It was a beautiful sunny day. The birds were singing, flowers in full bloom and the town was abuzz with activity as the ponies went about their business getting ready for Hearts and Hooves day. Small restaurants were hanging red hearts and streamers advertising all their delicious couples’ dishes that could be ordered to accommodate any size herd. Crafts-ponies displayed their hoof-made wears that cater to both stallions and mares.
Spike was ecstatic as he sauntered toward his destination. This would be his first Hearts and Hooves day since becoming a couple with the most beautiful mare in the world. His family, especially Cadance, were so excited that their little Spike was becoming such a fine young drake. Gushing about they can’t wait to spoil their future new grandfoals and nieces, or nephews. At the time he was redder than a ripe tomato, his mare friend didn’t fare any better either; even know thinking about that time made him blush.
On his way he picked up a bouquet of green roses and a tied his specially crafted jade necklace to the neck of the bouquet. She is going to love this, Spike thought as the colors matched her eyes perfectly. He continued on his way and just couldn’t get over how well his first went with his new mare friend, especially since today he was going to ask her to move in with him. He hoped she would say yes.
Once he arrived at the Carousel Boutique checked himself one last time in the window. Suit and tie were pressed and wrinkle free, scales were waxed and extra shiny giving him a really healthy dragon appearance; Smolder had to show him how to do it so he wouldn’t look like a plastic toy. With a nod to himself he raised his claw and knocked three times.
Spike instantly perked up as Sweetie Belle, his marefriend, answered the door.
“Spike! I am so happy to see you!”
“Heh, like wise. You look beautiful.” She did, her entire coat was brushed to the point the sun reflected off her giving a slight glow. Rarity even made her a custom dress for the day, purple to match Spikes’ natural scale color with green highlights. The dress hugged tight to her form allowing a bit of her chest floof to poke out and a small cut on both sides of her hind legs showing off her cutie mark.
“Are these for me!?” She squeaked with excitement. Spike loved her squeak.
“Oh right! Sorry, yes these are yours. Happy Hearts and Hooves day Sweetie.” He gave her a kiss on the cheek and she levitated the roses to a vase, and immediately put on the necklace.
At this point Spike could hear voices, it sounded like Rarity, and their parents but someone else was here too. Well he didn’t want to be rude to his future mother and father in law so went to say hello before taking Sweetie on their date.
As he walked into the kitchen he was shocked to see another dragon chatting with the family and being so jovial. That last word was definitely weird to use on a dragon. She also looked really familiar, like Spike knew who she was. She had purple scales with a red under belly and the most beautiful of blue eyes, they looked almost like sapphires.
“Mr. Flanks, Mrs. Crumble! It is so good to see you again.” Despite this not being their first meeting Spike still wanted to be very formal with them both.
“Pft! Spike, you have known us for nearly five years! You can drop the Mr. at this point.”
“Oh hush dear, He is being very considerate and respectful. Exactly like a gentle drake should be.” Cookie was the first to notice Spike dressed up all fancy like. “Oh my Spike, have you found a special somedragon? Or is it more a special somepony?”
Spike sputtered and coughed while Sweetie watched on in amusement. They both decided to wait to tell Cookie and Hondo till they knew the relationship was more solid. Today was the day they were going to spill the beans and let everyone know they are officially a couple. However before that a feminine cough rang out in the kitchen, the new dragon was looking to interject.
“Oh! Apologies, Spike this is Emerald. She has been a longtime family friend of ours and decided to come say hello.” Cookie said with excitement. Now an outside observer would notice how the three elders had their tails entwined but a kitchen table and chairs prevented any from seeing such a thing.
“Hello Spike, it is nice to see you again after so many years.” Emerald had a lovely voice, it was both calm and motherly. This was an odd thing from a dragon Spike mused but he hasn’t meet every dragon yet so it’s possible there are motherly dragons out there. “I am sorry it took so long to come back to Equestria but at the time the dragons and ponies didn’t get along to well until recently. I heard you played a major part in that?”
Spike was lost thinking about why this dragoness made him feel so calm, why he felt he knew her. A light poke brought him back to reality. “Oh! Heh, sorry. Yeah I participated in the choosing of the next dragon lord and helped Lord Ember earn the title and from that point on just fostering friendship between the dragons and ponies.”
