Good Luck Better Circumstance

When Spike woke up the next morning he instantly felt a cold wave of almost nausea-like apprehension wash over him as he anticipated the discussion he was going to have with Twilight Sparkle over breakfast this morning. He waited for these feelings to pass and got out of his bed, slipping on some clothes on his way out the door to head down to the kitchen and start breakfast for him and Twilight. As he walked by Twilight's door he knocked on it letting her know to start getting ready for the busy day ahead.

The pony in question poked her head out the door and said "I'll be down in a minute Spike and when you are done I'll need your help organizing the library for your little date tonight, okay?"

"For the last time Twilight it isn't a date! Just make sure you are downstairs when breakfast is ready alright?"

"Okay, okay! Don't get your scales ruffled. I'll be there with more than enough time to spare just you see!"

"Whatever you say Rainbow Dash!" came the dragons sarcastic reply.

Downstairs Spike was absorbed in cooking breakfast which, today, consisted of omelets and hash browns which he was sure Twilight Sparkle would just love and which, he hoped, would give him the strength and energy he would need to make it through the day today. He was no slouch when it came to cooking so he wasn't really surprised when he found his mouth salivating at the prospect of being able to eat such delicious foods and the fact that he could do so with Twilight just made it all the better. Thinking of Twilight brought back his previous anxieties of what could be happening to his body, although he wasn't sure why Twilight reminded him of that. "Oh well." He said out loud deciding it was probably because he hadn't slept enough.

"Twilight, breakfast is ready!" shouted the dragon boy thinking that she had said she would be ready by now. He wasn't particularly surprised when rather than respond she chose to simply enter. Spike brought the food over and as he was sliding into his chair he gave out a yelp as he felt his posterior make contact with something that was definitely sharp enough to give even somepony like him with slightly thicker skin an unpleasant stinging sensation. "Yeeoww! I told Pinkie to stop leaving her thumbtacks just lying around so why doesn't she do it?"

Twilight responded "She probably just forgets and doesn't stop to realize that she might be potentially hurting somepony else. Or, perhaps, she is doing it on purpose and was just playing a mean prank on you; she has done it before you know. Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I wanted to discuss with you what was happening to your body. Spike, you are growing up. But with dragons, it is a mite more difficult than simple hormone imbalances, as you go through this process your bloodline will start to manifest itself in various ways that might be good and might be bad all depending on how you use them for now we will only cover the ones that are most likely to affect you in the short-term. Your most powerful ability is the ability to read somepony else's mind through simple physical contact. As long as you do not misuse this ability by invading the privacy of others you shouldn't have too many issues in your day to day life. Your most innocuous ability is one you have already experienced which is the ability to jet fire when you are in distress or when you are attracted to someone, and in fact I am rather hurt that you haven't done it yet for indeed I had gotten myself all fancied up for just this occasion to test it out. Your most dangerous ability is exclusive only to the males of your lineage and it allows you to effectively attract any female creature whom you make eye contact with, which is why you must control this and be careful not to abuse your powers, even accidentally. Any questions?"

"Wait so you mean to tell me I have like superpowers or something like that now? That is so cool I can't wait to show snips and snails and everypony else. This is just awesome!"

"I was afraid you would react like that, Spike. You can't tell anypony or else Celestia will find out and lock you up and I just couldn't stand myself if I let something like that happen to you. Now go get ready for school and I will drop you off at the front gate."

Grumbling about how superheroes never had to go to school in the comic books, Spike shuffled away to start getting ready for the day.

"Good morning, class!" were the first words out of cheerilee's mouth that morning once everypony was seated at their desks, and indeed it was a fine morning outside with the springtime birds chirping their songs while the squirrels and bunnies pranced about unafraid as long as they knew Fluttershy was somewhere close by. Spike couldn't go out and enjoy it however as he had to stay in class and deal with the boring subject matter. As usual he would have drifted off into daydreams if it weren't for the presence of the filly of his dreams, so close and yet so far away that it was almost painful.

"Good morning, Ms. Cheerilee." The class droned in response which was probably because the majority of them were still half asleep.

