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// Whole Lot of Apples Going On Pt.6.75 (Eat The Jam, Taste The Rainbow) 
// Story: Dragon's Mommies 
// by TAD2 
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After a few hours of work, Granny scooped out the year’s first finished jar of Zap Apple Jam. She smiled at the rainbow-colored jam as she had done ever since she perfected the final recipe 50 years ago. Now was the moment of truth, everything hinged on this moment, it was time for the taste test. Every component changed the flavor of the jam, and every little component was kept the same, but the Apple Family had a standard so tasting it before selling it was a must. But Granny never took the first taste, not after the tarte incident 57 years ago. She always used Bright Mac until he had Macintosh, then AJ, and this year it would be Apple Bloom's turn, but now that there were so many new family members. They all needed to understand that this jam was what the Apple's had to live up to. 

Granny looked around, AJ and Rainbow were out running Mac and Mosley on the crusher. Rarity was sorting the apples in to groups, Pinkie was chopping the last of the apples, and Fluttershy was watching Spike, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Babs who were all playing with Spike. Granny walked over to the youngest of all the Apple Family. Spike smiled at Granny. "Granny, how's it going?" Asked Spike, he wanted to know because all he had done was light a few fires for the pots and that's it. Then he gasped. "Do you need me to do something else?" Asked Spike.

Granny smiled. "Yep, and Spike, I need you to be the taster for this year’s first batch." Said Granny as she showed the first jar of the finished jam. 

Spike looked at the jar and his mouth started watering. Granny giggled as she took that as a yes. She picked up Spike and brought him to the outside table so she could get a piece of toast for the little dragon. Granny placed him on the table, but his attention was only on the jar of the rainbow jam, even when Granny used a knife to spread some on the toast. She looked at the toast covered in jam and smiled at it. "Right amount of rainbow, perfect amount of spices, now all we need to do is see if it passes the taste test." Said Granny as she scooted the toast over to Spike. "Here you go Spike."

Spike looked at the piece of toast and smiled at it. He used his hand to bring the toast to his face. Spike smelled it, it smelled sweet like honey, the color looked like his mom. Spike opened his mouth and took a bite of the toast, and the moment he took a bite, Spike passed out. Everyone noticed the dragon pass out and they ran over to him, worried that he was having an allergic reaction to the jam. "SPIKE!" Yelled all the girls as they ran over to their son to rush him to the hospital. 

But Granny stopped them. "Hold your hooves, Sugar Cubes, he's fine." Said Granny as she noticed the giggling coming from the dragon in the food coma. She moved over to show the girls that Spike was fine. 

The girls walked closer to Spike and noticed that he was laying on his back with the widest smile he had ever given to the sky as he gave quiet giggles at the taste still in his mouth. The girls giggled at the goofy look on Spike's face. 

(AN: Just for reference this is what I'm going for)


The girls smiled at Spike as AJ picked him up from the table and brought him into the house so he could rest in his little bed. She would have to sit out on some of the reunion events like the horse shoe toss and the bucking contest but seeing the smile on Spike's face was worth it all. 

Outside, now that the jam was finished, it was time for the family to enjoy the normal reunion activities. Granny walked to the gathered family. "Ok, The Jam is finished, we’ll start selling it on Monday, but until then, we need to start the apple family reunion." The Whole family cheered. Granny pulled out a list of activities. "And first off, we have, the junior bucking contest. All the little colts and fillies who want to participate, head to the west orchard and find a tree." Said Granny.

Many of the young ponies ran to the west field and found a tree. The participants were Macintosh, Rainbow Dash, Braeburn, Pinkie, Caramel Apple, Candy Apple and Apple Cobbler. Granny and the adults oversaw the contest. "Here are the rules, you have 1 minute to get as many apples down from the tree. If you run out of apples, then you get to move on to a new tree. The winner is the one who bucks the most apples." Said Granny. All the colts and fillies lined up at the tree they found. "Ready...Go."