The Dragon Knight of Canterlot City

Sunday night Spike was at his home doing exercises, and it felt really good. In the past trying to exercise was so strenuous because of his out of shape body, but now it felt so easy to him. Although he was still surprised over what happened to him yesterday thanks to Drakon merging with him, he slowly accepted what happened really did happen.

That Saturday morning, after Spike's panic after seeing his reflection in the mirror saw he no longer looked like the out of shape loser he had been called several times by other mean kids and teens. He looked at his reflection closer before feeling his face while trailing down to his torso.

“Is-Is that really me?” he asked himself, “Wow. This is unbelievable. I hardly recognize myself. But how? Wait a minute, Drakon?”

“You called?” came the dragon spirit's voice as he appeared in the mirror startling Spike.

“It is you. So all that last night really happened?”

“Indeed it did. So how do you like your new body?” Drakon inquired.

“This was the makeover you said you'd give me?” Spike asked.

“That's right. What do you think?”

“It's-it's awesome! I can't believe this is the new me.” the teen smiled.

“Not only have I trimmed down all your fat I've also increased your strength, speed, reflexes, stamina, and durability.”

“You really did all that for me?”

“I did. But don't think this means you're some indestructible powerhouse. I may have increased several aspects of you, but you must also keep up with your exercises now and not turn into a couch potato.” Drakon explained.

“I understand. I used to fear exercising, but now I don't think that's gonna be a problem for me anymore.” Spike replied.

“Good. Next thing you need to do is get some more fitting clothes. Because I doubt what you've always worn will suffice.”

“Right.” Spike agreed, as he left the bathroom, as Drakon's spirit left the mirror and followed him.

The teen went to his parents old bedroom before digging through some of his dad's old clothes, “Some of my dads hand me downs will do until I can get some other new clothes. Glad I can put them to good use now.”

“Well how about you get dressed and we'll see how much you can do now.” Drakon suggested. Spike nodded as he put on some of his dads more casual attire before stepping outside.

Spike walked down his block while noticing many people passing by looked at him in awe, while several young ladies had blushes on their faces.

'They're staring at me.' Spike thought, as Drakon appeared at his side.

“Can you blame them?”

Spike looked in panic and whispered, “What're you doing, what if they see you?!”

“Relax, kid. No one can hear or see me except you. So try not to talk so loud otherwise you'll just look like you're talking to yourself.” Drakon suggested.

Spike knowing how right he was just kept to himself, before Drakon led him up to a building's roof top.

“So why am I up here?” he asked the spirit.

“To see how far your new skills can go. For starters run as fast as you can and jump to the next rooftop.” Drakon instructed.

“Jump to the next roof?!” Spike asked in shock.

“Don't get cold feet on me now. Remember you're not the boy you were yesterday. This is the new you.”

“Right. But I may look different, I still feel the same as I did before.” Spike said in worry.

“Just let go of your fears and take a leap of faith.”

“Leap of faith,” Spike repeated, while remembering his parents words about being strong, “Ok.”

Spike took a position making sure he hand plenty of distance while looking across the crevice between the two buildings. He swallowed his worries before making a dash to the edge of the building. When he closed in on the edge he jumped from it and made it to the other side with no problem.

The teen looked back seeing he was on the other side from where he started, “Whoa! I really made it! I made it!” he cheered.

Drakon flew over to him, “Not a bad first try, kid. How did it feel?”

“Well, my hearts pounding, and my palms are sweating. It feels good.”

“Perfect. Because I want you to do that nineteen more times.”

“What?” Spike did a double take.

“You heard me, I want you to do twenty of those. Remember you need to also exercise to keep your strength up.”

Spike sighed remembering that, “Of course.” And so Spike continued jumping back and forth between the two buildings to keep his leg muscles up.

It cut back to Sunday night, as Spike finished working out and ordered some take out for dinner. Afterward he was in bed thinking about tomorrow.

“When I go back to school, people are going to wonder what happened to me. Not that it matters. Nobody ever paid enough attention to me to actually care.” and with that Spike fell asleep.

The next day, Spike got up and ready for school once again wearing another pair of his dads old causal attire before heading for school. As he entered the school grounds his fellow classmates took notice of him and like the first people who saw his new appearance were completely flabbergasted.

'They really don't recognize me.' Spike thought, before he continued on to his first class.

As he sat down at his regular desk, many of the students in the room were already confused by him. But then Spike heard a familiar voice, “Hey, you!”

Spike tensed up knowing who that was and saw Shadow Storm with Black Belle and Violet Shiver behind him. Spike noticed Shadow looked at him suspiciously, while Belle and Violet were blushing while looking at him.

“What?” Spike asked.

“I haven't seen you around here before,” Shadow continued, “Where'd you transfer from?”

“Nowhere. It's me, Spike Obsidian.”

Upon hearing that Shadow and the other students in the room were shocked, but Shadow's shock turned to anger, “Hey, if you're gonna pull a prank then you should make it believable!”

“It's the truth!” Spike assured.

“But that's impossible!” a male student spoke up in disbelief, “There's no way you're that fatso!”

“You hear the sound of my voice? Well figure it out from there.” Spike suggested.

The students stopped and having heard what he sounded like remembered that was Spike's voice. Realizing it was him, another student spoke to him, “Dude, what happened to you?!”

Black Belle spoke up sounding swooned like a school girl as opposed to the mean girl vibes she's always shown him, “Whatever happened, I think I like it.”

