, the gargoyle ponies joined their friend, and Pinkie Pie said "Hey, hey! There he is! Congratulations, Spike!" You ejected that tin-plated baboon with great panache!" Rarity said. "The nerve of him! Snooping around here trying to steal your mare!" Pinkie Pie said. "My mare?" Spike asked. "Applejack." Twilight Sparkle said. "Brown hat. Has a little sister. Remember?" "Boy, I do!" Pinkie Pie said. "Way to go, loverdragon!" "Loverdragon?!" Spike asked in shock. "Oh, no, no." "Oh, don't be so modest." Twilight Sparkle said. "Look, I appreciate what you're all trying to do." Spike said. "But let's not fool ourselves. Ugliest face in all of Equestria, remember? I don't think I'm her type." He looked outside, and said "So many times out there, I've watched couples walking in the night. They had a soft glow around them. It almost look like heaven's light." He looked at the toy version of himself, and said "I never knew that warm and loving glow. Though I might wish for it with all my might. No face as hidious as my face was ever meant for heaven's light." As he made a toy version of Applejack, and painted it, he said "But an angel smiled at me, and kissed my cheek without any trace of fright. She might even care for me, and my cold tower seem so bright. I swear it must be heaven's light." He then began ringing the evening bells with a smile on his face.

In the ground level, Fluttershy and a goup of pony monks were walking slowly while sing a song in a different language. At the Palace of Justice, Discord looked out his window, and said "Beatta Maria. You know that I am a rightous creature. Of my virture, I am justly proud." He walked to a fireplace, and saw an image of Applejack dancing in the flames of the burning wood as he said "Beatta Maria, you know I'm so much purer than the common and vulgar earth ponies. So tell me, why do I see her there? Why do her eyes still scorch my soul? I feel and see her! The light caught in her golden mane is blazing in me at an uncontrollable rate. Like hellfire. Like the fire in my skin." He rubbed the scarf that Applejack gave him at the festival against the cheek as he said "This burning desire is turning me to sin, but's not my fault! It was the earth pony witch who sent this flame! Protect me, Maria! Don't let the siren cast her spell! Don't let her fire sear my flesh bone! Destroy Applejack, and let her taste the fires of hell! Or else let her be mine and mine alone!" Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. He turned to see Thunderhooves opening the door, and he said "Minister Discord, the earth pony has escaped." "What?!" Discord asked. "She's nowhere in the cathedral." Thunderhooves said. "She's gone." "But, how?! I...Never mind! Get out, you idiot!" Discord said. As Thunderhooves left the room, Discord looked at the fireplace, and said "I'll find her. I'll find her if I have to burn down all of Equestria!" He threw the scarf in the fireplace, and watched it burn as he said "Earth pony, you will be mine, or you will burn!"