A cute little bunny hop its way through the unkept grass and leaves, it's strode lively and calm. Sniffing the ground below, he found a piece of an apple that had been half eaten by another lucky animal. The bunny took the piece of food and continued it's jumping deep inside the orchard and right into a small hole between two tangled trees.
Now on the in the other side, the little rodent hurried to clean and rub the frizzled fur before looking at it's front.
"Ha! I knew someone was missing," stated the creature in front of the bunny, a purple dragon. The bunny jumpe out of feard at the strength of the Drake's voice at first but found itself more comfortable after seeing a bunch of its brothers and sisters jumping and playing around the dragon.
"Well at least Twi's constant lectures on every theme helped this time, the grifonacci formula actually worked. Here," the dragon said before reaching out a piece of karot from his back. The bunny moved closer and detailed a blue bag resting on the Drake's tail.
"Fluttershy gave me some after telling her I was heading here. So don't worry, it's the best karot you could ever wish for," he said before giving the food to the bunny.
As the little creature got comfy in place, the Drake's let himself fell on his back.
"By the way the name is Spike," he announced to the group of rabbits,"ambassador, secretary, former dragon Lord, hero of the crystal empire, and most importantly an assistant."
A big rabbit from the group jumped his way to Spike's chest and stared at him in a courious manners.
"Don't worry, all those tittles are mostly just that. Except from the last one thou, that's the one that sometimes makes me want to kick the bucket. Sometimes, I had even kicked it... And made a mess of the place I just had clean that day..."
Another bunny approached him from his side. The Drake's reach out to the creature and patted it's head.
"The school is not a problems, the castle neither, nor even the rebel dragons wanting to take the power are a problem... Hell, I think even Twilight is easier to handle know," he stopped the patting, sighed deeply and then continued,"yet, sometimes I feel empty, I have accomplished a lot of things even though I'm just ... Let's just say that I'm a teenage dragon, whatever that tittle means."
Spike sat up and glanced his surroundings, the calm breads refreshing his scales and making the brown leaves of the trees swing like the waves of the ocean.
"Today, I went to the crystal empire. A place were everybody loves me--sometimes too much I should add."
The big rabbit tilted it's head to the side while still looking at Spike.
"What can I say? Crystal ponies know what they want," he added cocky, "anyway. You see, there was this little filly and her mother. They always threat me with food and candies, and they also like to keep me in check with the lastest news of the city, like festivals, events, shenanigans from her local princess, etcetera," he sat up, and looked at the clear spot between the trees. "They have a comfy little house, simple and with few decorations. Most of the time they spent the day outside, just enjoying how their hometown looks now. They play, work, eat, sleep and enjoy that view; every single day."
The rabbits approached the Drake and snuggled his warm scaly body. "They have no big dreams or great achievement to be remembered; they don't need them. That is fascinating, I mean, here I am looking to be stronger, handsome and sometimes popular. Wondering if it will be enough, if I will reach the peak of joy and my life will be immune to any kind of problem."
Spike, then took one of his fluffy friends and looked at it, focusing on the reflection on the bunny's eyes. "Other times, I just wish to have a purpose, something beyond that only being her assistant. That way it will be easy for me to understand what I'm missing... Or at least, if I'm truly missing something."
He left the rabbit on the ground and lay his head on his hands as the wind ventured through the hole between the trees. "I don't know what it would be like to get that answer, to know what I have to do to be as happy as those crystal ponies... They always said that I'm the reason of their happiness, yet each time I go there it makes less sense for me, they are the ones working hard and all humbly for their empire, their governors are the ones keeping everything in check, everything I just did was give that little pat when they needed to be saved back in the day."
Spike sighed deeply.
He looked at his fellow companions with a warm and melancholic smile, "maybe I need to be saved too," he laughed.
The bunnies hopped off from him and started to jump and play around him once again. Meanwhile, he took his time searching for something in his bag, a crystal apple.
"Well, my time for deep thoughts is over," he munched the apple, "good Luna, I love these! Mmhm."
Spike felt something on his feet, then a few things, then a lot. He opened his eyes to find pleading looks from the rabbits. "Sorry guys, this thing may be delicious, but it can be too strong for your little teeth. Here, he drop the content of his bag, releasing not only the rest of carrots but also a zipbag containing a Rarity plushie, "whoops!" he took the plushie and hide it back.
Spike's new friends smiled up at him and took the given food, he nodded back at them. "Well, Twilight must be waiting for me, gotta go guys, I don't want her to end up doing something weird, like yesterday when she summoned a weird looking god ." He opened his wings, and flew up and through the hole between the trees.