"It was yet another Friday night in Twilight's library house. Outside every pony did as they pleased, the young colts and mares slaved away at their games and the older set slept in their rooms, readying themselves for the workday. A few ponies did their work at night and slaved to get it done before sunrise. Spike just sit in his living quarters basking in the dark with a piece of rarity's special order fabric; cuddling it as if it was his child, just as twilight, his mother, did for him.
Spike lied on his with the sheets over him as he stroked the wondrous cloth talking to it, "Oh rarity. Why did you have to be so cruel?" He pressed it closed to his cheeks as tears rolled down and into the little piece of crushed dreams.
The room door was pushed in, hitting the tree; Flutter Shy would not approve of this. A lavender magic enclosed the purple dragon and lifted him off the bed, discarding the sheets. The lights flashed on a moment later, reviling an angry pony and an even unhappier dragon.
"Spike! What did I tell you about that? Ugh sometimes you can be a handful."
Spike just crossed his arms and stared up to see Twilight and two small faces.
"Oh sorry," Twilight used her magic to turn spike right side up. "You shouldn't cry into this anymore. I told you Rarity would want it back sometime soon," she was a bit embarrassed, of her attempt to scare spike.
Spike was a bit cranky from the sudden light in his eyes, "What do you want? It is like 12:38." He was staring at the girls as they grew in number; now three fillies wait for twilight to move.
"Oh ya, sorry, these young girls wanted to help you, and try to get their cutie marks," Twili had a very bright smile as she moved out of the way to let the girls enter. "It's not a problem right?"
"Well,-"a yellow pony jumped up onto his bed, looking at him with wide eyes. "Um, I guess we could try. Maybe?"
"Please Spiky Wikie? If not then you will crush the dreams of 3 little girls." Scootaloo looked up at him as well.
"Ugh, I know I am going to regret it sooner or later. Fine. Hey Sweetie Belle what’s up? You haven't said anything."
Sweetie Belle just left and Twilight followed.
Scootaloo started sitting on the floor, and Apple Bloom watched Spike closely, "What are you doing Apple?"
She started to inch her hoof towards spikes face, "Ya, what are you doing?" Scootaloo was also curious of her strange actions.
With no warning she poked spike scale covered cheek and started to move it, "Has Twilight every told you your cheeks are so-,"
Spike interrupted her, "Yes and could you stop, and leave I need to sleep."
Scootaloo questioned him once more, "Why do you have to sleep? Its barley 12:23."
Spike grabbed his sheet and kicked the small pony of the bedside, "Night. And please hit the lights."
Apple Bloom hit the light switch and wispered into spike's direction; "see you in the morning sleepy head."
Spike just flailed his hand in the air.
Spike arose out of his soft bed and noticed that the house was a little bit quieter than normal, the dragon thought to himself, 'Is Twilight out of the house?' upon leaving his small dark enclosure he was greeted by two unwanted faces, Scootaloo and apple bloom, they just waited outside of his room door, and stared at him. apple bloom got up and started to follow spike around the house as he did his normal routine. she even tried to go into the bathroom when he was taking a shower; she got a wooden door to the nose. short after she left to attend to other business in the house. twilight bumped into her as she was going to the library.
"oh, sorry. are you ok?" twilight was a bit concerned; hitting a small filly was not very nice.
she got off the floor, "um, it’s no problem. “she rubbed her head, "um is spike always this mean? I don't think he wants me here."
she was a bit surprised to hear this, "well spike is normally abrupt in the mornings. he'll be better later."
"what does "abrupt" mean?"
"never mind that, let’s get you some breakfast! is Scootaloo up already?"
"ya, she beat me by 1 hour!"
"ok lets go." with that said twilight pushed the filly to the stairs.
spike emerged from the shower about 10 minutes later, with a towel on his head. he hoped the girls were gone. as he expected they sat at the table next to twilight, reading a book. a bowl of cereal was left on the table for spike. he just walked over to the cabinet and grabbed a box of frosted rainbows; a bit of rainbow in every bite. he poured a bowl of the colorful cereal and started to eat the rough flakes.
