The Morning of the Meeting
Standing at the island counter stirring some pancake batter was Spike. Now in his early twenties, of dragon years, he lives with his beloved mate and only son. No it is not Rarity, Spike realized that there would never be anything between them and especially after she moved to Canterlot to pursue her career (She has since returned to PonyVille though). Also they are still good friends. Actually Spike found love with Queen Chrysalis after Princess Celestia reformed her and helped her rebuild the changeling numbers. As Spike kept stirring the mix, he could feel a pair of arms wrap around him from behind as Chrysalis embraced him in a hug and rested her head on his shoulder.
“Good morning my Spikey. What are you making?” Chrysalis asked.
“Just pancakes Chrysty.” Spike replied as he set the batter down and turned around now facing his beloved Chrysalis, then they started to embrace in a passionate kiss.
As the kiss started to become deeper, Dark Spines Spoke up from his spot in the kitchen doorway. “Seriously, you’re both at it this early in the morning?”
As the two adults broke there kiss, Spike turned his head and Chrysalis rested hers back on Spikes shoulder. Then Chrysalis asked her son,
“Alright sweetie, what seems to be the problem?”
“Okay mom, I know you two are still deeply in love with each other and aren’t afraid to openly express it in public areas and what not, but do you really need to do it when I’m around!?” Dark Spine asked as he pick up an apple from a dish that was setting on the island counter.
“Well if that is the way you feel and since you’re in the room we could always talk about how your father and I met?” Chrysalis said with a simple smile that hide sinister thoughts.
Dark Spine just shuddered at the though. Then he just pointed to the front door, simply stated “Leaving!”, and then quickly headed in the same direction.
“But wait sweety, don’t you want hear the story of how we met?” Chrysalis called back coyly.
“Goodbye!” was all that Dark Spine said as he shut the front door behind him as he left.
Spike turned back so he could look at Chrysalis, who still had her arms wrapped around him. “Chrysalis do you think were to hash with Dark Spine?”
Chrysalis gave a thoughtful expression as she thought about it for a moment. “Maybe, but he knows we mean well and besides, parents are supposed to embarrass there kids.”
Spike replied, “True, very true. Now where were we?”
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As Dark Spine walked down the stone walkway of the small garden in front of his house he tossed the apple into the air and caught it with his long dragon tongue before chowing down on it. Dark Spine is well clearly a dragon/changeling hybrid, but there’s more to him than that obviously. He has black scales covering his body with green scales running along his spine, similar to his father Spike. Also he has long green hair, just like Chrysalis his mom, and finally he has medium size dragon wings with a few holes in them, from his changeling side, but it doesn’t hinder his flight capabilities. He was wearing faded black jeans with worn down tennis shoes and an unzipped hoodie from some rock concert with a blood red tank top underneath. As Dark Spine reached the end of the walk way he gave a quick high five to Eris a close friend of his and daughter of the infamous reformed Discord and always loyal Rainbow Dash.
“Hey Eris how’s your morning so far?” Dark Spine asked.
Eris shrug, “Sava, but I’m sure my parents aren’t as bad as yours. Sava?” She said pointing her clawed hand towards Dark Spine.
Dark Spine rolled his eyes at the thought. “Come on Eris we’re supposed to meet the others at the Carousel Boutique today.”
As they started walking, with Eris floating, Dark spine couldn’t help but notice how Eris looked. Eris wore a simple pair of shorts without shoes and her signature yellow sweat shirt with a large hazard symbol on the back. The sweat shirt also raised her plumage fur a bit higher so not much of her neck showed, which Dark Spine liked.
Eris also couldn’t help but look at Dark Spine as well. She especially liked the way his tail swayed behind him as he walked, but they have said nothing of their feelings to each other (so I’m just going to let the readers ship them).
“Say Eris, a thought popped into my head last night.” Dark Spine asked.
Eris snapped out of the daze she was in. “Yes Spine, what was your though?”
Dark Spine raised his elbows and place his hands behind his head. “Well I was just wondering, how is it that you are part draconiques and part pony, pegasus even, but you don’t have any pony features. I was just curious why that is.”
As Eris did a barrel roll over Dark Spine as she tried to remember what she had learned on the matter, “I think Miss Sparkle once said something about draconiques genes being more dominant or something to that affect. Anyway, where I lack my mother’s physical features, I more than make up for in personality my dear Dark Spine.”
Dark Spine chuckled. “Yeah you are a lot like your mom.”
The two of them continued light conversation as they walked.
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Standing outside of the boutique, Dark Spine knocked on the front door since it was a couple hours before the store even opened. As the door opened up, Rarity stuck out her head. “Yes may I help you… ah young’uns Apple Bomb is out back and Whipping Chains has already arrived.”
