Yak Marriage

The Castle of Friendship was full of noise, the mane 6 were waiting outside with Starlight, worriedly talking amongst themselves as Ember and Ruthordford held their attempted peace treaty. Spike sat in silence as Ember and Rutherford debated the only way they knew how; loudly and angrily. Around the room Spike could spot a few familiar faces, he saw Garble standing proud and realized he was sleeping on his feet. Smolder was near the back where a few snacks had been set up, she was the only one partaking of them as she slowly drained the punch bowl. The only yak he recognized on Ruthordford's side was Yona, who was much smaller than the other yaks in attendance. She looked about as done with this as every other creature in the room save the two leaders.

"...and where are the dragons in question?" Rutherford demanded as Spike started paying attention.

"I might be able to help you track them down if you had any other information about them other than, two dragons!" Ember snapped back, "Color, gender, size, horn shape, tail shape, ANYTHING?"

Rutherford looked to one of the yaks who had been at ground zero, one of the yaks horns had been taken off and been replaced with a solid gold end cap, he was also covered in bandages due to cuts and 2nd-degree cheese burns. "Two dragons!" The yak cried out.

"Two dragons!" Rutherford confirmed to Ember, "Bring them to me for judgment!"

"I don't fucking know who they are!" Ember screamed back. "And if I did then it's my job as Dragonlord to bring judgment, and I wouldn't need to, cause it was the yaks who caused it," As the two started getting loud again Spike sighed and reached under his seat for his bag, after a moment he pulled out a gossip magazine that had accidentally been given to him instead of Rarity. He had been about to return it when he was summoned by Ember to be the voice of reason. Since neither side had let him get a word in, he decided to just wait for them to burn themselves out. He began flipping through the magazine for something to distract him when he noticed something and proceeded to make one of the biggest mistakes of his life. The two leaders had both just taken a breath to start yelling again when Spike said: "Photo Finish is getting married?" He wondered as he started reading the article, Ember's ear fins twitched at the word marriage, as did Rutherford's.

"Marriage?" Ember pondered for a moment getting Spike's attention due to no longer yelling and saying the word: marriage.

"You two done yelling?" Spike asked.

"Yeah," Ember said as she thought for a moment, "I propose we end this peacefully with an...arranged Marriage,"

"Rutherford agrees!" The yak prince exclaimed as he offered his hand, Ember shook it and declared.

"I offer up Spike to be wed to the female yak of your choice,"

"Do what mate?" Spike demanded, in the back Smolder almost swallowed her cup whole.

"And I offer up Yona to be wed to Spike as she is the only female yak in this room,"

"Don't drag Yona into this!" Yona demanded as Spike got to his feet.

"It is decided," Ember cried out, "Spike the Dragon and Yona the Yak shall be married in...a month?"

"Two," Ruthordford decided "Have yak business,"

"Alright, Spike and Yona shall wed in two months times in exchange for peace from the dragons,"

"And peace from the yaks!" Rutherford declared.

"Alright we're done here," Ember said before turning to Spike "Thanks for the idea, Spike,"

"I wasn't trying to-" Spike countered before the rush of leaving dragons and yaks drowned him out, after a moment the only ones still in the room were himself, Yona, Smolder, and the still sleeping Garble. Yona and Spike stood in silence before shouting out angrily.

"We didn't agree to this!" They heard laughing and the two turned to Smolder, who was laughing herself silly.

"Oh you done fucked up," She chuckled before looking up, finding the both of them standing in front of her with a pissed look in their eyes. "Oh hey, look at that it's my brother, better get him home and whatnot," Smolder rushed past them and knocked Garble to the floor before dragging his still sleeping self out of the room.

"Why did you say marriage?" Yona screamed at Spike.

"I was just reading a magazine!" Spike snapped back "They weren't listening to me at any other point during this stupid debate, I didn't think they where gonna start without warning."

"Of course they were!" Yona snapped back "Yak are great listeners!"

There was a long moment of silence before Spike spoke up. "We gotta stop this!"

"You think!?" Yona snapped back "We need to...um," Yona stood in silent confusion as she tried to think how to stop it. "You could say no?"

"The Dragonlord said I have to marry you," Spike said bluntly.

"But I can't say no to Rutherford," Yona cried out "Is yak tradition if prince says you to marry, you have to marry!" Spike let out a small scream as he scratched at his head, Yona started pulling on her hair as she tried to come up with an idea.

"Wedding!" Spike cried out "Yona what happens if a Yaks Wedding is a horrible disaster?"

"Well typically-" Yona stopped panicking and a huge smile appeared on her face "-yak tradition states that if wedding is train wreck, marriage is null and void!"

"Perfect!" Spike cried out "We just have to fight every step of the way, ruin the cake, get Rainbow to ruin the weather, invite Blueblood so he spoils it for others,"

"Lose the rings," Yona added, "trash the dress and the tux, terrible music, even worse food!"

"Yona!" Spike cried out "Will you do me the honor of helping me ruin our wedding?"

