Bite-Sized Spike

Chapters

Chapter 1. Down To Size
Chapter 2. Stomp Your Hooves
Chapter 3. Magical Sneezes
Chapter 4. Bugged Out
Chapter 5. Soups On
Chapter 6. Lunar,... Cake
Chapter 7. Plans For The Future
Chapter 8. Dark Side Of The Shining Moon
Chapter 9. Food Of The Ponies
Chapter 10. Mouth Of The Shining

Chapter 1. Down To Size

"YAAAH!" Princess Twilight Sparkle gave a loud yawn that echoed in the hallway.

"Oh I hate these long meetings." Twilight said rubbing her eyes of to clear the sleep from them, and giving a few more, smaller yawns. Alongside her walked a little purple dragon, Spike, Twilight's little brother and her number one assistant.

"Twilight you look tired you should take a nap," Spike said as he ran up in front of her, directing her back onto the straight rug she was drifting from.

"Oh Spike I'm fine," The alicorn yawned and gave a chuckle "I'm fine really I don't need any,.." Twilight slowly close her eyes and began walking straight for pillar at the end of the hallway Spike gasped and quickly grabbed Twilight's tail, while planting his feet on the rug. The dragon pulled on her tail, but his effort was in vain as Twilight pulled him right along with her, still heading right for the pillar.

"TWILIGHT!" both Spike, and two familiar voices cried making the violet alicorn jump and stop mere inches from the slamming her muzzle into the pillar

"W-what's wrong?" asked Twilight.

"You almost went head first into that thing." Spike told her in a concerned tone, which Shining Armor and Cadence nodded at, while walking up beside the pair.

"Twiliy you ok?" asked Shining, looking down at his LSBFF.

"Yeah I'm fine, just tired." Twilight rubbing her head.

"I think these meetings have kept you up too long," Cadence said as she put a hoof on her shoulder. Spike went up to the couple "I told her she needs to take nap, but she insisted she’s fine."

"I'm afraid Spike's right Twilight, you need to sleep." Cadence said to Twilight in a motherly tone.

"But I'll miss the meetings." Twilight tried to argue.

"No Twiliy you need to sleep." Shining Armor said Twilight rubbing her eyes and giving another huge yawn.

"I guess you’re right." Twilight yawned again then closed her eyes and fell asleep standing in place. Shining and Cadence looked at each other and smiled. Shining Armor's horn glowed lifting Twilight off the floor and onto his back Twilight started snuggling into her brother's blue mane.

"Lets take her to her room." Cadence looked down at Spike and smiled . "Come on Spike you can ride on my back."

"Thanks." Spike said as he climbed onto Cadence's back. The four then went through the castle, finally arriving at Twilight’s old room. The place, while it still looked less taken care of than it had before, was mostly clean and free of debris today, thanks to Moondancer and her group coming in to clean it up about once a month. Looking at the pair they were carrying around, the couple were pleased to find they had drifted off to sleep together, and so the alicorn mare and unicorn stallion placed them on their old beds.

“They look just adorable, don’t they?” said Cadence, as she looked down at her sister-in-law, gently brushing her mane with her hoof, and causing the young mare to sigh in her sleep.

“Yeah, just like a pair of little kids. Almost makes me wish we had one of our own,” he said, tucking Spike into his bed, and then gently kissing him on his forehead, causing the little dragon to wave a claw at him to get him to back off.

“You know,” began Cadence, but Shining lifted his hoof in the air to quickly cut her off.

“No, we don’t need one of those right now. We’ve got an empire to run. Besides, you remember when I had that squad bunk with us last month. Are you saying you want that sort of thing twenty-four/seven?” asked the stallion, and Cadence flashed back to the days of running around their apartments, cleaning up after the guards, and breaking up at least a fight an hour when somepony said something that got another riled up.

“Hmm, maybe,” she said suggestively, and then held her hoof under his chin, scratching at him with the tip, and causing Shining to briefly wonder if they shouldn’t try for a little pony of their own, only to quickly remember that he had way too much to do already, shaking his head, and pushing her hoof away.

“No, no you don’t. Now come on, we’ve still got a few meetings to go to ourselves before the day is done,” he told her, before sweeping her up in his legs and planting a rather large kiss on her lips. This seemed to satisfying the Alicorn of Love, at least for now, and the pair soon left the tower with Twilight in it, Shining making a mental note to check up on her in a few hours, before gently shutting the door behind him, leaving Twilight and Spike to their rest.

Shining stopped in the hallway and started thinking. He went back opened the door watching Twilight and Spike sleep in their beds. He closed the door behind him still thinking of his siblings, and those days when he was younger began to swirl in his mind. He remembered how he would take care of Twiliy and Spike when she was still just a filly and Spike was a baby. He remembered all the fun he'd had with his little sister and brother.

All the times pretending to be a giant monster for Spike and Twilight to fight in the little games of imagination, or the times when Twiliy had gotten a makeup kit for her birthday, even if she didn't like it at a young age, but she did enjoy painting her brother's face. It may have been embracing for the poor stallion but he loved making his sister happy.

"Maybe Cadence is right?" Shining said to himself running his hoof threw his mane still not sure if he wanted to have a baby yet.

"I guess I'll just have to think about it," Shining noticed his wife was already far ahead of him and quickly rushed down the hall.

Inside the room, Spike dreamed of those halcyon days of his youth as well. His memories were, of course, colored far differently than Shining’s. He remembered Twilight’s mom and dad, and how they always looked at him with those bright, shining faces, always stopping to answer his questions when Twilight wouldn’t. He remembered those nights, standing in front of Twilight’s bedroom as she read her books, marching back and forth with a small wooden spear over his shoulder, guarding her from any interruption.

He’d grown up since then, of course. Twilight didn’t need his protection anymore, not that she ever really had. Still, he took care of her in other ways now, guarding her less from the world at large, and more from herself. He always made sure she ate, for one thing, as the newest princess still sometimes found herself forgetting about such things. He’d even opened a tab with the Hayburger Queen down the street, always ready to send an order over to the Golden Oaks Library, and then the Castle of Friendship, whenever he called.

These memories, flooding his mind, made Spike smile in his dreams. Above him, Twilight, was sadly not smiling. Her face was scrunched up in concentration, as her dreams were of tests she hadn’t taken, and classes she had forgotten to study for. Heck, she even had one where she had shown up to her finals naked, her mind for some reason finding that odd. Panicked as the other children began to laugh, Twilight focused in her dream on a spell to make herself smaller, so she could slip away, and in the waking world, that spell began to form on the tip of her horn, a small glow beginning to come from the tip.

Spike began to turn in his sleep a familiar sense of uneasiness was stirring in the little dragon's head making him wake up to Twilight tossing and turning, as well as talking in her sleep.

"No,.. No I'm not th,.. Please I'm not,.. Ready!" Spike climbed onto the bed, ready to wake Twilight from her nightmare. The dragon was given a moment of pause when he saw Twilight's horn started glow.

"Uh oh not again." Spike said, eminently regretting his action. The last time Twilight used spells in her sleep he woke with pumpkin for a head and dancing books tearing through the library. Spike quickly ducked when a white and purple blast of light shot from Twilight's horn, just missing him. Instead it hit a nearby stack of books making them shrink to the size of few bits.

"Ok that's new!" shouted the little dragon, wondering where that spell had come from, as he didn’t know his alicorn friend knew any size alteration spells. Spike turned to Twilight and tried to wake her up by shaking her shoulders.

"No!... No!... Don't look,... I didn't study!" Twilight mumbled, still very much asleep. She then started up a new spell, lines of magical light slowly building in the air around her, while her horn glowed brightly. With a jerk of her neck, she tossed the young dragon aside, and he found her horn pointed right at him.

"Twilight WAIT!" Spike tried to dodge out of the way, but couldn't move fast enough. A similar bolt of magic to before shot from Twilight's horn hitting first a mirror, then bouncing up to the chandelier overhead, and finally off a small gem stone that the dragon had been saving for a snack later.

The bolt then struck the dragon right in the chest, Spike causing him to fly back and in mere seconds he started to get smaller and smaller in mid-air.

"NOOoooooooo!" Spike shrank till he reached the size 3 inches tall. As his voice trailed off, he found himself falling off the bed, and then just to the side of the carpet, so that his path took him right down onto the hard tile floor that made up most of the space in Twilight’s bedroom. The tile, cold and hard as stone, came up to meet him quite fast, and Spike, being quick on his feet, quickly breathed out a quart of hot flames. The force of the fire gave him lift, and he was able to, with a grunt, land safely on the floor of the room, leaving only a tiny burned spot on the tile.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 2. Stomp Your Hooves

Rubbing his body, feeling it was slightly sore, but otherwise fine, the dragon began to look around at the room. He’d lived here for years, of course, finding the place to be both familiar and comforting, no matter that some of the staff saw him as Twilight’s slave/pet. This was a home to him, and he could always retreat here when things got to be their worst. Of course, right now, he was finding the normally reassuring sights of the beds, including his small basket, to be a bit intimidating to his tiny form.

“I...need...books…,” murmured the still very much asleep princess on her bed, before her fidgeting finally began to calm down, and she slowly drifted off back into more peaceful slumber. Looking up at her, he would have tried to shout some more, but given his efforts when he had been significantly larger and closer were fruitless, he doubted they would work now from his position on the floor, and much reduced.

“The things I put up with,” he said dryly, remembering some of the other things that had happened to him over the years. Luckily, he was a dragon, and not a pony, otherwise, he might have been hurt at some point in his life. As it was, however, he knew he’d just have to wait this out. Magic effected him, sure, but its effects were never permanent, and just had to fade away. Even the pumpkin head thing had done that, after a few hours, and he doubted this shrinking spell was any different.

Thinking this, he wondered idly what he should do while he waited. Going back to bed was an option, but he felt a bad one, just in case, you know? Besides, whatever magic he’d been hit with had woken him up.

He could explore the room, of course, he’d never seen it at this size, and thanks to Rarity and Fluttershy, the place was pest free, meaning he’d be left alone by just about everything. His musings, however, were cut off when he heard a series of loud booms in the distance, and then felt a wind come from downstairs.

“Hello? Twily? Spike? You okay?” asked a whispered voice, followed by loud creaks as something made its way from the door and came up the stairs to the sleeping area of the apartment. The form that rose from those stairs was huge at first, a shuddering silhouette of a titan that rippled with power as it came up to stand on the landing, Spike having to crane his neck back, and then fall on his bottom when even that wasn’t enough. Standing before him was Shining Armor, a monstrously sized stallion, who began to step towards him, his powerful hooves smacking the ground, and rocking the dragon, even as he realized he was right in the pony’s path.

