//------------------------------// // Big News // Story: SpikesXLuna the Sequel // by Faithful Brony //------------------------------// CHAPTER 3 Celestia laid in her chambers reliving happy memories from her long distant past in her sleep. Something started pulling at her horn and she was woken up because of it. She slowly got up, stretching like a freakishly huge cat. She proceeded to look out the window to the source of the tugging. The sun was at the horizon waiting patiently for Its celestial user to raise it up into the sky. "Cant it wait five more minutes, so comfy right now. I wonder if I can convince Lulu to change the time of when my sun has to rise, maybe at seven o' clock instead of six. That would give her a longer night for her job. I guess that will have to wait for right now. I cant wait to hear what she has to say today at the picnic," and on that note she headed out of her room to the top of the tower to raise the sun. Luna just got done lowering the moon and was really anxious to get back to her room so she could have more time with her dragonfriend. When she reached her room, she walked up to the door and slowly stalked inside. Luna slowly stalked up to her bed and on three, leaped on to the sleeping form under the covers. Spike was sleeping peacefully, dreaming about lying in a field of gems eating tasty rubies and sapphires when he heard rumbling. He turned around to see the gems had formed a huge pile and bigger gems started rolling down the newly formed steep hill. Spike started running down the hill to get away from the giant gems before they crushed him. He bobbed and weaved dodging many falling gem boulder until he found a safe spot to hide under. After about five minutes the gemslide stopped allowing him to get out of cover. "Whew that was a close one, for a second there I thought I was going to be squished for sure." He was then stunned in terror by a sight he could hardly believe was happening. A single gem about the size of a house was hurdling towards him at high speed. Spike prepared himself for the inevitable impact and then he woke up. Spike lurched up yelling in pain as he found the source of it. His lover had land on most of his lower and upper body which now hurt like hell. "Oooooooowwwwwwww ow ow ow ow get off!" he screamed through pain filled voice. "Oh, I’m sorry honey, I didn't think that was going hurt that bad." "It, did though, why did you jump on me anyway?" Spike asked while speaking through pain filled gasps? "Well I just got done with my duties for the night. I thought that maybe I would spend a little bit of the beautiful morning with my little dragon muffin. Luna then got a sly idea, but if I have hurt you I'm sorry. I guess I will just leave you to attend to your wound," she walked slowly towards the balcony door for dramatic effect. "Wait, don't go my blue moon", Spike said because he genuinely cared for his marefriend. He didn't mean to make her feel bad for hurting him. "Yes Spike, what is it," she knew that her idea had worked at this point. "I'm sorry Luna I didn't mean to yell at you. It just hurt real bad, but maybe you can make it up to me?" "Oh really, what did you have in mind?." "Well I'm completely awake, it’s a great looking morning. I have the most beautiful mare in existence right in front of me, I think you know what I want." "Well you just want to go straight at it then, you don't waste any time. By the way, I was only kidding." Oh yeah, well," spike quickly tackled her with a kiss. Both lovers started kissing passionately. BANG BANG BANG. The two turned to face the door which somepony was knocking on. "Princess Luna, we heard a shout. Did something happen," One of her bat pony guards called through the door? Spike sat there in fear not knowing what to do. He could potentially be caught and that would ruin everything he’d did to make his intricate marriage plan work. "Spike get out of here, you can’t be caught with me, not yet anyway. I will see you later at the picnic lover. Uuuummm everything's fine I just tripped and hit my head on the dresser. I'm fine now thank you!" Spike ran for the balcony but looked back giving a kiss goodbye then jumped over the railing, and took flight. Yes, you heard it right, Spike was flying. near the end of their third month dating, Princess Luna had taken him flying high above Canterlot during one of her beautiful nights. There was a full moon in the sky and the stars were brightly visible to all. He really did love the night sky and everything about it. To both their surprise she accidentally flew into a thunder cloud that came out of nowhere and it shocked her wings stiff. Princess Luna started spiraling toward the ground below. Spike was tossed to a nearby cloud landing softly on to the white puffiness. He got up and ran over to the side of the cloud