"Spike, Yona would love to," Yona cried back as she leaned down and easily picked Spike up and placed him on her shoulders.

"Let's do this!" The duo cried out as Yona rushed out of the room with Spike. They rushed to the front door and slid to a stop just as they got to the main entrance, Twilight was taking to Ember just outside the door, Princess Cadance and Shining Armor were sitting off to the side, both looking relieved.

"Oh hey Spike," Shining called when he saw him, Spike waved.

"Don't tell them," Spike whispered to Yona "if Cadance finds out were fucking screwed." Louder, he called out "Shining, what are you doing here?"

"Just in case things got too crazy," Shining said as he took off his captain's helmet. "So, there a reason you're riding piggyback on your friend here?"

"I am Yona," Yona said simply "and we are going to the same place, I run faster than he can fly," She said simply. "Sorry if you want to talk but Spike and Me have much planning to do."

"Planning?" Shining asked, "You gonna throw a party or something next time Twilight's out of town?" Shining asked with a mischievous smile.

"Something like that," Spike said as Yona began making her way to the door.

"So how did you and Rutherford settle things?" Twilight asked, making Yona and Spike freeze.

"Oh it was all thanks to Spike," Ember said.

"Oh shit," Spike said, earning a shocked look from Shining before Ember said simply.

"He told me to just end it with an arranged marriage, so he and Yona back there were picked to solve the problem. There was a clattering sound as Shining tripped over his own hooves and fell to the floor, off to the side Cadance had gone from sitting and staring at the sky to standing proud with stars in her eyes.

Twilight stood slack-jawed for a second before demanding."What?"

Yona stood in silence and Spike sat on her shoulder in the same oppressive silence.

"You're engaged!" Cadence cried out as she enveloped Spike in her magic and pulled him off his perch and into a hug. "Oh thank Celestia! Not to be rude to Twilight but I was worried you'd be to busy serving her to ever start a family,"

"You can't get engaged," Twilight said angrily "You're both far too young for-"

"I am the Dragonlord," Ember interrupted "And I say he's old enough, Rutherford is the Prince of Yaks and he says Yona is old enough,"

"But you can't...but he...but..." Twilight ended up puttering out as she tried to think of an argument. Yona watched Spike get spun around by Cadence before being patted on the back by Shining who was laughing.

"From the sound of it, the two of you were hoping to make it a surprise."

"Oh sorry," Ember said looking back to Yona and Spike as she extended her wings "You should have said something before I did," she gave a wave and took to the sky after the dragons in the distance traveling back to the Dragon Lands.

"To be fair-" Spike tried to say only to be cut off by Cadence.

"I call dibs on being the wedding planner!" She declared "oh I'm so excited, oh I have to tell everyone! Shining you're in charge of telling your parents,"

"You don't have to-" Spike tried and failed to say as Cadence cut him off again.

"Spike don't be silly," She said happily "Of course I don't need to, but you better believe I'm going to!" Cadence dropped Spike and turned to Shining. "Meet you back home, I gotta go tell Celestia and Luna!" Cadence turned on the spot and teleported away to do just that.

"Well," Shining said as he helped Spike up to his feet "A yak huh?" He asked looking back to Yona "Never would have guessed it," Shining gave Spike a pat on the back and, after a quick goodbye to Twilight he made his way towards the Train station.

"Yona just wants to say-" she was cut off as Twilight walked past her and groaned.

"Yeah, you and Spike have fun, or...try not to have to much fun I guess," Twilight shut the door and from the other side Yona and Spike heard her call out. "Can't believe he snuck a relationship past me for so long," Spike rubbed the bridge of his nose as Yona picked him back up and placed him on her shoulder before heading into town.

"What did she mean about sneaking relationships?" Yona questioned.

"Twilight, and the others, clearly think we're an item, not a walking peace treaty." Spike groaned "But we can't tell them we're a peace treaty cause then they'll get pissed at Ember and Rutherford, then they'll be pissed back, and the odds of Twilight, Ember, and Rutherford coming to a peaceful conclusion when they're all pissed at the other two is not gonna happen,"

"So what is first step to ruining wedding?" Yona pondered.

"Well, we're gonna be stuck in the Crystal Empire so the ruin the weather idea is a flop unless we wanna steal Crystal Heart," the two thought for a moment before Yona decided.

"Dress and tux!" Yona declared smacking her own hand with a fist "If we don't have the proper articles of clothing it'll throw the ceremony off."

"Well, then we're in luck," Spike cheered, "We just have to avoid Rarity and her boutique for a few hours. She's going to spend the next few weeks in Manehattan, by the time she gets back and hears about the wedding she'll be too rushed to properly make us our respective suits," Spike smiled at his own genius and, after a few moments of Yona not replying he sighed. "Rarity is running towards us isn't she?" He asked.

"She is," Yona confirmed with a sigh. The two stood their ground as Rarity slid to a stop, a look of worry and glee in her eyes.

"You two, boutique, now!"