-Morning-

Celestia’s Sun rose from the west as it’s warm light blanketed the land as ponies begin to wake up from their dreams and back into the real world, going about their daily lives. Spike slowly woke up from his dream feeling a little refreshed now that his nightmares wouldn’t bother him anymore. Stretching his limbs, the young drake slowly got up from his bed and looked out his window. He thought about what was going on, and what Celestia and Luna learned from last night after dispelling his nightmares. Hopefully they knew what he needed to do in order to ensure that he wouldn’t go through any of that torment again.

“Celestia and Luna said that they were going to pick me up, but when?” Spike thought to himself as he looked out at the ponies that were slowly waking up and wondered what he should expect from today. He got shaken from his thoughts when he heard a knock on his bedroom door.

It’s open,” Spike said as he continued to look out the window. He heard the door open behind him, and when he turned around, his jaw almost dropped to the ground.

Strolling into his room were Twilight, wearing an almost sheer blue babydoll robe that showed off her cleavage more magically than any friendship, her large breasts bouncing so freely there was no way she had a bra on. If one stared hard enough, and Spike certainly was trying not to although failing, they could make out the tiniest two bumps against the fabric where there was a round and darker shade of purple then the rest of the thin fabric allowed to show through. As it trailed down to those sensual hips it hugged so tightly; he gulped unable to find a strap against them to show she had any undergarments on beneath, and feeling his own arousal surging forth all the more. Finally he drew to the end of the robe, half way above her thighs accentuating her amazing legs. Spike had to admit for a bookworm Twilight’s body was wonderfully in shape with a little fat in all the right places to make her look soft and succulent at the same time.

Behind her was Starlight in a white robe of the same caliber, but it had a more artistic design compared to Twilights. It left little to the imagination with two fluffy cloud shaped straps that draped from her shoulders straight down and lead into a row of silver stars that trailed all the way around her bustline, flowing down her curvaceous cleavage and showing an ample amount of her breasts before coming together right below the midpoint of her bosom. Just like Twilight’s robe it was easy to see her fur beneath, the lilac a sharp contrast to the white. It also made it clear that she too was completely free of the uncomfortableness of a bra. He could actually see her toned stomach, belly button, and slim waist further down ,an odd fusion of cute and sexy. Finally, it was clear that Starlight either was a tad more adventurous than Twilight or simply disliked having fabric around her legs as the skirt, also hemmed with silver stars was very short compared to most robes showing off quite a bit of her ass, a shapely rear that reminded him of two well padded cushions he’d love to lay his head on. The view also allowed him to see a complete lack of fabric anywhere near those lovely cheeks. Part of him was genuinely annoyed that the robe had clearly been made to be just a bit less sheer around the groin area to tease without showing perfectly. No doubt Rarity had fun with the design, expecting only Starlight and her potential lover to see it. The entire ensemble was brought together by a silver sash with a crescent moon that sat upon her hips and was tied into a ribbon in the back, it held nothing and wasn’t tight, but Spike had to admit it really popped with the rest of the outfit. As an addition, she wore a pair of silver leggings that wonderfully displayed her rather slim and toned legs, a trait that only drew even more attention to her significant behind.

‘Are you both trying to give me a nosebleed or something? You’ll give any stallion a boner just from wearing those robes alone.’ He thought to himself as he tried to focus on the breakfast that they had in their hands.

There were eggs, toast, juice, a bowl of oatmeal, gemstones, cereal with slices of fruit, a banana, a sliced grapefruit, three big stacks of pancakes, waffles, Prench toast all drowning in a golden pool of warm sweet syrup, and, to the dragons surprise, there was a plate of bacon served hot and ready for him. Spike knew that his race depended on eating meat in order to get all the necessary protein and nutrients to go about their lives, but given that he lives in a society that is entirely vegetarian he has had to look elsewhere to get his needed intake.

Luckily for him, Equestria did trade and sell fish. Every once in a while he would get some fish courtesy of Fluttershy or Twilight whenever they went to the market, which to him helped a lot in providing the meat he needed. On the rare occasion, he would get some jerky from Rainbow whenever her friend Gilda would mail it to her, and she knew how much he loved it.

Seeing the spread in front of him, Spike started to drool as he licked his lips at all the food. He didn’t know where to begin and was tempted to just dive in with both hands, that was until Twilight grabbed his attention by holding the stack of waffles under his nose snapping him out of his reverie.

“What’s all this?” Spike asked in confusion as both mares entered the room with the tray of food in hand. They placed them on his bed, and he immediately went over to the bed and grabbed the bowl of cereal and toast and began eating.

“We thought you’d want to wake up to a good breakfast to help take your mind off things.” Twilight stated as she sat down; the two mares took a small portion of the meal. “How was your sleep last night?”

“It was actually good.” Spike smiled, taking a bite of the cereal. “Princess Celestia and Princess Luna visited me in my dreams last night and finally dispelled my nightmares.”

“That’s good news, Spike,” Twilight said excitedly, she then pulled him into a tight hug which unknown to her was pressing the poor drake against her chest. Spike felt his cheeks burning up again as her bust was squishing against his face; two mounds felt as if they were soft pillows he was resting against. Spike was trying his hardest to not get a nosebleed and ruin Twilight’s robe and it wasn’t helping that her motherly mammaries were smothering his face.

“Uh, Twi, you’re smothering him...again.” Starlight said, tapping the mares shoulder to get her attention. The alicorn looked down and noticed Spike’s face was squished deeply into her cleavage making it hard for him to breathe.

“Oh, sorry about that, Spike.” She let go of the blushing drake.

“It’s cool, nothing new I haven’t been used to before.”

“Anyways, Spike,” Starlight added, as she and Twilight sat down on his bed. “Now that that’s taken care of, any word about when the princesses are coming?”

“They’re actually coming to pick me up in a few hours today.”

“Any reason why?” Twilight asked him.

“I can’t really say, because I don’t know where we’re going. All I know is it’s royal business with me specifically. They wouldn’t say anymore.”

“Is there anything you can tell us so far?” Starlight questioned him.

“I’m sorry girls, but I don’t know anything further than that. Not until we return in a few days at least.”

“So you’ll have to go off to some unknown location in a few hours?” Twilight asked as her ears lowered and pinned to the back of her head, while a frown could clearly be seen on her face.

“Yeah, pretty much. I’m just not sure what to expect there.” Spike thought for a moment on how he could use a break from all the nightmares he was receiving. “I need to at least start packing for the trip, besides it could help distract me a little.”

“Let me help you, I know just the essentials you’re going to need.” Twilight brightened as she started making a list of possible things that Spike might need; a parchment and quill appearing out of nowhere thanks to her magic.

“Twilight wait-” It was already too late. The studious mare jumped from his bed and bolted out of the door, leaving a stunned Starlight and a dulled Spike still on his bed.

“I can already tell where this is going.” Spike sighed.

“Knowing her, I wouldn’t be surprised if she already made a checklist on what clothes to wear all the way to what sandwiches would be good for you.” She joked, giggling a little at the thought of the mares antics when it came to preparation.

“Well, what can I do till the Princesses get here?” Spike asked as he continued to dig into his meal that was fixed for him.

“Well, I’m just gonna let you eat your breakfast while I send a message to the girls about what’s going on.” Starlight got up from Spike’s bed and walked towards the door, but stopped and took another look at Spike with a smile. “Hope whatever you and princesses have to do will be alright.”

