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// Story Six: Spike Goes To Pet School 
// Story: Totally Pointless Pony Tales 
// by LyraAlluse 
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Spike Goes To Pet School


Twilight took Spike by the claw and led him into the new school he was set to enroll in. Spike was less than amused. You see, Twilight had enrolled him at pet school. You know, one of those places where pets learn tricks like rolling over, sitting, and not peeing on the carpet. Spike sincerely hoped that Twilight had been joking the first time she told him about it, but unfortunately this didn't seem to be the case. 

Twilight had tried desperately to get Spike enrolled at the Ponyville Schoolhouse, but due to the lack of understanding about dragons, she wasn't able to enroll him there. She tried a number of schools in many different towns and kingdoms all across Equestria, but no one would take dragon students in. They always muttered something about not having enough property damage insurance before quickly bringing the conversation to an end and hanging up the phone. Twilight was clearly getting nowhere with traditional methods. 

Finally the only option she had left was pet school. It might not be a formal education, but at least Spike would learn something. Who knows? Maybe by learning all of those tricks Spike could become an acrobat in a traveling circus one day or even a stuntman who worked on movie sets. Twilight hoped he'd be a stuntman because that was a rad job in her opinion, even better than being a princess. I mean what did she do as the Princes of Friendship anyway? Just read books all day? And organize them if things were really slow? No, she wanted a life of action, adventure, and magic and she was going to live this life vicariously through her adopted son dang it.

So Spike was brought to pet school, along with all of the other pets of the mane six, and some pets of the background ponies but nobody cared about those because they belonged to main character wannabes. Spike went to pet school every day and trained real hard. He learned how to jump through hoops. He learned how to walk the tight rope. He learned how to jump over barrels and other items like chairs and cars. He encountered a few bullies here and there, like Lyra's pet pit bull which kept giving him some sass. But Twilight told him to stand up to his bullies with the law. So Spike served the pit bull with a restraining order and Lyra was forced to pull it from the campus. 

It was a great victory for all dragons everywhere that day. Spike even wrote a book and got a movie deal about standing up to bullies in school with the legal system and not force. Anyways, after the book was written, the movie came out and since Spike was pretty much famous anyway, he graduated from pet school with honors. Much to Twilight's delight, he became a stuntman in films. He even joined a traveling circus for a while. Now Spike kind of has a permanent gig in Las Pegasus where he works as a full time acrobat in Circe De Mare. In an interview, Spike was quoted as saying that going to pet school was the best decision of his life, and he owes his enrollment all to his adopted guardian Twilight Sparkle.

Dragons started being allowed in schools over Equestria because of Spike's example. The headmasters figured that if a dragon could be a famous movie star or circus performer, then obviously they could do anything. This went rather well for the most part, although the occasional pony classmate was eaten by a hungry dragon now and then. It was usually just the problem students who got eaten though, so no one really cared. And Equestria, from that day on became one step closer to creating peace and harmony with everyone in the land.