Vivalavida

by sejox

Rating: everyone
Tags: Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Spike, Slice of Life
Length: 2236

Spike has a lot of work on his shoulder every day, yet he always finds some time to rest on his secret hideout.

There is a certain spot of the Apple's family orchard unknown to most ponies, a quiet and peaceful place where you can lay down and reflect on the good things that life have given you. Spike is one of the few that know about this place.

Cover art by osawari64 (I made one myself but I need to enhance/correct it first)
disclaimer: I'll publish each episode as soon as I think they are good enough. so beware of my lack of knowledge/skill in english.

Published 2019-01-04 20:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2019-01-04 20:00:02 UTC

Today I helped some crystal ponies

A cute little bunny hop its way through the unkept grass and leaves, it's strode lively and calm. Sniffing the ground below, he found a piece of an apple that had been half eaten by another lucky animal. The bunny took the piece of food and continued it's jumping deep inside the orchard and right into a small hole between two tangled trees.

Now on the in the other side, the little rodent hurried to clean and rub the frizzled fur before looking at it's front.

"Ha! I knew someone was missing," stated the creature in front of the bunny, a purple dragon. The bunny jumpe out of feard at the strength of the Drake's voice at first but found itself more comfortable after seeing a bunch of its brothers and sisters jumping and playing around the dragon.

"Well at least Twi's constant lectures on every theme helped this time, the grifonacci formula actually worked. Here," the dragon said before reaching out a piece of karot from his back. The bunny moved closer and detailed a blue bag resting on the Drake's tail.

"Fluttershy gave me some after telling her I was heading here. So don't worry, it's the best karot you could ever wish for," he said before giving the food to the bunny.

As the little creature got comfy in place, the Drake's let himself fell on his back.

"By the way the name is Spike," he announced to the group of rabbits,"ambassador, secretary, former dragon Lord, hero of the crystal empire, and most importantly an assistant."

A big rabbit from the group jumped his way to Spike's chest and stared at him in a courious manners.

"Don't worry, all those tittles are mostly just that. Except from the last one thou, that's the one that sometimes makes me want to kick the bucket. Sometimes, I had even kicked it... And made a mess of the place I just had clean that day..."

Another bunny approached him from his side. The Drake's reach out to the creature and patted it's head.

"The school is not a problems, the castle neither, nor even the rebel dragons wanting to take the power are a problem... Hell, I think even Twilight is easier to handle know," he stopped the patting, sighed deeply and then continued,"yet, sometimes I feel empty, I have accomplished a lot of things even though I'm just ... Let's just say that I'm a teenage dragon, whatever that tittle means."

Spike sat up and glanced his surroundings, the calm breads refreshing his scales and making the brown leaves of the trees swing like the waves of the ocean.

"Today, I went to the crystal empire. A place were everybody loves me--sometimes too much I should add."

The big rabbit tilted it's head to the side while still looking at Spike.

"What can I say? Crystal ponies know what they want," he added cocky, "anyway. You see, there was this little filly and her mother. They always threat me with food and candies, and they also like to keep me in check with the lastest news of the city, like festivals, events, shenanigans from her local princess, etcetera," he sat up, and looked at the clear spot between the trees. "They have a comfy little house, simple and with few decorations. Most of the time they spent the day outside, just enjoying how their hometown looks now. They play, work, eat, sleep and enjoy that view; every single day."

The rabbits approached the Drake and snuggled his warm scaly body. "They have no big dreams or great achievement to be remembered; they don't need them. That is fascinating, I mean, here I am looking to be stronger, handsome and sometimes popular. Wondering if it will be enough, if I will reach the peak of joy and my life will be immune to any kind of problem."

Spike, then took one of his fluffy friends and looked at it, focusing on the reflection on the bunny's eyes. "Other times, I just wish to have a purpose, something beyond that only being her assistant. That way it will be easy for me to understand what I'm missing... Or at least, if I'm truly missing something."

He left the rabbit on the ground and lay his head on his hands as the wind ventured through the hole between the trees. "I don't know what it would be like to get that answer, to know what I have to do to be as happy as those crystal ponies... They always said that I'm the reason of their happiness, yet each time I go there it makes less sense for me, they are the ones working hard and all humbly for their empire, their governors are the ones keeping everything in check, everything I just did was give that little pat when they needed to be saved back in the day."

Spike sighed deeply.

He looked at his fellow companions with a warm and melancholic smile, "maybe I need to be saved too," he laughed.

The bunnies hopped off from him and started to jump and play around him once again. Meanwhile, he took his time searching for something in his bag, a crystal apple.

"Well, my time for deep thoughts is over," he munched the apple, "good Luna, I love these! Mmhm."

Spike felt something on his feet, then a few things, then a lot. He opened his eyes to find pleading looks from the rabbits. "Sorry guys, this thing may be delicious, but it can be too strong for your little teeth. Here, he drop the content of his bag, releasing not only the rest of carrots but also a zipbag containing a Rarity plushie, "whoops!" he took the plushie and hide it back.

Spike's new friends smiled up at him and took the given food, he nodded back at them. "Well, Twilight must be waiting for me, gotta go guys, I don't want her to end up doing something weird, like yesterday when she summoned a weird looking god ." He opened his wings, and flew up and through the hole between the trees.