“Thanks, Starlight,” Spike said as the young mare soon walked out of the room, closing the door behind her, and leaving Spike to his rather big breakfast. She decided to check and see if Twilight needed any help with Spikes packing when she heard a loud ding indicating somepony was at the door. Ever since a few months ago, Twilight had placed a magic rune at the front of the castle to chime whenever it was touched and placed similar runes throughout sections of the crystal castle to let them know if someone was there. It turned out to be very useful to Starlight and Twilight the most for when they either had a package or important guests, but for Spike he found it mildly annoying when he was taking a nap or trying to read his comic books in his spare time.

“Who could that be?” Starlight pondered walking up to the door and opening it. She was surprised to find the rest of the element bearers were standing outside along with Trixie and Zecora.

“Girls, what’re you all doing here?” Starlight asked.

“We all got together and wanted to see how Spike was doin,” Applejack replied crossing her arms.

“We felt that after what we heard from him yesterday, Spike could use some cheering up, so we thought we could at least check on the poor little thing,” Fluttershy said softly.

“I felt he was acting rather strange lately, so I thought I would craft something for poor Spikey-Wikey,” Rarity added, reaching into her saddle bag and pulled out some clothes for the young drake. She even had a few rare gems that she didn’t use in her designs. “I also thought he might be hungry as well.”

“Fraid Twilight and I beat you to that,” Starlight added. “We gave Spike a huge breakfast that he’s still eating at the moment.”

“Darn shame,” Applejack replied, pulling a pie from out of a basket. “Granny made him a special apple pie in hopes the little fella would feel better.”

“And I brought a couple of special issue Daring Do comic books, figured it get his mind off of what’s going on,” Rainbow said holding them in her hand.

“I came to see if progress was made ado, from the concoctions of my previous brew.”

“Unfortunately no, Zecora, it didn’t do anything and when he had another nightmare it took the princesses to dispel it. I’m sorry,” Starlight replied sadly.

“I worry about his mental state, so how is the young drake?”

“Right now he’s ok so far, but Twilight and I are worried things might have gotten worse.”

“Well, whatever it is,” Rainbow Dash added, stretching her limbs. “I’m sure we can figure out what’s wrong.”

“Has the young drake told any of you what ales his mind as of late?” Zecora asked with a concerned look on her face.

“He didn’t say on what it was though. I’m not sure what’s going on but I do know that the princesses know whats going on.”

“I’m really sad that there’s nothing we can do to turn his frown upside down” Pinkie Pie said as her ears and hair drooped.

“I’m certain the princesses know what to do dear,” Rarity added. “It would be best to not pressure them after what the darling seems has been going through.”

“Pressure who about what?” A voice from behind called out. Twilight walked over to the door and was surprised to see the rest of the girls standing outside with several gifts in their hands.

“Hey, Twilight,” Pinkie chirped.

“Did you all come by to check on Spike?” She asked in surprise.

“Of course we did, he’s our friend too,” Rainbow Dash followed up. “It’s why we wanted to see how the little guy is doing.”

“You know, seeing as we’re all here,” Pinkie said with a smile as she looked over the girls gifts. “Maybe we should throw a small party for Spike to show how much we appreciate him.”

“No, Pinkie, no parties. We want to leave him with as little stress as possible, plus he leaves in a few hours so there’s no time for a party.”

The party mare giggled. “Oh Twilight, every day is time for a party.”

“It doesn’t have to be a party, we can just make it a small get together in support of him,” Fluttershy replied softly.

“Hmm I guess so, that does sound better. And besides, what’s better than being surrounded by friends he cares about.” Twilight smiled.

“Now, are you two eggheads gonna let us in or not?” Rainbow said impatiently.

“Sure, it’s not like you need an invitation,” Starlight joked as the ponies and zebra walked into the castle. “We’re going to get dressed, so in the meantime, you can set his gifts into the maproom.”

“No problem,” Pinkie added in a cheery tone as both Twilight and Starlight left to get changed. The rest of the girls walked through the castle until they reached a room that had seven thrones and in the center a large crystalline table with a large chandelier made out of the roots of the Golden Oaks library.

“Looks like we’re gonna be busy for awhile.” Applejack replied as she and the girls began setting things on the table.

“Nopony is ever busy so long as you have Pinkie Pie around.” Pinkie Pie replied as she pulls out her party cannon from her mane.

“Now Pinkie-” Rarity tried to say, but the pink party planner pulled the string firing off the cannon and a moment later the room was covered in streamers, balloons, speakers, a DJ set, party favors, poppers, cups and a large white banner hanging at the ceiling saying ‘ Hope you feel better soon Spike.’ on the front.

“Pinkie, y’all remember what Twilight said right?” Applejack said as she crossed her arms under her ample bosom. “We’re tryin to help relax Spike not overwhelm ‘em after what he’s been goin’ through. Which means she said to keep it light.”

“Awww.”

“Did somepony say party?” Another voice as another mare walked in causing everyone to turn towards the direction of the open front door. She had a white coat and an electric blue mane and tail. She wore a pair of purple lense sunglasses on her and a pink sleeveless tank top that did little to conceal her large EE-cup breasts with pink sleeves and thigh high leggings covering her arms and legs, and wore a pair of jorts(Jean shorts). Her light pink thong stuck out between her butt cheeks and she always has her headphones one playing some tunes as well as a pair of purple shades that concealed her eyes.

“Actually Vinyl, now’s not a good time. The girls said they wanted something small and simple.” She said in a disheartened tone. “Sorry for calling you here for nothing.”

“It’s alright Pinkie.” She said as she was on her way out the door. “You still free for that one kids party?”

“Sure, just got to take care of this first.” Pinkie replied back as Vinyl leaves the room with the girls giving Pinkie random looks of confusion to awkwardness. Before any of them would say anything, Twilight and Starlight soon show up in casual wear.

“Hey girls, what happened?” Twilight asked as she looked around to see everything the girls brought onto the map table.

“Pinkie had to put up the large party she had with her cannon.” Rainbow Dash replied while blowing part of her mane.

“Pinkie. I did say that it was going to focus on us with Spike until he is called away by the Princesses.” Twilight replied in a calm yet disappointed tone, while crossing her arms.

“I can’t help that if I like big parties.” Pinkie replied with a pout.

“I know Pinkie but can’t we just make it casual for today, I’m sure Spike would like to know that all of his closest friends are here supporting him through this difficult time.”

“Ok Twilight, I at least want to try something nice for him.”

“Anyways, do we at least have what we need for a simple get together?”

“Eyup, and now I’d rather talk about what’s been going on with Spike.” Applejack inquired as she and the girls look at Twilight and Starlight.

“Okay, so what did the princesses mention about coming to pick up our Spikey-Wikey?” Rarity said as she took out a makeup kit from her purse and used it to puff her cheeks with powder.

“Yeah they said it was something about curing Spikes nightmares but she hasn’t told us what exactly.” Rainbow added.

“I can’t really figure out what’s wrong either.” Applejack replied. “But ah do know that he’s hidin’ something that he ain’t talkin’ bout.”

“Let’s just try and ease him into talking about it.” Starlight suggested. “I think it would be safer if we don’t bring it up unless he does first.”

“That’s actually a good idea.” Twilight said as she turns to Starlight with a smile.

“Oh I just hope he’s ok, poor thing has looked terrible when he couldn’t sleep.” Fluttershy said in a worried tone.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy I’m sure Spike is feeling much better with the princesses helping him.”

“Plus Spike should be finishing his breakfast soon so we need to act fast.” Starlight added.

