Inheritance of the moon

The tree that was the library loomed over his head as he approached almost as if it was welcoming him or trying to scare him away. Undaunted he continued to the door that he'd passed through earlier, this time he wasn't expecting a party since it was after all a library. Today he had his saddle packs with him, which he did normally carry with him, all ways be prepared for any situation and he was hoping to leave with a book or two. Slowing as he reached the door he would stop, even though it was a library he knew it was the home of Twilight Sparkle and Spike. Reaching a hoof up he would knock on the door and step back.

It would only be a few moments before a loud crash comes from the otherside of the door followed by a muffled "Coming!" The door would open slowly as would the sound of yet another crash which started the small dragon enough to jump. "Yikes!" Looking past him would reveal the library in complete and total chaos, there were books every where! "Sorry about the mess, welcome to the library! I'm Spike the greatest assistant ever!" The dragon spoke as if it was a matter of fact, not that Midnight could doubt him on it. "Twilight didn't like the way the books were arranged so I'm rearranging them...again." Stepping aside Spike would usher him into the mess, even now he could tell the books on magic weren't where they were before.

Yeah...this just figured with his luck, of course every book would be moved around. "It's...no problem, I'm Midnight Breeze." Glancing around for a moment he spotted at least one book from before. "Could you use a helping hoof Spike? I might not know where every thing goes but at least I can practice my telekinesis." That was one spell he knew, though every foal should know a little of that. "If not I can come back later."

"Of course you can help! Thank you so much for asking! Reshelving books can get soo boring alone, I don't mind it, but having someone help makes it go by easier." Spike would close the door behind them and motion to the piles of books in one motion. "All right if we can get this done fast enough maybe we can get a snack afterwards! Twilight wants the books in the pony decimal system, sub divided by fiction and non fiction, and those sub divided by type." Pointing to the left of the room he'd say "Fiction on that side." Then to the other "Non fiction on this side. In the middle will be a shelf of recommended reading from both Twilight and myself...it too will be sorted in the same way. I personally am only going to put one book on there." Again he made it sound as if it was the easiest of all things to do and for him it probably was.

The two would set off to work on the books, Midnight taking noticeably longer than Spike since he'd taken the non fiction side. Twilight it seemed prefered to keep more non fiction books than fiction, not that he minded since he came across several helpful looking books on magic like 'Magic for Foals' and 'Protection spells and Barriers for dummies', the latter might have been insulting if he wasn't so new to magic himself. The process also took longer since he was using his magic to float each book to where it needed to go, at first it had been difficult to get a grasp on each book but over the time it took to do so he got better and better getting to the point where he could do multiple books at a time. "So Spike how long have you been with Twilight?" Was it odd for a pony to have a dragon as an assistant or did all unicorn in Canterlot have one?

"Oh she hatched me as her entrance exam to the Canterlot's School for Gifted Unicorn and I've been with her ever since." Spike spoke highly of Twilight "She was so powerful that Celestia made her her personal student! She's the best even when she wants to rearrange the library." Spike was blowing through the books like no pony's, or dragon's, business!

Now that had shocked him, Twilight was powerful enough to be Celestia's student? Maybe she could teach him some on magic, he really needed the help if he were to get on any scale worthy of being noticed by Princess Luna. "She must really be something else then..." Someday, maybe, he'd be strong too. Most unicorn's magic had to do with their special something, what ever their cutie mark represented, but his own cutie mark was that of the blue moon so what did that mean? "I don't know a lot about magic, I didn't even go to school as a foal. Hey Spike does every unicorn at the school get a dragon for an assistant?"

Spike was now on top of a ladder with books balanced on one paw. "As far as I know I was the only one, could you even imagine if every unicorn there had one? It would be totally awesome!" He must have forgotten where he was cause he jumped with excitement and ended up tumbling down the ladder in a heap of books. "I'm alright!" The fall didn't even slow him down as he hopped right up, this must have happened to him all the time. "And don't worry about magic I'm sure you'll figure it out, it's not like you don't have your cutie mark yet." Then Spike would lean over to take a closer look at Midnight's cutie mark and gasp, his eyes going big. "A m..m..moon?" Moving nearer he wanted a closer look. "You should take to Twilight, I've not heard of any other pony having just a moon as a cutie mark."

"Maybe..." Gently he'd run a hoof over the medallion that was on his necklace. "I just don't want to look foalish..." It really made him feel bad that he didn't know that much and it wasn't even his fault. The glow of his horn didn't waver as he picked up more and more books with magic, he wasn't even paying attention at this point. The books shelved themselves as the two he'd been looking at drifted closer to him, neither of them was big but both would help. "Would it be alright if I borrowed these, they shouldn't take me long to read."

The dragon was already climbing back up the ladder, this time a bit more carefully. "Oh you won't look foalish, even Twilight needed help with magic at first and sure just have the books back soon, Twilight will notice them. Though it is a library so she might not mind, but really it's a tree! Talk about a fire hazard." Both Spike and Midnight would laugh as they got back to work on the books. "So Midnight wanna be my friend? We don't get many visitors here at the library and it might start to get lonely."

Oddly he had a feeling he'd be to the library fairly often and seeing Spike just as often. "Of course Spike I'd like that."  Spike would be his first real friend right? Sunny was his landmare but perhaps she was his friend too, only time would tell. "Anyway lets get finished with these books then we can have a snack."  Spike's spins bristled with the mention of snack and got back to shelving the books. "I'm thinking apple pie and tea."

"Oh oh with gemstones! Well on my piece anyway."

"Gemstones?" Midnight actually looked puzzled at the comment, he didn't know much about dragons.

"Of course! We dragons eat gemstones mmmm I think rubies are the best!" Of course dragons ate gemstones and Spike was excited. "You shouldn't try them though, they'd break your teeth. Twilight tried one once, she ended up swallowing it though, it was funny." Again both laughed as they worked, the time passed by quickly and even though there were so many books they had fun.