Songbird could hear the crowd cheering for her from her waiting room, but her fans would have to wait until her special guest arrived. She was patiently waiting for word of his arrival before she would perform. Her manager had tried to get her to come out, but she'd made it a clear and hard fact that if Spike wasn't there, she wasn't leaving the room. She'd gotten a very interesting gift courtesy of the Bouncer, a children's book from the Crystal Empire. The story was of Spike and Princess Twilight attempting to retrieve the Crystal Heart, she was re-reading it for the 7th time, at this point just to stare at him.

Spike was currently trying to surf through the large crowd at the entrance. Twilight and the rest of the mane 6 had gotten tickets, but they had sold out before Spike could get one. They had already made it inside, with the exception of Fluttershy, who had refused to come. His only problem at the moment was trying to get through the sea of ponies without knocking anypony over, he was holding his now sore tail after a minotaur had stepped on it. In the last 20 minutes, Spike had made almost no progress in advancing in the line, and it probably would have taken longer if Songbird's manager hadn't sent out a search party for the dragon.

"Ma'am." One of her backup dancers said as he threw the door open, "It would appear your Dragon friend is currently stuck in the entrance line, we don't think he'll be making it to the front anytime soon." Songbird snapped her book shut and placed it in her bag. The backup pony moved back as she opened the door.

"I'll be right back." She said simply.

"This is getting ridiculous!" Spike muttered as he came to the realization that the line was moving around him, not with him, he tried to move forward, only to the complaints of the ponies in front of him.

"Can't believe we're at peace with those things." Spike didn't catch who made the racist comment but figured it out when he got an elbow in the side, "Oh sorry about that, I didn't mean to hit you in your stomach. Try not to regurgitate any of the foals in there."

Spike looked at the mare who had made the comment and shook his head as he got up. "I don't eat foals," Spike said calmly as he waited for a chance to move forward, only to have a hoof step on his foot. Spike stood his ground and looked at the colt who had done this, Spike glared at him as smoke blew from his nose. "Ow." He said simply, letting a small amount of fire shine in his mouth. The colt screeched and jumped back into his friends. Spike extinguished the fire and let out a puff of smoke.

Spike attempted to move again only for the ponies around him to start screaming with joy as they pointed up, Spike looked up and saw SongBird flying overhead, Spike made a large smoke ring and watched, with some amusement, as the Pegasus pop star flew through it and made to land, the Crowd parted for her, Spike stood his ground, earning a few angry yells for him to get out of the way as she landed a few feet from him, she walked to him in silence before pulling him into a hug, shutting the crowd right up.

"Spike I'm so glad you could make it!" She said happily "I should have just gotten your address and had somepony pick you up directly!" She locked her arm around Spike's and the two made their way to the front, a few cameras going off. The bouncer was putting a camera away as the two walked up to him, he used his employee card to activate the turnstiles and let them pass.

"Thank you," Spike said with a wave.

The bouncer smiled brightly before clearing his throat and looking into the crowd. "NEXT IN LINE!"

Songbird led Spike into the Employees Only door. "So how have you been?" She asked, "Did you and your friends take down that monster?"

"Oh him? Turns out he just had daddy issues. Fluttershy's taking care of it." Spike said as she pulled him into her private dressing room. Spike blinked at the many, many dresses around him, some Spike had seen her wear in magazines. However one caught his eye and made his face turn red, a bathing suit, nearly the skimpiest thing Spike had ever seen in his life.

Songbird smiled as he stared at it. "I see you have a favorite." She said with a smile. "Well what say I model it for you after the show?" She asked. Spike attempted to respond to that, but words failed him. "I will take that as a yes." She sang out as she turned to leave the room.

"Did you just drag me in there entirely for that?" Spike asked as she led him through the halls.

"Now Spike, you saved my life, twice." She grinned at him, "I have a few things planned for you as a thank you, but first let's get to the stage, the show's running a little late." She reluctantly let go of Spike as they got to the side stage, "Just wait till I come and get you." She ran out onto the stage and held up her hands as the cheers intensified. She did a quick lap around the stage, giving a few of the front row ponies a high five before she walked up to the mic.

"Hello Ponyville and all of its visitors to tonight's show!" She waved as the crowd cheered at her, "Now as we all know, this concert tonight is a thank you to Princess Twilight and her friends!" The spotlight moved around and focused on Twilight and her friends, who waved as the crowd cheered. The spotlight refocused back to Songbird as she held up her hand. "Now today, I learned that this town had its fair share of monster attacks. I found this out when I got caught in one. I almost died today, but I was saved not once, but twice. By the Princess's friend, and assistant no less! Spike the Dragon!"

Spike walked out onto the stage with a wave, all of the Crystal Ponies in the crowd exploded into cheers as Spike stood next to Songbird who threw her arm around him as she continued talking. "Now its come to my attention that most of you in the crowd don't know who this dragon is." She looked around at the crowd as she continued "This dragon is the hero of the Crystal Empire, and the key reason that we know peace between dragons, ponies, and changelings." She held up Spike's hand as she continued "and I've brought him here to thank him for all of it the best I can, what do you think? Should I show him my appreciation?"

The crowd cheered as Spike looked around. He felt her hand on his face as she turned his face to look at her. "Thank you, Spike." She said clearly into the mic before dropping the mic and throwing her arms around him and pulling him into a kiss, The cheers grew louder 'til they could feel it in the stage beneath them. Spike felt her tongue enter his mouth for a second before she broke the kiss up and whispered with a smile. "I've had a chair set up for you so you can watch the show backstage." Song picked the mic back up as Spike waved goodbye to the crowd, his face bright red as he did so.

Author's Note

you know it's considered polite to like something if you add it to one of your Library.