//------------------------------// // You're my Friend Too // Story: Pumpkin and Spike // by Silver Butcher //------------------------------// Spike was having a fairly interesting day. In the last 5 or so minutes, he had been saved from being hit in the face, discovered he had picked up a stalker at the Cake’s bakery, and became some pony's first-ever friend. Not too bad if he said so himself. He made a new friend, and she was willing to help him with his job. Of course, he wouldn't blame her if she wanted to quit during it. Re-shelving was a long and boring job after all. It used to go faster, but with Twilight’s job as a Princess, she had less time to help him. Spike brought Pumpkin over to the big book on the table and did his best to explain what to do. "This is the logbook, the first part has listed inside it the names of all the books in the Library." He then opened to book and flipped through it until he was in the middle. "The last part where all the books go and what shelves they’re supposed to be on." "What kind of books are in the Library?" Pumpkin asked him as she looked at the pages and pages of words and numbers. "Well, we have books on Equestrian history, geography, and such. Adventure novels, romance books, and other fiction. A few books about Dragons, Griffons, and other species. A few about nature and how to grow gardens and take care of them. We have spellbooks for beginners, all the way up to advanced spellcasting. Honestly, the list goes on and on." "Wow, and we have to sort them all?" "Well, I have to. Technically you’re free to go whenever you want." "No!” Pumpkin stomped a hoof and shook her curly mane. “I’m your friend, and it wouldn't be nice to leave you where you could get hit in the face by more falling books." Spike chuckled, "Well thanks pal, now let’s get to work." Pumpkin began taking books off the shelves, and Spike began looking through the logbook and organizing the books in accordance to where they belonged. And that was it, that was all there was to do and so that was all they did do for several long hours but much to Spike's delight they finished it in less than half the usual time it took him to do it alone. "That took forever!" Pumpkin moaned as she flopped into a comfy chair, Spike sitting in one next to it. "You think that was bad?" Spike chuckled. "Usually it takes a whole day or more" "WHAT!?" "Yeah, thanks to you I know have nothing to do until tomorrow at noon," there was a long awkward silence before Spike scratched his chin in thought and looked over to Pumpkin, "So what do you wanna do now?" "Me?" Pumpkin blinked. "Yes you,” Spike smiled. “We just spent the last 4 hours doing something I wanted to...or needed to do. So, what do you want to do?" "Um....can I try one of the spells in the spellbooks?" She could tell immediately by how Spike's face lit up like a Hearth’s Warming tree, that this was something he would be happy to help with, he practically bounced to his feet as soon as she had said it. "I'd love to show you some!" He Declared as he showed no hesitation in looking through the books they had on hand, which there were tons of, Pumpkin had her pick of any kind of beginners magic and in the end, she decided to settle on a tome of summoning for beginners. "Oh, this one looks easy." Pumpkin said as she looked over one particular spell. "Try it," Spike said happily. Pumpkin’s horn lit up and She tried to cast the spell, but nothing happened. "Aw, I guess it didn't wo—eep!" Pumpkin squeaked as a water droplet hit her nose. She rubbed at it and turned to ask Spike if that was it when suddenly the entire room filled with very light rain, She and Spike stared at each other for a second before slowly looking above them, overhead was a massive storm cloud. "Uh oh…” They both said in unison, and with a loud boom of rolling thunder, It started pouring. "Oh wow," Spike cheered as he looked up at the rain "If this is your first time trying that spell, you have a serious talent for Magic," "I am so sorry," Pumpkin said as she shut the book and tried to shelter it from the rain. "No problem, Twilight has a spell on this place, It'll take more than some rain to ruin this place, Altho you might want to try for the un-summoning spell. Pumpkin opened the book, looked at the list of spells, and cast it just as Spike said, "Wait...un-summoning spells aren't a thing," The entire room rocked as the storm cloud increased massively in size, spilling out into the rest of the castle as it grew larger. "Um...Spike," Pumpkin said as she pointed to the floor, the rain had more multiplied more than 3 times in water power and the floor of the castle was now flooding. "Oh yeah, Twilight has a spell to stop the castle from being flooded during...well a flood. I guess it does the opposite when the flood starts inside the castle if this is any indication," Spike watched water level rise and climbed up on the table Pumpkin had originally set the book on, Pumpkin joining him as she quickly found a flotation spell and cast it on the table, the legs snapped off and they were now on a make shift raft. "Maybe this will stop it," Pumpkin said as she picked a spell that looked simple, she lit her horn and the rain started coming down faster. "Well now it won't last as long," Spike noted before taking the book and looking over it "Let me see if I can find a way to stop this," Twilight was exhausted, she had been in Canterlot all day and had only just gotten back…Well and truly missing her usual dinner time. "Spike's probably already eaten without me," She sighed as she got to the castle. Only to find the door seemed to be bulging. "What the hay?" she asked, on the other side she could hear what sounded like the ocean. She moved to one side of the door and opened it, instantly a huge wave of water joined the already wet ground and poured out along with a huge storm cloud that wafted up into the air and joined the storm above. "Ye-ha!" Spike and Pumpkin both yelled as they surfed the wave out on their Library table raft, Twilight looked at the bizarre scene in front of her when Spike groaned and facepalmed as he snapped the book shut "She just...opened the door, Why didn't we think of that?" "I think my attempts to stop it just made things worse," Pumpkin added. Twilight just stared at them for a second, trying and failing to piece together what happened. "H-How? Why?" Twilight asked Spike. The dragon was about to answer when Pumpkin stepped forward. "It was my fault Princess Twilight,” she said and looked down. “I cast a rain spell and it… kind of got out of hoof." Her ears flattening against her head, but her new friend quickly jumped to her rescue. "Look on the bright side" Spike added with a grin. "At least you cast that Protection spell on the library, so none of the books were destroyed." Twilight just stared at them, then shook her head. "I’m going to my room," she sighed. She was way too tired and didn't have enough information to deal with this and simply teleported away hoping her room was at the very least dry. Spike and Pumpkin looked at each other for a moment before they started laughing. At least until Pumpkin sneezed. "We better get you dry and to a warm place," Spike said, noting she was soaked to the bone. "I don't think the Castle is any better than outside right now," Pumpkin said as she looked up at the rainclouds still pouring out of the door "Want to come over to my house since I got yours all wet?" "I'd be honored" "It’s not too hard to honor you," Pumpkin giggled. "So I've been told." and with that Spike and Pumpkin made their way to Sugarcube Corner, and when they walked in, the look on Mrs. Cake’s face was priceless "Oh my! What happened to you two?" Cup Cake asked while moving to get them both a towel. "I made a new friend, it’s Spike, Spike’s my friend now!" Pumpkin said with a huge grin as her mother toweled her off. Spike chuckled. "You’re my friend too,"