Morning light crept through the windows and pierced Cynder's eyes, getting the dark blue dragoness to stir. Opening her eyes she quickly shut them as the light was still too bright for her, after a while her eyes adjusted and the first thing she saw was Spyro's face next to hers.

"Good morning." he said greeting her with a lick on the nose. "How did you sleep?"

"With you by my side, how can I not have a good sleep?" Cynder replied, slowly sitting up on her mate. Looking down she smile at the mess they made from last night. " Shall we get cleaned up?"

"We should." Spyro said. Cynder slipped of her mate and he rolled to his paws and the two walked down the hall. After a while they forgot that they didn't get a good look at every room, luckily for them Spike was coming down the other way. "Morning you two." he greeted them with a warm smile. "Looking for something?"

"Yeah the bathrooms." Cynder said

"Round the corner and third door on your left."

"Thank you...um you don't mind staying here till we come out for breakfast would you?"

"No problem just don't take to long." he smiled at the two.

The two headed down the path Spike told them and sure enough they found the bathroom, or more like the pool room. The bath itself was massive and there was a door that led to the toilet. Cynder didn't even wait for Spyro and jumped in, the water was warm and she was enjoying the warm water. Spyro jumped in and the two swam around before stopping in the shallow end Cynder came up behind Spyro and reached around him, rubbing his golden chest-scales with her wet paws. He smiled but didn't pull away. She came around in front of him and he lay against the wall, and she slowly and lovingly cleaned him off. When she was done with his hind legs she turned and started to edge away, but she heard him splash in the water behind her and stop her with a strong but gentle paw.

"I will return the favor," he said with a smile, and she grinned at him a bit seductively as she lay against the bank, giving herself to his caring touch as he carefully rubbed her from the neck down, constantly re-wetting his paws to make sure she was clean. She closed her eyes with a smile as he tenderly rubbed her blue and pink scales. He grinned slyly at her and rubbed her tail-base, and she jumped and looked at him.

"Hey, you, we just got done last night," she said, but she said it with a playful look on her face. He grinned back at her and slowly and gently washed off her tail-base and hind legs when he was done with her magenta pink underbelly. When he was fully done he sat back in the water, and she came over and hugged him tightly, giving him a kiss.

"Spyro...I love you more than anything else in the world," she said with a happy sigh.

"And the same goes for me to you," he replied, and she nuzzled joyfully against his face as the water slowly flowed around them. They stayed there until Cynder began to shiver from the temperature of the water, and Spyro carried her out of the tube. They shook themselves off and decided to head down for breakfast. As they walked, Cynder had her head against Spyro's shoulder, letting him guide her as they casually walked down the hall. They saw Spike sitting right where they left him.

"Enjoy the tube pool?" he said with a smirk.

"Yes, but not in the sense your thinking, it was a nice tube to soak in." Cynder replied

The trio headed down to the dining room and once they were there the saw Applejack sitting at the table talking with Twilight. "Mornin' sugar cube I dropped off them apple fritters ya asked for. Oh an Cynder, mind if I borrow Spyro for the day?"

"Thanks AJ" Spike said before going to the kitchen.

"Sure that gives me time to show Twilight my elements in action."

"Thanks sugar and when ever your ready Spyro just say so."

"Lets go."

Applejack smiled at Spyro's enthusiasm to help and off they went while Twilight led Cynder to a safe place to show off her power. The earth pony led Spyro to her family's farm and coming to the cross, there was a tree house and right below it were three mares. One was a light yellow color with a red mane, done up in a braid with a pink bow at the top, she wore a green bandana around her neck, her amber eyes stood out against her coat, her voice was similar to Applejack's. Another was a snow white with a two toned mane, light purple and pink, her green eyes shined like emeralds, her voice had a melody tone to it, she also had a horn on her head. And the last one was a light orange with a deep reddish-pink mane, wings folded against her sides, her voice seemed normal compared to the others. Her purples eyes glancing in their direction.

"Hey ya big sis." The yellow one said walking up to Applejack and giving her a hug "What are you up to?"

"Nice to see you Applebloom. Not much just got a helping paw to move that blasted boulder." Applejack replied then looked at the purple dragon. "Spyro this is my youngest sister Applebloom, and her friends Sweetie belle, her Sister is Rarity, and Scootaloo, Rainbow Dash's adopted sister. Girls this is Spyro a friend of Cadance's and others."

"Cool. Its nice to meet you Spyro hope you will stay for a while." Applebloom said looking over the purple male before her. "And I must admit for a dragon your cute."

