Toils of the Heart

       The sun now rises. Its light now shines though the windows of everyponies' homes. As the dawn hours pass slowly, so does the light; creeping across the floor and eventually making its way up Twilight's bed. Spike is really lucky, however, for his little bed is on the guarding side of Twilight's bed, completely protected by the off-given shade. Outside, you can hear the faint sound of Fluttershy's son birds chirping away at their morning tunes of such sweet melodies. Suddenly, the birds all fly to the outer window sill of Twilight's window which was then openned by the tender, loving, yellow coated pegasus. She softly lands next to Twilight's bed. She gently knuges the purple pony and softly whispers into her ear, "Twilight, if it's still okay with you, if you won't get mad at me, I'm here to wake you up, if that would be alright." Slowly, the mare awakens not perturbed at all by the gentle wake up call.

       "Perfect Futtershy, that couldn't have gone greater. You were right, If you could wake up the innocent soft spirit of the hummingbird or the harsh brash dangerous instinct of a ravenous badger without disturbing either, you can really wake up a pony without them being startled." says the unicorn in a soft whisper. "Thankyou. I bought the birds like you had asked of me." returns Fluttershy's in a soft whisper as well, bu that's natural for her. "Where are the others?" asks Tilight. Amswering her question, Fluttershy responds, "I saw them on the way here, they were passing by sugar cube corner so they shouldn't be long." "Okay good, wait by the door to let them in while I get the cake." says twilight as her horn begins to glow as they proceed downstairs.

       As Fluttershy stands her post at the front door, Twilight returs to the living room with a 3 level cake made by pinkie pie yesterday. She sets it. On the table then continues back upstairs to check on Spike. Suddenly, an envelope protrudes the home under the door near Fluttershy. It is. Sealed with a yellow smiley face candle wax assignia. As she opens it up it reads, "Fluttershy, it's me Pinkie Pie! Me and the rest of us areo outside right now! Open the door. Signed with balloons and giggles, Pinkamena D. Pie III As Fluttershy puts away the random letter, she opens the door to let everyone in. They all enter, Pinkie and AJ look fully awake and ready to attack the day, while Rainbow and Rarity just aren't used to being up at this hour like the others are, mainly because AJ works these kind of hours on a farm and the cotton candy smelling mare is just hyper.

       A Pinkie is the last to enter, Fluttershy tells her, "I never knew you were third mare in your family to be named Pinkie Diane." "That's because I'm not!" she says with a giggle, "When I write a letter, I wanna sound as professional as possible. Or at least I've been that way since Princess Celestia has had us write her letters about what we learned. I mean, were talking about the Princess here. You just can't sound like the average joe when writing to her! Speaking of Joe, do you remember that guy I framed when we were on the train!? That was so funny! And there was also that time whe..." "PINKIE!" exclaims Apple Jack in a shouting whisper, "Were trying not to wake up spike remember? Jst be quiet and get ready to say surprise."

       "Okay everypony he's still asleep, were it he clear." says Twilight. "Okay, so if I remember correctly, Pinkie gets the decorations up, Rarity prepares the tuxedo, Fluttershy assembles her birds, you'll bring down spike, and AppleJack will bring in the presents and i'll light the cake." says Rainbow Dash. "Yup." says Twilight. "Sure as the tux is fabulous." Pinkie Pie then pulls out her legendary party cannon and aims towards the center of the ceiling. Tilight seeing the big contraption screams, "PINKIE, NO!" Alas it was to late, for she had just pulled the firing string and out came a fountain of confertie, streamers and banners, ricocheting off the ceiling and on to the walls. She then pulls out her record player and then at least a dozen board games, an assortment of snacks, and two punch bowls.

       "Well that was faster than a fish looking for water!" says AppleJack. "That's great, now everyone get into position." says the lavender unicorn. Fluttershy then Simons her birds to settle on the podium in front of her. AppleJack stands next to the pile of presents getting ready to lift. Rarity then stands eagerly next to the staircase with the small sized tux hanging from her mouth, smiling away in excitement. And Rainbow Dash hovers with the match in her mouth ready to light. Twilight then compliments the ponies by saying, "Perfect, I'll be right back." She then proceeds upstairs. She quickly returns with spike floating in his bed and glowing with a purple aura, then settling in the middle of the room. Pinkie and Twilight now stand next to the baby dragon ready to awaken him.

