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// Dragon Fire Pt.1 
// Story: Dragon's Mommies 
// by TAD2 
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Its been 2 weeks since we last saw the Drake family, and in that time a lot has happened to them. In that time Pinkie was given an opportunity to interview at Sugar Cube Corner, the Cakes loved her baking and the liveliness she brought to the shop. She got the job and they offered Pinkie the empty storage room they had on the second floor. It was the perfect size for her, Gummy, and when the time came, Spike. 

Bow and Windy, thanks to the skill of Hondo and Cookie's real estate know how, found a great little house at the edge of Ponyville. It was cheap enough that they didn't need to sell their cloud house in Cloudsdale, in fact they were able to relocate it not to far above their new house. The plan was to use the cloud house for when Spike wasn't spending time with them. 

Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for Fluttershy. Even with Hondo and Cookie's skills, they did find a great little cottage, but it was built right at the edge of the Everfree. This would mean it would be cheap because of the location, but there were a lot of factors that negated this price. The cottage had two stories, a stone fireplace, hardwood floors, a large back yard, and a small stream that ran in front of the home, all of this just added to the price. This meant, something needed to be done if Fluttershy was going to be able to stay, that came in the form of a little scroll that was sent by a magical little purple dragon. 



 

3 days ago, Spike was sitting with his mothers and their families in the living room of the Apple house. Bright Mac and Pear were absent from this family meeting because of the important delivery to Neigh Orleans. Thankfully, since the princess knew about the Manticores ahead of time, she had sent a large royal escort to accompany the farmers, but it was still a 2 day trip back to town.

"Ok, I just finished moving into the Cake's shop yesterday, they said I can start next week, and they even said that my first job is to throw a birthday party for a filly. I'm thinking of doing a circus act for entertainment, I already have a giant beach ball, and I've been practicing my juggling with rubber chickens. Oh, and I just finished signing up for school." Said Pinkie, she was working on multiple folders, with the names of many ponies in town. 

Everyone looked at Pinkie, in the short time they had gotten to know Pinkie, she had come back to the farm covered in dirt, like she had been digging. Another time she came back covered in frosting, but that was the first time, not the 10th time, that happened yesterday, but the most particular was today, she came in covered in papers. 

AJ sighed as she just accepted Pinkies actions. "Ok Pinkie, I'm glad to know that you got the job." She looked at Rainbow. "RD, what about you and your family, how has the house hunt been?" 

Bow smiled. "Well, we just bought a little place not to far from here, and I'm talking to the home owners association back in Cloudsdale about relocating our cloud house to Ponyville. We'll anchor it right above the house when we get clearance from Mayor Mare." 

Windy smiled. "That's not all, I've been accepted by the Ponyville Weather Team to act as their finance manager, can't be any worse than the Cloudsdale's Weather Team." 

RD smiled as she nuzzled Spikes head. "And I just signed up for school, I'm going to be in the same class as you girls." 

Spike looked at Rainbow. "What's school?" Asked Spike. In the last week Spike's vocabulary has developed massively, he still has trouble with somethings like knowing proper phrasing, and he needs explanations on what things were.  

Rarity smiled as she brought Spike over to her barrel. "Well, Spikey Wikey, school is a place where young fillies and colts go during the week to learn new things, a place to make friends, and have fun."

Spike looked at Rarity. "Mother, can I go to school?" Asked Spike.

Rarity giggled, Spike just started calling the girls different versions of the word mama this week. She was Mother, Fluttershy was Mommy, AJ was Ma, Pinkie insisted that she stay Mama, and Rainbow thinking that the word mom made her less cool, insisted that Spike just call her by her name. That didn't sit well with the rest of the girls, so after a compromise, well more like an ultimatum, Rainbow settled on just being called Mom. Rarity looked at Spike. "Not yet, Spikey Wikey, you have to wait a few years, Kindergarten is for 4 year old's." 

Spike huffed. "But I wanna go." 