“Well are we gonna sit here and mope, or are we gonna set up a small party for the little guy?” Rainbow Dash looked at the group with a smile. “We got a dragon to cheer up.”

All of the girls agreed with each other as they rallied their hands together and lift them up with a cheer and begin their next plan.

-Spike’s Bedroom-

Spike finally finished the breakfast that Twilight and Starlight had fixed for him and was thankful to the girls for making. What he wasn’t sure about was why they made it for him the way they did, but he really couldn’t complain much. He couldn’t tell the girls what was going on, but he knew it was inevitable they’d find out anyway. His thoughts soon went back to what the princesses had told him. He felt like they were leaving something out but did not know what.

‘I wonder where Celestia and Luna are going to take me. They said it would help explain my nightmares, but will it really? I just wish I could get some answers now instead of later.’ He thought to himself feeling frustrated.

He got up from his bed, picked up the now empty tray, and walked out to the kitchen to put it away. When he entered, he noticed that Twilight and the girls were not there, so he went to look if Twilight or Starlight were around. He checked most of the rooms but couldn’t find them anywhere. Figuring they were in the maproom, he went there to search for them.

When he opened the door to the room, he was surprised to find Twilight and the rest of his friends, but what surprised Spike was that there were also a few decorations, streamers, and a table full of desserts and other snacks.

“Hey, girls, what’s with all of this?” Spike asked in confusion

Twilight exclaimed, “Spike, you’re just in time!”

“For what exactly, did I miss a special occasion or something?”

Starlight giggled. “No, this is for you silly.”

“Why me?”

Pinkie had one of her signature ear to ear grins.“We were pretty worried about you after everything that happened this month. You know, with the lack of sleep and your nightmares, so we figured that we would have a small party just for you.”

Rarity, waved to the young drake as she added, “We heard about the princesses coming to retrieve you on royal business, and we thought that we could have somewhat of a small gathering with just us for a change, until they arrive.”

Rainbow she touched down onto the floor, leaning towards him, “So, since you’re going to be gone for who knows how long, we figured that we do something fun that you wanted until the princesses get here.”

“She’s right,” Starlight added, “just name it and we’ll do it.”

“Anything, really?”

“Yeah anything Spike,” Twilight confirmed. “We at least want to do this for you.”

“Well, let’s have some cake first.”

“You read my mind.” Pinkie said as she took a large piece but before she could eat it, Twilight snatched it out of her hands with her magic and gave it to Spike, to the pink mares admittedly goofy displeasure. After that everyone took a slice for themselves. For the next couple of hours Spike just tried to have fun: playing some games, having some drinks, listening to music, and just enjoying time with his friends.

***

“Ok, Spike, just one more and I win the game,” Rainbow boasted.

“Just you wait, Dash, all I need is to sink this and I beat you,” he declared as he aimed the dart at the board carefully. He and Rainbow were tied and were at the last throw for each of them and both were determined to win. Rainbow threw her dart at the board and managed to land it in the ring outside the center; she smirked and folded her arms in anticipation of winning the game. The drake took a slow deep breath and threw the projectile at the board and watched as it flew through the air and landed smack dab in the center of the bullseye.

“Alright, Spike, nice one,” Starlight congratulated him, while he shook Rainbow’s hand. Everyone else praised him for the win.

“Looks like you win, but next time I’m not letting you off so easy, dragon boy,” Rainbow declared.

“We’ll have to see about that,” Spike replied in challenge.

“Spike,” Zecora said as she walked towards the young drake with a box in her hands, “I almost failed to mention, but there is a present here that requires your attention.”

He looked taken aback as he saw the box. “You didn’t have to do that,” still his curiosity got the better of him, “but what is it?” he asked giddly as the zebra shaman handed him the box.

Spike opened it and removed the contents inside; he was confused at first as he held a strange necklace in his hand. It had wooden zebra heads with different expressions carved on them covered in bright paints of red, white, black, and orange while several red heart shaped leaves were strung from the woven string along with several colored gems threaded through, making the necklace shimmer in the light.

“Ooohhh, pretty.” Pinkie smiled.

“My goodness, darling, where did you get such a fabulous necklace?” Rarity asked as she marveled at the beautiful jewels adorning the piece of jewelry.

“It looks like you went into amazing detail for it,” Starlight added.

“As you all can see, it has been made and gifted from me.” She smiled, proud but not smug. Rarity couldn’t help but think Rainbow Dash could learn a thing or two from such behavior.

“Wow thanks, Zecora, I love it.” Spike beamed as he put it on.

“I guess it’s my turn, darling,” Rarity followed up as she handed Spike a bag. “I hope you like it, Spike.”

Spike took the bag from Rarity and opened it up; he was surprised at what he pulled out. It was a purple and light green tuxedo jacket decorated with two amethyst studs at the collar ,as well as a purple undershirt with amethyst cufflinks matching the studs, both with a couple slits in the back to accommodate his wings., and the final piece a finely tailored pair of green dress pants that brought the entire outfit together.

“Wow, this is amazing.”

“I’m glad you like it, Spike. I had to find the right materials to make it fire resistant, and it’s even washable!”

“Thanks, Rarity.” Spike said as he smiled at the ivory mare. “I promise to wear it when I get back.”

“Oh, thank you, Spike.” Rarity wrapped her arms around the young drake. Spike’s heart began to race as he was being hugged by his crush, but his face lit up like a Heart’s Warming tree when his head became trapped between her heavenly bosom. Spike felt like he was trapped between two fluffy marshmallows, and he would have loved to get a taste of them. The v-neck blouse Rarity had on looked like it was going to let her chest spill out with how hard she was pushing his head down into it.

“Rarity, anymore and yer gonna suffocate the poor drake,” Applejack called out making Rarity look down at the flushed Spike, who seemed only moments from passing out.

“Oh dear…” She let go of the blushing dragon. “I’m dreadfully sorry, Spike. I didn’t mean to startle you like that.”

‘From you, if I was going to die that way, I would die happily,’ Spike thought to himself hanging the tuxedo on a door handle behind him.

“I’m next,” Fluttershy said as she pulled out something wrapped in a box. “I hope you like it.”

Spike took the small package and began unwrapping it. After opening the box and tearing off the paper, Spike was amazed at what was inside; a small jade rabbit. Each eye looked to be made of a ruby and it had sapphires around the neckline. “Woah, Fluttershy this must’ve cost you a fortune.”

“Actually, Rarity knew a jeweler, and she owed her a favor.” Fluttershy replied. “Rarity gave her a call, explained the design I had in mine, and I was able to pick it up a few days later for a pretty reasonable amount.”

“Wow, thanks.” Spike placed the Jade rabbit statue on the table and gave the yellow mare a firm hug, her wings springing open as her face flushed.

“You’re quite welcome.”

“I’m next.” Rainbow Dash reached into her bag and pulled out a gold plated frame with a poster of the Wonderbolts in it, every single Wonderbolt that had ever been on the elite team had signed it.

“How did you get all the Wonderbolts to sign this?”

“It was supposed to be your get better present, but when I told them about this, they did what they could to help out. They even threw in these if you want to meet them in person.” Rainbow Dash pulled out two backstage passes for the next Wonderbolt show.

“Whoa, two passes for their next show!” He deflated a bit as realization hit him. “No offense, Dash, but I don’t see how I’ll be able to use the passes since I don’t even really know where I’m going or when I’ll be back.”

“That’s the best part! They’re good for any of the shows left this year! I’ll even hold onto these for you until you and the princesses finish, whatever it is that needs doing.”