"AH! SHINING WAIT!" Spike shouted looking in shock as Shining Armor's gigantic building-sized legs started stomping his way. Spike picked himself up, and started running as fast as his tiny legs would allow him. To the tiny dragon’s horror and amazement he watched as the titanic blue hoof smashed down behind him, shaking the floor beneath him. Spike stumbled, but kept his footing and continued running regardless. Of course, as he turned his head up, all he could see was another massive hoof, Shining’s left forehoof, coming right for him.

"NO! NO! NO!" Spike cried with tears streaming from his eyes as the hoof slammed down, just missing Spike's tail by an inch from his perspective. Spike felt a rush of air lift him off his feet making him crash into the floor from the force of Shining Armor's hoof. Spike quickly lifted himself up, rubbing his head trying to shake off the sudden dizziness that was probably not a concussion. His reverie was broken as Spike heard a sudden crackling sound that made him look up, and to his shock he saw the same massive hoof as last time coming his way.

"S-Shining NO!" Spike slipped trying to crawl away from the on coming hoof. Spike was covered in the hoof's huge shadow, and the dragon covered his head as he began to cry. He couldn't move in time this was it! Shining Armor's massive hoof came smashing down with a loud crash.

When the sweet taste of oblivion didn’t greet him, Spike slowly opened one eye to see he was facing the back of Shining Armor's hoof. He gasped seeing that the hoof was actually two inches away from his snout. Spike let out a loud sigh, wiping sweat from his head. Spike looked up he was right under the monstrous sized stallion Armor feeling frightened

"I gotta get his attention or,..." Spike saw Shining's leg starting to lift up. Rushing forward, Spike leapt upwards, quickly grasping ahold of the hair surrounding Shining's hoof.

Shining Armor stood over his sister's bed "Twiliy?" Shining softly spoke he shook Twilight’s shoulder gently waking her up.

"Hey Twiliy." Shining said with a calm tone the alicron lazily smiled

"Oh hi big bro." Twilight replied

"You ok? I thought I heard you screaming?" Shining asked with concern in his voice Twilight blinked lifted her head slowly she rubbed her eyes to get a few bits of sleep from them.

"Oh sorry I had a weird dream." she yawned "Sorry."

Shining laughed "It's ok Twiliy why don't you go back to sleep." Twilight nodded and relaxed back on her pillow and closed her eyes. Shining Armor used his magic to cover Twilight up in her blanket "Night Twiliy." Shining Armor placed his hoof on her head, and rubbed her mane and then leaned down and gave her a kiss on the head.

Spike felt a strong rush of wind going against him as Shining's leg moved up and down and back and forth. The tiny dragon's stomach was flipping around when all of a sudden the hoof stopped and panted on the soft bed sheet.

"TWILIY!" Shining Armor's soft voice echoed loudly in the baby dragon's ears "OH HI BRO!" Twilight's new massive voice echoed along with Shining's even if they spoke softly it was still a loud echo to Spike, Spike held on tight as the hoof moved up Spike looked down to see he was heading right for Twilight's mane Spike was met with many soft and ticklish hairs as the hoof moved around on Twilight's mane Spike took the opportunity and leaped off the hoof and landed on soft lock of hair the blue hoof lifted up out of view "Feeew!" Spike sighed only to have his eyes grow bigger in shock seeing Shining Armor's muzzle coming down and Shining's now puckered lips.

"OH! You gotta be kidding!" Spike roared as he slipped off the lock and tried to avoid the massive lips only to be pressed down by the locks of Twilight's hair and Shining Armor's lips "YUCK! YUCK!" Spike growled thankfully the kiss ended and Spike could only hear the sounds of stomping hooves and a echoing door close.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 3. Magical Sneezes

The tiny dragon shook himself off, and then looked around at his situation. It was slightly better than it had been when Shining had come into the room, that was nice, but it still wasn’t great. With what had just happened, he knew he should probably try and get Twilight’s attention. He was at least somewhat confident in his survivability, and realized that he probably could have survived being stepped on, even if in the moment he’d been scared to death.

That still left him wanting some attention though, as he’d seen that even the steps of the ponies were able to move him around. They didn’t even have to step on him or anything, just stepping near him was bad at this size. Sighing, he began to shout as loudly as he could, crying out Twilight’s name over and over again from the top of her head, tangled amid the cord like hairs of her mane. As one might expect of Twilight, who was paradoxically both a light and heavy sleeper, depending on something in her dreams, she didn’t even twitch.

“Oh, come on!” he cried in frustration, and began the trek her forehead, making his way through the mass of her mane, and finally emerging from the tangled forest into the knee high grass of her typical fur on her face, with the large purple wall in front of him of her muzzle. On either side was her eyes, tightly shut, and slightly glowing with the power of her magic in the low afternoon light that was coming through the apartment windows nearby.

Idly, the dragon poked at one of the eyelids nearby, feeling the soft flesh and even softer eye behind bend under his weight. It didn’t wake her up, however, and the dragon just sighed, pounding his clawed hand into the soft flesh of the bridge of her muzzle between her eyes, and then began to walk towards the wall in front of him. Her ears might have been the best place to get her attention, if she were awake, but he knew that for Twilight, the best way to wake her up was to make her sneeze.

So thinking, the dragon began his march between her eyes, giggling at the tickle feeling of her fur as it got shorter and shorter until it was just small blades of purple grass beneath his feet. Once he’d made it to the side of her muzzle, he looked up from where he was standing, and sighed again as he realized the climb that was now in front of him. Still, he was used to Twilight leaving him with a lot of work to do, and so got to it, grasping a few strands of her fur in his claws, and pulling himself up.

Strangely, climbing her muzzle didn’t take nearly as much time as he thought it would, his body probably lighter, in proportion, to its old self. Like when the Power Ponies got shrunk by the Mad Professor in one issue. They had their powers lessened, but they could do more with them, especially Fillisecond, who seemed even faster at mouse sized. While not quite as good as her, her still made it to the top of Twilight Muzzle Mountain in only a few seconds, and looked around.

“Now then, time to tickle a nose,” he said, giggling at his superhero quip as he made his way towards her nostril. The hole was huge compared to him, as large across as he was tall at the moment, and with a huge gust of wind blowing out of it periodically. Considering for a few moments how best to go about it, Spike was startled when the muzzle beneath him shook, and suddenly the strong gust became a gale, the hole of Twilight’s nostril widening, even as the wind picked him up and dragged him towards it.

Spike grabbed the blades of Twilight's purple fur as the nostrils pulled at him just as that wind left the new one came and pushed Spike away making him lose his grip on the fur. Twilight then inhaled again causing a blast of air to pull Spike further and despite his effort to keep himself in one place, the two tunnels grew closer and closer then muzzle twitched and then a loud snore echoes the room making Spike cover his ears "Oops!" he shouted as the inhaled gust pulled Spike right into Twilight's left nostril the tiny dragon sunk his claws into the slippery edge of the cavern "This wasn't such a good idea." Spike said to himself as the air continued to try and suck him in Spike's grip became moist from the nose "Please no." Spike pleaded as his grip slipped and was inhaled into Twilight's nose.

Inside her nose it was warm, wet, and a lot of other words that meant overall icky. The place was full of goo, that quickly coated the small dragon’s scales, causing them to grow sticky, and this, getting him stuck in place, while the world around him shook violently. In her dreams, Twilight was sniffing at a vial of some rainbow concoction she’d been working on. The scent of it at first was just normal, but then something made her think of dragons, and she wondered, in the dream, if it there were dragon scales in the stuff.

The dragon in question was trying to pull at the stuff around him, the hairs and walls sticking to his body. It occurred to him, idly, that he was now a booger, and somehow, that made the small dragon laugh, despite the precarious situation he found himself in. Of course, his situation was one of always changing, and after a few grapples with the hairs that tried to tangle him, he found it changed again, and not in a good way, as he got himself loose, only to have no claw holds at all, and plummet again, landing hard on soft flesh below.

His landing was soft, but sticky, thanks to the flesh beneath him being at the back of the nose, however, before he could do much to improve his situation, the wind of Twilight’s breathing caught him again, and he was dragged down a passage of flesh that rippled and moved about him. Quick to react, he grabbed at the walls, thankful for the coating on his body that made him sticky, as the wind passed by, then pushed at him. His sticky coating wouldn’t let him move, however, and after a few breathes, he realized he was now stopped, for the moment, and he could take stock.

Looking around, not daring to breath fire for light considering where he was, he could still see via some light coming in through a large opening above him. What he saw was less than good, of course. Around him were the walls of Twilight’s body, fleshy things that rippled and moved with the muscles under them, like water, but more solid. Blowing past him was her breath, coming in regular, light gusts that blew at his body, but could not unseat him from where he was, leaving him stuck at the bottom...back of her throat, if the opening above was anything to go by, considering it was, wide, deep, and with many blunted bits silhouetted in the light from above.

“This just hasn’t been a good day for me,” complained the drake as he stretched his body a bit, trying to loosen some muscles, and then moved without losing his connection to Twilight’s throat, just in case he got sucked into Twilight’s lungs or something. Luckily, he was able to, using his sticky body, climb the nearby wall of flesh, moving slowly with a great deal of effort, pulling his body free one second after another. Then a trickle of liquid moved over his claw, and he was made aware, when reaching for another hand hold, that he wasn’t sticky there anymore.

“What the?” he asked curiously, and then cried out in fear as the world shifted, his body catapulting from where it had been, and landing on something soft, slimy, and moving. It took him only a second to realize it was the tongue of Twilight, writing like some kind of massive worm. Said worm in this case was flowing with saliva, that was breaking up his sticky coating, and making it hard for him to get traction as the world shifted with Twilight rising in bed, her lips smacking together dryly.

“SPIKE! CAN YOU GET ME A GLASS OF WATER!?” came a deafening thunder of her voice from everywhere around the drake, who didn’t bother to cover his ringing ears, as he knew what would happen if he stopped scrambling to get a hold on her tongue, his feet already dangling rather precariously over the precipice that was her throat. When he realized that he was sliding backwards regardless, he quickly leapt away from the tongue, grasping wildly for anything that could help him, and finding it in the form of her uvula, that he quickly wrapped every limb around, desperately clinging to it.

