The Princess and the Dragon

by Lynchristina


3 No Respect: Twilight Time

It was morning, the least favorite kind of time that every baby dragon wakes up to. Even though it was a start of a new day, he didn't like it. Spike opened his eyes and yawned. He took a step out of his bed and felt a pain in his head. "Urgh.....my head hurts." He carefully walked downstairs to see Twilight reading a book like always.

"Oh, good morning Spike, didn't see you there. I was just enjoying this amazing book, you should read it someday." Twilight levitated the book over to Spike.

Spike looked at the hovering book in front of him,"I would love to but I'll have to do It later." Spike slowly walked towards the door.

Twilight looked at where Spike was going,"Hey, where are you going?"

Spike turned to Twilight,"Huh? Oh, I'm just going out for a walk. Why? Do you need something?"

Twilight hesitated, "Well not right now, it's not Twilight Time yet. Maybe around ten? Oh and can you make one of your tasty nachos?"

Spike sighed as he forced a smile, "Sure Twilight. Anything for you." He walked towards the door as he took the path to town.

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He stumbled upon a massive crowd that surrounded a certain shop. Must be a new shop. He began to walk towards the entrance. Inside was full of magnificent toys of all sizes. The store was colorful as a rainbow on summer's day. He looked around the building as he bumped into a certain colt with a ginger-ish color and a green mane. Spike broke into his daze.

The little colt turned his head as he helped the dragon up to his feet. "Oh I'm sorry sir." The colt stumbled, "Um, welcome to Toya Toys!"

Spike looked behind the colt. A colorful pile of toys caught his eye. "Hey, are those the new toys for the shop? Cause they look awesome!"

The colt shoved the toys from the dragon's sight. "Oh, no. These are the bad versions. I'm still working on some kinks. But I'm not highly experienced at it. So I recommend going to my brother. He's everypony's favorite. I don't really matter."

"Hey, don't drag yourself down so much. I'm sure your toys will be just as great!" Spike pulled out a bit as he gave it to the little colt. "You have talent kid! Just keep on creating. That is the kind of respect you deserve. You try and you try hard!"

The colt smiled, he wiped the small tears from eyes. He then waved goodbye to the Dragon as he walked pass the exit door.

Wow, I feel really good. Great even! Spike looked up to see the Ponyville Clock Tower. The handle pointed around 9:50. Spike jumped a bit as he noticed the time. "Ooh! It's almost Twilight Time! Yikes!" As the handle struck, Spike ran towards the path home. Hoping to not disappoint Twilight with a bad timing in punctuality.

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A tip of the Tree house branches sighted Spike's eyes as he smiled with relief. As he walked down the path, he noticed that his home look a little bit dirty. Pieces of trash laid around the house. The crusaders must have already trashed the place already. He rolled his eyes as he began to remember the last time they came. Spike sighed in satisfaction, "At least it wasn't messier than the day they tried to grow honey trees." Spike recalled that sticky day. The honey was glued everywhere around the tree house. That was the worst thing to clean up.

He then noticed an item missing on the porch. "Hey, where did my broom go?" Spike zoomed around the backyard for any indication of where his broom went. Nothing. Suddenly, a place came into his mind. "Of course, the library! Duh!"

Sweetie Belle looked discouragingly at the broom, "I doubt it, that thing ways a ton!"

Spike took a step into the house, "Hey, has anypony seen my-" His words stopped as he glanced at the broom laying in front of him. He cocked up a smile, "Oh, there it is." The baby dragon lifted the broom as he flicked it up in the air. He then whistled as he swept up the floor. As the mares muttered about their talents, Spike took the chance to sweep up around the library. While cleaning, he spied a pile of rubbish on the wooden floor. "Hey, who's gonna clean up this mess?"

Scootaloo quickly trotted towards the dragon. "This is no mess. These are the carefully arranged pieces of a unicycle I took apart; and will be putting back together." The filly glanced up at the purple alicorn, "As soon as she shows me how."

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The next day, Spike began to make one of his famous nachos for Twilight Time. "Just one more touch of salt, and we're done!" The salt shaker shook up pieces of salt into the nachos. "These are one of the best ones I've ever made! Hope they appreciate them." As the nachos cooled, he heard a few chattering noises from the outside. "The girls are here! Can't wait for them to eat my famous nachos." As he stepped into the room, he noticed that Twilight brought in more than just three fillies.

Twilight walked towards the crowed foals, "Turns out we'll need more than that."

Spike's smile fell, without a word, he sighed. Guess I'll have to make more. The baby dragon began to walk towards the kitchen once again. He went to the counter to grab his apron and chef hat as he started to make more. Many commotions began to fill up inside the tree house. Spike didn't mind it as much though. He was more focused on the fact of how many nachos will be needed to satisfy his hard working.

After the last batch of nachos were done, he placed them in a pile on the one single plate. Spike glanced up at the tall pile of nachos. "Whoa, that is a lot of nachos." He shrugged, "Oh well, hope they enjoy it anyways. It's enough for everypony at least." Spike began to hold the plate, struggling on the mass it had. Carefully, he walked towards the room while finally laying it to the ground. He happily searched for all of the little foals waiting for his food. But nopony was there. It was mostly the CMC and Twilight. He angrily lifted his fists up way up high, "Oh come on!"

After saying goodbye to the fillies, Spike slid the nachos down to the trash. "All of my hard work, gone. I'm not even appreciated for it!" He threw the bag into the bin. "Oh Spike, these nachos are so good. You worked so hard on them!" Spike mimicked. "At least something like that would've made me feel good." He sighed as he walked back inside. He stomped his way upstairs. Grabbing his night cap, and putting himself to bed.

Twilight glided straight towards her bed. She yawned," Wow, this was a exciting day. Right Spike?"

Spike pulled his blanket up to his shoulders, "Yeah yeah sure." As he said in a raspy voice.

The sleepy alicorn smiled, "That's nice Spike. Well, goodnight."

Spike closed his eyes, "Goodnight Twilight..."