“Least it’s better than the gift Twilight always gives me; a book,” Spike said, making the lavender alicorn blush madly.

The girls all giggled, but Twilight only composed herself and walked forward with her arms behind her back. “Spike,” Twilight begins as she looks him directly in the eyes, “now I realize how annoyed you get every birthday or Hearth's warming when I get you a book, so I got you something that you’ll definitely love.”

“You say that every time you get me a present,” he thought dully.

“Now, it took me a bit to get them but you’ll love this.” She beamed while she levitated a white plastic bag and handed it to the purple drake.

“You know, Twi, if your trying to make this look extravagant, your not...no way...NO WAY!” Spike exclaimed as he dug his hand into the bag and immediately pulled out a small bundle of packaged comic books. The girls saw Spike’s demeanor change instantly, a smile that could rival Pinkie Pie plastering his face.

“The limited edition Power Ponies vs Flare De Mare special issue number one through seven.” Spike was rendered speechless at the gift, he looked back to the alicorn mare his eyes as wide as saucers. “Twilight, where in Equestria did you get these?”

“I traded them over my series of Labs and Liberties books. I even used my magic to make them fire, water, and dirt proof so you don’t accidentally ruin them.” Twilight smiled but was then almost bowled over by a green and purple blur.

“Thank-you-thank-you-thank-you! I will treasure these for the rest of my life.” He sighed.

“That’s great! I’m glad you like them so much, I figured you would have something to read with wherever you were going.” She covered the comic books in a lavender aura and teleported them away. “I put them in your luggage upstairs.”

“Thanks, Twilight, this means a lot,” Spike added as he walked up and hugged his adoptive sister.

“Way to get it right this time, Twi,” Rainbow quipped, but the mare ignored it, just happy that her little brother was smiling.

“Shining’s gonna be so jealous when he finds out about these.”

“We’re next, Spike.” Starlight said as she and Trixie walked towards Spike. Both mares handed him a small black cloth that had been folded up.

“Uh, what is this?”

“It’s a cloak Trixie and I made! It’s magically enhanced so that it folds to pocket size and can make the wearer invisible too.”

“Whoa, really?”

“Yeah, go ahead and try it on.”

“Okay.” Spike unfolded the cloak and noticed that on the underside it was shimmering silver. He wrapped it around his body and to everyone’s amazement, except Trixie and Starlight’s, his entire body disappeared leaving only his head visible.

“Whoa, holy Celestia, dude, look at yourself!” Rainbow exclaimed. Spike looked down, surprised to see that his body was completely gone. He flexed his hands and feet instinctively, relieved he could still feel them.

“This is totally cool!” Spike smiled. “How’d you make this anyway?”

“Well, I used my magic to make it able to fold up in your pocket so you can easily carry it around.”

“And, Trixie, here used her great and wonderful talent to make this fine piece of cloth disappear!” She waved her hands as if performing a trick.

“We thought about cutting some holes for your wings, but then decided against it. Can you imagine how ridiculous you might look with only your wings sticking out?” Starlight giggled.

“So no flying with this on, got it.”

“Wow, that’s really nice of two. I never even thought of making something like that before,” Twilight added.

“Now, ah think it’s time ah show you my gift, sugarcube.”

“What is it?”

“Hold on a second,” Applejack said, leaving the room for a moment. She soon returned with a wooden keg on her shoulder. “Well now, hows about we have ourselves a few drinks.” Her eyes twinkled a bit mischievously.

“Alright, now you’re talking!” Rainbow exclaimed as she yanked the keg out of the farm mares hands, set it on the table, and was about to pull the lever open, anticipating for the crisp cool ambrosia to fall upon her maw. Her dreams were crushed as Applejack took the keg out of her grip and placed it on the other side of the table, out of the weather pony’s reach.

“Rainbow, this cider here is meant for Spike.”

“But I wanted to have some first,” she whined.

“After our not so little dragon here has his first drink,” she said, making Spike blink in surprise.

“Really?” Spike said amazed as Applejack pulled out a tankard, filled it up with cider, and handed it to the young dragon. Before he could take a sip, a purple aura enveloped the tankard levitated it right into Twilights outstretched hand as he glared at her.

“A.J., you know that Spike can’t have any alcohol until he turns twenty-one in several months.”

“Aw, lay off Twi the boy is old enough to make decisions like this for himself.” She grabbed the wooden cup and handed it back to the dragon.

“But he’s still too young, it’s bad enough he’s been tormented by nightmares for the past month; he doesn’t need alcohol to be an answer to his problems.”

“It’s not like I’m giving him a barrel of the stuff here, I just believe he could use something to help wind down just a little and show him that I believe he’s mature enough to be allowed that freedom.”

“But he’s not old or mature enough to make a decision like that on his own,” Twilight countered.

“Uh, I’m right here you know,” Spike interjected.

But Twilight ignored him and continued, “I just don’t believe that drinking at such a crucial time in his life right now would be helpful for his problem.”

“I think it would help if you didn’t treat him like a kid, Twi,” Rainbow Dash said while blowing at her mane.

“They’re right, Twilight, after all these years and everything we’ve been through I believe Spike is as mature as any of us,” Fluttershy added softly.

Spike couldn’t help but smile at their words. His friends actually saw him as an equal and finally decided to speak up for himself. “C’mon, Twilight, I’m not a baby dragon anymore by pony standards and I think it’s high time that you realize that too.”

Twilight looked back at her little brother who was looking at her with an optimistic expression. She thought about what he said and knew he was right; he wasn’t that cute little dragon she hatched that day and felt saddened that he was growing up. She knew she had to let him be his own kind of dragon or he’d never develop on his own.

“Alright, Spike, go on ahead,” she sighed in defeat, knowing that she can’t really baby him forever and that he needed more faith from her.

“You mean it?” he brightened.

“Of course, what better way than to have your first drink with all your friends beside you.” She smiled. “But I’m putting your other gifts in your room so nothing gets on them.” With a quick flash of her magic the tuxedo, necklace, and rabbit were safely tucked away. Rainbow Dash would also latter find the tickets on her dresser, least she lose them in her inevitable drunken stupor.

“Thanks, Twilight, thanks, girls, I really appreciate all of this. Well, bottoms up,” he said as he tipped back the cup onto his lips and began to drink.

“Chug, chug, chug, chug!” Rainbow and Pinkie cheered while Spike drank every last drop of his cider until nothing was left in it.

“Ah, hhmm, not bad I always wondered what it tastes like.”

“That a boy, there, sugarcube; I’m glad ya find it to yer likin.”

“Yeah, yeah, now move over you two, this pegasus here needs here fix,” Rainbow said as she ran past the two and placing her muzzle under the tap. She proceeded to pull the lever letting the amber liquid flow down into her mouth. Spike couldn’t help but laugh at the mares antics when it came to cider as the rest of the girls shook their heads.

“Well, it's a good thing I brought a few more kegs for us just in case,” she added pulling back a curtain to reveal more kegs of cider causing Rainbow’s mouth to water so much a waterfall was coming out of her.

“A.J., I fucking love you,” Rainbow Dash said as she ran over and hugged the apple mare kissing her on the cheek and making her blush.

“Get a room you two,” Starlight quipped, making the girls chuckle while she reached for a cup but instead noticed that there weren’t any on the table. “What the heck?”

“Didn’t we bring cups in earlier?” Fluttershy asked in confusion.

“I think I may have misplaced them or something,” Pinkie said as she rummaged through her mane.

“Well, where’d you put them?” Twilight asked.

