a Hearth's Warming Birthday

by CrimsonRose97

Ch. 2 - Edit

Spike arrived at Filly sometime the next day. Like the bustling streets of Manehattan, the streets were crowded with busy ponies rushing about.

With a strong flap of his wings, Spike took to the skies and soar across the tall buildings. He flew across the night sky, the city below were oblivious to notice the dragon flying above. Seamlessly blending into the dark clouds, high above the festive lights.

Since Spike figured that Rachel wasn’t at the apartment, he flew downtown towards the Prancing Pon-E where the twins worked.

The strip club was chalked full of lonely stallions and other males who don’t have anyone to spend Hearth’s Warming and few had hoped to take one of the sexy strippers home with them.

It was the first time Spike had been in there alone without his girlfriend - Rachel tends to lose her keys and had to go to the twins’s job to go and borrow one of their keys, and she actually allowed him to look at the dancers while she gets the key (because it’s hard not to), but since Spike’s on a personal mission, he’s super focused that he doesn’t even look at the nude dancers.

He walked towards one of the main catwalks and automatically spotted Gemcity working on the pole. Spike cleared his throat before walking towards her. “Hey Gem.” Spike called out for her over the loud music.

“Oh! Hey Scales!” Gem grinned as she grinds against a pole. Wearing a festive sexy costume to catch the other stallion’s eye and money. “What are you doing here?”

“Can we talk?” Spike asked.

“Oi! I just paid for her!” a pegasus drunkenly snapped, glaring at Spike.

“Can’t talk, I’m about to feed soon. Ruby’s in the dressing room. She’s on break.” Gem said before looking at the gent. She blew him a kiss, which sent a pink dustling at his face.

The pony stiffens up and his eyes turned pink.

“Calm down, baby. We play soon.” Gem seductively cooed to her now sex-driven minion.

Spike sighed, silently given her a thanks before moving towards the back rooms. After sparing a few bits to a greedy griffon bouncer, he made his way to the dressing rooms. A few girls were reapplying their makeup along a huge mirror that stretched fifty feet across along the wall.

He goes straight for the purple unicorn who was actually topless, muttering something to herself.

Wow...Spike just realized that he’s spend so much time with Rachel and the twins that seeing them in their work mode - stripping, dancing and mostly naked, doesn’t phase him… He automatically keep his eyes up to their face.

Ruby glanced up at the mirror and saw Spike as she applied more pink lipstick. When she turned towards him - though he’s used to seeing them like this, he still turned his head around to give them a moment to cover themselves at least some level of decency.

After a few moments, she said, “you can turn, lover boy.” Ruby teased.

Spike turned back to see Ruby wearing a rather skimpy bra that was so small it could barely conceal her enormous breasts.

Ruby sighed, looking up at him from her chair. “From the way you’re here and not back home means you’re here for Rachel.”

Spike nodded and surprised a bit that she or her sister could guess why he’s here for a reason.

“I came to ask if she’s okay?” Spike asked her. “I know she’s not at the apartment and I figured-”

“Can’t help you there, bud.” Ruby told him deadpan.

Spike sputters at that. “W-w-what?”

Ruby sighed, her hooves swinging off the chair. “Rachel is dealing with something that she wants to take care of. She gets upset every time we ask what’s wrong.”

“So you don’t know where she ended up?” Spike asked with a raised brow.

“Oh we know where she is. We’re her sisters, she doesn’t go anywhere without us knowingly.”

“And I guess you aren’t gonna tell me?”

“Nah.” Ruby said.

“Did she tell you why she didn’t come to Ponyville?”

“Nope.”

Spike just made a face. “Well this is pointless…”

“Sorry buddy, Gemmy and I can’t help. If Rachel wants to be alone, let her be.”

Spike facepalmed. “I’m her boyfriend, I’m worried about her, I should at least know why isn’t she celebrating Hearth’s Warming?” He lowered his hand and stuffed it in his pants pocket. “Doesn’t she like the holiday? Is she celebrating her human version? Throw me a fucking gem?”

Ruby tsked. “I gotta perform. Hearth’s Warming is one of our busiest time of the year. Can’t help you.” She stood up, grabbing her breasts and adjusted herself. “Sorry, can’t help you, Happy Holidays.” She grinned before walking out.

