//------------------------------// // Holiday Party // Story: The Drake Bros. // by BrawnyBold //------------------------------// Spike slowly woke up to see that the sun was shining. His excitement sky-rocketed as he knew what that meant: today was Christmas! Spike quickly got out of bed and hurried out of his room and into the living room where his family's Christmas tree was. Around the Christmas tree was Scales along with their parents as they organized their presents. "Merry Christmas, Spike!" Jade said as she showed Spike his pile of presents. "Merry Christmas, Mom!" Spike said as he ran to give his mom a hug. Scorpan picked up a video camera to record the unwrapping. "Alright Spike, let's see what you got from Santa!" Scorpan said as he gave Spike a present wrapped with paper with Santa Claus on it. Spike quickly tore the paper to reveal that inside the box was an action figure of a muscle-bound dragon. "No way!" Spike gasped as he picked up the toy dragon. "Burnferno: The Warrior from Within?!" "Guess Santa must've known how much you loved to read that story." Scales said with a chuckle. "Thank you, Santa!" Spike said as he rubbed the dragon action figure with his cheek. "Next, is my and your mother's gift to you!" Scorpan said as he gave Spike another present. Spike started to unwrapping the next present to pull out a hooded onesie that looked like a purple dragon. "Whoa!" Spike hollered as he moved the onesie around to get a better look. "I'm glad you liked it!" Jade clapped her hands. "I got it for a special deal." She pulled out a Christmas bag and gave it to Scales. "Here Scales, open this one!" Jade offered. Scales reached inside the bag to pull out a blue dragon onesie that was similar to Spike's. "Surprise! It was a two for one sale!" Jade cheered while Scales raised a brow as he looked at his gift. "Thanks, Mom." Scales said as he put his back into his bag. Spike reappeared while wearing his onesie with the hood on. "Ta-da!" Spike said as he showed everyone what he was wearing. "Oh! It looks perfect on you, son!" Jade cooed. Spike opened another present to reveal that it was a small red monster truck. "No way! It's the Beast Chomper!" Spike began rolling it with his arm. "That was my gift." Scales said. "You were giving a lot of hints about it." Scales said as he remembered all the times Spike was offering clues about the monster truck ever since he first laid eyes on it. "Thank you!" Spike said as he gave his brother a big hug. Spike then pulled out another present and offered it to Scales. "Now it's your turn! This is my present to you!" Scales started opening the box to find a new, black leather jacket inside. On the back was a large, red dragon breathing fire into the air. "Whoa, this is cool." Scales said as he put his new jacket and then gave Spike a hug. "Thanks, bro." Jade unwrapped one present to reveal some handmade hankies that had hearts and some poorly sewed dragons on them. "Rarity helped me sewed those dragons on the hankies." Spike said as he was given a hug from his mom. "I love it!" Jade said as she used one of the hankies to wipe some joyful tears. Scales took a look at his phone to see the time. "Spike and I better get going. We got a Christmas party to go to." Scales said as he and Spike got ready to leave. "Tell the girls I said hi!" Jade said as she and Scorpan were putting up the rest of the gifts. "I'm all set!" Spike said. Scales just looked at his brother as Spike was still wearing his onesie. "You're gonna wear that to the party?" Scales asked his brother. "Of course!" Spike replied. "Alright," Scales said as he and Spike made their way to Twilight's house. It wasn't long before the brothers arrived at Twilight's front door. Spike rang the door bell to see Twilight at the entrance. "Hey! Merry Christmas, you guys!" Twilight said before she saw Spike. She covered her mouth with a hand to hide her laughter. "Merry Christmas, Twilight!" Spike replied. The brothers followed Twilight inside the house to see that the inside was completely decorated with Christmas stuff. The rest of the girls were sitting on the chairs and couches in the living room. "Merry Christmas, you guys!" The rest of the girls said at once. They too stopped when they saw Spike in his dragon onesie. Rainbow burst out laughing and held her sides. Pinkie joined in with Rainbow on the laughing. "You look so hilarious!" Rainbow said before she returned to laughing. "And I thought of that when you wore that dragon costume for the Cake Twins' birthday party! But this really takes the cake!" Fluttershy ran up to Spike to give him a hug. "Oh! You look so adorable!" Fluttershy said as she snuggled Spike's head to her chest. Spike was then ripped away from Fluttershy by Rarity. "No fair, Fluttershy!" Rarity pouted. "I want to give this adorable dragon a hug too!" Rarity snuggled Spike to her chest. Scales cleared his throat to catch everyone's attention. "I hate to interrupt...whatever was going on, but don't we have a Christmas party to celebrate?" The girls looked at each other before they calmed themselves. "Time for our annual cider cheers to kick off this celebration!" Applejack said as she passed some mugs of cider to each of her friends and then to the brothers. All of the party members lifted their mugs. "To another holiday season!" Pinkie cheered. "Let's enjoy every minute of it!" Rainbow added. "Especially with new friends!" Rarity said with a wink to Spike. Everyone clinked their mugs before they took some sips of their cider. "Wow! This cider is way better than the ones from Cider Season!" Spike said as he licked his lips. "I'm glad you liked it," Applejack said. "I added some secret ingredients into the cider to give it that holiday taste." Pinkie took another sip and formed a curious look on her face. "Eggnog was added." Pinkie said. "Pinkie!" Applejack yelled. "That what happens when you feed something to Pinkie," Rainbow said to the boys. "She will know what the exact ingredients were." The party went on with the gang playing party games such as Operation with Rarity being the winner. "I have a lot of experience with tweezers!" Rarity said with a smirk, much to some of the girls displeasure. The next party game was Battlecloud. Since there were only two sets of the game, the gang decided to make it like a tournament where the winner moves on to the next round. The first round was with Rainbow and Spike. It didn't take long for Rainbow to start winning. "Ha! Cloud 9, fire!" Rainbow said before she made an explosion noise. "No! You sank my last weather pony!" Spike said as he dropped on to his hands and knees. Rainbow on the other hand was jumping and pumping her fists into the air. After a few more rounds, the semi-finalists were Rainbow and Twilight. Rainbow was clenching her teeth as she had only one seagull left. 