“I think I may have left them in the guestroom,” She said innocently.

“I can go get them if you want,” Spike said as he began walking away before being stopped by Twilight.

“Spike, we wanted to do this for-” She immediately got cut off by Pinkie who clamped her hand around Twilight’s mouth.

“Of course, Spike, they’re at the end of the hall down to the left, then a right, then another left, and juuuust a teeny bit down inside the basement.” She smiled widely but then had her hand removed from the alicorn mare.

“But we don’t have a base-” But Twilight couldn’t finish her sentence before Pinkie clamped her hand over her muzzle again making Spike and the girls confused.

“Oookay then, I’ll just go get them.” He then walked out of the room to get the extra cups leaving the girls alone. Pinkie was just smiling as she takes her hand off of Twilight’s mouth and she looks at everyone with an innocent smile.

“What’cha got planned there, Pinkie?” Applejack asked with a dull glare as she stepped forward.

“It’s obvious, isn't it?” She said with a cheerful expression. She then pulled out several cups from her mane as if they weren’t there at all.

“Why did you send Spike on a wild goose chase then?” Rarity asked looking at the party mare in confusion.

“Because it gives me enough time to setup his big surprise.” She then pulled out a box from her mane opening it to reveal Spike’s surprise: a large purple cupcake with green colored frosting that was sprinkled with rainbow colored gems and surrounded in a foil paper, all while Pinkie was playing a fanfare of awe.

“A Cupcake?” Rainbow Dash groaned. “You had him leave over a cupcake?”

“Not just any cupcake, but a very special cupcake that I made myself.”

“What’s it supposed to do if it’s so special?” Trixie asked, curious about the confectionary.

“Well, I was experimenting on a brand new cupcake recipe to brighten up my parties,” Pinkie replied. “I want Spike to be the first to try it out, and I’ve been perfecting it for weeks now.”

“Must be pretty special if ya had to go this far for it,” Applejack replied.

“Yeah, and it’s for Spike’s mouth only. I want to see the look on his face when he bites into this.” She beamed.

“Pinkie, was your cupcake supposed to do that?” Twilight asked.

“Don’t worry they’re completely safe,” She smiled only for it to disappear when a slight rumbling was heard.

“Huh, they aren’t supposed to do that.”

“What do you mean they aren’t supposed to do that?” Trixie asked in a nervous tone. The girls looked at the batch of cupcakes that Pinkie made worriedly.

“Pinkie, what do you mean they weren’t supposed to do that?” Twilight reiterated.

“I mean, I don’t remember the cupcakes rumbling when I first baked them,” Pinkie said in confusion. “I just know that they were supposed to get a specific glow to show that it was ready, and they still look strange.”

“Strange how?” Trixie added.

“Although, I do remember a bag of sizzlestones Maud was using for a geologist project she was working on, but they can’t be the same ones.” She added nonchalantly.

“And how can you tell?” Asked the fashion mare.

“Simple, sizzle stones are a light purplish blue color and make a sizzling sound when being used, while my pop rock candy is a light violet purple color that makes loud popping noises.”

“Um like that?” Fluttershy said pointing her finger at the dessert where a light sizzling was coming from it.

“Silly Fluttershy, it’s not popping it’s sizzling.” She smiled widely only for everyone's eyes to widen at her statement.

“Oh, heehee...oops,” Pinkie said sheepishly.

“Everypony, hit the deck!” Rainbow yelled as everyone in the room scrambled for cover, but it was too late.

‘Boom! Splat!’

The entire room was covered in an explosion of cake and frosting including the girls as they grimaced, covered from head to hoof.

“Honestly, Pinkie, it’s in my mane!” Rarity screamed as she whined at the cake frosting stuck in her mane.

“Come on!” Starlight groaned as her mane and fur got sticky. “This is gonna be a pain in the flank to clean out!”

“Do you have any idea how hard it is to get cupcake stains out of your mane Pinke?” Trixie followed up as she groaned with how much it was going to cost her. “Stuff like this isn’t cheap.”

“Sorry, girls. I wasn't really expecting this to happen,” Pinkie replied in a somber tone.

“Land sakes, Pinkie, I just got done with my laundry yesterday and if Granny sees I don’t have any clothes left I’ll have to wear the old cider barrel she keeps,” she groaned making everyone else in the room look at her. “What, she used it on us before to teach us about properly treating our clothes.

“No offense, A.J., but your family has some crazy customs,” Rainbow Dash said in a dull tone. “Plus, this is nothing new to me; I’ve had worse.”

“You can at least deal with it,” Twilight added, “but a lot of us that actually care about how we look can’t.”

“Well, I wasn’t expecting that to happen,” Pinkie said in her cheery tone. “Luckily, that side effect from it hasn’t happened yet.”

“What side effect?” Twilight asked, as the rest of the girls turned to Pinkie’s direction. The sounds of sizzling soon filled the air.

“Pinkie, what’s that noise?” Starlight asked

Everyone started looking around the room, looking for the source of the loud sizzling, until Rarity looked up to see a bright pink smoke. Rarity took out her pocket mirror in response and saw that the cake batter that had gotten plastered in her mane earlier was slowly evaporating.

“Well girls, I guess we were worried for nothing,” Rarity said with a sigh of relief. “It looks like Pinkie’s cupcakes were- ooohhh, does anypony feel a draft in here?”

“Beg yer pardon, Rarity?” Applejack followed up. The girls were confused as to what was going on, but Pinkie knew what was going to happen. Fluttershy looked down to see Rarity’s skirt getting smaller and smaller. She then turned to the other girls and saw the same phenomenon with their clothes.

“Um, girls, why are your clothes shrinking?” Fluttershy asked.

“Wait, what?” Trixie asked in confusion. Other than Pinkie, the girls were confused by what Fluttershy meant until they felt the same breeze down below as Rarity did. They all looked down and at each other before freaking out when they saw that their clothes had vanished into thin air. The girls begin panicking in the process as they ran around the room trying to cover themselves out of embarrassment. Rainbow Dash grabbed at her amulet afraid that it was going to melt but saw that it wasn’t affected by whatever had destroyed their clothes. Zecora, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Starlight felt their nipples harden at the sudden loss of their clothes, and with the exception of the zebra, struggled to find concealment.

“Aw c’mon!” Starlight rushed to find something to help hide her marehood and the excitement plaquing it.

“Oh, pony feathers, not again!” The farm mare hadn’t really planned on all of her friends finding out about the freckles on her apple bottom.

“Eep!” Fluttershy was already self-conscious about others staring at her larger than average, to put it lightly, breasts with her clothes on, but now she was on full display in front of all her friends. To make it worse, her light pink nipples had hardened enough to cut diamonds, making her obscene body stand on even more.

“Oh for heaven’s sake, darling, what was in that concoction?!” While a lady made sure to keep even her most private parts properly groomed and maintained, Rarity hadn’t planned on showing off her immaculate care of her marehood to anyone yet, let alone her closest friends like some harlet.

“Heh, this reminds me of one of my sleepovers with Gilda,” Rainbow Dash followed up. Secretly, she breathed a sigh of relief clutching her amulet, but she remained uncovered and unashamed, the rainbow lightning bolt trimmed tuff above her marehood an almost clear indication of her pride in her entire body. ‘Celestia that was too close.’

“This is quite a scare, but it’s not the first time I’ve been laid bare.” For Zecora nudity was not uncommon, her hut got quite hot in the summer after all and with so few visitors stripping down to nothing was part of the norm. She was proud of her body and her heritage. Had Twilight been less preoccupied, she may have found it interesting that the zebra mare had one black and one white nipple on her glorious buxom.

