Just a Crush

by OmniWriter

Chapter 5: Dreams of The Past

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Outside of Canterlot Castle, the sun has finally gone down as a certain alicorn princess enters the castle. This certain alicorn was taller than most ponies, had a white coat and a long flowing multicolored mane. She started walking down the halls as she turned to a certain room.

Knocking on the door with her hoof she awaits for the pony inside to answer. After a few seconds the door slowly creeks open revealing another alicorn. Unlike Celestia however, she was somewhat shorter than her and her coat was a midnight blue. Her mane also resembled the night sky.

"Luna, I believe it is time for you to start heading to your tower," Celestia said in her usual calm and relaxed tone.

"Of course sister I was just making sure the night sky was perfect. Not that anypony is ever awake at this time to see it." Luna's head started to look down at the floor.

Celestia extended her hoof foreleg out, putting her hoof under her sister's chin. Raising up her head in curiosity, Luna just stared at her sister, waiting for her wisdom to lift her spirit.

"Do not think of such things. Your night is as beautiful as the day. Remember that and you'll always know that there are ponies out there that also see your night for its beauty." Celestia said while also giving her little sister a reassuring smile for extra support.

Luna simply nodded and returned the smile. With that Luna flew up the long flight of stairs When she finally got to the top, she landed in front of an old wooden door with rusted metal on it. The handle glowed in a dark blue aura as it opened up revealing a small room filled with multiple large empty picture frames.

She walked up to the silver frame that had the "Ponyville" engraved in it. Luna's horn started to glow and the wall inside the frame started to shake. Then suddenly a yellow glow and green mist started to appear leaked out of the crack in between the bricks. These two colors then started to swirl up and then Luna walked towards it.

She was able to pass through it as if it was nothing. (I thought of the animation for her waling through it would be her walking through Jell-O) She opened her eyes revealing a cosmos like a hall with multiple mirrors. Each mirror had a different name on it and showed a different dream.

After giving a little sigh, Luna started casually walking down The Hall of Dreams. Luna enjoyed doing this because she was able to see her subjects without them panicking at the sight of her. "Sometimes I wish that everypony no longer fear me." She mumbled under her breath.

Her eyes started to glow a lighter shade of blue. Before it got worse, she quickly shook her head, removing the thought from her mind. "No Luna. You are no longer Nightmare Moon. Remember what Celestia said." With that, she calmed down and went straight back to work.

She stopped once again once she saw who's Dream Mirror she was in front of. "Ah, my dear Sweetie Belle. It's good to see you have a nice dream."

Before Luna walked away she noticed something odd. She walked back to Sweetie's mirror and then to the one next to it. "This is very peculiar. I've seen ponies dream about their past, but I've never seen two ponies have the same one at once."

Looking closer at the two mirrors we see what name is on the mirror next to Sweetie Belle's. "Spike The Dragon"

(Into The Dream - Season 2)

It was just another day in Ponyville, except for a certain little dragon. To him, it was the day he would confess his feelings to the mare of his dreams. "Hey, Rarity I was meaning to tell you this for a while-" Spike shook his head back and forth. "No, no, no. That just sounds stupid. Think Spike think." He said to himself while banging a fist to his head.

Spike was outside of the Carousel Boutique, pacing back and forth. In one of his claws was a single white rose for Rarity. Giving himself a slap on the cheek, he stood up straight. "Ok, you can do this Spike. This is it, the moment you've been waiting for. Let's do this"

He slowly moved one of his feet forward and then the other. After about a minute he was now right in front of the door to the shop. Tacking a few deep breaths as Twilight told him to do whenever he gets nervous, he lifted his hand and knocked. His cheeks were now blushing more than ever as the door started to slowly open. "There's no turning back now." He thought to himself.

Instead of a full-grown mare in front of him, there was a smaller one. After seeing that it was only Sweetie Belle, Spike relaxed a little. "Oh, hey Spike. What brings you here?"

"Uh, w-well I kinda wanted to t-tell Rarity something," Spike said, not making any eye contact.

"Sorry to tell you this Spike, but Rarity's in Canterlot with a very important client."

All the scales on Spike's head and back drooped down. "Oh, well ok. Sorry for wasting your time. I'll just... I'll just be...going now." As Spike turned away from the filly he almost started to walk away before something came to mind. Extending out his claw to the filly, revealing a white rose, the dragon still didn't look at her.

"Here Sweetie Belle. I spent two hours trying to find this flower. Can't let it go to wast. So here." Sweetie Belle reached out her hooves and took the rose from him. As she did so the depressed dragon started walking to an unknown destination.

Sweetie Belle was left there speechless at what has just happened. Looking down at her new flower she took a quick sniff of it and sighed heavenly at his kind gesture. Looking around she put it in her hair and went back inside. "I hope Spike will be okay. I hate seeing him like this and the way Rarity treats him. But why?" She said to herself.

(Into The Dream - Season 2 - Hearts and Hooves Day)

"Alright Spike it may have taken you all day, but you can do this. After all, Hearts and Hooves Day is not over yet. I still have a chance." It was the situation as last time. Spike was giving himself a pep talk, pacing himself, and with a gift in his hand. Instead of a rose, this time Spike was holding a heart-shaped box of gems.

"This time nothing can go wrong," Spike said to himself with a very confident tone in his voice. As he approached the Carousel Boutique the door started to open before he got to it. As it was almost completely open it revealed Rarity and an unknown figure next to her.