Author's Note

Well, here we go, a new series of shorts featuring ~~the perfect husbando~~ Spike. I'll intend to write this during my breaks or in my department (that is if my phone allows me).

If you notice a misshap/something odd or have a certain idea for this story then don't be shy to share it :twilightsmile:

Today I helped pinkie pie

A little shirping canary swirled through the air; dancing with the wind as it searched for a good spot to land. While on it, the bird found itself coursing above the Apple's family orchard. Unfourtanetly for him, most of the apples had been either took from the trees or swiped off from the ground. The canary bowed its head in desolution for a moment before a sweet smell got its attention. The smell was coming from a conglomeration of trees that formed a circle in the area. the canary dived down to the odd spot and made its way through the branches of the trees.

Once inside, the bird scanned the surroundings. The ground was covered in leaves and few flower that had barely survived their way up through the folliage. A purple drake lay sleeping in one of the trees, with a closer inspection the bird recognized the dragon as a friend of Fluttershy, Spike. The bird narrowed the distance between itself and the drake, courious about the odd and sweet scent coming from the drake. The canary couldn't notice that despite its intent, its constant chirps and fluttering wings were loud enough to be heard.

Spike woke slowly from his slumber, stretching his arms and legs as he moaned, "boy... that was a good nap," he said gleefully before taking the arduos job of opening his eyes. He was meet by the bird's chirppings of couriosity, "hello there buddy, What brings you here? you were looking for a quiet place too?"

The bird stood quite for a moment, jumping from one side of the drake to the other, "You are looking for something? oh!" he jolted, "that's right, I eat a pie before getting here, you are probaly searching for the remaining crumbs," he moved to the side and showed the fore mentioned crumbs, "Serve yourself, it's from Pinkie Pie, one of the best bakers I know."

As the bird happily took the remains of the pie, Spike took a handful of leaves from the ground and started to form a mountain, "sometimes I forgot that she is not always jokes and smiles, you know? That mare is a box of surprises," He glanced at the bird, and then back to his work, "today, I helped her on manehathan, she wanted a heavy lifter to carry her stuff and since Big Mac is occupied she had to call the second best option."

The bird finished to eat and looked at the mountain of leaves before it, without asking for permission or giving any kind of adivce, the bird flew and perched on the top of the mountain. He looked at the drake, "you got yourself comfy, huh?" Spike asked, "well then, prepare yourself a good story."

A pink mare skipped and jumped through the allyway of the big city known as manehatthan. Her name was Pinkie Pie, and along side her Spike was following with a quick strode while carrying a pile of boxes of all sort of colors and heights.The allyway had multiple store for them to choose, mostly of them featuring baking related items; from books to utensils, machinery, decoration, furniture, anything that could give you the image of bakery shop was there, and it made Pinkie and her curly mane jolt and shiver in sheer joy.

"I understand now why you brought me here," Spike said, "I'm sure you'll buy most of the things in here, right?"

"Of course not, you silly," Pinkie cooed, "you are the one who is gonna buy something here."

Spike stopped abruptly, making his pile shift dangerously to one side. "What?" he said before struggling with the unbalanced weight upon him.

Pinkie Pie ogled at the discord tall pile moving from one side to the other, "wow... come on, Spike you can do it!" she cheered. Spike managed to get back the balance at the stake of losing his breath, "well done, now let's get back to bussiness, see this is the deal."

"She offered me to choose what she will buy for herself, which I found weird," Spike said, before pausing for a second in thought," let me give you some context, Pinkie was using her saving of the year to make a big shopping trip and get everything ready for heartswarming... eventhou it's just september..." he glanced to the side, as if the whole issue felt akward for him, "the thing is: I got there when she had most of her to-buy list done, she only needed to buy herself a gift and then carry up everything back home. Both works were given to me."

His eyes doozed off on the waving branches as he kept his story, "I wish i could see how I looked there, a mountain of presents moving from one store to another. it surely would make me laugh the same way Pinkie did. However, with enough time I found a good decoration that could help her store look more colorful. After packing in... good mother of mine the look that the mare on the cash register gave me after I asked the purchase to be packed in a hearstwarming decorated fashion."

Spike breathed, "I thought to myself, well, she is Pinkie Pie, I beat she doesn't mind some odd looks now and then." He said and then looked at the bird, "then I meet her at the entrance of the shop... and saw her, she was smiling in such a way... oddly enough she always is smiling but each time she does it, every smile she gaves is unique in its own way--maybe because she has done it for so long that she had grown experiencied in the curling lips skill."

The bird, flew towards the drake's head and perched on his spikes. "She noticed my ogling at the time, and said: isn't great to see happiness on others? come on, we need to hide those presents, some say that they got better with time. Obviously that's isnt true, but I wasn't the one to argue and made that smile fade."

Spike yawned deeply and slowly rested his back on the tree, "today... I felt like I didn't need to search for a purpose in life."

The drake's eyelids moved down slowly, his breathing calm and deep. The bird looked down and noticed the snores coming from the drake; Mindful to not wake the drake again, he jumped off and landed on the mountain of leaves before flaping its wings towards the clear from where he made it there.

Author's Note

hope y'all like this new chapter. Just so you know, I'm planning to make most of the chapters unrelated to previous ones. Unless I get a wild idea and decide to ship right and left or make a one shot adventure... who knows? however, see ya next time, lads.