Spike's Diary

Dear Diary,

Well, I certainly wasn't expecting all of this to happen when we went to the Crystal Empire for the Games. Seems they wanted me to light the fire to start the event, and I was just terrified of doing that, which was made all the worse by the fact that, when it came time for me to do all that, I just couldn't. Without realising it, Twilight lit it with her magic, and afterwards I spent a good amount of time just thinking I had some special power. When I realised what had actually happened, I felt terrible. Lower than I had ever felt for quite some time.

I felt that way all through the games, but then disaster struck! After a few mishaps, a massive block of ice formed that threatened the other spectators, and I didn't know what took hold of me but I raced in and blew the biggest breath of fire in my life. The ice was gone and everypony thanked me for it. But I still felt down after the earlier failure. Everypony said that I shouldn't feel that way, and that what I did with the ice was heroic. Because of this, I was able to start the Games again, and this time I did.

So yeah, lots of stuff happening and not all of it good. But you know, I'm glad it happened.