The other two giggled at that before she make a comment, "Hey it's no different then you Sweetie belle, you got a thing for a certain purple and green dragon."

By now the white unicorn was silent and Scootaloo was on the floor laughing. "No fair cheap shot." She complained before they all laughed. Applejack joined in for moment before she and the others headed to the farm.

Arriving at the farm, Spyro was amazed by all the apple trees they had but what really caught his eyes was the giant red barn in the center of it all that read "Sweet Apple Acres." They came across a bare path of earth to the south. The column of apple trees paused at the edge, the soft earth stretching over a couple of acres, beneath a clear blue sky. Applejack was waiting for the two to join her, before she pointed with one foreleg to the center of the plots of land. Eyes adjusted on a dull, gray mass protruding from the ground, a deep trench surrounding the mass. Broken ropes, chains and even some cart axles, littered the ground around the object. Spyro glanced at the lifeless thing before looking to the pony with a puzzled expression.

"We purchased these plots of land back in fall. After Winter Wrap-Up, the ground was soft enough to start sowin apple seeds. Things were looking up... till we hit that hunk of rock sittin right there. That boulder goes deep, real deep. An we tried everythin to budge that infernal thing. All we got to show for it is broken gear, sore backs, a few twisted hooves and even some short tempers. All that while that varmint continues ta sit pretty an taunt us."

Applejack turned to look over Spyro,"So...think ya can handle that big ol brute out there?"

Spyro smiled at the challenge,"No problem just give me a few moments first."

The dragon headed out into the fields and started to circle the huge boulder. Applejack sat and watched, hearing the sounds of heavy hooves treading the ground. Big Mac joined her in silence, his eyes casting over to the odd lot in the middle of the acre. He looked back to his sister, whom merely tipped her hat.

"Ah know yer thinkin, its too big a job for that guy. But something tells me he can do it."

"Hope you know what yer doing." the red stallion said.

Applejack gave a light shrugged as she continued to watch them,"Ah hope so to, I truly do."

Spyro spent the last five minutes just looking at the boulder. His claws dug into the earth, bringing up a few clumps to sniff the earthly scents it held. He crumbled it within his claws, feeling it slip back to the ground before him, then took one last look over at the edge, to where Applejack and the other mares and now a red pony now sat. His eyes closed, mentally picturing this obstruction and what to make of it. Nodding quietly to himself.

Spyro felt the currents within him. Breathing slowly he focused this into his core like many times before, giving it shape and focus. Once the dragon felt he had gathered enough, the eyes snapped open and he retreated a few steps back. Breathing slowly, he channeled his power up into his chest, taking a deeper breath then usual. Back at the edge, Applejack, the former CMC and Big Mac could feel suttle tremors beneath their hooves, the feeling of a gathering power converging out in the fields before them. Eyes widened, they followed this "trail" and found the source: Spyro.

He opened his mouth and a green orb was spat forth. The five spectators watched as it traveled in a soft arch and made contact with the huge boulder.

CRACK-KOOM!

Big Mac yelped and pulled his sister down for cover, as did the CMC, the upper portion of the rock shattered into small gravel, pieces raining down like stone hail. Spyro didn't stop there. As the upper half was demolished, the lower half still needed to be uproot. Channeling his power once more, he buried his claws into the ground, sending a surge of earthen force to shove the remains up from the trenches that was dug around it. Once the lower half of the boulder was above ground level, Spyro "shifted" and the earth moved the last hunk over onto the side. Once settled, he withdrew his paws and the earth sunk back into the earthen void left by the huge rock, filling the gap. He spat another green orb, smaller then the first one and again, it contacted with the boulder. A sharp crack! sounded as the lower half splintered into slivers and more manageable pieces.
Breathing a little heavy from putting a little too much into it, Spyro heard the sounds of hooves approaching. Turning he saw everypony just gape at the work he had done in so little time. They worked their muzzles and the lips were moving, but was unable to compose any words. Finally after a few minutes, Applejack managed to speak.

"Laaaaandsakes. That was...I mean...whoooooooweeeeeeeee! Dang Spyro, what they feed you back home? Thunder n Lightnin?"
He laughed softly and waved a dirtied paw,"Its was nothing."

"Ya call this nothing?! Ahm wonderin if its a good idea to ask ya what a big job would be like."

"You don't want to know."

They laughed at Spyro's remark before they headed in for lunch.

Author's Note

the last part was from little dragon in a strange new world, with a few modifications, so I'm giving credit for the author. Hope they don't mind me using it.