in fear. He kept asking himself, why she toss him onto the cloud, leaving herself to fall. Spike was scared for her because he knew the truth. Contrary to popular belief the Alicorn sisters could theoretically still die. They may be immortal but that didn't make them invulnerable to harm. She had explained this to him one night. "Spike we may be immortal but that does not make us indestructible." "Wait I thought it meant you lived forever? "Yes and no, you see immortality allows eternal youth and health. We can’t become ill, and it protects us from poison but we are not invulnerable to death such as falling, vaporization, or being blown to bits." Spike now understood why the princess felt the need to have their own personal protection squad. This is how it stands currently, Spike sitting on the edge of a cloud watching as his marefriend fell to her doom. "Please let this work, please help me save her," Spike chanted then proceeded to get up. He went to the other side of the cloud then ran forward and jumped. He started feeling a tingling sensation throughout his entire body then a sharp pain. Energy started to form over the pain, located directly in his shoulder blades. Wings of energy sprouted from his back and then condensed into physical form. He began to fly towards Princess Luna hoping with all his being that he could make it to her in time. Luna felt herself falling for what seemed like forever but, then felt nothing. She felt weightless and wondered if this was what death felt like. When she opened her eyes she saw the most beautiful sight she had ever seen. Spike was now slightly larger being just half a hoof shorter than her. His spikes were now sharper and the color of his scales looked more like amethyst. That is when she finally noticed his new appendages. The limbs that made up the wings were a more lighter shade of purple than the rest of his body. The webbing's that made up the flaps coming out of the limbs were almost translucent. What really caught her eye was when the light hit them. They seemed to glow by the color of whatever light was touching it. It was a full moon and his webbing's were glowing really bright blue. "You noticed them huh? "H-how?" "I prayed for a way to save you and these guys sprung out. I guess my will to want you in my life brought them out of me," to emphasized this Spike flapped his wings a couple of times. "They are amazing," "Why thank you my lovely maiden, now shall I take you back to your castle?" "Please do my knight in shining scales," Luna proceeded to hug him sliding into his embrace. She was fully content being with the only being she would ever love this way. That memory for Spike was his favorite because it proved to him that their love was powerful enough to make it through any of life’s obstacles. Spike flew to the balcony of his room and dropped in. Walking into it, he realized he had not actually been in his room since he arrived. He had taken to sleeping in Luna's room the entire stay. The room he was in was a quaint little room that Celestia offered him to stay in, while he was here. He walked over to the bed and laid down to get some more sleep. The picnic was truly going to be stressful for him. Twilight and her friend’s would be arriving at Canterlot in a few moments. She could see the cliff side city outside the window. "So Twi, did Spike say why he was hosting this picnic for all of us and the Princesses?," Rainbow Dash asked with curiosity. "indeed, it’s quite odd for dear little Spike to do something like this. Its normally done by you," Rarity stated matter o factly. "I don't know girls, I'm just as in the dark about this as you are. I can tell you this, whatever it is, it’s got Spike really on edge. Didn't you girls see that in the letters he gave each of you,” Twilight replied? "I checked with the other girls and we noticed the oddness of his letter too. He was vague and weird," Applejack said with a befuddled look on her face. "What about you, Pinkie, what do you think of this? Twilight asked wanting to hear her opinion. "My Pinkie Sense told me that something we would never expect is going to happen today," Pinkie Pie said with excitement bursting out. Now everpony in the carriage was anxious because the last time Pinkie got that feeling from her Pinkie Sense, Twilight chose to believe in something illogical. So what was going to happen this time, they all thought in unison. The train finally pulled into the Canterlot train station. Once the train stopped ponies started filing out of the train carriage's doors. The elements of harmony headed out of the train station and straight to the castle. When they arrived two guards immediately called for them. "We will show you to your rooms then escort you to the garden for the picnic Princess Luna is hosting." This caught the girls off