'Pull it together, Rainbow. You can still win this!' Rainbow thought while taking a deep breath. "Sky 3!" Rainbow yelled. "Miss," Twilight smirked. "Cloud 6." "Oh! You sunk it!" Rainbow whined while Twilight chuckled. "Are you peeking!?" "Nope, just good old strategy skills!" Twilight said. "Alright, on to the activity: snow ball fight!" Pinkie said as she pointed to the window that showed the snow-covered yard. The group split into two teams for the snowball fight. One team was made up of Twilight, Pinkie, Applejack, and Spike while the other team was made up of Rainbow, Fluttershy, Rarity, Scales. Both of the teams had about ten minutes to build up their snow forts before the snowball fight begins. After ten minutes, Pinkie popped out from her team's snow fort. "Let the snow ball fight commence!" Pinkie said before she blew a horn and everyone began throwing snowballs at each other. Rainbow and Applejack threw snowballs particularly at each other to prove who was better at snowball fights. Pinkie was throwing large amounts of snowballs to the other snow fort like she was a human machine gun. Suddenly, Spike whispered something to Twilight and Pinkie. Both of them nodded while Spike sneaked away, undetected. While on the other snow fort, Rarity and Scales were standing next to each other while throwing snowballs. "That's strange," Rarity said as she noticed something at the other fort. "There seems to be less snowballs being thrown from Twilight's team." Scales stopped throwing to see that Twilight, Pinkie, and Applejack were the only seen throwing snowballs. "Oh no," Scales whispered before he and Rarity were hit with snowballs. "Fluttershy!" Rarity whined as she turned to Fluttershy. "I-it wasn't me! I swear!" Fluttershy defended before her face got hit by a snowball. All three of them turned to see that Spike was throwing multiple snow balls at them. "How did Spikey get over here!?" Rarity yelled as she tried to throw snowballs at Spike. "He must've dug under the snow while his team covered him!" Scales answered as he threw snowballs at Spike. "Just keep throwing snowballs at the other team while I take care of Spike!" Scales began throwing snowballs at Spike. It wasn't until Spike threw one snowball and it hit Rainbow while she was occupied with her small snowball fight with Applejack. "What the-" Rainbow said before she turned to see Spike looking at her sheepishly. Rainbow's face turned red as she started to chase after Spike while throwing snowballs at him. "Aaaah!" Spike yelled as he ran out of the other team's snow fort with Rainbow following in pursuit. "Get back here!" Rainbow yelled as she kept throwing snowballs at Spike. "Oh boy," Applejack said as she got up from her post and ran to help Spike. "I'm coming, Spike!" Applejack said as she ran and threw snowballs at Rainbow. "Every man for themselves!" Pinkie yelled as she and the rest of the girls got out of their snow forts to throw snowballs in the open field. It took a while before everyone collapsed on to the snowy ground while the whole yard looked like a snowy war zone. "Woo!" Applejack panted. "I'm all tuckered out." "Indeed," Rarity agreed as she got up and patted the snow off of her clothes. "I believe it is best to head inside and warm up." "I'll prepare us some more cider." Applejack as she got up next. "Aww yeah!" Rainbow cheered as she jumped back up while everyone else followed. The group decided to watch Rudolph: The Red-Nosed Reindeer while they enjoy another round of apple cider. "Thank you guys for inviting us to this party!" Spike said as he took a sip of cider. "It's what friends are for," Twilight said. "I'll be right back, gonna head to the restroom." Scales said as he got up and left the room. As Spike continued to watch the movie, he couldn't help but notice that Pinkie was suddenly next to him with lidded eyes. "Hey Spikey," Pinkie said in a seductive tone. "Y-yeah?" Spike replied. Pinkie eyes motioned upward and Spike looked to see a mistletoe tied to the tip of her hair. "Do you know what this means?" Pinkie said while batting her eyes. Spike knew all too well that being under a mistletoe meant that someone will get a kiss. "I-I.." Spike was interrupted when Pinkie gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Merry Christmas, Spikey!" Pinkie whispered. "Hey!" Rarity yelled as she got up from her seat. "That's no fair, Pinkie! I want to kiss him!" Rarity hurried to grab Spike's head to kiss him on his cheeks as well. "Dibs!" Rainbow said as she ran to join in on kissing Spike on the cheek. Applejack appeared and gave Spike his cheek a nice smooching. "Consider that a present from me." Applejack winked. It was Fluttershy's turn to kiss Spike cheek. "And from me." Fluttershy said as she blushed in a bright red. "Merry Christmas, Spike." Twilight said as she was the last one to kiss Spike. The poor boy was so overwhelmed from being kissed on the cheek multiple times that he was giggling like a doofus. 'Best...Christmas...ever!' Spike thought. Scales came out of the bathroom to see that Spike was acting all goofy while the girls pretended to act causal. "Alright, what did I miss?" Scales demanded.