Dark Spine gave a polite nod, “Thank you ma’am. We’ll show ourselves to the back if that’s alright with you.”
“Oh don’t worry about it darlings and if you need anything, just let me know.” Rarity replied.
“Aright” Eris and Dark Spine said as they started to head for the back yard.
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As Eris and Dark Spine entered the back yard, they saw that Apple Bomb, a unicorn who is Rarities and Big Macs son, was taking cans of spray paint to a sheet of ply wood. He was working on a new variant of his graffiti tag. His tag was simply his name shortened to A-Bomb, which sounds good, but since there isn’t really a place in PonyVille to put graffiti (everything is too colorful in his opinion), Apple Bomb is stuck with sheets of ply wood. Although because of the elite of Equestria were still coming to the small town for his mother’s work, they also see some of his work as well, so he has made a small profit from his art skills.
Finishing his work, A-Bomb took a rag and wiped the sweat from is white coat and blond mane. “Morning Eris, Dark Spine.”
“Morning A-Bomb” Eris and Dark Spine said before two familiar grey arms put them into headlocks.
Now these arms belong to none other than Whipping Chains Pie, an earth pony and the daughter of the currently single Pinky Pie. Now it is important to know that Whipping Chains doesn’t know who her father is for the most part and she doesn’t really care to find out, but don’t bring it up, because she is a bit touchy about the subject.
As Chain’s arms held firm to her prey and her scarlet hair flowed majestically for no real reason, she said triumphantly, “Morning my b’s, how has the dawn been treating you?”
“Good to see you too Chains.” Eris replied, “Our morning has been fine, but can you let us go now?”
As Chain’s prey was released they both took a couple of deep breaths before Dark Spine finally said, “Thanks chains and good morning, but I swear that one day I will lose consciousness because of you.”
“Ah… I love you too Spine.” Chains said, “Now where are our lovable nerds at.”
“They should be here by now, but hopefully they aren’t caught up in another big study session as usual.” A-Bomb said as he sat down on a crate and opened up a can of pop he had taken from a nearby cooler.
“Well let’s hope they get here soon since they are the ones with the story boards for our next PMV video, because aren’t we scouting locations today Spine.” Eris stated as she had already made a whole photo shoot around A-Bombs new and now framed, yes framed for this is Eris we’re talking about, tag.
“That’s right Eris, so while we wait for them why don’t we listen to the songs we decided would make the final selection, if everypony is okay with that.” Spine said as he leaned against the newly appeared cd player/giant bloody speaker combo that chains had made appear and was now sitting on (hey her mother is Pinkie Pie after all and it always make things interesting when Chains and Eris get into a randomness challenge, but that is something you have to see for yourself).
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Walking down the road towards the Carousel Boutique were the two local alicorns and a small dragon and yes you thought correct, it’s Breaking Light and Moon Fall the magically born half twins of Twilight, Princess Celestia, and Princess Luna. Okay here is how things went down, during a magical experiment that had gone horrible wrong, Twilight found herself pregnant with twins. After further test it was found out that Celestia was the genetic mother of one of the foals, who is now Breaking Light and that Luna was the other, who is now Moon Fall (Hey it’s magic so shut up on the details). Breaking Light is on the taller side and is about two inches taller than Twilight and Moon Fall is about an inch shorter than her. Also Breaking Light has cream colored fur with purple hair, cut short as opposed to his brother who has very deep blue fur with purple hair that he keeps long and always looking wet even when it’s not (Don’t ask me how he does it cause I don’t even know). Now after the long description of the two alicorns I can get around to explaining who the hell the dragon is. She is Amber and after the idea of having Twilight live with Spike for an assistant being such a success, Celestia decided to place more orphaned dragons as assistants under promising ponies. Amber was placed under the watchful eyes of the great and powerful Trixie who was in Canterlot at the time looking for her own reconciliation for the actions she took during the times she was in PonyVille. Trixie did learn her lesson long ago and has since used her magic for entertainment reasons only, but she and Amber have fallen on hard times. They then made their way to PonyVille seeking help and for an old flame Trixie once had with Twilight and now Trixie and Twilight are a couple and are living with Twilight and her sons in the now expanded library (hey it was getting cramped in there). Amber has amber scales, go figure, on her body and golden scales running down her spine. She is currently the libraries number one assistant.
Now while the three of them closed in on the Boutique, they could hear music coming from around back and decided to follow it.
“Guess the others are already here. Come on lets head around back guys.” Light said to Moon and Amber.
“Well we were running late as usual, but of course I can’t complain about you doing it since I’m in the same boat as you.” Moon said with a hint of scorn that he usually had buried deep in his voice.
“Oh come on now Moon. You need to cheer up a little, especially since were making a video today.”