Spike wasted no time. He rushed through the streets and back to the hospital. He burst inside and ran to Twilight’s room. Locking the door behind him, Spike slowly approached her bed. He let out a sigh of relief when he felt she still had a heartbeat. He looked at the two vials of red liquid in his hand and knew that he had to act now. He set one vial down and took the cap off of the other one.
Gently, Spike tilted Twilight’s head up and poured the potion down her throat. “Sorry it came to this.” He whispered. As he reached for the second vial, Spike noticed that his arm was growing larger. He gasped. He was hitting his growth spurt. But after a second, Spike laughed. “Couldn’t have picked a better time to do this.” As he uncapped the second vial, Spike heard pounding at the door.
“Spike!” Applejack shouted from behind the door. “Spike I know you’re in there! Please don’t do it!”
Spike paid no attention to her. He felt his tail start to extend. If he didn’t do this soon everypony would get hurt.
“Damn it Spike!” Rainbow Dash shouted. “I know you can hear us! You don’t have to do this!”
“If I don’t Twilight will die!” Spike shouted. He started to grow taller.
“There must be another way!” Rarity shouted.
“There is no other way. Twilight’s like this because she wanted to help me. If she die’s it’ll be my fault.”
“That’s how she’ll feel if you do this!” Fluttershy said, actually raising her voice. “Don’t do it!”
Spike’s growth started to accelerate. He knew it was now or never. He put the vial to his lips and chugged it all down. Just as he finished the last drop Applejack kicked down the door. The five mares gasped when they saw the two empty vials.
“SPIKE NO!” Rarity shouted.
Spike and Twilight started to glow bright green. A mist of the same color started to flow from Spike’s aura to Twilight. Rarity ran and grabbed Spike’s hand.
“Rarity what are you doing?” Spike shouted.
“Twilight taught me a few things about potions.” Rarity said confidently. “Girls, grab my hoof now!”
The mares didn’t waste any time asking why and grabbed Rarity’s hoof. Rarity took a second to concentrate and her horn started to glow blue. Then the green aura around Spike’s body extended to the rest of them and mist started flowing from them to Twilight as well.
The aura faded and the six of them started to pant. All of them were still alive, including Spike. They looked at Twilight. Her thin body was beginning to rapidly gain weight. Her horn and hoofs returned to normal. Her breathing rate picked up. She was teaming with life.
“What the hay just happened?” Spike asked in deep confusion.
“That potion you were using works by taking the soul from your body and using it to rekindle a dying one.” Rarity explained. “Using a spell Twilight taught me a while back I simply extended the effects to the rest of us. So instead of giving your entire soul to Twilight, we all gave part of our souls to her.”
“So she has a little bit of all of us inside her now?” Applejack asked.
A tear of joy fell from Fluttershy’s eye. “That’s so touching.”
Spike was about to thank Rarity, but then realized that since he wasn’t going to die, his growth spurt would take full effect. He started to run for the door. “Oh Celestia I got to get out of here!” But then he stopped and took a look at himself. “Huh? I’m not growing? What the heck is going on?” His height was now at eye level with the other mares in the room. His body was slimmer and his tail had grown out.
“Maybe it’s because you lost so much of your soul.” Fluttershy suggest. “Your body doesn’t have the power to grow anymore.”
“Maybe that’s the case,” Spike said. “Or maybe it isn’t. I just better leave and…”
Applejack stepped in front of Spike. “Now I can’t believe you.” She said. “Even after all that you still want to run away? Now listen here, if you run away we’re probably going to have a repeat of this whole crazy mess.”
“But what if…”
“We’ll cross that bridge IF we get to it.”
A doctor entered the room. “What the hay is going on in…” He saw Twilight and gasped. “What the hay?” He ran over to her. “Why, she’s made a full recovery! In all my years I have never seen anything like this. You all have to leave. I need to examine her.”
The five mares left and returned to their business. Only Spike remained in the hospital’s waiting room, eagerly waiting to see Twilight. After an hour, a doctor approached him.
“Are you Spike?” He asked.
“Yes.” Spike replied.
“Twilight Sparkle is awake and has been asking for you for the past ten minutes.”
Spike walked back to Twilight’s room. He slowly opened the door. “Twilight?”
“Spike?” Twilight looked up at Spike. “Spike is that you?”
“Yes…”
“Oh Celestia your growth spurt!” She tried to climb out of bed. “I think I’ve found something that’ll halt your aging but I’m not too sure if it’ll…”
Spike ran over and kept Twilight in bed. “It’s ok Twilight, everything’s ok.” He told Twilight what happened while she was unconscious and about Fluttershy’s theory.
“Yeah…” Twilight said. “That sounds about right. I can’t believe that you were going to use the Venom of Life potion to save me.”
“I couldn’t let you die Twilight. It was all my fault you were like that. I never should have ran away.”
“You just wanted to make sure you didn’t hurt me. I’m to blame too. I should have taken better care of myself.” The two of them hugged.
After a couple hours Twilight was cleared to leave the hospital. Spike pushed her wheel chair back to their house. He took her upstairs and carefully helped her into bed.
Twilight studied the new Spike. He looked older and more mature. And also, strangely attractive. She felt her heart race. Applejack’s words flashed in her head. She took in a deep breath.
“Spike…” She said.
“Yeah Twilight, what is it?”
“I…I…I love you.”
Spike jumped. “You what?”
“I love you Spike. I know it’s all of a sudden, but it’s how I feel about you. If you’re uncomfortable with it, I understand. But I just had to…” She was cut short when Spike kissed her. Twilight was so surprised that she pulled away.
“Hey,” Spike said. “I thought you love me.”
“I do, but I didn’t expect that. What about Rarity?”
“What about her? She’s pretty, but she’s got nothing on you. I’ve been in love with you longer than I’ve been love with her.”
“Oh my gosj Spike, I never knew you felt that way.”
Spike put his finger over Twilight’s lip. “None of that matters now.” He kissed her again. And this time, Twilight kissed back.
Pinkie opened the door. “Hey Twilight, I was wondering if you still wanted…OH!”
Twilight and Spike jumped. “Haven’t you ever heard of knocking?” Twilight shouted more embarrassed than angry.
Pinkie giggled. “Aw I always knew you two would make a cute couple.” She pulled a book out from nowhere. “Here, I knew it was a good idea to bring this.” She set the book on the bed next to them.
“What is it?” Spike asked.
“Just call it my late birthday gift to you. And you’ll probably enjoy it too Twilight.” She winked and left the room.
Twilight and Spike both took one look at the cover and blushed madly.
101 Games for Couples to Play in Bed
By: Pinkie Pie