“I’ve heard of showing skin, but this,” Trixie flourished her from her sizable chest to the pretty silver flesh peeking out from the fur around her marehood, drawing attention to her assets unabashedly, “is ridiculous.”

“Pinkie?!” Twilight exclaimed while the rest of the girls struggled to cover up their bodies after what happened, she was too focused on the party mare and her anger to do more than cover her front with her wings. Her hands placed firmly on her curvaceous hips. “What is it with you and your crazy ideas?”

Pinkie shrugged, making her large party bags jiggle. It was quite clear at the moment that all of the sweets had gone straight to her chest and bubble butt, leaving her midriff tight and her legs tone. “Well It’s not like I was planning on any of this to happen.”

“I’m not walking into town looking like this Pinkie!” Rarity shouted as she was looking for anything to try and cover her figure. “It was bad enough that the batter was in my mane, but to suffer through this?”

“Just as long as they don’t come into contact with any fabric then your fine.”

“They already came into contact with our clothes, Pinkie!” Starlight yelled in frustration. “Do you have any idea how this makes us feel?”

“Girls, I-”

“If Granny Smith wasn’t gonna be angry with me, now, she’s gonna throw a hissy fit when she sees me like this!” Applejack yelled. “It’s gonna be awkward as it is trying to explain why I’m walking through town in mah birthday suit!”

“Girls-”

“I don’t want anypony to see me naked!” Fluttershy screamed as she covered herself with her wings while she uses her hands to cover her crotch.

“Girls-”

“You better be glad that I’m not in front of a crowd right now, or this is gonna be a problem.” Trixie groaned.

“Girls-”

“Pinkie, how do we fix this?” Twilight said as she turned to the pink pony.

“Hey!!” Rainbow Dash yelled, making everyone turn to her direction. Rainbow Dash didn’t even bother covering herself as she walked towards Pinkie and got in front of her. “Sheesh, you think you’d all be used to this right now.”

“As much as I love flowing free, I am inclined to agree.” Zecora added as she walked forward to defend Pinke.

“Seriously, guys, you figured that you’d be used to stuff like this after a while.”

“Well her baked goods never ate at our clothes,” Rarity said in anger.

“Try to take it easy, besides it’s just us around here, it’s not like we haven’t seen each
other naked before.”

“Yeah and Spikes here too!” Twilight added.

“Wait, wha-” Rainbow Dash was interrupted when the door opened.

“Hey, Pinkie I couldn’t find any cups so I-”

The girls froze when they heard Spike’s voice and turned to the open door to see he was completely in shock. Spike had the surprise of his life as he saw the girls clothing melting off of their bodies leaving them fully naked and giving him an eyeful of their heavenly, shapely bodies.

“Sp-Spike!” Twilight shouted. “Th-this isn’t what it looks like!”

“Spike, just try to calm down and-” Starlight tried to say, but it was too late.

“Blllluuuarrgh!” Spike yelped as blood seeped from his nose. The sight of all of the girls naked was to much, making him fall to the floor in a stupor.

“Spike!” All the girls shouted as they looked at the state he was in. Twilight instinctively rushed towards Spike with the other girls following suit, but with the extra cake batter, that was still splattered everywhere, they all ended up losing their footing. The last thing the poor dragon could see was a wall of female flesh toppling over him. If the girls being naked hadn’t been enough to make him pass out, then them being on top of him while his own clothes sizzled off had surely done the trick.

“Ugh, could you girls get off, your lying on my wings.”

“Pinkie Pie, for the love of Celestia would you kindly stop using me as a personal throw pillow.”

“Get your butt out of my face, Rainbow.”

“Well get your face outta my butt, A.J.”

“Why do I get the feeling that this is turning into a very bad day for us?” Starlight sighed.

“Starlight, could you get off my back please?” Twilight asked.

“I could if Trixie would stop sitting on my ass,” Starlight counted. Twilight was about to say something but felt something wet on her breasts. She looked down to see that Spike was bleeding profusely from his nose and his eyes were swirled.

“Great, I think Spike may have died in the most embarrassing way possible,” Twilight groaned, as she now had to clean blood stains on her chest. “How can things get any worse? Wait, what’s hard and poking me in the stomach?”

The front door opened getting everyone, other than the unconscious Spike’s, attention and the girls turned to see that Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were walking in the room. Both alicorn mares getting an eyeful as well when they saw Twilight and her friends naked and on top of Spike.

“Um...Did we interrupt something?” Celestia asked in confusion as she and Luna just stared at the girls, their cheeks turning a light pink.

“P-Princess Celestia!” Twilight managed to say as she scrambled to get off of the marepile and cover herself. Her face was bright red and she feared that she’d never live this down. “T-t-this isn’t what it looks like!”

“No need explaining, Twilight, I know exactly what’s going on,” Luna stated.

“You do?” the lavender mare replied in surprise.

“Why, yes, isn’t it obvious,” she said, leaving everyone utterly confused. “You wish to conduct the old tradition by performing the noble practice of flaunting about in your barest form for Spike in hopes of distracting him,” She explained, it took most of the girls a few seconds to piece together what the princess of the night meant and started to blush furiously when they realized what she was implying. Before they could say anything, Luna grabbed her dress as she began to pull her dress up and off right in front of them. Her strong legs were quickly revealed, as was her marehood in all of it’s midnight blue glory. The powerful stomach of a goddess was eclipsed only by the massive mammaries that freed themselves from the cloth, the large dark blue areola the size of Spike’s head with her nippless so large that they would fit perfectly inside the mouth of anyone there. The girls blushed in response to the incredibly sexual and erotic body of their princess.

“It has been centuries since I was involved in such a setting, but it’s refreshing to know some ponies remember the-” She was about to pull her dress over her head when Celestia put a hand on her arm and used her magic to pull down her sisters dress.

“Tia, what are you doing?”

“It’s not that type of party, Luna.”

“Then why pray tell is everypony as bare as a newborn foal in here?”

“I think we can explain, princess,” said Twilight as she managed to stand there currently covering her chest with her right wing while she struggled with her left to cover her exposed marehood.

“Pinkie was trying to have a surprise batch of cupcakes for Spike, but she accidentally mixed sizzle stones she got from Maud into the batch that she baked.” She looked at the empty and burnt box. “When they came into contact with the candle, they exploded and all of our clothing was burnt off.”

“Oh, so that’s what happened. Reminds me of that prank I pulled on Tia after I got back,” Luna added, with a slight giggle and everyone turned to her direction.

“Luna, what are you talking about?” Celestia asked.

“You remember that cake you had a few months ago that exploded out of nowhere and you locked yourself in your chamber the entire day?”

-Six Months Ago-

Six months ago, Princess Celestia was within her meeting room and was joined by Queen Mesosoma, Princess Trachea, and the new Gryphon Queen of Griffonia, housed in their newly repaired castle in Griffonstone, named Griselda.

“And I feel this new trade deal will benefit all of our races. It allows safe passage through dangerous environments, and everyone gets what they need for goods and services.”

“Your proposed route does show promise, Celestia,” Queen Mesosoma replied, sipping some tea that was on the coffee table in the center, “but there is the issue of bandits that we should worry about.”