“Take away all that fat and this is what we get?” Violet Shiver asked feeling just as swooned.

“Did you take some weird freaky drugs over the weekend?” Shadow interrogated him.

“No! Never!” Spike protested.

“Then what the hell is all this?!” Shadow demanded.

“You wouldn't believe me if I told you.” Spike answered starting to get annoyed by Shadow.

“Try me!” Shadow threatened.

“That's enough, class!” the teacher announced, as the students started to take their seats.

Shadow grunted before speaking to Spike, “We're not through here.” He went to take his seat, as Spike just went through class like he always did.

When his first class ended, Spike was walking through the hall to get to his next class until he was once again confronted by Shadow Storm, Belle, Violet and some more of Shadow's goons.

“Hold it, Obsidian.” Shadow stopped him.

“What is it?” Spike asked sighing.

“You know damn well what it is. How did you go from porker to this?!” the bully demanded.

“I'd like to know your secret too!” Belle pleaded.

“So do I!” Violet added.

“Really, there's no secret.” Spike covered up knowing better than to blab what really happened. He noticed Drakon appeared floating above Shadow speaking to him.

“This is the prick you were so afraid of? He's a total chump!” the dragon spirit mocked.

Spike couldn't help but chuckle, which didn't go unnoticed, “What's so funny?” Shadow frowned.

“Nothing.” Spike quickly said.

“If you're not going to talk, then I'll have to beat the answers out of you.” Shadow threatened, until the principal's voice came on the intercom in the hallways.

“Will Spike Obsidian report to my office immediately. You have a guest waiting for you.”

Spike hearing that knew this was his chance to avoid unwanted confrontation, “Sorry like to hang, got to go, bye!” he told them before hurrying to the principals office making Shadow angrier.

Spike entered the principal's office, where said principal Neighsay was sitting at his desk, “Principal Neighsay.” Spike greeted.

“Mr. Obsidian. My how you've changed.” he noticed.

“Yeah.” Spike chuckled sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head, “So you said I have a guest here?”

“That's me.” came a voice, as Spike looked and saw standing by the office window was a girl a year older than him, and her attire was a uniform composed of black slip on shoes, knee length stockings, a red short skirt, a white long sleeved shirt, and on the shirts collar was a black ribbon.

Spike looked at the girl in awe, as she spoke with a smile, “Spike Obsidian, do you recognize me?”

Spike raised a brow curiously, before getting a good look at her and suddenly recalled a familiar girl with long dark purple hair with a single pink streak in it, and violet eyes just like hers. It suddenly dawned on him, “You! You're that girl outside the convenience store!”

“That's right,” she confirmed, “I'm Twilight Sparkle. It's nice to finally meet you.”

“Um, same, I guess. But what're you doing here? And how did you know I go to school here?” Spike wondered.

“Well, I never got the chance to properly thank you for what you did. So even though it felt a bit rude I decided to have you investigated. But nothing too personal, only the basics. It was almost impossible to find you, especially since you seem so different from when we last met.” she said with a faint blush on her face.

“I see. So you came all this way just to thank me?” Spike asked.

“Well, that's part of it. What I really came here for was to offer you an invitation.”

“Invitation?”

“Yes. How would you like to come to Everfree Academy?” Twilight offered.

Spike was surprised at what Twilight offered before realizing something about her, 'That's right. She's wearing the uniform of Everfree Academy,' he then spoke up, “Everfree Academy? But that's a super elite school.”

“I know. I'm a protege of the academy's principal, Principal Celestia Equestrius. When I told her what you did for me that day she was deeply grateful and asked me to send you an invite to attend the school.”

“She what?” Spike stepped back in shock.

“That's right,” Twilight nodded, “So what do you say?”

“I'm very grateful, but I don't know if I have all the right academic requirements to attend.”

“Spike, Everfree Academy enrollment prioritizes strength of character over academic aptitude. So there's no issue with that. But rather than hear it from me, why not talk to Principal Equestrius at the academy, huh?”

“Now? But I can't just...” he looked to Neighsay.

“Principal Equestrius already informed me, and I shall allow it and inform the rest of your teachers where you'll be.” the principal said.

“Really, sir?” Spike asked.

Neighsay nodded, “This is a golden opportunity for you, Mr. Obsidian. You'd be a fool to pass it up.”

Spike looked back at Twilight who gave him a hopeful look, “Well, I guess I could at least meet with the academy's principal. So ok.”

“Great!” Twilight cheered, “Come on!” she took Spike by the hand and dragged him off and out of the office.

As Twilight took Spike outside his school they saw a limousine was waiting for them, “Whoa. You came in this?” Spike asked Twilight.

“Principal Equestrius felt it was necessary,” Twilight answered as she opened the side door letting Spike in before climbing in herself, “To Everfree Academy, please.” she instructed the driver who drove off.

As Spike sat next to Twilight, he blushed finally getting a chance to see how beautiful she truly was. When she looked at him he quickly shook off any thoughts he was developing about her.

“Are you ok?”

“Yes. I'm fine. But maybe just a little nervous.” Spike confessed.

Twilight comfortingly put her hand on his, “It's ok, Spike. It's only natural. But I promise, things will be alright.”

Spike blushed from having her hand on his, “Uh, sure.” he glanced and saw Drakon sitting on a side seat of the limousine.

“Now this is style,” Drakon admitted, “I can't wait to see what this Everfree Academy's gonna be like.”

Spike smiled and thought, 'Yeah. Me too.'