“That is wonderful! I wish I had an ounce of your courage, then things might have been different.” Emerald sounded sad, remorseful, melancholy; there was a lot of pain in her voice, the pain similar to losing something important.
“Well, I mean better late than never right? My mom, Twilight always said that friendship takes time to bloom.” For some reason this made the dragon even more sad, her frills kind of deflated and her eyes just fell downcast.
“I am sorry, are you okay? You just got really sad for a moment there.” Emerald took a deep breath, ready to tell a secret that she has bottled up for many years, and from the looks that Cookie and Hondo gave her they might know what that secret was.
“Spike have you ever wondered who your birth mother was?”
“Well I mean sure, who doesn’t? I do hope that one day I get to meet her, but at the same time I have a great family now. I guess if or when I meet her she will accept my pony family as her own as well.”
Emerald let out another deep breath, this was clearly hard on the poor dragoness. Sweetie and Rarity both watched and listened to the new addition not daring to interrupt the serious emotional atmosphere.
“A long time ago I came to Equestria without permission to see what the ponies were like. Many ponies were absolutely terrified of me and ran as soon as they saw me.” Emerald began to reminisce about her past, she clearly did not have a good first encounter with ponies. “I even had a few guards try to shoo me away, as if I was some kind of pest! Can you imagine? I am not a big dragon, and I was just walking around but I was the pest.” She huffed in annoyance at the memory. “Well while they tried to shoo me away two ponies came out and stood up for me. I couldn’t believe it, so many ponies were afraid or trying to get rid of me and these two just come out of the blue and tell the guards to leave their friend alone.” Spike was starting to see where this was going, these two ponies must be Cookie and Hondo. “
Cookie decided to chime in, “That’s right, those ponies were being so rude! It was obvious to us that Emerald here just wanted to see the area, and meet new creatures. So we swooped in and gave those guards a stern talking too.”
Hondo nodded, “We just had Rarity, so Cookie got really good at using her mom voice, those guards didn’t know which way was up!” The entire kitchen burst into laughter imagining a set of guards being spoken to like obstinate foals.
Emerald continued, “Because of these two amazing ponies I decided to stick around a little longer. Over time our friendship grew stronger and stronger and before I knew it our friendship had taken on a whole new level.” Rarity and Sweetie were both gushing at the romance at this point. “The three of us decided to start a sort of herd, I wasn’t a resident of Equestria so my ability to stay was limited but ever since I have been visiting these two as often as possible.” Emerald reached out and held both their hooves tightly, clearly they were all in love with each other and the distance did nothing to dissuade that love.
“That’s beautiful Emerald, so I take it with better dragon-pony relations you want to stay long term?”
“Yes, most definitely but that is not the only reason. Remember when I asked if you were curious who your mother was?”
Now it was Spikes turn to be confused, as well as Rarity and Sweetie. She was just gushing about a long distance romance between to pseudo feuding species and now it’s back to Spikes mother.
“Ummm, yeah?”
Another deep breath but this time it came from both Emerald and Hondo, “Well you see Spike, I am your mother. I wanted you to stay with the ponies and have a more comfortable life. Unfortunately because of many obscure laws we had to leave you with Princess Celestia and keep our love secret.”
Spike held his breath, this was really happening. His mother was right here, his birth mom but wait, who was his dad. “Wait, so you are my mom, but who is my dad?” Hondo coughed into his hoof and Spike slowly moved his head to look at Hondo. “Dad?”
“Yes Spike, I am sorry we didn’t tell you but until the laws were changed we couldn’t let anyone know. I am sorry we weren’t there for you but I would like to make this up to you.”
It was at this time that Rarity was doing her world famous gold fish impression, trying desperately to process this information. Soon after that a loud thump could be heard as Sweetie Belle passed out from shock at this revelation. Spike looked between Emerald, then Hondo, then Cookie. Not a single ounce of deceit on their face, this was real. He was half pony, and his dad was his mare-friends father. He was dating his sister. With one final bit of wisdom Spike muttered “I need a drink.”
Author's Note
Wrote this for fun for Snow, figure I would share it with you lot.
