Spike sat outside the doors, sucking on a ruby. He was waiting for Twilight, his mom, to come back. Spike was a baby dragon and he wasn't allowed in court like Twi, she was an important pony. He was an important pony, that's what Twilight said, but a young important pony and young ponies weren't allowed in court.
Spike sat on the floor, outside the door. Next to him was a massive table, the table had daisies in a golden ball. Hanging off the table was a red cloth, which was fun to use when playing hide and seek. He was tired of waiting and wished she would hurry up. Twilight had left Spike a small amount of rubies to preoccupy his attention but he only had two left because Twilight hadn't left enough and Spike wanted more. He was hungry and he wanted his way. Spike was tempted to interupt court to find Twilight, and demand more rubies.
"Hey, you!" A voice said, Spike wasn't suppose to talk to strangers so he ignored the voice. "I'm talking to you Dragon!" A dragon, Spike had always wanted to meet a dragon. In his books they were heroic creatures. He looked around and only saw a winged creature, the winged creature was charcoal black and grey. She was strange.
"Are you a dragon?" Spike asked, in his books the dragons had scales. Maybe this dragon was a special type, like he was a special type of pony.
The creature began laughing, "I'm not a dragon, I'm a griffon." A griffon?
"A Griffon? What is that? Are you a special type of pony, like me?"
The Griffon began laughing again, "Stop laughing at me!" Spike hated it when ponies laughed at him, the Griffon stopped laughing immediately. Spike began to feel bad, he didn't like ponies yelling at him and Twilight always said treat ponies how you want to be treated. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled"
"It's okay, I shouldn't have laughed. It's just you said something really funny." Spike felt confused, what had he said that was so funny. The Griffon must have sensed his confusion, "you really weren't being funny. A Griffon is half eagle half lion, Griffons are not ponies. We're better than ponies, our wings are stronger then Pegasus and our bodies are stronger then Earth ponies. " The Griffon said, proudly.
"Where do Griffons come from?" Spike asked.
"We're not from Equestria, some of us choose to live here. Our birthplace is very far away in a distant land." Spike had never heard of such as a place. "My name is Talcon, I don't think I caught your name squirt."
"My name is Spike."
"Nice to meet you, Spike. You don't mind if I call you squirt." Spike nodded his head, nopony had ever given him a nickname that he had approved of. "Great! It's nice meet Squirt." Talcon said, warping her wing around his claw.
"Talcon! Talcon!" A voice called from a distant, Spike followed his ears and saw the voice could from another griffon. He watched as Talcon turn to face the other griffon and waved madly.
"Over here Claws!" She then turned back to Spike and spoke to him, while the older griffon walked over. "This is my older sister, Claws." She said pointing to the older griffon.
Spike was awestruck, the older griffon was completely different to Talcon. Claws had long sharp claws coming out of her lion paws, and was much larger then Talcon. "Who is the dragon?" She asked.
"What dragon?" Spike asked, ignoring Talcon who flailing around flapping her wings and making gestures with her paws. He thought it might have been a weird griffon thing, he would mention it to Twilight. She loved researching new things.
Claws began laughing as well, "You're a riot, good choice in friends Tal." She said, hitting her paw on the ground. Talcon began flailing her wings around again, Spike was so confused were all griffons so weird.
"What so funny?" Spike asked, feeling deja vu.
"Nothing, Claws just has a bad sense of humor." Talcon said, giving her sister a nasty glare. Spike began to suck on a ruby again, griffons were scary. Yet Claws looked completely unfased by her sister.
"You! You're pretending you're not a dragon! It's hilarious." Claws said, still laughing.
"I'm not a dragon, I'm a pony." Spike said. The older Griffon began laughing harder, whacking her paw on the ground again. She then turned to her sister, "I change my mind, this dragon is a stupid friend. He doesn't even know what he is."
Tears began running down his eyes, he was a pony. He was Twilight's son. "I'M NOT A DRAGON!" Spike yelled.
Claws then stopped laughing and picked up dragon. Spike began to struggle in her claws, they did not frighten him as his thick skin protected him."Listen Punk, I don't appreciate being yelled at especially if it is by some pony dragon freak." Talcon immediately flew to his rescue, tackling her sister.
Spike crawled under a nearby table, he was scared and nothing made sense. He wanted Twilight, he wanted his mum. But Spike didn't want her to be disappointed in him, but Twilight had lied to him. Was Spike supposed to be disappointed in her, could he trust Twilight. Spike sucked on his last ruby and curled into a small ball, he ignored the fighting outside and he let the tears flow. He needed help, he needed Twilight.
"TWILIGHT!!!!!!" Spike screamed at the top of his little lungs. He wanted his mummy, he wanted the pain to stop. The pain of being lied to, the pain of not knowing who he was and that his identity was being ripped away from her. He wasn't her son anymore, he couldn't crawl into her bed after he had a nightmare. She wouldn't sing or read to him anymore and most importantly she wouldn't care for him anymore.
He saw flashes of magenta through his blurry eyes, she had come. Twilight had come! "Twilight" he whimpered, "mummy" he had finally said it, he closed his eyes this would be the last time he would ever be able to say it. Twilight wouldn't want a dragon like him as her son.
Twilight was sitting beside the Princess on a cushion. The Princess has suggested that she start joining court session, to understand the art of politics. She, however, didn't have any interest in interacting with ponies outside her family, the Princess and Spike.
She had been sitting here for many hours, taking notes on how the Princess handled each situation. Twilight knew that eventually the Princess would expect her to handle court sessions by herself. Twilight had to be prepared so she did not disappoint the Princess by failing ponies at Court.