The teacher put on a brave face and continued despite their lack of enthusiasm "Today, we will be going on a field trip to the library to get books to start your research on the upcoming project. Please line up single file and follow me." With that, she walked out the front door and the rest of the class followed her with Silver Spoon bringing up the rear to make sure nopony wandered off. Interested as to why she wasn't with Diamond Tiara like usual Spike dropped back a little bit to talk to her. Mindful of his new powers he pretended to trip and brace himself against her shoulder to have an excuse to touch her so he could read her mind. What he found showed that they had recently had a falling out but before he could discern any more than that she turned to look at him and ask what he was doing.

Before Spike had a chance to look away they had made eye contact and her face and neck visibly flushed. Not yet understanding what had happened Spike proffered his apologies saying "I'm so sorry Silver Spoon I think I might have almost tripped over a rock or something and sprained my ankle. Would you mind supporting me the rest of the way?"

"Why of course Spike, we wouldn't want you to hurt yourself any worse than you already are right?" Unlike Diamond Tiara Silver Spoon could be rather nice when she wanted to be and when there was nopony around to notice her kindness.

By then, the two had become separated from the group and as they set off Silver Spoon deviously led him down a wrong path and they ended up in the park.

"Oops! This must not be the right way. We had better go back and try again." said Spike.

"I don't think anyone will miss us and while we are here why not enjoy ourselves on such a fine morning? With the animals out it is sure to be a beautiful day."

"I don't know. If Twilight finds out I could be in a heap of trouble. But sure I guess we could" said the worried dragon boy.

"Great! We could start off by taking a swim in the pond." schemed the silver-tongued filly.

"But we don't have any swimming clothes and I can't get these clothes wet or Twilight would kill me!" exclaimed the anxious dragon.

"Simple, we will just have to swim naked then" Silver Spoon said with a conspiratorial nudge into the rib cage of her companion. "Don't worry nopony will ever know and everypony else is busy at their jobs or at their classes."

As she started to strip down Spike turned away to preserve her modesty (ever the gentleman isn't he?) and not wanting to seem like a scaredy cat he complied and slipped into the water as hastily as he possibly could.

Once the filly was done disrobing she sauntered over to the edge of the pond and gently slipped in barely making a ripple

Spike was trying not to look but never before had he seen a girl's body before, well except for Twilight's but that didn't count right? As his eyes soaked in her generous curves which he had never before noticed until now, a small jet of blue fire erupted from his mouth. Scared he clapped a hand over his mouth and in the process of doing so accidentally splashed Silver with some of the water at which she huffed and returned with an attempt to fake drown him. Indeed she had succeeded but things were looking pretty good right now for Spike for he instead was being smothered into her chest due to the angle at which she was dunking his head. He hadn't even noticed that he was running short on air but all too soon his face was returned to the light of day only to realize that Silver Spoon was laughing at his discomfort. Determined to get his revenge, Spike did the same to Silver Spoon and submerged her head into the water. Several seconds later he felt her wrap her lips around a very intimate part of his anatomy. As quickly as he possibly could he jerked her head up out of the water and jumped out of the water, embarrassedly covering his erection as he ran from this obviously deranged filly.

As he got back to the library he ran inside to tell Twilight what had happened and try to figure out how to deal with it. He did not, however, remember that that was exactly where the class had gone for their field trip and just as he was about to be free and clear he ran into the three most unique girls in class: the Cutie Mark Crusaders, so named because of their group quest to find their cutie marks because they were the last 3 ponies in their entire year who lacked their Cutie Marks. Embarrasedly Spike stammered and finally just ran past them failing to notice that their eyes had glazed over very similar to the way that Silver Spoon's had.

A/N: Sorry for the late chapter everypony. I store the story files on my IPod and of course it got lost so I had to find it and that took forever. Then on top of that I had writers block as to how to proceed with this chapter, fortunately I had an idea today and voila! Here it is, your very first clop scene! I know it isn't long and I know that was a minor cliffhanger but I did try to make this one a bit longer to compensate for my own tardiness. Tune in next time and find out just what the CMC's next plan is to try and discover their Cutie Marks! Also saturday morning at 4:00 AM Pacific time (my time zone) MLPOnline Singleplayer episode 1 comes out for details go to mlponline . c o m after that time and give it a look. eventually it will be an online project as well but not yet.