“TWILIGHT!!!” he cried out as loudly as he could, but outside, the Princess of Friendship heard nothing more than a tiny squeaking sound, which she missed entirely as she felt something start itching the back of her throat. Rising from her bed, she looked towards Spike’s at the foot of her’s, wondering why he hadn’t gotten up to get her water, when she realized his bed was empty. That was...odd, to say the least. He should have been tired as all Tartarus considering their day, and she considered looking for him, when she suddenly gagged on something.

Inside her mouth, Spike got to watch as her tongue rippled, and the view of the world outside shifted wildly with the way Twilight was standing. Worse, of course, was that everything shook with every cough she had, nearly dumping him down her throat. He wasn’t afraid of her digestive juices below, knowing that a pony didn’t eat meat, and beside, he could take lava easy, no way a pony’s stomach could top that, but knowing that such a ride tended to be one way, even if he was somehow found within her.

Outside, Twilight coughed a few times, and walked her way towards the sink of her apartment, running a small tap and then opening her mouth wide. Rather than waste time on a glass, she just created a small tube from the facet to her muzzle, and let the flow of liquid drain. Inside, Spike got to watch as the maw opened, making him hope for a moment that he had been found, only to eep as a flood of water came tumbled over Twilight’s lips, spilling between her teeth, and then flowing over the edge of her tongue, pouring into her throat a series of hard gulping sounds, as the walls rippled and moved with the liquid, cupping around it to gather it in, and then sending it downwards as tiny bubbles of water that bulged out her throat.

“Twilight, you really shouldn’t drink so much,” chided the dragon, remembering her incidents some nights where she’d had to get up to pee like a racehorse, and they only did that cause those guys had to keep hydrated. After a few swallows though, everything violently shook, and the flow stopped. The wind increased sharply, and Spike, despite his best efforts, tumbled off the uvula, the soft flesh slipping from his grasp. Rather than fall towards her throat, however, Spike was held in place by the air rushing past him.

“Ah,” went Twilight around him, making him wonder just what was going on, as a gust of powerful air nearly dragging him down into her lungs.

“Ah,” she said again, and this time the air pushed him back towards the front of her mouth.

“Ah!” this was accompanied by the wind blowing in every direction at once, setting Spike to spinning like a carnival ride, just as he realized what was happening.

“Good grief,” he said to himself, before the world was sent into a blur. Twilight’s body passed by him quickly, his head smacking hard into the soft uvula as he passed it, and then sailing over her tongue, and between her teeth.

“CHOO!” she went, as she sneezed, her lips puckering, but not enough to stop him from flying away from them. Sadly, rather than towards a solid surface, something he might grab onto, Spike’s path took him towards an open window in the wall, and the miniscule dragon flew out into the open air, the wind rushing past him too quickly for him to take a breath, even as he tried to scream, and was blinded by the light outside.

"AHHHHHH!" Spike managed to scream as he span threw the air then started facing downward he felt the forces of air rushing past him making corners of his mouth stretch back Spike kept falling faster and faster the little dragon closed his eyes as tears streamed rapidly out of his eyes he wondered if the fall would kill him or if he'd land in something that would put him in even more danger then he already was.

Spike free fell for what felt like hours but to his surprise he finally landed but to on what? The dragon opened his eyes to see he was laying face down on green leaf Spike sighed and gave small laugh he was never more happy to see a leaf Spike carefully clawed his way up to the middle center of the leaf Spike gave a big inhale and exhale "Feeeeeew." Spike took a few more long breaths the sound of bird chirping alarmed him and made him look around in his new surroundings. Spike could see that he had fallen into a bush Spike was almost mesmerized seeing the silver and white orbs dripping from the tips of all the leaves the gardeners must have just watered it Spike gave a "Wow." as the sun rays shined threw the spaces of the surrounding leaves and glimmered in the water drops Spike felt a cold drop hit the top of his head and dripped down his back giving him a chill up his spine "Well at least I'm safe." Spike said then peeked over the leaf the ground looked like it was miles down but if Spike was going to get anyponies attention he needed to move.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 4. Bugged Out

Spike slid down to the tip of the leaf then grasped onto the edges he gave a big inhale and held it in for a few seconds and then exhaled Spike slid himself off the tip and fell down "WAAH!" Spike screamed as he smacked into another leaf "Ow!" Spike shouted the leaf dipped making Spike fall off and hit another. "Ow!" Spike shouted again and again as he fell into leaf after leaf till finally hitting the gravel.

"Ow! Dang it." Spike growled then picked himself up and spat out what dirt clogs that got in his mouth Spike huffed in frustration.

Spike could hear some movement above him twigs started falling hitting hi on the head "Hey! What the,..." Spike looked up seeing a huge spider with long black legs and a yellow and black colored abdomen crawling on the branches Spike froze in fear the spider didn't seem to notice him yet, he watched as the spider hide itself into the leaves Spike looked further up seeing a web with three cocoons of the spider's past victims Spike gulped nervously he felt waves of air and looked to see a monarch butterfly heading right for the web "WAIT!" Spike tried to warn the butterfly but to his effort the monarch got caught on the spider's web.

"No stop!" Spike nervously bite his claws watching the butterfly struggle in the web the movement attracted the spider, "Uh wha,..." Spike continued to watch as the spider slowly crawled towards the helpless butterfly its fangs flickered and dripped with saliva the spider raised its first long hairy leg ready to clam the poor butterfly "NOOO!" Spike roared and opened his jaws and shot a blast of green flames at the spider catching the web on fire missing both the spider and butterfly, the butterfly pulled and retreated from the web Spike smiled feeling great that he just saved the butterfly's life Spike a loud hiss rang in his ears making him jump the spider spotted Spike and was not happy.

Spike ran screaming at the top of his lungs into the grass with the angry spider close behind him the dragon dogged the swinging claw trying to strike him the spider leaped up landing in front of Spike blocking his path "AHH!" Spike yipped quickly dashing under the spider and continued running Spike kept running till he reached the end of the grass and found himself a marble walkway Spike turned his head to see the spider still in chase Spike stumbled and tried to keep running but feel down with a thud Spike turned to see the spider leaping in the air ready to clam Spike as its next victim the dragon froze in fear the spider was like a clawed hand of beast ready to snatch him away Spike had only one chance he concentrated on the spider it had been many months since he had done this the baby dragon inhaled swallowing a gulp of air and felt a stir in his stomach the spider was now on top of him ready to finish Spike but the dragon opened his mouth letting out a sparkling green flame that swallowed the spider whole making the arachnid vanish into thin air Spike sigh in relief again he had a feeling he was going to be doing that a lot today.

Somewhere in the castle Princess Celestia was taking a break from past meeting she had gone to her studies a relaxing cup of tea by the fire would relax the princess Celestia rested on the soft red couch and used her magic to lift the cup up to her muzzle and sipped it Celestia smiled then jumped seeing a flash of light "What's this?" she asked as the little spark of green hazed away and in its place was a spider that landed perfectly on Celestia's nose the alicron froze with her eyes wide and her jaw in a frightened frown "Eee." Celestia tried to stay calm but the spider started to crawl further to her eyes, Celestia couldn't stay calm no longer the alicorn threw her hooves and head up in panic and let out a loud scream "AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Spike could hear a distant scream from far away he didn't know how far the screamer was but even to his now tiny ears he could tell it was loud a sudden loud stomping made Spike jump he looked up to see one of many of Canterlot's Guard Ponies a green stallion with a blond tail and Spike assumed mane as well came stomping right for him "Oh no not again!" Spike yelled and started running as the guard stallion followed behind.

The huge hooves pounded into the ground hard, but Spike had been getting used to this situation, and so was able to keep his feet as he dived to the side, just barely getting out from under the shadow of the massive thing before it struck the ground beside him. As with Shining Armor’s before it, the hoof falling so close to his body sent the tiny dragon skidding across the ground, grunting in annoyance as he bounced across the loose stone, sending a few fist sized pebbles spraying around him, before he finally came to a halt.

Looking past, he watched as the stallion turned a corner, and then was gone, leaving the dragon all on his own, and causing him to sigh in relief, and frustration both at the same time. This was getting ridiculous, with the dangers and stuff of being a few inches high. Still, he was alive, after a tumble like that. Getting up and dusting himself off, the dragon wondered just where he should go next, when he heard a loud roaring sound, which caused him to grip the side of his head it block it out.

He only had to turn around for the source, sadly, as it was nearby. The source was a pony, a mare he thought, though it was hard to tell from this angle, and on her back was a contraption like a vacuum, but from his size, he knew it was blowing, rather than sucking, as the tube at the end moved back and forth. This first caused a nice, light breeze, when she was several yards away, but as she moved closer, the wind from the hose grew stronger, and when she get to where Spike was, the gale blew him into the air, forcing him to grab onto a passing leaf, as he sailed high into the sky.

Spike flopped back and forth on the floating leaf. Spike quickly pulled up on the edges, making the leaf float in the air more softly. Spike started to smile, remembering one of the days when him, Twilight, Shining Armor and Cadence went to the beach. He remembered the time Shining tried to teach Spike how to surf. Spike stood on the leaf, sinking his clawed toes into the plant to keep him from falling off. Spike held his arms out and dipped forward making the leaf float down and then up.

"YAAHAA!" Spike laughed loudly enjoying the flight "I should teach Rainbow Dash how to do this." Spike said to himself with a big smile "Ok just gotta get that pony's attention."

Spike directed the leaf to float to the pony holding the odd contraption Spike could see that the mare was a Earth pony who wore a white T-shirt with a logo on it. Her coat was light red and her mane that she had tied in a ponytail was lime green. Spike could see white freckles on her cheeks and forehead. Spike dipped the leaf and hovered it slowly towards her face Spike waved his arms up and down and shouted.

"HEY! HEY! HEY!" even if his shouts couldn't be heard due to his size or the racket the loud contraption was making.

"Dang it." Spike leaned back making the leaf go back up in the air floating above the mare's head.

"Hmm how am I gonna get her attention?" Spike asked himself rubbing under his chin "Ohh I got it." a light bulb popped above Spikes head "She'll see me if I get in her face." Spike leaned forward dipping the leaf down passing her forehead right when Spike was about to turned a large hoof came flying up under him making him and the leaf fly up and toss around in the air.

"WHOA! WHOA!" Spike yelled then got the leaf back into a steady flout the dragon huffed in frustration making steam come out of his ears he was not about to lose this opportunity.