"so spike, ya ready for the day?"
spike had forgotten all about that, "um, ya, I guess."
Scootaloo jumped up on the table, spilling spikes bowl on to the table, "great we leave after breakfast!"
spike grabbed his spilled bowl of food and put it on Scootaloo's head, "fine, let’s get started!"
twilight used her magic to get the bowl to the sink and apologized to her. apple bloom and spike left the house and had started to walk to the tree house, their base of operations.
"ok spike, you need to answer these questions! well get you when ya finish. then you can go home"
spike took the paper from the girls, "hey isn't sweetie belle a part of your group? is she ok?"
Scootaloo began being hard to work with, again, "that is confidential! now do the paper work."
"ok, gez." spike looked over the paper. the questions were simple enough.
1. Are you a nice pony dragon? Y/N
2. are you a smart pony dragon? Y/N
3. have you been in a relationship before? Y/N
4. what is your favorite food?
5. what is your favorite color?
please sign here.
"Ok I'm done"
"Great, now ya can go home! We’ll get ya when we are done." Apple Bloom was pushing spike out to the little make shift tree house.
"Bye, spike." Scootaloo wave good bye from the window with a half-smile.
"Bye, see you when you’re done, I guess?" spike started to walk back to the road and to the library.
Apple Bloom grabbed the paper off the table they had previously had a little dragon sit. she started to go over the answers wondering what he answered for the 5 questions. the crayon was very difficult to make out, she peered at the paper for a good 10 minutes before getting to the end. So many drawings all over the paper; Every one of the CMC's. She giggled at how spike made Scootaloo a red pony with blue mane. She passed the paper over to Scootaloo.
Scootaloo reacted the same way and started to laugh uncontrollably. She began to read the answers out loud;
"ok so, Spike is a nice, sorta smart dragon, that hasn’t been in a relationship before. And he likes sapphires and the color purple. wow! This is going to be hard," she placed the page on the mini desk and put on her secretary glasses.
"So what we gonna do now?" Apple Bloom was acting historical.
"I think I got one pony on file that would be nice for spike. I mean they are both lonely and they are smart. ok, is spike a girl?" Scootaloo never even cared to ask him.
Apple Bloom rubbed her chin, "I think so. Twilight never really called him a she. Maybe."
"Ok then, I have the perfect girl for him." she started to scramble through her files, heading to the center of the files.
Scootaloo pulled her file and showed it to apple bloom, "are you sure? I don't think they would hit it off."
Scootaloo closed her cabinet, "I am really sure they would. Com’on let’s get spike and his lady."
Apple nodded and walked to the door, it would be a long time till they got to Canterlot so spike would have to be lonely for some time. Canterlot was a very far place and at that the girl was very far from Pony Ville almost every day for 1000 years. She didn't even have time to sleep at night raisin the moon and such.
Once arriving the crusaders got word that Luna would be staying in Pony Ville for a while. just as they always did they went back to where they started and wasted a week doing nothing predictive. Sweetie belle just waited back at rarity's house for the longest time ever. sweetie belle just watched a cat slap its tail against a chair.
"um-, sweetie belle, could you please come in here?"
"No, I don't wanna." She rolled off the couch.
Rarity poked her head from behind a door, "what is it this time?"
"Spike." She dropped her head onto the cold unforgiving floor.
Rarity let out a sigh and approached the sad depressing girl, "We all kno-," A velvet pillow hit her square in the face.
Sweetie Belle got up, "No, you don't," she grabbed a small bag and fled out the door.
"Gez, well, didn't that go well?" She looked at the cat hoping it would reply.
The cat just blow some air and walked to the stairs.
"Well I guess I’m going to have to find her. are you com-. oh, alone again." Rarity started to walk out the doors and head for the tree house.
"Oh hey, is Sweetie Belle with you?" She was hoping they would say “yes”.
"No sorry, try ma sister, she knows a lot of stuff." She was smiling.
"Ok, thanks anyways." she hobbled away from the cute little fillies.
The two started to whispered to themselves, "what was up with that?"