“If it’s bandits, then some of my elite unit wouldn’t be too much of a problem to deal with them.” Griselda said in a calm yet firm voice. Celestia admired how strong the griffon queen was. Being a former member of their military and having experience on and off the field, as well as being caring to her teammates, made her the perfect candidate for her subjects back in Griffonstone. She was a beautiful griffoness with her lower half being that of a tiger with an orange body and black stripes and her upper half being that of a black eagle. Her hair was tied in a ponytail with part of it covering her left eye. Speaking of eyes, they were silted with a bright amber gold that gave her a cold gaze, but more of a calm demeanor. Her arms and legs had a thick layer of muscle from her time in the field, but it only added to the attractiveness of her toned fit body.

She wore a shimmering black dress, covered in a layer of woven armor that fit her arms and chest with golden plates, a crest of a bloodied red griffon etched into the chestplate, silver chainmail sewn between them. The form-fitting attire swayed with her movements but hugged her closely, an intimidating display of elegant beauty and poised deadliness in her ensemble.

As for the royal changelings sisters, their attire consisted of glittering silk, the colors of the dress darkening the further down it trailed, starting as a light purple at their shoulders and seeping into a midnight blue at the hem of the skirt. Around Mesmosa’s chest, the silk parted ways for a brassier that looked like a massive butterfly, the wings holding the Changeling Queen’s impressive bust.

“If we have guards of such caliber on this route, it’ll be perfect for the new trade route. Not to mention, the surrounding path leads between Griffonia and Equestria as well as a little of the way into our kingdom as well,” Trachea replied.

“Then it’s settled,” Celestia said as she rolled up the map and stretched. “This will be our new trade route between kingdoms, are there any objections to this meeting?”

“No.”

“Nay.”

“I accept these terms.” Griselda affirmed.

“We then hereby declare this meeting concluded.”

“Agreed.”

“Ok.”

“Well with that taken care of,” Celestia clapped her hands. The doors opened and the kitchen staff hauled in a massive, triple-decker cake with a light-blue icing swirling up into a flower. They cleared a table for separate plates and utensils for the representatives present and offered Celestia the ceremonial knife, “why don’t we indulge ourselves with a little cake?”

“Cake already?” Mesesoma said. “Doesn’t it seem a bit too early? I’m pretty sure we skipped lunch as well.”

“I’m inclined to agree,” Queen Griselda replied in confusion. “Isn’t this normally the time for lunch?”

“It’s more of a snack to me.”

‘More like a guilty pleasure you can’t help yourself with.’ Trachea mumbled under her breath.

“Oh don’t be like that, it’s my treat.”

“Well, I guess one slice wouldn’t hurt,” Mesosoma replied as she cut a slice of cake. “But I need to ask, why there is a candle on the cake?” She pointed to the top of the cake and Celestia looked in confusion as she saw the lone candle.

“Wait, I didn’t put that on there.” Before she could even register how it had gotten there, the candle suddenly lit up and started burning.

“Princess Celestia, what’s going on?” Trachea asked in confusion.

However Celestia wasn’t sure what was going on, and a few seconds later the candle exploded! It caused a chain reaction with the cake and soon the entire room and the royal dignitaries were covered in cake batter.

“This is why we vet the staff!” Trachea yelled. “Someone could have been hurt from that!”

“Pah, please!” Griselda huffed. “If that was someone’s attempt at assassinating us, I haven’t been so disappointed since my first ex-lover.”

“Please calm down, I’m not sure what’s happening, but I doubt that this was an-!” She began but stopped when the sounds of sizzling began to get her attention. “Is something burning?”

“Why is it starting to get cold?” Trachea asked in confusion. She then turned to her sister and began to notice that her dress was becoming smaller and smaller.

“I’m not sure, but I feel like my dress is starting to get a bit loose,” Griselda said, before her chestplate snapped off of its chainlink and clattered to the floor. “Wha- what’s going on with my dress?!” she said, feeling the shoulder straps slipping off. The skirt and waistband broke off, revealing the Queen’s thread-thin underwear. As the rest of her plated mail fell apart, they left only the straps that held her royal bust in place under her armor. Whatever had dissolved her clothes was now working its way down her back, eating through her straps. They shot off like a rubber band, freeing her large II-cup breasts as the band itself flew across the room, striking a Guard in the eye. As he fell to the floor, losing consciousness, one could faintly hear a whisper, ‘worth it’.

“What is the meaning of this Princess Celestia!?” She shouted covering her breasts with her wings. Mesosoma and Trachea followed up with a scream as they realized that their dresses were gone and scrambled to cover themselves in surprise. Celestia then looked down at her own dress , realizing that it too was gone, leaving her bare naked in front of her constituents.

Her dress fallen, all eyes laid upon the Sun Diarch and her exposed form. Naturally, most were drawn to the mountainous behemoths that sat upon her chest, a pair of breasts with no equal in any land, far larger than any lesser female would be able to handle. Their perfect white fur cascaded upon a cavernous sweep of cleavage, smoother and finer than any silk or satin crafted, the only spot uncovered by the fur was her exposed, rose-tinted nipples. Those that hadn’t stared at Celestia’s chest would bare witness to her flanks. Many things could be said about the mounds that bore the mark of the Sun Goddess, that they had the most perfect placement of any Cutie Mark, sitting upon the absolute center of her derriere, that they were a perfect shape and girth that could satiate any lust, and that her cheeks were so luscious that they were the reason she was chosen to wield the Element of Generosity. Wars and assassinations were declared in the streets over the whispers and mutterings of what some thought Celestia’s body could entail, and those who witnessed this day would know one thing: any price would be worth paying to witness the physical encapsulation of perfection again.

“My favorite underwear!” She yelled, realizing that her favorite rainbow panties and bra were now destroyed.

“You’re worry about your favorite clothing at a time like this?” Gresilda yelled. “If this meeting was supposed to be a joke, you may have accomplished that.”

“I’m telling the truth, I don’t know what caused this,” Celestia added in a panic.

While they were panicking, a pair of light blue eyes were peeking through the keyhole before looking away. There in the hall was Princess Luna, laughing her butt off as she walked away from the room, pulling out another trick candle from her pocket and casually tossing it into the air.

“Best. Prank. Ever.”

-Present-

“That was you?” She glared at her. “I was in a very important meeting with the delegates of both the Changelings and Griffons that day, It took a week to get all the cake out of my mane and enough convincing the Griffons not to retaliate on your prank.”

“To be fair, sister,” Luna began as she held her hands up in defense while still laughing. “That prank was meant for you. I didn’t count on you bringing the cake to the changelings and the griffons that day.”

“Luna, we’ll talk about this later,” Celestia added with finality as her horn gave off a golden glow. A moment later her horn flashed and everyone's clothes suddenly appeared back on each of them.

“Th-thank you, Celestia,” Twilight said as she stopped covering herself with her wings.

The girls got up turned to the still unconscious Spike bleeding from his nose.

“So, how do you think we wake him up?” Rainbow Dash asked as the other girls pondered on what to do.

Starlight simply walks towards the keg tap where the cider was and pours a drink, walking back towards Spike and splashes the cool liquid in his face. It got a reaction out of the young drake as he bolts upright darting his head from right to left until he becomes fully aware of his surroundings again..

“Huh, wha-what happened?” Spike asked in confusion as he felt his face all wet and sticky from the cider.

“You passed out after getting piled on by a bunch of naked mares and popping a boner,” Starlight summarized. ‘Considering who he hangs out with on a daily basis I’m not surprised.’

“Could you not? It’s not like I was expecting to come back to my party and find a room full of naked mares,” Spike face turning a darker shade of purple. “If I wasn’t so use to random craziness around here I’d of thought that somepony broke in or we were being attacked or something.”