Spike flouted back above the mare's face and dipped down right for her forehead the leaf brushed against the pony's mane getting tangled and caught Spike quickly grabbed the grease locks of the mare's hair like a climber scaling a mountain Spike could feel the warm sweaty fur under his feet making him grimes.

"Eeeew!" Spike growled then slowly used the hair to scale his way down her forehead. The mare blinked shaking her head trying to shake off whatever was on her face Spike flew up into the air the tiny drake slammed down on the hot fur Spike then found himself sticking to the mare's sweaty fur, "Oh yuck." Spike pulled his face from the fur and covered his nose trying to bare the smell Spike slid down to the mare's muzzle and clung to the center between the two nostrils Spike kept his distance from them he didn't won't to repeat what happened last time with Twilight "Hey! Down here look down here!" Spike shouted but was then tossed up and landed down on the muzzle.

The mare scuffed her nose not even paying attention to the itch on her nose just keeping to her work she wiggled her nose up and down now getting irritated, "UH YOU STUPID BUGS!" the mare growled her shout was like a booming sounds of an explosion to the miniscule drake the mare her hoof up to her nose to brush off the poor tiny dragon.

Spike quickly tired to move away slipping on the sweaty fur like a wet rug the hoof came brushing against the giant mare's nose ready to smash Spike but the dragon quickly leaped into the hoof grabbing the tufts of fur around her hoof. Spike held on prayed the mare didn't see him and mistake him for a bug again. Spike watched as the world around him moved away from the mare's forehead and down to her mouth, "Uh oh" Spike thought thinking he just might have to repeat history, "FEEEW!" the mare sighed her small exhale nearly blew Spike off the side of her hoof the mare moved the same hoof up to her forehead to wipe away the sweat Spike could see he was approaching a new forest of hair and took a leap of faith landing safely in the green steamy mane.

The mane around him was as hot and steamy as it had looked from the outside, with him falling face first into a large puddle of sticky stuff, and then having to wipe it off himself as he crawled out of it. Around him, the strands of hair were curled and twisted, some with a twig or two stuck between them as the mare kept up her job, blowing debris off the paths of the garden with her device, and making the place look overall cleaner.

“Well, this is another fine mess,” said the tiny dragon to himself as he looked around, still shaking himself periodically to try and get as much of the sweat off him as he could, even as more of it sometimes came out of her scalp. Luckily, he was far enough back that even when she wiped her hoof through her mane, he wasn’t in its path, giving him a nice, if somewhat smelly, riding place as she walked up and down the path.

After watching her work for a few minutes, or maybe an hour, it was kind of hard to tell, the mare finally stopped, sighing to herself, as more of the garden staff began to work on the piles of stuff she had left around. As Spike watched, he heard a loud roaring sound from behind, and wondered if that blower thing was acting up, only to realize that it wasn’t from the device, but from the pony herself, who was apparently hungry.

She said little as she set the device down in some shed and then made her way through the palace. As she walked, her mane began to dry out, the sweat evaporating, but causing the air to become like a miasma around him, gagging the little dragon who coughed and choked but went unremarked as the mare made her way through the palace, finally arriving in a large mess hall at the back of the building where the staff and guards ate.

“Hmm, let’s see, what should I get?” she said to herself, mumbling, and Spike, still swooning a little, heard only a few words, as he staggered forward. His state left him in little condition to do much, as the mare went over the tables of food stuff, before finally grabbing a tray and starting down the line. Of course, this became a problem when the mare shook her head at one of the dishes, and the motion tossed the young dragon around, finally knocking him off the edge of her head, and towards the table below.

"WHY DO I KEEP FALLING!" Spike screamed his little body making a speeding dash for the food below him Spike started to flip threw free falls making him air sick the tiny dragon could only see the speeding motion around as he fell not even knowing if he was going to hit something soft or hard he'd just hope it wouldn't be the end of him.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 5. Soups On

The tiny dragon screamed still unknown where exactly he was falling until he hit a hot surface and splashed into a boiling liquid Spike quickly closed his mouth holding his breath but also getting a little of the hot liquid in his maw Spike quickly swallowed it to Spike's joy the taste was very good and familiar he opened his eyes to see himself in a lit yellowish water and surrounded by chopped carrots, potatoes, celery, boiled corn kernels and slender noodles 'Soup! I landed in soup!' Spike thought with joyous excitement Spike quickly swam his way up to the surface gasping for air and getting the wonderful smell of soup to his nose Spike flouted looking around his new surroundings the glass bowl stood high above Spike like giant circular walls, Spike couldn't help but think of the soup as lake, steam hazed threw the air and larger pieces of carrots flouted on surface like a piece of debris left by a shipwreck Spike swam over to a smaller chunk and leaped onto it using it as a raft.

Spike sighed wiping some sweat from his head "Well at least I landed in something tasty." he sighed then reached his claw down into the soup and cupped his fingers together getting handful of the broth and brought it up to his mouth and sipped it up "Mmm good." Spike smiled, the dragon jumped when the sounds of giant hoof steps shook bowl and made the soup ripple Spike held on tight to the moist carrot trying not to fall off Spike looked up to see the giant ponies above him he saw the same mare that he fell from now standing over him and soup he was in casting a colossal shadow.

"HMM NOW LET'S SEE HERE I COULD HAVE THE SOUP." the mare said to herself Spike brought his claws into his teeth and shook his head "No,... You don't want the soup!" Spike shivered and squeaked.

"HMMMM MAYBE NOT." the mare said bringing a hoof to her chin.

"HEY!" a male voice called the mare turned and smiled.

"HEY YOU." she said Spike watched as the same green stallion guard came into view casting another huge shadow.

Thanking the Princesses for small fortunes, the tiny dragon began to paddle around the soup bowl towards the edge, and with a grunt of exertion, he leapt towards it, claws first. If he’d been a pony, or maybe just Pinkie, he probably could have stuck to the slick, smooth side with his hooves and a bit of magic. Being a dragon, he didn’t have that ability, but what he did have was claws, sharp things that could cut the thickest gem, and the cheap metal of the pot found itself punctured, even as the two ponies above continued to talk.

Spike said as he tried to pull himself up onto the other side of the bowl he tried pushed with his back legs but his feet kept slipping on the ruff wet surfaces the young drake growled in frustration he started to grind his fangs Spike began to sweat from the heat of the soup, he huffed a puff of smoke out of his mouth then inhaled and exhaled in repeat the dragon wasn’t about to let his fate be the same be the same as vegetable noodle soup “Alright!” he growled licking his lips he hunched his arms and legs ready to make big leap “Ok,…” Spike said then began to count.

“1,…2,…3!” right before Spike could even leap he felt gravity jerk him down as the bowl began to move making Spike lose his grip and fall back into the warm soup with a big loud splash but not loud or big enough for the giants above him to hear.

Spike quickly held his breath finding himself back in the soup again the dragon threw his hands down into fists and pointed his legs and tail down in angered straight line, his face turned a flaming red, baring his fangs and screamed with his jaws closed making bubbles steam out of fangs and ears the dragon huffed out a few last bubbles before finally calming down Spike swam up to the surface and gasped for breath.

“Ugh I guess I got no choice now. Except?” Spike started to think up an idea but he began to have doubts he scratched his chin nervously this plan would have to involve Spike waiting for whoever pony was now holding the bowl to take and spoon full with him in it and jump out at the last minute before the pony would put the spoon it their mouth.

Spike looked up seeing who his new captor was he could see under the green stallion’s muzzle and watching other ponies pass by him then saw the stallion’s muzzle go out of sight and felt a thud Spike watched the stallion come into view again as well as the mare Spike rolled his eyes when the two started talking again, Spike climbed onto a chop of potato and sate on it waiting for the spoon to come down. Soon Spike watched as a long metal silverware came down splashing in the bowl making the broth ripple Spike clung to the potato as the stallion spun the spoon around in a circle making a whirlpool.

“AHHAHHHH!” Spike screamed falling off and splashing into the soup the tiny dragon sank then surfaced up and down trying to stay afloat the spinning stopped and the soup remained still again Spike blinked a few times to get his vision back he quickly swam to the surface again to see the spoon coming down right for him Spike saw his chance.

The spoon splashed in the broth and to the dragon’s luck under him along with bits of noodles that tangled around him and three chops of carrots that matted Spike down he quickly started to fight back pushing and cutting the noodles Spike looked up to see the green stallion’s lips parting and could now see his cavern like mouth that was coming right for him, Spike growled pushing a carrot chunk off the spoon and splatting on the table Spike crawled over to the tip of the spoon and turned to see the massive mouth now casting a shadow over the spoon Spike quickly leaped off the spoon just missing the pony’s mouth closing around the spoon.

Spike landed face first on the surface of table with his legs and tail sticking up and flopping down with a few drops of soup splashing on the tiny dragon Spike pulled his face off the surface revealing his now flat muzzle.

“Ow.” Spike said in a nasally voice and picked himself up Spike strained his nose back out and looked up seeing the giant slurping up more spoonful of the soup the dragon quickly ran around the side of the bowl and hiding beside a salt shaker “Phew ok I gotta get back to Twilight.” Spike said to himself nothing was going to stop the little dragon now he was determined to get back to his normal size again, Spike looked up seeing the two ponies talking to each other “HEY!” the green stallion yelled making Spike jump.

“HEY CHERRY PIC!” the mare waved her flagging down a lit blue stallion with a puffy red mane wearing a white chef's coat and hat pushing a cart with a large silver cover on it.

“HEY GUYS.” The stallion said with smile and pulled up to the table the three giants started talking Spike observed the cart and wondered where he might be taking it “You gotta see this dish.”

The chief pony said lifting off the silver dome revealing a chocolate cake stacked three layers high with the smaller layer on top and each dark chocolate melted on each layer and each layer was lined with rows of cherries on each layer Spike’s went wide and his mouth watered.

‘Oh that looks so good.’ He thought his stomach growled saying his words louder than his thoughts Spike placed his claws on his belly and looked down at it his stomach that demandingly growled “Stop it.” He said trying not to look at the mouthwatering cake that shadowed over him.

“So where’s the cake going to?” the mare asked.

“To the princess.” The chief pony replied Spike perked up with a big smile the chief pony was taking this cake to a princess it could be Twilight Spike’s stomach growled louder again “Oh alright.” He growled back Spike quickly made a dash to the cart taking a leap from the table and landed safely on the cart “Yes made it.” Spike looked up at the cake it now stood over him like a delicious statue while the colossal ponies above him continued talking the miniscule dragon walked onto the plate and took a little chunk off of the chocolate giant “Just a taste.” He then shoved the piece of cake in his mouth.