Everyone laughed, but they needed to get back on track. Rarity looked at Fluttershy. "So Fluttershy, I'm sorry we got side tracked, what about you dear, has my Daddy helped you find a place for you to stay?" 

Fluttershy huffed slightly annoyed. "No, we looked all over town, and there was nothing around here." 

Gentle sighed as he wrapped his wing around Fluttershy. "That's not entirely true, not too far from here, is a cottage, the only problem, it's too expensive for us to afford right now, my job at the weather factory is great, but we are still paying off our current home."

Granny sighed. "Well, that just won't do." She looked at Hondo. "Hondo, is there anything you can do?" 

Hondo sighed as he shook his head. "Unfortunately no, the property was originally built on the land that Princess Celestia gave out to the original settlers of the town. I looked at the towns records, and found out that it belonged to a animal care taker, but she passed on many years ago, with no next of kin. So the property was returned to the princess, but I found that we could buy the land if we had seven thousand bits."

Granny sighed, the Apple's could help, but seven thousand bits was way too much. "Come on, there has to be another way, lets think."

Spike was confused. 'Grandpa Hondo mentioned the princess. So why don't we talk to the princess?' Thought Spike. He looked at Granny, she was really trying to think, Spike looked at everyone, they all had the same expression. "I'm going to try and talk with her." Said Spike. He wiggled out from his mothers grasp and walked over to Granny. "Granny." Said Spike as he nudged her leg. 

Granny looked down at Spike. "Sorry dear, we're busy right now." She picked Spike up and placed him in the playpen with Applebloom. "Why don't you spend time with Bloom until we're finished." Granny brought Spike a piece of paper and the small pack of crayons that Pinkie brought Spike after her interview. "Here, why don't you draw something."

Spike sighed, but then he thought about this, he now has a piece of paper and something to write with. Spike smiled as he started to work. 





five minutes later, Spike smiled at his work, granted it was crude, sloppy, and he was pretty sure the few words that he tried to write were miss spelled. But the message was clear. 



Mamny nead Helb



Spike nodded, now he had to get it to the princess. 'Ok, how long would it take to get to the Princess?' Thought Spike, he looked at his aunt. "Aunt Bloom, any ideas?" 

Applebloom giggled. "Babba wabba." 

Spike sighed. 'Right, she can't speak yet.' Thought Spike. He looked at the message. 'Come on, Mommy needs this, I want to help Mommy.' Thought Spike, but nothing was happening, which was making Spike angry. 'Come on, go to the Princess.' Thought Spike as he was feeling something hot build in his stomach. Spike opened his mouth to yell but instead of a sound, Spike released a jet of green fire from his mouth, burning the message and turning it to smoke. "NO." Cried Spike, all that hard work, gone. 

But that was wrong, instead of the message being destroyed, it was sent to the last pony Spike was thinking about. Spike watched as the smoke moved to the fireplace and went out the chimney. Spike huffed, now he was out of paper. He looked at his family, they didn't even notice the fire.





In Canterlot, Princess Celestia was sitting around the royal library, with her new personal student, Twilight, they were both reading. The first was reading a romance novel, while the latter was reading a advanced magical spell tome. Celestia placed down her book and looked at Twilight. "So, Twilight, are you ready for lunch?" Asked Celestia. 

Twilight sighed as she nodded. "Yep, this book is fascinating but I'm tired." Said Twilight as she rubbed her eyes.

Celestia smiled. "Ok, you run ahead, I'll put these up and meet you there."

Twilight nodded. "Ok Princess." Said Twilight as she walked out of the library. 

Celestia smiled as she got to her hooves, and using her magic she picked up the books. But before Celestia could move she noticed that a puff of smoke was moving closer to her. "Is that... It is!" Smiled Celestia, "I was wondering when Spike was going to unlock his fire. This must be the first report about how he's doing in Ponyville." 

The smoke stopped right in front of Celestia and condensed into the message, she picked it up and brought it to her muzzle to read it. "This can't be right? I'm going to check this out."