"EMBER?!" All the creatures yelled in unison once again.
"And here's how it went..."
....
(Spike's P.O.V.)
After hanging out with Garble by Lava Surfing, (best dragon activity ever), I continued to walk through the Dragon Lands as I saw what happened thanks to me and Ember. Everydragon were chatting together, eating together, playing together both little, medium, and huge dragons. But of course, they still have their competitions. But they're more respective now thanks to me and Ember guiding them to a better future. A future that I can't wait to have with Ember.
When I got to the cave where the throne was, I saw Ember and Torch chatting together. But it seems that it wasn't a good chat because I saw Ember looking down to her left when Torch was talking to her. Then, I started to speak.
"Hey Ember! Hey Torch! How's it going?" I said to enlighten the mood between the two.
"Spike?" Ember called out hesitantly.
"Well, well, well-," Torch started slowly. "If it isn't the true Dragon Lord," Torch finished with venom in his words.
He knows?!
I look at Ember as she mouthed her words. "I'm so very sorry," she mouthed her words.
I realized that she was forced by her own father to tell him what happened during the Gauntlet of Fire.
...
Twilight and Rarity had their mouths opened very widely after what they heard Spike just said.
"Wait a minute, Spike was supposed to be the Dragon Lord?! All this time, I was forced to come here by a false lord!" Smolder snarled as she stood up when hearing what Spike just said.
"I can't believe that OUR Spike became the Dragon Lord," Rainbow said.
"But, why didn't you keep the title or the Bloodstone Scepter, Spike? Let alone, have told us?" Fluttershy asked.
"You could've had use your title to command the dragons to try to make friends with other creatures, Spike," Big Macintosh added.
"I know that. But it's because I didn't want to leave my friends, who were also the only family that I have, to a title or role of ruling all of dragonkind."
"When me and Rarity went back to the Dragon Lands with Spike, we overheard Garble talking to, uh, who were they, Spike? The brown one with the dinosaur like back? And the one with bunny ears?" Twilight asked.
"Barry and Prominence, who is also known as Belcher," Spike answered for her.
"Thanks. When Spike, Rarity and I overheard the three of them talking, Belcher's rule of being the newest Dragon Lord was to make burping an official greeting," Twilight explained.
"Which of course I said "I hope that burping one wins," Rarity mentioned.
"But, after hearing Barry's rule of stealing all the pillows of Equestria, we heard that if Garble was in charge, he would've invaded Equestria as to get revenge, by his words only, "on those puny ponies and that they'll regret ever crossing Garble," hence the third person speech. And then he said they would take what they want and burn the rest," Spike explained.
After Spike's explanation, all the creatures started to agree with Spike's statement.
"I can't believe my own brother said that. To me, he's always been like a marshmallow when I'm around. But, I guess hanging with his friends made him act like a tyrant. But, I know that sometimes he doesn't think, but he really has a heart under those scales of his.
"There was something else to," Twilight started.
"What do you mean, Twilight?" Her mother asked.
"You see if we left, then Equestria would be doomed. But, I started to form tears in my eyes after I heard what Spike said," Twilight finished.
"What did he say, Sweetie?" Her father asked.
"I told her and Rarity that in order to protect Equestria, I had to enter the Gauntlet of Fire and hope to win and become Dragon Lord to protect the ponies," Spike answered.
"Well, I don't see anything wrong with that Spike," Applejack said. But then she took notice of Twilight, along with every other creature looking at the purple princess, with a tear trailing down from her right eye. Fluttershy started to talk about it.
"What's wrong, Twilight?" She asked.
"Well, you see here, Fluttershy, we discovered that if our dear Spikey-Wikey were to WIN the Gauntlet, he would have to remain in the Dragon Lands for like, till the day he takes his final breath," Rarity explained.
The creatures started to gasp.
"Not only did it hurt me, but... it hurt Twilight the most," she said.
All the creatures started to look at Twilight once again and see that her mouth was quivering as tears started flowing from her eyes like waterfalls. Discord, however, poofed up a purple box from out of nowhere, right in front of Twilight. For he too knew that the bond between her and Spike were sacred and unmeasurable. Heck, he regrets the time that he released King Sombra from the Aether. Good thing they didn't tell the Young6 about that, or the Mane6 would never gain the trust of the Friendship Students ever again. Twilight accepted the gesture and used her magic to pull two pieces of tissue. One for her eyes, and the other for her nose. Soon, she was feeling much better.
"Okay, you can continue," Twilight said as she gestured her left hoof towards Spike.
"Thanks. Now, back to the story which ended up with me and the face of the former Dragon Lord..."
...
Torch was about to say that he was going to reinstate the Gauntlet of Fire; where a new dragon could be the new Dragon Lord, rather than a lying dragon that he thought of me as, but I stopped him and told him my side of the story. After he listened to my perspective, he respected the fact that the ponies have always been more of a family to me and that I didn't want to leave them. But then, Torch had an idea. If I would take Ember out on a date, then he would not reinstate the Gauntlet. But before I could take Ember out on a date he told me to stand in front of all dragonkind and tell them about who EXACTLY won the Gauntlet of Fire. I didn't want to, but I had to. After all, HE'S A GIANT DRAGON THAT COULD EASILY SQUISH ME WITH HIS PINKIE CLAW! So, in order to prevent another Gauntlet of Fire, I told the dragons both kid, teenager, adult, and elder, that I was the one who won the Gauntlet of Fire. They all started gasping. Except for Garble, who totally knew about it for he was there. Except for the part where he left right before I gave the Bloodstone Scepter to Ember. Then, I started to tell them about how I was born in the hooves of ponies and how they treat me and I treated them like my family. Despite the fact that they can be quite rebellious sometimes, the dragons nodded in respect and went back to do what a dragon normally does.
Then, after that, I went back to the cave and started to ask Torch to see if I could take his daughter on a date. He smiled and allowed me to take her on a date.
...
The creatures started clapping.
"Oh, it's not over yet," Spike said.
End of Part 3