       "Are you easy guys?" ask Fluttershy. In return, the robbins, jays, and pheasants all nod simotaniously yes. She then turns her head to her friends and nod the same telling them their ready. AppleJack then instructs, "Okay everypony, on the count of three. One, two, three!" "SURPRISE!" scream the ponies. Spike then awakens in shock to Oswego everyone around him, still half asleep and confused as a light blue glowing tuxedo comes on him as his crush draws nearer. "Wait, what!?" says the innocent dragon as he's then showered upon with boxes wrapped up so elegantly as his gifts. All as the birds sing the most popularly known tune ans the ponies sing, "Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to Spi-ike! Happy birthday to you. YAY!" and on the last line, Spike's head pops out from his mountain of gifts only to see the adventurous cyan colored Pegasus lighting the candles on the cake.

       "Aw thanks guys, this is great, you're all the best a dragon could ask for." "Thanks," says Pinkie Pie, "now let's have some cake and open some presents" Everypony then takes their slice of cake only after Spike makes the first cut. It came to everyone's surprise that it was a remake of the M.M.M.M. After everyone had eaten their cake, everyone gathered around the sharply dressed dragon to see what they had all gotten him. The first present he opened was from Rarity; it was a pocketwatch and a top hat to go along with his new suit. The second gift was the one from pinkie pie. When it was opened, an explosion do candy had popped out of it spreading all over the place. The third was from Fluttershy, which was a pan flute carved from the wood of an elder tree in the everfree forest. The fourth was from AppleJack, it was the barrel ring that AppleBloom had once played with that Spike had been envious of. Then there was Rainbow Dash's. Her gift was a self-teaching course booklet that thought you had to fly. "Twilight said that dragons at this age tend to sprout their wings, and I figured getting a head start wouldn't hurt." encouraged the rainbow maned pony.

       Then there was the last gift. Twilight Sparkle's. Spike was yet again expecting just another book as usual. He begins to unwrap it slowly knowing there was nothing to be surprised at. That was until he saw what he had just revealed. As held it up, every ones jaw dropped an awe as they all chanted in sync, "OoooooOoooOoooh." "Well I say there Spike, you got yourself a mighty fine lookin' stone. I'd sy you should be mighty tankful for that hunk of jewel." says the orange earth pony. "Twilight. I, I just don't now what to say other than thank you. I literally can't express in mere words how greatful I am for this." says the dragon with a slight tear of joy in his eye. In reply, Twilight says, "Aw spike you don't have to. It's your birthday after all." Spike still overwhelmed with joy and thanks, he comes over to Twilight and hugs her, and all the other ponies follow.

       About an hour passes by and the party stills lives on, festive as ever. As Pinkie, Rainbow, and Spike get it down on the dance floor, Rarity approaches Twilight by the punch bowl and asks, "Twilight my dear, where ever did you obtain such a beautiful gem? In all my years of digging through the dirt seeking gems with my horn, I've never seen such perfection." With a bit of a slight smirk, Twilight responds by saying, "That's because I didn't find it in the ground, I bought it from this jewler yesterday and I had it crafted into this style cut." "A Jewler!?" asks rarity, "A jewler here in Ponyville!?" "Oh dear Celestia!" exclaims the purple unicorn to the white, "I can't believe that I had almost forgotten to tell you about them. Yea, they're 5 blocks south of your boutique. I've never noticed them there before until recently. I always thought that is was a residential area." "So did I! I mean how could we have missed this for so many years?" "Well, I gues thats just how it is in life, finding new things in the least expected of places. Not only that but, the stallion in there I think looked kind of cute." says Twilight. "Really. Twilight, could you have possibly found the one suited for you?" implies rarity with a small chuckle. "Oh no. But I would think that now you know about this new jewler, it might be good business for you. You dont have to go searching for gems anymore let alone taking hours upon hours of attempting to craft them and make errors." responds Twilight in a bit of a heated tone. "Well perhaps I'll stop by some time during the week." says rarity, "I like this song, want to dance?"