~Rainbow~
I really needed to stop sleeping so much.
My entire day had basically been shot, I had stayed up the night before explaining everything to Applejack, and now I had been sleeping for quite a long time. It all seemed a blur to me really, the past few days. That might have been because of everything that happened, it certainly hadn’t been easy to deal with, but something still felt off about this entire thing.
There was something good waiting for me, though, when I opened my eyes.
Spike might have been asleep, but at least he was there. I wished I would have been awoken when he came here, or maybe when he got into the bed, but neither of those had happened. Maybe Applejack had tried to wake me up, I knew it wasn’t an easy task. I remembered hearing a story about how I had actually slept through a tornado that had come near Ponyville.
Part of me wondered if that was just a story to get a laugh.
All of that aside, Spike was here and he was laying with me. Almost on their own, my wings moved to wrap around him. I had heard from several ponies, and some griffins, that other ponies really enjoyed how soft feathers were. I normally didn’t think about it, really, but they were probably right.
And, weirdly enough, I stayed there and watched him sleep for a little before I faded back to sleep myself. It was a good thing that nopony was here, really. I might have been able to take a lot of things, and this was likely one of them, but I didn’t want to test that one. The only ponies that might have come in here, though, were the Apple family.
Obviously they could be trusted, so the worry was actually pretty silly.
At some point, I felt something try to push me away. It might have actually been one of those bad dreams that I remembered ponies telling me about. Either way, my only response was to try to hold on as tightly as I could have. I didn’t even wake up, I didn’t need to. It was almost subconscious, at least that was the word I thought would probably have been used to describe it.
By the time I woke back up, it was morning again. Not only that, but I knew what it was that had caused me to feel as though I had been pushed away. This had to be the coolest thing I had ever seen. Something about seeing the purple scaled wings brought a wide grin to my face. Awesome didn’t even begin to describe what this was.
I knew it would be awesome to teach Spike how to fly.
That wasn’t the only thing on my mind. There had to be a way that he could be convinced to live with me if things didn’t work out with Twilight.
~Spike~
There was something incredibly comfortable about sleeping here. It could have been the fact that I was with Rainbow, or it could have been her incredibly soft feathered wings. There was only one thing that I noticed, though, and that was a perpetual itch that continued. It even woke me up twice, not that I stayed awake long enough to actually figure out what it was that was causing it.
At least it wasn’t bad enough to wake me up for long.
Of course, maybe that would have been a good thing. I liked the idea of taking a nap, it was one of the many things that I agreed with Rainbow about, but there was such a thing as taking it too far. I rolled out of bed quickly, out of Rainbow grasp, and stretched. It was going to be like a lot of other days, aside from the part where I had to go confront Twilight about her behavior.
Wait, no, something didn’t feel right. There was something not quite right when I stretched, almost as if there were new muscles that weren’t used to being stretched. That didn’t make any sense, though, I didn’t feel much different than I did the day before. I turned to look at Rainbow, and she was giving me this amazed look that confused me.
I probably should have asked her.
“So, we’re heading to see Twilight today.”
“We.”
I didn’t know what to think of her repeating that, it was probably just agreeing with me. Either that, or she was still tired. That didn’t make much sense, unless she hadn’t slept as long as I had. When I had come here, it hadn’t been morning. Now it was.
“Yep, we’re going to get this fixed, one way or another.”
She still seemed to be looking at me for some reason, I just couldn’t figure out why. It wasn’t until I passed by a mirror that something looked off. I stopped, backed up, and then it hit me like a load of bricks.
I was going to have to figure out how to fly.
“Woah, when did this happen?” There wasn’t much of a chance that she knew, but I couldn’t help myself when I asked that question. Something about having wings now just felt weird, especially when I had never had them before. I had even grown into a giant, but there hadn’t been a time when I had wings. If Twilight were here, she would have been able to tell me something about it, maybe.
“Hey, Rainbow, I feel like procrastinating. How about we go to the library tomorrow?”
She looked as though she was considering it for a moment, then she shook her head. “I know she’s important to you, Spike. We should get this done as quickly as we can.”
There was one weapon that I hadn’t used yet.
“But I just got wings. I figured this would be an amazing time to learn how to fly…” Not only the words, but I gave my best pout. It had gotten me so much in the past. That was something that I needed to thank Rarity for, I had learned that from watching her over the past couple years. It was almost always successful, and it didn’t look like it was going to fail today.
I knew that expression, it was the one that came right before somepony caved in.
“Oh, fine, but it isn’t going to be all fun and games.” I looked at her as she gave what was likely the most serious expression that she could give. I even started to wonder if this was the right thing, but she quickly busted out laughing. “You should have seen the look on your face. There’s really nothing more fun than learning how to fly… except maybe the awesome flying afterwards. Ya might be a bit sore afterwards, though… I really don’t know how dragon wings work.”
Rainbow stretched as she got out of bed, and quickly moved over to look at my scaled wings. Her hooves ran over them, almost as if she was trying to feel for muscles. I really didn’t know what to say while she did it. Her hooves felt warm on my wings, and it kind of tickled when she went over a couple of areas. It took everything I had to not laugh.
I knew that wouldn’t have ended well.
“Well, I guess we’re gonna have to start with the basics…”
-By the end of the day-
I didn’t think it would have been this difficult. In the end, the moon rose and I was laying on a cloud. That was actually something amazing, I hadn’t been able to lay on clouds before.
They were really comfortable.
“I can see why you do this. It was amazing.”
As I looked up at the stars, holding Rainbow in my arms this time, we both started to drift off. I couldn’t quite say why, but I felt amazing. My wings were sore, my whole body ached little, but there was something about the day that couldn’t be replaced. It was more than that, really, I knew that days like this would continue.
I have known Twilight for years, eventually she always came around to reason.