They were in the middle of a land dispute when Twilight heard a scream, "TWILIGHT!!!!" she had to leave, it was Spike. He needed her. Twilight ran out of court ignoring the whispers and mumurs that followed her. She opened the doors with her magic and saw two griffons fighting. Where was Spike? She had left him right here.
Twilight ignited her magic and pulled apart the two griffons, "Where is my son?!"
The older of the two griffons began laughing, "so you're the mother of that pony dragon freak." Twilight became angry, she felt her magic burn and become hot like fire. She wanted to throw that griffon in a cage and throw away the key. "The second I find that punk, I am going to skin him alive."
"What did you just say?" Twilight asked.
"No wonder he is so stupid, he gets it from his mum. I said I going to skin him alive."
"Are you citizens of Equestria?"
"Yes. What of it."
"Did you know when Spike was born, Princess Celestia immediately placed him and myself under her protection. Harming Spike or myself is like harming or challenging Princess Celestia's authority, which has a very high penalty. Did you also know that Princess Celestia outlawed the collection of other species features without their permission. Spike scales are one of his features as a dragon, but claiming to 'skin him' you would be stealing his scales which is outlawed." Twilight stopped for a moment to gauge the griffon reaction, she was speechless. Perfect, Twilight quickly ripped a piece of paper from her notebook and wrote on it using the quill she had in her saddlebag and yelled, "Guards!"
Two Unicorn guards immediately appeared, "Yes, Miss Sparkle."
"Arrest this griffon." Twilight floated the griffon over with the sheet of paper, she had written on. "here are the charges and if she chooses to resist and take her to court. I am more then happy to be a witness." Twilight watched as the guards, placed the griffon in chains ignoring her and her protests. "Thank you, sirs." Twilight said, now what should she do with the second griffon.
"Now where is my son." Twilight asked, feeling the fiery magic, it begged to be released to find Spike. It nearly overwhelmed her, but Twilight was very controlled with her magic. She controlled it, not the other way around. The Griffon did not say a word, but she did lift a shaky paw and point to a nearby table. "Thank you."
Twilight crawled over to the table and saw Spike curled into a small ball, sucking on a ruby. She crawled closer to him, and wrapped her hooves around him. Twilight's heart was breaking, who would do this to him. What had happened? She didn't ask any questions though, Twilight knew that Spike just needed to feel loved at the moment. He began shaking and Twilight hugged him tighter, trying to take away some of his pain. "Griffons....Talcon...." Spike said very quietly. Griffons? Talcons? Did they hurt him?
Twilight carefully crawled out from under the table, still holding a crying Spike to her chest. She felt her fiery magic, try to take over again to avenge their son. Twilight saw the shaking Griffon still on the floor, she picked her up with her magic. "What did you do to Spike?" Twilight asked, trying to remain in control.
Spike began struggling in her hoof, was this upsetting him. "Stop!" Spike yelled, escaping Twilight hooves.
"Sorry Spike, I didn't mean to be insensitive. You can go to our room or hang out with Shiny or the Princess." Twilight said, preparing a teleport spell.
Spike tapped her horn to stop the spell, which also released the griffon from her magic. "Talcon was nice to me, she helped me. Talcon defended me against her sister, the other griffon." Spike said, standing in front of the griffon.
"Then what happened?" Twilight asked.
"I was talking with Talcon and then her sister came, and told me......"
"Told you what?"
"That I'm not a pony, I'm a dragon. Is this true?" Spike asked, looking vulnerable.
The day had come, "Follow me, Spike." Twilight said walking away, leaving Spike and Talcon behind her.
She walked through several halls, hoping the baby dragon would follow. She continued to to walk down the halls until she reached her room. She unlocked the door and walked inside, Twilight walked to a shelf and brought down a huge chest. She unlocked the chest and brought out a pile of papers. Twilight placed the papers on the table, in front of Spike.
"You remember how I told you, that I adopted you when you were a newborn." Spike nodded, "that isn't exactly true. During my enterance there was a dragon egg, every student believed that we had to hatch it to pass the test bu-"
"I was the dragon egg, wasn't I? and you hatched me." Spike said sadly.
" Yes, I did. But that wasn't the point, the actual point of the test was how far we would push ourselves and when would we give up. The school didn't want quitters, they wanted winners. But no students knew that and I was determined to hatch the egg and I did, which is why Celestia took me as her student. I did the impossible for the egg, was dead."
"What do you mean dead?" Spike asked, was he a zombie pony?
"Princess Celestia found the egg hundreds of years ago, she is the one who designed the test using your egg. Nopony ever hatched it, so you just become a object for the test, instead of the egg of a dragon. When I hatched you, nopony could believe it and everypony wanted a piece of the newborn dragon who had rised from the dead and the unicorn who had done it. The only way to protect you, was to give you the rights of a pony which is why I made you think you were a pony. I'm sorry Sp-"
"HOW COULD YOU... I thought I was a pony, I thought I was your son. Now I'm not either, I don't know who I am."
"Spike, how could you think that. It doesn't to me what you are, I'll always love you and you are what you chose to be. You are a dragon by birth but a pony by heart and that makes you either the specialist pony or dragon in the world."
"Really? So you wouldn't be upset if I wanted to be a dragon instead of a pony." Spike said, nervously holding his tail
"Of course not I'II always love you no matter what because I'm your mum. If you chose to be a dragon, I'll be supporting you."
"Thank you mum."
Spike always remembered that moment, the moment he chose to be a dragon. He finally knew what he was, he was the son of Twilight Sparkle and he was a dragon.