“Mmmm that is so good.” Spike slowly chewed the cake chunk and then quickly ripped another chunk of cake out and put in his mouth and started eating and swallowed Spike smiled with an ear to ear grin Spike drilled his way inside of the cake creating a tunnel in the cake.

Spike relaxed in the tunnel he had made taking chunk by chunk of the chocolate cake and eating it Spike rubbed his belly happily Spike jumped when the tunnel of chocolate suddenly began to quake small and large pieces of chocolate fell from the sealing landing on the tiny drake.

“Ok see guys later.” The chief stallion said to the guard and cleaning ponies he placed the silver dome back down on the plate covering the cake and pushed the carte out of the lunch hall and pushed it down a hall waving ‘hello’ to other ponies he passed by the chief had reached a blue door with a moon symbol he knocked on the door twice and waited “Please come in.” the voice inside replied the stallion opened the door and pushed the cart inside “Hello here’s the cake you requested Princess.”

Spike pushed the cake chunks off him and eat a few pieces in the process “Oh man what was that?” Spike stood up and was displeased to see he was now covered in melted dark chocolate Spike felt another tremor.

“THANK YOU SIR CHIEF THE CAKE SHOULD BE SCRUMCHES WE ASSUME.” A familiar voice echoed another tremor shook Spike around the cake was obviously being moved.

“THANK YOU PRINCESS I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT.” The chief stallion said and then came a series of stomps and an echoing door opening then closing Spike clawed the sealing of the cake tunnel and started digging his way up till he reached the gooey surface that covered him in more melted chocolate Spike whipped it from his eyes and looked up to see a gigantic mass of blue and hovering over him was the face of a hungry Princess Luna that licked her lips in delight “Uh oh.” Spike could only say now wishing he wasn’t covered in chocolate.

The chief stallion left the room leaving Luna with her cake Luna leaned over the cake and sniffed it then lead back into her chair the princess smiled and licked her lips.

“Ah I’m so glad dear sister has given me a list of her most favorite cakes this cake smells and looks delicious.” Luna’s horn glowed and used her magic to open the window beside her letting in sounds of birds chirping and fresh air Luna’s magic grabbed a knife off of the table and sliced a perfect triangle Luna lifted the piece onto a hovering plate and placed it close to her on the table the alicorn smiled happily picking up a bottle of grape juice and poured herself a glass.

“I have a feeling I’m going to be very satisfied with this.” She said to herself then levitated a fork ready to eat.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 6. Lunar,... Cake

Spike sunk down in fear as the four pointed silverware came down stabbing threw the pointed tip of the cake slice taking it apart and bringing the fork into her mouth.

“MMMM DELICIOUS.” Luna’s echoing voice boomed Luna licked the bits of crumbs left on her lips, Spike saw the fork coming closer he tried to pull himself free from the cake but froze when the fork suddenly stabbed down into the cake behind him Spike yipped feeling a sharp pain on his tail he looked back to see the pointed tip of his tail was stuck in the space between the fork tips.

“Uh oh. NO NO NO NO NO!” Spike yelled as the flouting fork scooped him and the chunk of cake up like a shovel, the fork flouted towards Luna’s muzzle getting closer and closer Spike tried to pull his tail free from the space then looked back to see Luna’s smiling lips nearing.

“Wait! Princess Luna! PLEASE WAIT! WAAAIT!” Spike screamed and flailed his arms up and down waving his claws trying to get the alicorn’s attention but no luck for the poor drake, the panicking dragon grabbed his tail and continue to pull and pull Spike turned back and gasped in horror Luna’s lips parting showing the inside of the mare’s mouth.

Luna’s gigantic mouth was coded and lined with webs of saliva connected to the top and bottom rows of the alicorn’s perfect white teeth the tiny dragon drew near her enormous pink spongy drool glazed tongue.

“Ewww! Oh COME ON!” Spike yelled in disgust his skin crawled when drops of the Princess’s warm saliva dripped on his scales, Spike was bathed by gusts of hot air coming from within Luna’s throat that looked like a gigantic dark pink cave that shimmered with drool Spike’s attention was drawn to the light of the outside world if he could just get his tail loose he could run up the fork, Spike stared down at his caught tail and pulled harder till his face became red the dragon tugged one last time his tail was finally loose!

Spike lost his balance falling off the fork and landed with a splat and sank into the moist floor Spike quickly realized he was on Luna’s tongue, Spike jumped up covered in Luna’s drool and quickly climbed up onto the fork and started running up fork.

“Come on! Come on! Come on I can make!” Spike shouted to himself Spike’s hopes were shattered when Luna’s lips smacked shut sealing Spike in darkness Spike went up to the fleshy wall and started hitting it making at flappy sound.

“No let me out! Let me out!” Spike cried then jumped away landing back on the tongue when the front white teeth closed around the fork Spike watched as the cake chunk slipped off the fork landing on the massive tongue then slipped out from between the alicorn’s teeth the cake chunk was moved by the slobbery tongue soaking Spike in more saliva and codding him in bits of cake Spike quickly grasped hold of the spongy flesh to keep himself from being tossed into Luna’s teeth, the enormous teeth came down smashing the cake into mush Spike was tossed up and down splashing into saliva then sticking to the roof of Luna’s mouth and dropping down into the tongue with a loud splat.

The tongue moved to the left flopping Spike the bottom rows of Luna’s teeth and quickly rolled onto the other side into Luna’s cheek just missing the massive white molars that smashed down splatting the chocolate mush all over him, Spike was then pinned against the rock like molars by the rubbery fleshy wall Spike tried fighting back was not strong enough the wall of flesh kept squeezing the little dragon.

“Please don’t squish me.” Spike begged threw his muffled lips Spike’s prayers were answered when Luna’s tongue swiped the side of her teeth scooping the dragon up and flopping him into the center of princess’s mouth.

Luna didn’t know what exactly it was possibly a piece of food that just wouldn’t go down Luna moved her jaw around trying to get whatever it was “Hmm.” Luna mumbled in annoyance Luna brought her attention to her glass of grape juice and smiled she gently picked up the glass and brought it to her lips.

Just when Spike thought things couldn’t get worse he had fought Luna’s wiggling tongue avoiding being thrown to the cavernous throat the poor dragon was getting tired he wasn’t sure how long he had to keep this up, Spike cocked his head up when the wall of molars parted bringing in beams of light that brighten the darkness inside Luna’s mouth.

“Oh thank goodness.” Spike picked himself up and ran as fast as his little legs could allow him to run, Spike reached the front row of teeth leaping up onto them bringing his left leg over and climbed on top of it Spike could finally see the outside world Spike’s smile vanished when he saw the glass of grape juice press against Luna’s bottom lip the grape juice came flooding swooping Spike in a dark red wave Spike sank and resurfaced catching his breath and see he was nearing Luna’s throat Spike did his best to swim but the force of the moving liquid was too strong for the tiny drake Spike felt gravity taking him down Spike had to think quick he quickly made dash for Luna’s back molar grabbing onto it and sinking his claws in the hard surface soon there was a loud ‘GULP’ Spike looked down watching the liquid sink into slimy cavernous esophagus, Spike then jumped when a blast of air and a loud echoing sound, Princess Luna had burped Spike felt the world around him quake “OH DEAR. EXCUSE ME.” Luna’s voice echoed Spike let out a exhale of relief he was safe from being splashed away but he now had a bigger problem.

Spike could hear an echoing boom and saw the light fade away signifying Luna had closed her mouth a gust of hot air exhaled onto Spike bathing him in mix of chocolate and grape smell Spike dug his feet into the tooth and climbed up into the center of the molar Spike was then blinded by the bright light of the outside.

Spike saw another fork full of cake come in he looked up seeing the row of teeth above him coming down, Spike made a quick leap into the tongue getting splashed by saliva and covered in chocolate bits Spike was bounced up and down as the tongue moved around sending big and small pieces of the cake into the giant molars Spike felt gravity pulling him again as the tongue lifted up sending Spike and the cake into Luna’s throat, the dragon looked up seeing his chance of safety Spike made another leap grasping onto Luna’s uvula with a squishing sound Spike swung back and forth and watched as the cake disappointed in the fleshy tunnel Spike then felt everything around him quake and the sound of Luna coughing echoed around him.

“PRINCESS!” a male voice shouted Spike saw the light flash over and over as Luna’s mouth opened and closed from her cough Spike then felt gusts of air hit him almost making him lose his grip then another gust made the little dragon slip off of the slippery uvula Spike screamed as he fell near the opening throat then a blast of air hit Spike sending him flying through Luna’s mouth.

The cough that hurled the dragon forward was accompanied by a most unladylike belch, hot, sticky air from deep inside of the Princess catching his form, and speeding his exit from her maw. He watched briefly, as the cavern of her mouth sped by his form, teeth still pristine despite her eating not minutes before, and her breath, save for the belch, fresh and fragrant, like she'd been eating peppermints of something, rather than delectable chocolate cake.

All these thoughts and more passed through Spike’s brain as he was hurled forward, his mind starting to shut down after all the adrenaline he’d been pumping into it since this started. Of course, this meant as he finally exited the cavern of flesh, flying free in the open air again, he barely registered what he was seeing, a small apartment probably just for the Princess of the Moon to enjoy a lazy afternoon like this.

The sight that jarred him awake was something other than the obsidian laced drapes, the dark, moonstone studded curtains, or the gemstone lined table that he was flying over, a half eaten slice of cake on a plate sitting on it. No, despite all the goodies which would normally have made his stomach protest it being used for furnishings, the thing that actually caught his attention was the stallion in the room.

It was Shining Armor, seemingly even bigger than the last time the dragon had seen him, standing there in his official uniform. The dress one, not the armored one, giving him a bit of a regal look to him. That was jarring mostly because Spike had thought the uniform destroyed, considering he’d burned it on Shining’s request, but it looked fine. Probably a duplicate Cadence had ordered.

Focused on the uniform, Spike sailed over Shining’s head without so much as a cry to be ignored, and as he started his descent, he found he just didn’t have the energy to cry out, instead curling his body into a ball. He had survived lava, and falling off his bed, and all the stuff that the world had thrown at him today, this would not smear him, and instead he braced himself for an impact.

Said impact was more of a poof than a smack, and Spike had trouble pulling himself out of his balled up form, his tail around his neck, until he finally pushed away all the stuff around him. Turned out he’d landed on a sitting couch, much like Rarity’s, but adorned to look nice in the Princess’ room. Looking around, he leapt off the far too fluffed pillow he’d landed on, onto the much more solid cushion below, which held under his weight, rather than dimpling under it as the pillow had.