“Well we weren’t, and thanks to Pinkie here, our clothes got destroyed earlier,” Applejack added with a glare, making the party mare look at everyone nervously with a blush.

Spike was about to say something else when he saw his adoptive mother and his aunt standing in front of him with puzzled looks as he stumbled to stand up and focus his gaze on the royal pair. “M-Celestia, Luna, I, uh... I can explain.”

“It’s quite alright, Spike, Twilight and the others filled us in on their little incident, although I must say you certainly have a charm if you can make almost every mare in your vicinity drop their clothes for you,” her tone suggestive, making everyone besides Luna blush hard. “Oh I’m just teasing you, dear,” Celestia giggled as she knelt in front of her adopted son. “It’s just cute how you react. Anyways, you don’t need to explain anything, Spike.”

“She’s right,” Luna added, kneeling down as well. “Now that that’s behind us, shall we move on to more pressing matters now?”

“Right, you’re here to pick me up. Does that mean we’re leaving now?”

“I’m afraid so, Spike, we can’t wait any longer and time is of the essence, so if there’s anything you need before we go you should get it now.”

Spike turned towards the girls, who all looked pretty downtrodden about him going. Spike was running through a plethora of emotions at the moment as he looked at each of them. Sadness knowing they wouldn’t be joining him wherever his mother and aunt were taking him. He also felt a little frustrated that they left out where exactly they’re going, but, at the same time, he understood why they did. He wasn’t sure what to say at the moment, let alone what to think, but his thoughts were suddenly cut short when he felt something warm wrap around his body. Forced out of his thoughts he saw Twilight in front of him, hugging him, and even wrapping her wings around him, making the drake blush as he felt Twilight’s heartbeat through her wings.

“Spike, whatever you have to do, know that no matter where you are, we’re always there for you,” she said, wanting to at least continue this for a few more moments. Spike smiled as he welcomed the embrace, hugging his older sister back. Then, he felt a few more bodies pile on and realized the rest of the girls had joined in a group hug.

“As much as ah don’t want this to end, I guess duty calls for ya,” Applejack replied.

“Oh, Spike, please don’t go; I don’t want you to go away forever and never ever, ever, ever, EVER come back.” Pinkie cried, a waterfall of tears was comically streaming out of her face.

“I’m sure our Spikey-Wikey will be alright since the princesses will be looking after him, Right darling?” Rarity patted the party mare’s back gently trying to calm her down.

“Rarity’s right, Pinkie. I’ll only be gone for around a week or so.”

“But hey, if something does happen, just count on us to be there,” Rainbow Dash chimed in.

“So long as you don’t hurt yourself with whatever it is that needs to be done,” Starlight added.

“When you do get back, I want to show you my newest tricks I’ve been working on, and you’ll be the first to see them.” Trixie winked. “I’ll have a new performance I can show you by then.”

“I’ll hold you to that, Trixie,” Spike said as he walked upstairs to get his belongings before coming back to join Princess Celestia and Princess Luna at the front door.

“Are you ready, Spike?” Celestia asked as she looked at her adoptive son as he walked over to her.

Spike turned to see Twilight who was now giving him a sad smile, barely holding back her tears; the young drake noticed this and opened up his arms, gesturing for another hug. She embraced him as she started to cry a little; Spike just held her in his arms.

“Just be safe, okay. I don’t want anything bad happening to you.”

“C’mon, Twilight, I’m grown up. I’ve helped save an entire kingdom, changed the viewpoint of two different races, and managed to open up relations of three different countries at the same time. I’m sure whatever this is will be a piece of cake.”

“You know what,” Pinkie said as she reached into her mane and pulled out a camera and a stool to hold it up. “Why don’t we have a group photo to commemorate the occasion of ‘Spike farewell on royal business’ party?”

“That’s a wonderful idea, Pinkie.” Celestia smiled.

“I have to agree as well.” Luna chimed in. “I’d love to be a part of this photo.”

“Sure, that sounds nice,” Spike replied smiling.

Luna smiled, it’d be the first time she was part of one of their photos.

“We’ll need to take only one, since we don’t really have a lot of time my little ponies,” Celestia added as she walked towards the girls. “So decide quickly where we should take this photo.”

“Why not outside at the front of the castle?” Starlight suggested, getting everyone’s attention.

“It does have a much better view for a background dear,” Rarity replied. “Plus, the light from the crystals does look good with my eyes.”

“You would say that,” Rainbow Dash groaned while pantomiming she was gagging and stuck her tongue out.

“I think it sounds nice,” Fluttershy added as she liked the idea.

“Are we’re all in agreement then?” Twilight asked with different replies of approval following suit. She turned to the princesses with a smile. “We’ll take our picture outside; then you can get ready for your trip, Princess Celestia.”

“I see.” Celestia smiled as she looked at her former pupil. Turning around, she walked towards the front door before looking back at the girls. “Well, what are you girls waiting for?”

“Indeed.” Luna quickly joined her sister. “I would like to see what our photo will look like.”

Everyone in the room agreed as they walked with the princesses and stepped outside of the castle, joining them for the photo everyone began taking their places to pose for the camera.

“Alright, everyone, gather round.” Twilight levitated the camera in front of the group.

“Say, ‘friendship’.”

“Friendship.” The flash went off. Twilight took the photo out of the camera and taking a look at it. Most of the girls and Spike were smiling, but she had to sigh, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie had gone and made funny faces. She pouted seeing Rainbow Dash’s fingers behind her head just to tease her.

“Well, now that we have that out of the way,” Celestia began as she and Luna stepped onto the carriage that was waiting for them, “we need to hurry to where we’re going.”

“My sister is right. We can’t spend anymore time here, sadly.” Luna joined Celestia.

Spike sighed as he looked at the carriage and back at the girls who smiled sadly as they waved the young drake off. Still, Spike knew that the girls would be waiting for him to return safely, smiling back at them before joining Princess Celestia and Princess Luna in the carriage. The carriage slowly ascended, the girls watching it take off and disappear into the morning sky.

“Good luck, Spike!” Twilight yelled, while the rest of the girls yelled out their farewells to the drake as the carriage flew further and further from them.

“There he goes,” Starlight said to herself. While unknowingly to her and the girls Pinkie pulls out a large megaphone and yells out.

“Don’t forget to wrrriiiiiiittttteeee!!!!” Pinkie yelled through the device deafening the girls and likely most of Ponyville. Everyone groaned and whined at the ringing of their ears while Pinkie just looked worriedly at everyone. “Do you think he heard me?”

“Okay, my ears are ringing!” Rainbow Dash yelled, unable to gauge her own volume anymore. “I think now I know how you girls felt after I left for Wonderbolt Academy!”

“I just hope he’s alright,” Twilight said in a near whisper as she turned to the other girls and dispelled the magic from her ears. “Girls?”

“What?!”

“Huh?!”

“I can’t hear anything!”

“What?!”

“What did you say?!”

Twilight facepalmed and sighed to herself as she used her magic to pull everyone but Pinkie, who hopped merrily beside her into the castle, to help her now temporarily deaf friends of their hearing loss. She only hoped that when Spike returned, that he’d be okay and his nightmares will finally have ended.

Author's Note

Thank you for your patience everyone. I figured I would have a more sexy yet comedic setting when I wrote this with the guys. You'll learn where Celestia and Spike are going soon enough and what may happen to him later down the road. Credit to Yoshikage Kira, Path_Of_Cloud, Phoenixcoltf45, and wolfman93 for the setting of it.