"I do say Miss Rarity, this place is simply magnificent. You must show me how you get your inspiration for your designs."

Before Rarity answered the stallions question, she turned her attention to her unexpected visitor. "Oh, Spike perfect timing. Fancy Pants this is the little helper I've been telling you all about."

"Ah, so you're the helpful little dragon. Miss Rarity has told me so much about you." Fancy Pants then turned his attention back to Rarity. "No need to be rude Miss Rarity, but we better get going before they give our table away to somepony else."

Spike was just standing still shocked at what he was hearing. Rarity looked down at him and noticed the box. "Excuse me Spike, but what's that you're holding there."

He panicked and tried to figure out a way out of this. "Oh, this? W-well it's just a...a Hearts and Hooves gift for-" His mind was going anywhere and it picked the first name that came to mind. "Sweetie Belle." Spike once again stood their shock at what he had just said.

"Aw, that's so sweet of you Spike. Sweetie hasn't received any today, not even a single card. You're the only pony that was nice enough to give her a Hearts and Hooves gift today." Inside Spike felt kinda happy to hear that he was going to make somepony happy. "She's right upstairs in her room. You can give it to her there."

Spike just gave a smile to her as he walked inside the house and headed up the stairs. "Well I may not get Rarity to be my special somepony today, but at least I can make one pony happy today." Before he knew it he was in front of her open bedroom door. Before she turned around, Spike quickly hid the box behind his back.

"Hey there Spike. How's it going?" She asked in her usual happy tone.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. Listen, Sweetie, I've heard that you didn't get any gifts today so I was kinda wondering." He pulled out the box out in front of her and opened it, revealing the gems inside. "If you would like to be my very special somepony?"

Sweetie Belle just stood in total shock at what was happening right now. Her smile suddenly turned even bigger than it was before. She ran towards Spike and knocked him down to the floor as she had him in a loving embrace. She was also rubbing her cheek against his. "Of course I would! Thank you so much, Spike! Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

She kept hugging him and giving him the occasional nuzzle once in a while. She hugged him so long that they both fell asleep together, still in each others' embrace. When Spike woke up in the morning he was snout to muzzle with Sweetie Belle in her bed. Spike was blushing intensely in his current situation.

Although when Sweetie Belle tried to kiss him in her sleep, he was doing his best to avoid it. Luckily for him, Sweetie Belle woke up when she was finally about to smooch Spike. She too started to blush extremely red during this circumstance as well. "Oh good, Sweetie Belle you're awake. Now would you mind letting me go so I can go back to the library?"

She quickly lets go of him and he left home. "Oh no. What was I doing? Now Spike won't be around me for a while after this whole fiasco."

(Into The Dream - Season 2 - Finally)

Spike was hanging around the snack table as he got himself some punch. "No good waiter. Why they wouldn't have gems at the wedding snack tables, I will never understand." He jokingly said, before taking a sip of his punch. What the dragon didn't know was that there was a certain pony that was watching him from afar.

"Oh Spike. I wish I could tell you how I feel about you. That I lo-LIKE! That I like like you." She said to herself from the other side of the table. She would have been ok if Pinkie Pie didn't happen to bump into her with her overactive dancing. Sweetie Belle slide forwards and fell to the ground.

"Hey, you need some help." Sweetie Belle reached out her hoof to grab the other pony's hoof. The only problem is that it wasn't a hoof at all, but a claw. When she got up she saw that she was right in front of Spike. Looking down her hoof in his claw, she blushed and quickly took her hoof away.

"Um, t-thanks for the help Spike."

"No problem Sweetie Belle." Spike was about to return to the snack table, he was stopped by a question. A question he thought he would never hear from Sweetie Belle.

"Um S-Spike, w-would you like t-to dance with me?" Her heart was pounding faster than a stampede of buffalo. She prepared herself for rejection by turning away from him.

"Sure that sounds like fun. Come on Sweetie Belle." Happy as she could be, Sweetie Belle ran with Spike to their destination. After a few minutes of dancing to fast and funky songs, they played a slow song instead.

Spike turned his attention to Sweetie Belle who was obviously blushing at their current situation. With a smirk on his face, he turned to her. "Would like to share this dance with me?" He asked in his most polite voice.

Sweetie's headshot right up as she stared at the dragon. She smiled, nodded her head, and put her hoof on the dragon's claw. She stood up on her hind legs and put both her hooves on his shoulders as they danced the night away. After a while, the party ended and everypony headed home. Spike and Sweetie Belle said their goodbyes and headed off as well.

"Even though this didn't get us together. I'm just glad I got to have a dance with Spike. The dragon of my dreams."


"This young pony love can be so amusing from time to time. But this is simply hilarious." Luna was giggling at what she had just witnessed. "Well, I better get back to work. There are still so many dreams left to protect." When she walked away, she just teleported back the same spot she was before. This time she had a pillow and some popcorn.

"Well, maybe just one more. I believe the ponies these days would say it. This is started to get good."


Author's Note

One day I was thing of other ways Spike could get Sweetie Belle to fall for him more without noticing. And then it hit me: Why not make a chapter about flashbacks showing everyone how Sweetie's crush grew. I was thinking of dreams because all of you could get both side of the story.

Also sorry about the late chapter.

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