He came to immediately regret this decision, however, as the sky overhead suddenly became much darker, and he looked up, his head fins drooping as he gazed at the falling white moon above. It was Shining Armor’s butt! He knew it by sight, even if it had never been so big, and it was coming down like the sky itself crashing, giving him just that one second of horror, before it slammed down on top of him, driving him into the cushion beneath its massive weight.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 7. Plans For The Future

Luna cleared her throat and pounded her chest a few times "Thank you Shining. Oh and pardon me for the burp." Shining smiled "Oh its alright princess no need to apologize." Shining replied while trying to get comfortable on the couch.

"We assume you are adjusting being back as Captain once again,... Nephew Shining?" Luna gave an awkward smile.

"Oh yes I am thank you." Shining nodded nervously.

Both Luna and Shining stayed quiet giving an odd silence "You know we've never talked much I mean we both know Celestia well I'm sure everypony knows her and you but I don't think we haven't talked much."

"What could we talk about?" Luna shrugged.

"Well I'm not sure." Shining scratched his head.

"I assume things are going well with your marriage?" Luna asked trying to spark up a conversation with her nephew-in-law.

"Oh yes things are going very good,... Um well I suppose I'm in a bit of a small problem." the white stallion leaded back on couch.

"Whatever is the problem our niece is not treating you right is she?"

"Oh no, no, no. were fine its just well Cadence,... I think she wants us to have children." Shining sunk into the couch looking at Luna with a gloomy face.

"Oh why so glum I thought having foals would make you happy?"

"It would and it does it's just we have so many duties I mean we run an empire, have to be royal figures for others to look up to not to mention I have to keep my guards in check some of the crystal guards don't take their responsibilities seriously. And if me and Cadence are doing so much how will have time for a foal?"

"I see." The dark blue alicorn nodded her head slowly "Well I will not lie I can understand your stress having a foal takes on a great responsibility it's not easy especially when you must have the task of keeping an empire in control." Luna brought a hoof to her chin "Hmm well this is a choice you and Cadence must decide."

"I know." Shining slumped letting out a sigh.

Luna frowned she may not have known Shining very well but he was still her Nephew and one she rather enjoyed having company with unlike the snob Prince Blue Blood Luna looked over at her grape juice using her magic to levitate a second cup and the bottle pouring some into the cup and bringing it to the sad stallion, Shining jerked his head up seeing the cup floating in front of him he looked up to see a smiling Luna Shining gave a small smile grabbing the glass with his hoof and took a sip "Thank you."

"Tis my pleasure." Luna nodded "We enjoy our Nephew Shining's company."

“Thank you, Prin-er, Aunt Luna. I suppose I’m less nervous about children than I am about Cadence. She’s not the sort of mare to do anything halfway. She’d want to devote herself to her child, and, well, she’s already stretched herself so thin,” he said, taking a sip of the juice, finding the flavor itself to be pleasant on his tongue, and the temperature was just right, neither too hot not too cold.

“Ah, I see. You are afraid that if she is pulled any farther from her center she might snap?” Asked Luna, and Shining, thinking about it a moment, nodded.

“Yes, I suppose I am. I mean, I remember what happened during the whole Sombra affair, and then there was the thing with Chrysalis. She’s never said it, but I know how powerful Alicorns are, if she’d been less out of it, the bug wouldn’t have stood a chance against her,” he admits, and it was Luna’s turn to nod, remembering how far she herself slipped in her power when she was not well rested.

“True, one of our kind is quite able, when we’re properly prepared,” she admitted, smiling at a memory of her and Celestia’s early days, when they’d accidentally torn a mountain in two fighting over it.

“What if the baby is an Alicorn then? That sort of power, without control sounds dangerous,” he told her, gulping down the last of his glass like it were fermented, and making Luna pause, before laughing out loud, a ringing, silvery peal of sound washing over the room.

“Um...Princess?” He asked her after she was done, and she held up a hoof, before draining her own glass to wet her throat.

“You need not worry about that, Dear Shining. While I may not have been present for it, no Alicorns have been born into this world in more than a thousand years. In fact, only two ever have been, and that was our self and our sister, and that was fate working its will on the world, not some random chance. Even my sisters’ own children are merely normal ponies, without the power we possess,” she told him, and that seemed to relieve him, as she refilled his glass and her own.

Shining let out sigh of relief "Well if you say so Princess even if it's an Alicorn I'll still love it and care for it like a good father." Shining took another sip of the juice.

Luna gave a smile and nodded her head "If you ever need somepony to talk to we,... I’m always willing to lesion Nephew Shining."

"Thank you,... Aunt Luna." Shining gave a pleased smile and took a last sip of his juice "I better get back to my routs see you later." Shining smiled getting up off the couch.

"Take care." Luna smiled back and used her magic to open the door of her room Shining nodded his head and proudly walked out of the door with a grin on his muzzle.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 8. Dark Side Of The Shining Moon

"Uhh." Spike mumbled feeling a huge weight on top of him and an uncomfortable heat that made the poor dragon sweat he opened his eyes to see himself pinned under Shining Armor's left butt cheek Spike was half smother into the couch and smother into Shining Armor's butt he tried to push some of the massive weight off him only to have his claws sink into the soft plushy fur of Shining's rear.

"Oh come on Shining get your big butt off me!" Spike growled continuing to push Spike could hear the muffled voices of Luna and Shining talking above him Spike tried to push with both his legs and arms trying to get the white giant's attention suddenly the massive rear moved and began to grind on the dragon Shining must have thought he was an itch.

At that point Spike just gave up trying to push he saw it as delaying the inedible and just let his arms go down letting the rest of him be smothered in soft cheek of the massive butt.

Spike growled in disgust as Shining's fleshy rear pressed down on his face making his face squish up against the butt cheek and the couch "I never thought my day would end up like this." Spike managed to say with his squished face.

Then the stallion’s rear lifted, Shining rising from his seat and walking off. That would have been good, in and of itself, if not for the fact that, thanks to the sweat on his body, Spike was a bit sticky, and thus, as the butt rose, he was carried along with it, rising up into the sky, and then watching as the Princess, one of the few ponies that might be able to help him, grew farther and farther away.

Of course, he didn’t take long to get depressed about that, as Shining’s body soon began to dry out, and he stopped being so sticky, forcing the dragon to grab onto a nearby hair to maintain his position, as below, the ground moved in a swift blur, huge hooves clacking loudly against the tile as Shining began to make his rounds. With a sigh, Spike settled in for a long walk around the castle with his big brother.

Spike watched the hallways pass by and other ponies passing Shining by watching the white pillars below him clacked loudly something told the tiny dragon that he should avoid that as much as he could. Spike looked up at the doubled white furred hills making him cringe suddenly a loud rumbling making the dragon jump coming from Shining's stomach Spike whipped some sweat from his brow then reach up grabbing tuffs of the white fur and began climbing up the side of Shining's rump.

Shining walked down the hallway waving at some of the ponies that passed him by "Afternoon." Shining Armor smiled at another guard pony and few fancy ponies were some monical's and some expensive looking suits and dresses as Shining walked down the tiled floor his ears flopped up when his stomach started to growl loudly.

"Better get something to eat or that monster's never going to stop growling." Shining laughed under his breath Shining made a turn down another hallway "My apartment shouldn't be too far,..." Shining Armor jumped and froze in place then continued to walk but much slower feeling a tickling itch crawling on his left buttock.

"Uhh man don't scratch in public." Shining whispered under his breath watching a few of the ponies pass him by Shining bite the bottom of his lip he walked awkwardly hoping nopony was watching him Shining looked back hoping nopony was behind him he spotted his blue tail sweeping back and forth and got an idea "I'll just use my tail." he whispered.

Spike kept crawling up the side of Shining Armor's rump it was like scaling up a fuzzy mountain only that it was softer and the mountain was moving Spike inhaled and exhaled almost exhausted from the beginning of the climb the poor dragon had done a lot of running this day not to mention avoid being eaten and stomped on.

Spike kept hold of one tuff of the white fur and whipped his forehead once again pressing himself against the soft fur to keep him from falling Spike blinked twice not expecting Shining Armor's gigantic blue tail swiping at him hitting him like a sweep of broom Spike quickly grabbed hold of fur as a blast of wind tried to carry him away along with Shining's tail whipping pasted him and brushing against him.

Spike could feel his grip slipping as the tail came back to swipe at him once more Spike gulped nervously. The giant blue tail came sweeping up at Spike he quickly let go feeling the prickly blue fur knocking him off the rear!

Spike then reached out grabbing a hold of the blue locks of Shining’s tail and quickly found himself inside the tangled jungle of the blue tail Spike felt the tail beginning to stop swaying Spike sighed with relief and relaxed in the tangled locks he whipped his brow once again sweating from the humidity of blue hairs surrounding him Spike poked his head out of the tail watching the floor going past him once again Spike began his climb up Shining's tail.

After what seemed like a few hours to the tiny dragon he made it to top of Shining's rump and Spike felt a feeling of victory as he stood on what seemed like the top of the white mountain Spike looked over the hills to see Shining Armor's back what seemed like a huge field of white wheat or tall grass Spike puffed out his chest feeling determined to cross this white field he needed to get his brother's attention and nothing was going to stop him now.

The march over the back of the stallion proved far easier than one would think. This was for a couple of reasons. One was that Shining was a soldier, and so most of his muscles were firm and powerful, his back muscles especially as they tended to hold all the weight. This made for good terrain, and even as the hairs of his fur tickled at Spike's feet, he still had a good enough grip on what was underneath him to make good time.

The other thing that really helped was that Shining barely moved once he was at his desk, his magic tinkling away as he moved report after report in front of him, signing on a few lines, or scratching out something to be noted later. This focus on his task allowed Spike to climb over his shoulders, and then onto his neck without any problems at all. Of course, once he reached his neck, the stallion's mane proved to be a problem.

"Cadence is right, he needs a trim," commented Spike to himself, pulling his body up with the strands of hair, towards the top of Shining's head. His idea was simple at this point, just get over the top, and then slide down onto his muzzle. That should be easy, and would get him found the fastest. That didn't mean the climb itself was easy, as Shining felt each tug, and subtly moved his head a little with every pull, nearly shaking the young dragon loose several times.