guard they thought Spike was the one who had planned the picnic. After showing Twilight and her friends their rooms, the guards than took them down the gardens where the picnic was, except that Spike and Luna were not there, only Princess Celestia, Cadence and oddly enough Shining Armor were. "Let me guess you girls were given letters too, Cadence said with a sigh of boredom. It was painfully obvious they had been sitting there for a while before they arrived. "Yes we did, I didn't expect you here though," Twilight said while pointing a hoof at Shining Armor. The pony in question just shrugged his shoulders, it was clear that even he did not know why he was summoned. Princess Luna chose this moment to walk into the garden. "Hello everypony, thank you all for attending. I'm glad you all came because what I'm about to tell you may shock all of you. Before we begin we are still missing one other friend. Oh here he comes now!" In the sky everyone looked up to see Spike descending to the garden. Everyone was shocked to see him looking completely different from the last time any of the girls had seen him. Even Celestia was clearly surprised by the sudden change. Princess Luna just stood up and walked over to Spike nuzzling him affectionately. Now everyone did a double take back at this unexpected action. Spike simply stood there blushing. "Hey everypony I know you have questions and of course me and Luna will try to answer those them as best we can." He began. "Well, I think I can say the first question that's on all our minds. How, and when," Celestia asked with surprise still evident? "We have been dating for almost five months now and it began at the Gala." Spike began to explain that night in great detail to his friends not leaving out a single moment. After the story was finished the couple waited to hear the response of their friends and family. "Well that certainly does answer most of our questions. I have one that I would like to ask. When did you get those wings, Twilight asked with interest?" "Yes they are very pretty," Fluttershy stated with wonder in her voice as she was drawn in by the strange light they gave off. "They are super cool, oh my gosh, now I have a new flying buddy. This is totally awesome," Rainbow Dash said with much vigor as she hoof pumped in the air. "Thank you but may I answer her question now," Spike asked nicely. When everypony stopped talking, Spike continued by telling them the story about that day. After retelling the memory exactly how it played out, he waited for them to speak again. "So your wings glow a certain color when that color of light hits the webbings of your wings, that don't make a lick of sense" Applejack said in a confused manner. "I really don't know how it works I just know that they can do that," Spike stated with the same confusion. "I will have to take a look at them when we go back to Ponyville. I can run a proper test there ," Twilight said with much interest as she couldn't wait to start learning more about them. "Why did you wait till now to tell us this, what made you decide it was time?" Twilight asked wanting to know the reason. The moon goddess touched Spike letting him know that she would continue from here. "He told you because I asked him to. I felt it was time for you to know the truth. You are our best friends and family and I thought that you deserved to know." The ponies present gave the couple a group hug. "It’s like you said we are family, so if this is your decision than you have my support." Twilight said with only love for her brother. "Luna is a smart pony, and more important to me than anypony can know. I support her decision whatever it may be," princess Celestia said wholeheartedly. "yea, you are so gosh darn cute together and deserve this so you have my support," Applejack said with pure honesty. "You know that you’ve got my support Princess, you too dude," Rainbow Dash stated with confidence. "I am the love goddess and support love no matter who the two creatures are, so you don't have to even ask, I'm with you two always" Cadence said to her sister and brother. "I think my wife is right so I will follow you as well" Shining stated simply. "I think it would be nice to see your love bloom," Fluttershy got the courage to finally speak up. "Well darlings, I think it is great that you two both found love, and I would be delighted to do your wedding gown and tuxedo!" Rarity squealed with excitement at the prospect of all the designs that she could put together. "Whoa you’re getting a little ahead of yourself now Rarity, Thank you, all of you; it’s good to have your support Spike said happily." Now all we have to do is convince the rest of Equestria Spike thought with a shudder." The rest of the day was spent telling some of the lover’s happy memories together during their relationship.