Apple Jack did the same and pointed her to rainbow dash. from Rainbow Dash to Suger Cube Corner. Then from there to Pinkie Pie's privite island. And so forth till Twilight's house was the only place left to go. Spike was out of the house getting some ink jars and feathers.
Rarity knocked on the door in a vigorous manner, "Twilight dearie are you home? Sweetie Belle has gone missing!"
A short delay was proposed as Twilight opened her door, "I know-"
Rarity interupted, "You saw her?! Where is she?!" Rarity was very egger to get her little sis back home.
Twilight slapped her white friend, making her red, "I know, because Rainbow told me you were looking for her. why did it take you so long to come to me any ways?"
Rarity rubbed her face, "oh I went to pinkie's island, and the boat left, so I had to go by balloon."
Twilight was nerves, "well I haven't seen your sister in a while. have you tried-"
Rarity went crazy, "I have tried every possible place a Unicorn could be. she was no were to be found. I even went to Canterlot just to look for her. I didn't even care to look in the shops. even Celestia didn't know where she was or could be," the poor girl started to cry, "I just want my sister back!" tears started to run like a river.
"Well let’s say she came back, and say wanted you to do something, would you do it for her?"
She started to cry even more, thinking about all the times see took sweetie for garnet even before she was born, "yes, anything she would want."
Twilight smiled, "hey did you hear that?"
"Hear what?"
A small white filly emerged from around the corner, with a sad exprestion no her face. Rarity attacked her precios gem with a vorotios hug, throwing her around in her arms. If pinkie pie was here, she would put some sunglasses on and say, "do it right or don't do it at all," and then hug twilight. Sweetie belle pushed out of the hug and stared at Rarity.
she just remembered, "h please no, don't make me do it. please." rarity widened her eyes.
the little girl just painted at the door and out in a derection.
"fine, but I am only doing it for you," she returned the hard stare back to her sister.
Back at HQ:
"Ok spike, her she is," they removed the cloth from over a girls head, "ta-da."
Spike just looked at Luna, then Scootaloo, then back to Luna "Hey Princess Luna."
Luna smiled, "Please just call me Luna, and I guess I should get going. have a wonderful night." she started to walk out the small door.
Spike just waved good-bye, "you have a good day."
Scootaloo watched as their hard work slipped away from their grasp. Spike just went outside and sat on a stump. Tears ran down his eyes. Apple Bloom was going to comfort him but Scootaloo stopped her with a swift hoof to the chest. they just watched as spike cried his heart out onto the dying trees base.
"You promised!" Sweetie Belle was a bit more furious than normal.
"Ughh, fine lets go get him," she started to walk out the door.
Sweetie Belle stayed by Twilight side, "No, just you."
rarity looked back you the sad little girl, tears in her eyes, "ok, just come home already." Rarity left and headed off into the large world in search of the purple dragon. a little bit sad, that she had to do it for her sister.
Rarity looked all over the place, going from twilights to all the places he would normally be. He wasn’t with pinkie pie, or flutter shy. He definatly wasn’t in the clouds, rainbow would never do that for any one. And he wasn’t in the shops that he would normally be at, not even the jewelry story.
Rarity gave up all hope on finding her little buddy, and started to walk home. She would have lost her sister once more and have to deal with the guily of
Rarity started to walk over the small hill by their HQ and saw spike crying on a dead, dirty stump. the tears in his eyes making a little mud puddle at the base. more tears ran down his face, and into his scales. Rarity had to do it, and spike would most likely accept.
"spike would you like to go on... a date?" she dropped her head.
spike opened his eyes for the first time in 13 minutes, "I don't know, maybe," he was still a little bit sad.
rarity smile a little, "lets go, spikey wikiy."
as they walked off Scootaloo apple bloom and sweetie belle watched as the pair walked away into the sunset. after with they started to search for their cutie marks. every fillies flank was barren except for sweetie belle, she had a cute little set of hearts. the others looked at her and praised her for getting her cutie mark. they then vowed to continute crusading till they found all their cutie marks. as for spike and rarity, that is another story.
the end
and that is how i got my cutie mark!"