Just as he was about to reach the top, Shining did something awful. He scratched at his head, his forehoof coming up and casting a shadow over Spike that caused the dragon to scream.

“No! No! No! NOOOOO!” The stallion either didn't hear him, or just ignored him thinking him only bug, however, as the hard thing slammed into him, knocking the air from his lungs, and sending him tumbling off Shining's head, and down towards the desk below.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 9. Food Of The Ponies

Spike flipped thru the air seeing Shining Armor's head getting further and further away as he fell Spike closed his eyes hoping the fall wouldn't be as painful as he'd thought it would be. Spike had closed his eyes tight ready for the impact Spike was surprised to feel a soft and fuzzy surface under him that made him bounce in the air then land back on surface the micro dragon blinked in udder shock he looked down to see a Smarty Pants plushie Spike lied on the the plush’s head still in amazement at what he was seeing, a smile came across his face.

“Hehe. Aww Shining you big dork.” Spike slid off the Smarty Pants Doll quickly looking up at to see Shining Armor leaving the desk and heading into another room.

Shining Armor trotted into the kitchen taking off his armor and setting it beside the leg of the table “Better get a bite to eat.” His stomach growled begging for food.

The kitchen attached to his apartment was actually quite well stocked, usually anyway. Today, with the conference and all the other things going on, he had donated most of the better stuff to the people attending from other nations. His golden flowers, sage blossoms, were gone, and most of the cake he’d been able to save from Princ-er Aunt Celestia, was probably already claimed by the white princess somewhere below. That left him with few options, and he munched on an apple Twilight had brought him as he looked through the pantry.

"Troll Bites? Hmmm?" Shining grabbed the yellow box with painted green slime on the top and bottom he opened the box quickly holding away from his face when a puff of green smoke escaped from its top he nervously brought the box to his muzzle and smelled the horrid stench that was mix of onions and spoiled milk. "Ooooooohhooooo! No way I'm eating that! UGH!"

Shining tossed the box out the open window leaving nothing behind but a trail of horrid green smoke that seeped its way from the top of the open box Shining sighed with disappointment and somewhat relief hopping whatever what was in that box didn't fall in the wrong hooves. "MY LEG!" a male voice shouted making the stallion jump he went to his window and looked out to see a brown pony wearing a red shirt with white flowers on rubbing his head "Sorry sir." Shining shouted quickly closing his window and scratched his head. "If it hit him in the head why he shout my leg?" Shining just shrugged went to the pantry.

“Hmm, Temmie Flakes...no, those are too dusty. Hmm a mushroom no already had a 1Up. Astronaut Food?” he questioned this, and sniffed it, before making a face like he was gagging.

“Smells like paste,” he said, setting the tube to the side. With his options running out, he found a few piece of bread, one of them so stale he figured it would make a good improvised weapon, but at least there were some soft pieces.

“Might as well,” he said, walking over to the counter and setting them down. Looking through the refrigerator for something to make a sandwich with, he was disappointed to find his emergency stash of zap apple jam was missing, with a note saying, ‘I.O.U. RD’ in its place. Grumbling about Twilight’s Wonderbolt friend, he finally spotted a head of lettuce, and some tomatoes. Levitating them into place, he realized he was missing his knife.

Spike looked around at enormous desk, he was surrounded by building tall high stacks of books with so many different colors and titles behind some of the books he spotted a globe that towered over even the books, Spike could see crumpled papers as well as cut open envelopes the little dragon started to itch his chin for an idea. Spike walked over to the boulder-sized crumbled up letters stepping over some bits that Shining possibly left on the table.

“Ok so if all these letters are here,...” Spike scanned around for his possible ticket to being found and ending his tiny nightmare, Spike’s eyes went wide with joy he spotted Shining Armor’s prized silver knife. Spike quickly rushed over to it already trying to pick up the knife.

“Ah, right, I was using it to open letters,” Shining said to himself, and mentally reached back onto his desk for the tool. Of course, just as his magical glow covered the knife, a tiny purple dragon was trying to pick it up, figuring he could use it in some way to get some attention, after all, weapons tended to get the eye of a trained soldier. Unfortunately, as a blue sparkling field of magic grabbed the knife, it pressed the dragon into it, and then floated both into the kitchen.

“Hmm, okay, let’s see,” he said, floating a bowl over to the counter and then grabbing a few lettuce leaves and setting them into it. Next he levitated a tomato above it, and with the knife firmly in his magical grip, he began to slice it into smaller bits, not noticing a tiny purple form on it as he did so.

“A salad,” as he spoke, he sprinkled in some of those nicely seasoned bread bits that Cadence liked. They gave him a bit of gas, but he did want a nice snack. While sprinkling them, his grip on the knife loosened a little, and Spike, still hovering above the bowl, cried out, his claws grabbing onto the wooden handle of the blade and digging in. Unfortunately, his claws only got a little ways in when the knife spun in the air as Shining moved it, causing the dragon to crash down into the bowl.

Spike landed in the pile of leaves, thudding into it as he shook his head quickly looking up to see the bread squares landed beside him crashing into the leaves and everywhere around the bowl “Oh No.” Spike quickly ducked away as a bread square almost landed on his head.

Finished with that, Shining added a lettuce leaf and a few slices of tomato to the bread he’d set to the side of the bowl. Setting the remains of the lettuce and tomato in the fridge again, he dove in deeper. Inside, he found chocolate in about nineteen different flavors, another apple, and finally a few things he’d brought back with him from his time in the Griffon Lands recently.

One was a triangle of some sort, spotted with red dots of about an inch wide, while the thing was a good muzzle full. The stuff was called a pepperoni pizza, apparently a common food in the Griffon Kingdom nowadays with their recovering economy. He sniffed it a bit, smelling spices and meat on it, as well as cheese and bread, before using a spell to cause the thing to heat up nicely.

“Heh, those ponies don’t know what they’re missing,” he said to himself, remembering how most ponies tended to be vegetarians, a lifestyle he’d tried to keep up for a while, back before he’d joined the guard, but then he, like all recruits, eventually found himself stationed somewhere that didn’t allow such diets. His first taste of meat had been the Minotaur Empire, though since then he’d been known to dine on it when Cadence would allow it. Setting the slice of pizza on a plate, he dug even deeper.

“Oh, there you are,” he said as he pulled out a pink, round loaf thing. It was a heel of bologna, a type of food he knew was meat, if not what type. Using the knife, he quickly sliced off a few pieces of it, deftly doing so in the air so they fell onto the half finished sandwich, which he then finished with a flip of the top slice of bread.

“A snack, Assembled.” he said to himself like a comic book character he knew, before floating the plate and bowl back to his desk, grabbing a fork on the way. Settling the dishes down on the desk, he took his seat, and then slowly brought one of the forms to his eyes. Not even looking, he brought the fork down into the bowl, and speared some of its contents.

Spike watched as Shining Armor prepared his meal or meals he watched as Shining set his dishes down on the table making a ‘BOOM’ sound that rang in the tiny dragon’s ears he could see under Shining’s muzzle as he turned his head away from the salad bowl giving him a sigh with relief as he knew Shining wasn’t about to dine on him, Spike tried to maneuver his way through the leaves Spike quickly noticed a four pointed shadow that hovered over him.

Spike looked up see a hovering fork right above him it slowly pointed down then in a split second came down right for Spike “GAAHH!” Spike jumped just missing the fork that came close to stabbing him “Feeeew.” Spike whipped away a nervous sweat Spike was ready move away from the fork but found his foot stuck between the middle of the fork.

“Darn it not again.” Spike felt gravity shifting and quickly began to lift into the air with a fork full of leaves and then found himself being pressed down into a cold piece of bread bits Spike blinked and squinted watching the whole world around him spin making him feel air sick and sea sick at the same time, the little dragon quickly turned his head to see Shining Armor’s face coming closer and closer every second.

“Shining! Wait! Wait! WAIT!” Spike stuck his claws out in a waving motion not even being noticed by the titanic stallion Spike sweated in fear watching as his brother licked his lips then parted his muzzle showing the inside of Shining Armor’s waiting mouth, strands of saliva dripped from his top row of teeth as well as a strait web that connected from both his tongue and the roof of his mouth, Spike wanted to jump but only found himself mere inches away from the bright pink moist tongue.

To Be Continued.

Chapter 10. Mouth Of The Shining

Shining stuffed the fork into his face, closing his lips around it, and then sliding the contensil out of his mouth. Inside his maw, the lettuce, tomato, and bits of bread tumbled down onto his tongue, and eventually included a tiny dragon, who added a bit of flavor to the meal that caused the stallion to ‘mmm,’ before he began to chew. Spike, crying out in surprise, found the tongue beneath him become almost like a liquid thing, spinning him around and then dumping him, along with some of the rest of it on one of Shining’s teeth.

Shining, trying to chew his meal, felt some part of it resist his mighty chomps, his teeth staying just a bit apart no matter how hard he moved his jaw, causing him to grunt as he thought something might have gotten into his salad. Finally, when he felt he’d tried hard enough, he spit whatever it was out, moving it with his tongue, and then using a napkin from his desk drawer to catch it. Crumpling up the thing, he placed it on the edge of his desk, and returned to his reports and salad.

Spike was tossed up and down by the gigantic slimy member as the leaves were knocked aside into the white blocks that were Shining’s teeth Spike watched in horror as the helpless green leaves were smashed in between the gigantic teeth ripping them to bits a small pool of saliva in the corners of Shining’s tongue and gums became littered with the shredded leaves the sudden movement of the tongue caused the saliva to splash Spike soucking him in drool and bits of green.

“Eeew.” Spike tried to whip off the spit he found himself being tossed into the the center of one of Shining’s molars and hitting it with thud. Spike held his throbbing head blinked to stop his eyes from twisting in circles “Uhh,...” Spike looked up seeing the top molars coming down right on top on him, Spike quickly jumped off landing on back on the slimy tongue making another splash into a puddle of hot saliva. Spike gasped shaking and spitting out the saliva covering him from head, to toe, to tail the grossed out dragon coughed waving his hands trying to whip off the sticking spit from his scales.

The dragon soon found himself tossed around even more as the tongue battered against him, pushing him first into the teeth, then into the roof of the mouth, and finally trying to force him backwards. The last nearly worked, until Spike found a bit of footing and leapt forwards, landing on the tip of the tongue with a splat. Covered in drool, he was slick, but he still managed to dig his claws in, not enough to draw blood, but enough to stay where he was, until the stallion finally opened his mouth, and with a flood of spit behind, forced Spike out between his lips and into a napkin that was then wadded up and placed on the edge of the desk.