Spike growled deeply. “So much for their help.” He said, pinching the bridge of his snout with his free hand.

Twins are defilently hiding something. Something was telling him that they are hiding her on purpose - it wouldn’t be the first time they did it to him.

He left the club and walked down the icy sidewalk. His annoyance and a tiny bit of anger was seeping out of him to the point the ice below Spike’s feet melt as he walked.

Spike goes over what he does know: Rachel isn’t at the apartment, the background from where video chat looked like it was wood - so she’s in some sort of cabin. Cabin means she’s in the woods. The only stretch of woods that was near Filly was the Evergrove National. A stretch of forest that’s longer than the Everfree Forest, and more terrain so trying to go out there blindly to be only led by scent would be like finding an apple stem in a barrel of hay.

He fixed his scarf before his feet came towards the surprisingly lit up bar Rachel worked. Lunar Providence. Spike spotted the bar’s owner, the short blue and orange spotted unicorn wearing a festive ugly sweater - King - tending to his wife and ten kids.

It was worth a shot.

Spike walked up to the glass door and tapped gently on the door.

The tiny stallion soon walked up to it and grunted. “Hey there, Spike. What are you doing out here? It’s Hearth’s Warming Eve.”

“Looking for Rachel.” Spike told him honestly.

“Ah.” King grunted. He used his green aura magic to unlock the door and opened it for him. “Well get in, no use of freezing your testies off in this freezing cold.”

“Thanks.” Spike nodded before coming in as one of King’s children shattered something.

“Sweet Celestia, could you please keep an eye on the kids for five minutes, Marry?” King asked the also tiny earth pony wearing matching ugly sweaters. “Need to have a talk with the boy here.”

“I’m trying dear.” Marry said before going over to them.

“Got a handful?” Spike asked, raising a brow at the mess.

“You’re telling me.” King chuckled, hopping on top of the bar. He used his magic to levitate a couple of glasses before holding up a bottle of Cider. “It’s family friendly cider.” He offered to Spike.

Spike nodded as he took a seat on one of the stools. He took his hat and scarf off and placed them on the bar as the small unicorn fixed him a drink.

“Ya know, the twins called about thirty minutes ago to tell me you were coming,” King mentioned as he slid Spike his drink.

“Lemme guess, they’ve come to warn you about me? You’re not gonna tell me where she is either?” Spike grunted before taking a long pull of the cider. It wasn’t like Applejack’s cider but it was ok.

“Yeah, but since they don’t work for me, I don’t have to do shit.” King snorted, taking a drink himself

“Language, King.” Marry scolded him from somewhere in the bar.

“Yes dear.” King grumbled something under his breath before turning back to the dragon.

“So...you’re gonna tell me where she is?” Spike perked up.

“Nope.”

Spike frowned.

“Don’t give me that look. If I knew where she goes on Hearth’s Warming, I’d tell ya ‘cause you rock her world big time.”

Spike drank all of the cider. “Is there any pony who can tell me why Rachel isn’t celebrating Hearth’s Warming?”

“Easy there, champ. As soon as the twins called and I didn’t know where she was, i put in a call to Rachel’s Emergency contact.”

Spike raised both brows. “Gemcity and Ruby are not Rachel’s contact?”

“Rachel has three. Two of them obviously the strippers, Brimstone is the other. He’ll be here very soon. So just hang tight.”

Spike blinked at that. “Who the fuck is Brimstone?” The name sounded familiar but he couldn’t put a claw to it.

Just by cue, a tall stallion came knocking. Spike and King turned to the door and saw the tall red stallion, his mane was silver with it slick back and tied, he had a patch over his right eye with his other eye as black as coal. Dressed in a gray trench coat and slacks.

King used his magic to open the door for the stallion. “Brimstone, good to see your old ass again.” he grinned.

Brimstone cleared his throat as he walked in, dusting the snow off his shoulders. Something about him was intimidating. The way he carried himself with confidence, his single eye studying Spike as if he was being judged.

Spike’s eyes widened. He knew who he was now, Rachel talked about him all the time. The first pony she ever met during the Settlement trial, the one pony whom almost made Rachel not even pass to come to Equestria.

The living Lie Detector...Professor Brimstone...

Comments

[Sage the Ero Harem Kami]

I love the new title cover.

[tx-300]

brave stallion !!