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// Spike and Ember's Date Part 2 
// Story: Spike and Ember's Date 
// by Flameboy 
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Ocellus entered the school's library and saw Smolder reading a blue book on a red bean bag. "Hey Smolder, I came to tell you that Twilight's sorry for what she said to you," she explained to Smolder. 

Smolder closed her book and puts it back on a shelf behind her with her right paw. "Well, I guess I accept her apology. So, how much did I miss?"

"I don't know. Maybe he stopped until you came back?" Ocellus guessed. Then, she led the orange dragoness outside the library and flew over to the others. "Did we miss anything?"

"Nah. Spike just waited until you two came back," Gallus answered the the light blue changeling's question. 

"Huh, looks like you were right, huh Ocellus?" Smolder said as she playfully yet gently jabbed the changeling's right shoulder with her left elbow. "Oh! And I accept your apology even though Ocellus said it for you, Princess," Smolder said to Twilight, which caused her to smile in reply.

Then, Twilight looked to her left over at Spike. "You can continue now, Spike," she said. Then, she went back over to her little brother while Ocellus and Smolder went to sit back down with the Young6.

"Okay, now where was I?"

........

Garble and Spike were walking through lava pools and saw the same one where Garble's friends almost caused the eggs to not hatch. So much to do in the year of 2018. Like, being enslaved by King Sombra's darkness, winning the title of "Sibling Supreme," helping Twilight find her favorite librarian, find the problem of how the eggs were cold and befriended Garble, all that. 

"Hey, isn't that the same place where your friends used the stored lava for their silly fun antics that nearly caused the eggs to never hatch?" Spike asked.

"And could have held dead dragons within those eggs? Yep," Garble replied to the purple drake.

"Well, wait.. what do do you mean by that, Garble?" Spike asked.

"Well, you see, Spike, when a dragon egg doesn't hatch, the adults have to get rid of it by smashing it," he explained.

"What! Why?!" Spike asked him again but with more confusion.

"Because if a dragon egg doesn't hatch without fiery attributes, such as lava, the natural source of warming to help hatch dragon eggs, then they won't be alive. No lava, no dragon egg hatching. No dragon egg hatching, no egg. No egg-," he said longer as to hope that Spike was catching on with what he was saying.

"No baby dragon," Spike said.
....

"What?! No dragon! But, that shouldn't be right, right?" Fluttershy asked.

"I know, right? I also told him that I was the first ever dragon to be hatched by a pony," Spike said to Fluttershy and everybody else. "But this is what I get for a reply."

....

"Then Twilight must be extremely lucky that she managed to hatch your egg without the required necessities. If Rainbow hadn't surprised Twilight with that Sonic Rainboom, then you would never have breathed your first breath," he said.

...

"I can't believe it. They told me to use magic to hatch you yet Garble CLEARLY explained to you that lava can help a baby dragon hatch. Ugh! I can't believe that in order to hatch a fire breathing dragon, I needed to use a key element, which was LAVA, to hatch a baby dragon. I also can't believe that I stressed myself so many times trying to hatch you, that I didn't think to use lava to help. But then again I am SO lucky that you made your first ever Sonic Rainboom, Dashie," Twilight said to her rainbow maned friend.

"No problem," she replied back.

"I wouldn't even want to imagine a world without you, Spikey Wikey," Rarity described the phrase to the purple drake. "I mean, think of all good you've done."

"Like saving us from those three Timberwolves that we may have accidentally lured with our fake "Timberwolf Attack Plan," Applejack said.

"Yes. In fact, that never would have happened if you just said you were satisfied with the work I was doing to help around the farm, even though I was terrible at doing something that I wasn't used to doing, then lured the same timberwolves to really attack Ponyville, all while trying to break my noble Dragon Code," he said until heard and saw Smolder spitting pink lemonade out of her mouth.

"Wait, the six of you tried to break his Dragon Code?" Smolder pointed at the ponies in front of her with her right index finger. "Do you even know HOW important it is to, oh, I don't know, A DRAGON?!" Smolder shouted as she placed her arms down at her hips as her paws were clenched into a fist.

"I tried telling that to Applejack, but she wouldn't listen. A Dragon Code is very important to a dragon and it seemed at that time before I became an alicorn that I was the only one who knew how important it was to a dragon. *Places her left hoof on Spike's left shoulder* I didn't want to break his code or his heart. But, I was easily tricked into helping Applejack with her plan," Twilight said.

"If you didn't want to, you could have just stayed in the library doing that important reading session of yours when the library was still there," Applejack pointed out.

"That reading session caused me to not realize that Spike was being attacked by timberwolves. Luckily, they didn't manage to lend a single claw on Spike when you got there, Applejack," she argued.

"I guess this would be a bad time to tell you that I'm getting married in 5 days," Spike said aloud and went back to sipping his pink lemonade.

Twilight and everyone else pulled their heads back when they just heard the purple drake said and circled around him.

"YOU'RE GETTING MARRIED???!!!" The ponies, changelings, yak, dragon, griffon, hippogriff, and draconequus yelled in happiness for their friend.

Twilight placed the left side of her face on Spike's right cheek as she brought him in for a playful yet gentle bear hug. "Oh, my little brother's turning into a gentledrake! But who are you going to marry?" Twilight asked she started poking her hooves together twice.

"You may already know her, Twilight. In fact, you all do. Even you Thorax," he said.

"Well then, who is this creature?" Thorax asked.

"Well, she's a dragoness, for starters. And her name is..."
End of Part 2