Recovering from the ordeal, Spike was woozy as he clawed his way out of the napkin, tearing into the loose fabric with a ripping sound, and then taking a deep gasp of open air. In front of him, Shining Armor had returned to his paperwork, giving the rubber stamp to some forms, while scratching notes on others. All the while he was eating from the salad bowl, shoveling the contents into his mouth, until finally he heard a clink sound, and looked over. He’d emptied the bowl, and yet he still felt hungry, the stallion levitating the dirty dish into the kitchen area, and going about his paperwork some more, trying to ignore a growl in his stomach.

Spike let out a loud sigh of relief he’d already almost had a been eaten twice today and enough was enough, Spike watched as Shining rubbed under his chin looking at the paperwork Shining was going to be to busy now to look down on the table to see a tiny purple dot moving around. Spike quickly scanned all of plates that had Shining’s chosen meals Spike quickly noticed a sandwich half made with a piece of bread at the bottom and baloney Spike smiled.

“I know what I’ll do. He’ll stop to make his sandwich and when he does he’ll spot me!” Spike started his journey down the table walking pass the empty bowl of salad and the plate of pizza, Spike found himself at the edge of the plate with a sandwich the size of three queen-sized beds Spike’s ears twitched hearing the sound of Shining Armor’s roaring stomach shaking the table.

“Uhh Alright already.” Shining’s booming voice echoed. Spike saw his golden opportunity beginning to start without him he quickly climbed onto the plate and clawed his way up on top of baloney quickly waving his arms in the air and jumping wildly.

“Shining! Shining! Down here! I’m right here!” Spike yelled at the top of his tiny lungs. Unfortunately for Spike Shining Armor kept his attention on the papers in front of his muzzle. Shining Armor’s horn glowed bright pieces of cheese, lettuce, tomato, and flouting mayo, mustard and ketchup came floating right for the half made sandwich in a single line Spike stared up in confusion about to say a word until he was blasted down by an injected rocket of mustard causing Spike to fall down flat on his belly and was then covered by a blanket of cheese that was covered by ketchup and mayo a patch of lettuce laid on top of the cheese as well as a sliced tomato topped with a piece of bread.

Shining looked down on the table at his masterpiece of a sandwich he smiled and licked his lips hungrily.

“This is gonna be good.” Shining said to himself Shining then thought of something else that would be a great add on to his meals using his magic he opened the fridge down levitating a bag of green and red grapes, using the same bowl he’d used for his salad he emptied the grapes into the bowl then sate the bowl beside his pizza and sandwich.

“Perfect.” He said licking his lips again.

Shining levitated a few grapes up to begin with, popping them into his mouth one by one, in the same way he’d done for Cadence during their honeymoon in Las Pegasus. The things were nice and juicy, his teeth squishing them and causing his mouth to almost explode with flavor as he consumed them one at a time. Finally, when that was done, he started on the pizza next, levitating the triangle upwards. Of course, as he did so, he noticed a small string of cheese dripping down the side, and then panicked as it nearly fell onto the Eastern Front Reports, ones he’d spent half an hour on.

Quickly, he sprang into action, instincts honed on the training field for months at a time telling him how to move, his neck twisting in a way that probably looked painful, as he dipped his muzzle just below the cheese, sticking his tongue out just in time to catch the run, and then slowly lift it up. The cheese coiled like a cobra on his outstretched tongue, laying down and covering the member with grease as he made his way upwards, and then finally made it to the offending piece of pizza.

With a strike like a snake, he shot his muzzle forward and chomped off a good chunk of the pizza, ‘Mmming’ as the flavors of the pepperoni, cheese, and bread filled his mouth. Chewing lightly around the muzzleful, he tried to let each hint of taste wash everywhere, to be enjoyed one morsel at a time, before finally he swallowed hard, a huge lump moving down his throat. Licking his lips, Shining was dismayed to find he’d taken in most of the slice of pizza with a single bite, but then remembered his sandwich, which he raised upwards, while also grabbing another report and looked at it, opening his mouth to receive a new load.

Spike struggled trying to push the huge weight off his back that weighed him down Spike whipped the mustrued from his face only to have more of his face be covered once again Spike could feel a shift in gravity.

“Oh no. No! No! No!” Spike tried to struggle and shove his way threw the pressed prison Spike sunk his claws into the baloney pulling himself forward, Spike shoved himself to edge of sandwich quickly finding an opening that seeped with rays of light Spike smiled ready to escape. Spike parted the top and bottom layer of the sandwich open his eyes being brighten by the sudden light Spike rubbed his eyes gasping to a familiar sight.

“No! Not again! NOT AGAIN! SHINING! WAIT!” Spike screamed but his cries were muffled by mustered dripping off his head and into his mouth.

Spike trembled as Shining Armor’s lips parted showing the familiar site of the inside of the stallion’s mouth and of what was to come for the little dragon, Spike could see into Shining’s mouth once again the pink spongy tongue flexed up and down, saliva dripped from the roof of the stallion’s mouth ready to soak the sandwich and it's little intruder, Spike could see past the pink hilled tongue looking into the moist ruby red throat in the middle was Shining’s drool dripping uvula that flexed up when the back of his tongue squished down ready for the sandwich to enter in his waiting mouth.

Spike quickly sunk back into the sandwich this time for protection Spike crawled and dug his way into the sandwich he could hear a crunching ripping sound that to the tiny dragon sounded like crumbling Earth or rubble, a line of thin white teeth pierced the top and bottom of the sandwich surrounding the tiny dragon in a U shaped line blocking him off from his one chance of freedom.

Crunch!

Spike retracted his hands and feet just mere inches from being crushed by the white chompers. the tiny dragon started panicking and thrashed when he saw the lines of bottom and top white blocks coming together with a loud clunk, Shining Armor bite down on the sandwich, taking part of it into his mouth with Spike inside, surrounding the dragon in total darkness.

Spike and the half of the sandwich was pushed up into the roof of the mouth squeezing Spike in-between the sandwich making him go red feeling his chest become heavy. Spike felt gravity shift again letting the sandwich bite he was inhabiting fall back to the sloppy tongue.

“Got to make a break for it!” He felt the weight coming off his body. Spike pushed himself out right before the chunk of the sandwich was moved by the slobbery tongue. Spike’s footsteps squashed from the slobbery surface below him he neared the white thin blocks in front of him, climbing up smooth rows of teeth. A big smile stretched across his face he was finally going to to taste freedom! And escape his brother’s mouth.

Spike’s smile quickly faded away seeing five flouting red grapes in Shining Armor’s magic aura now flouting straight forward to the now open mouth!

“No! No! Wait!” One of the grapes shot forward Spike right for him smacking him right across the face like a speeding dodgeball Spike’s eyes rolled and his snout flattened another grape came flying right at Spike knocking him off the front teeth.

Spike falls plopping back into the squishy tongue with a loud ‘Splat!’ The tongue moved flopping up and down pressing Spike and the grapes into the sides of his mouth

Spike was flopped into the row of white boulders with a grape soon the rows rose up and Spike leaped out from the molar watching the grape be ripped and crushed up by the massive molars the juice from the grape squirt out splashing Spike he watched as it was chewed up into bits and then lit green and red mush.

Spike heard a gust of air blowing into the mouth as Shining opened his mouth again and in came the sandwich.The giant front molars bite down sinking into the sandwich and ripped off the sandwich’s middle soon the bitten half was swished around by the tongue lifting Spike back up into the air pinning him to the roof. The sandwich was moved into row of teeth and soon shredded and chewed up Spike watched the lettuce being ripped up and the bread getting spongy from the moist saliva covering it. Spike slipped on the tongue splashing into the mush getting covered in the chewed up food.

Spike dripping with mush all over his tiny form felt gravity shift Shining Armor’s gigantic tongue lifted up sending Spike and the chewed food towards his gaping throat, the ruby colored flesh flexed ready to send its tiny prisoner to his jail cell.

“SHINING PEASE,... NO!” Spike yelled trying to claw his way up the tongue only to have his claws slip on the moist member, Spike looked down to see the gaping abyss below him Spike ground his teeth in frustration quickly looking up seeing Shining’s uvula.

The bouncing uvula was now Spike’s only hope it dripped with saliva and slowly swung back and forth Spike felt gravity forcing him closer and closer to the throat, Spike felt an adrenaline rush pulsing through him he tightened his fists. Spike neared the throat and the tongue bulged up squishing into the roof of the mouth Spike leaped up into the air holding his arms out wide to grab the uvula.

GULP!

Shining swallowed down the food. The giant tongue flattened back into place leaving the mouth empty with only a few bits of chewed up food stuck between the stallion’s teeth and some splattered on his tongue. The uvula was motionless and then suddenly shifted Spike grasped a hold of the uvula hugging it tight with his arms and legs the food covered dragon slowly opened his eyes looking around the empty chamber.

“Th,.. That was close.” Spike shivered closing his eyes when a bright light blinded him a hooffull of grapes flinging into Shining’s mouth already being chewed up being squished and ripped up by the white boulders Spike watched as the chewed up grapes slid down to Shining’s thorat. Spike watched as the entrance of the voice box closed and the esophagus opened sending the grapes down into dark fleshy tunnel, Spike clenched the uvula tighter for protection making it squish. “Oh man. I hope he doesn't throw up.”

Shining Armor licked his lips patting his belly with a successful smile on his face he rested back in his chair rubbing his belly he couldn’t help but feel an odd tickle in the back of his throat.

“HIICCUP!” Shining bounced in his seat falling backwards onto the floor with a crash he rubbed his head and then another loud hiccup escaped his mouth and the tickle was getting worse he started to cough and hack as well. Shining lifted himself up quickly rushing to the sink grabbing a cup turning the faucet on and ran water into the cup he brought the cup to his mouth and chugged the whole glass down.

Spike felt the whole chamber shake and rumble the gusts of air shot up waving the uvula around, Spike sunk his claws into the uvula trying not to fall off or lose his grip. Spike saw the light shine inside the mouth again this time bringing in a flood of water splashing into the whole mouth and rushing down into the throat Spike still clung to the uvula despite the massive force of water pushing him he felt his grip beginning to loosen he shed a few tears still trying as hard as he could to hold on! The water splashed into Spike he had to hold his breath so he wouldn’t drown and then. Spike’s lost his grip on the uvula sending him and the flood of water down into Shining Armor’s throat with one final gulp.

To Be Continued.