Trixie and the three pegasi Descent, Nightshade and Nightingale continued to hover above Spike, as the sorceress spoke, “Surprised to see me again?”

Spike’s look of shock turned to a look of anger, and answered, “Not only am I surprised, I’m furious to have to look at your face again, you bitch!”

Trixie smirked, “Ooh, getting all tough and feisty, I see. I’ll have to remember that look when I kill you again.”

Spike’s angered look grew, “You’re not killing me this time around!”

Descent looked to Trixie, “Was he always this loud when you dated him that day?”

“Actually, he was much quieter,” she chuckled. “But rather cuter too.”

“I see. Well, perhaps my friends and I can shut him up a bit.” Descent, Nightshade and Nightingale flew down to strike at Spike, only for the boy to jump aside and avoided each of their attacks.

“Whoa, that was close,” he gasped.

Nightingale turned around as she floated, “You’re lucky, not many can dodge our attacks like that.”

“Who’re you guys supposed to be?” Spike asked.

“I am Descent; a shadow pegasus,” he grinned.

“I am Nightshade,” he replied.

“Name’s Nightingale,” she smirked.

“Shadow pegasi?” Spike asked himself, until he took a whiff of the air and knew Trixie was behind him ready to strike, before recalling Rainbow’s lesson, ’Get into your opponent’s head and use your instincts to sense their next move and feel their attack coming.’

Before Trixie could blast him with magic, he once again jumped aside. Trixie frowned, “Why won’t you die so easily like before?!”

Spike smirked, “Because I’m not like I was before.” He then concentrated and assumed his dragon form with his morphing powers and then let out a roar.

Trixie and the Shadow pegasi were surprised, as Trixie spoke, “So it’s true, you have bonded with the Dragon Caesar.”

“Yeah. That’s what I was told,” Spike confirmed.

“Well, you’re not the only one with an alternate form,” Trixie stated, as she started glowing and assumed the form of an anthro unicorn with her mane the same style as her hair and a tail of the same color, while her coat was azure blue.

Spike was taken aback by this surprise, “Well, this was unexpected.”

“Lets see if the so-called dragon incarnate can match against a unicorn and a team of shadow pegasi,” Descent said, as he, Nightshade, Nightingale, and Trixie got ready.

Spike got ready himself and thought, ‘I don’t know if I can take the four of them on, but I have to try.’

“Attack!” Trixie called, as she and Descent went on the attack, and Nightshade and Nightingale followed.

“Time to go airborne,” Spike said, as he spread his wings and flew up.

When all five were in the air, the battle commenced. Descent and his team flew around striking at Spike with a round of punches. Spike defended himself by crossing his arms across his body to block each and every blow. When Trixie tried to blast him with lightning magic, Spike flew upward to avoid it.

“You can’t dodge us forever!” Nightshade called.

“You’re right! I should try going at you instead!” Spike called, as he flew in attacking the other Shadowbolts, including Descent with his own fists.

Appearing close to them on ground level was Twilight and the girls who saw what was going on. “There they are,” Fluttershy gasped.

“And there’s Spike,” Pinkie added.

They looked up and saw Spike and Descent, Nightshade and Nightingale going at it, with Spike holding his own, while fighting the shadow pegasi and dodging them and Trixie.

“We’ve got to do something,” Twilight said, as she was prepared to power up, only for Applejack to lay a hand on her shoulder stopping her.

“Hold up, Twilight. Let’s see how this goes.”

“Applejack, you can’t honestly expect me to...”

“Actually, I agree,” Rarity spoke up.

“Rarity?”

“We’ve put him through a weekend of training. I think we should see the results.”

“But against those two?” Twilight asked.

“Hey, he’s got a score to settle with that witch, Twilight,” Rainbow reminded her, “Let him have this.”

Twilight looked up and saw Spike was holding his own and didn’t look like he needed their help just yet, “Ok, but if it looks like he’s at his limits, we’re jumping in.”

“Deal,” they agreed, and made sure to mask their presence from the three until they were ready.

Back at the fight, Descent and his team was once again striking at Spike, who was taking the blows, but due to his dragon hide, was able to stand against them. As the shadow pegasus team fought, Spike thought recalling Applejack lesson, ‘Make your opponent give you their all... And when they leave themselves open, take them down!’ he threw a punch at Descent’s gut, making the shadow pegasus groan in pain.

From their hiding spot, Applejack watched and smiled while thinking, ’That’s the way, partner.’

Trixie frowned at Spike, “Let’s see you try that on me!” She then began blasting him with magic, as he used his wings to fly around avoiding her attacks.

As Spike flew he recalled his training with Rainbow and Fluttershy, ‘Using the wind can guide me through the air.’ He used the breeze to help guide him through the air making him fly faster and maneuver better.

Trixie was getting angry, “Hold still so I can kill you!” She unleashed more magic attacks.

“Sure, that’s what I’ll do,” Spike answered in sarcasm, as he continued flying around. Rainbow and Fluttershy watched him feeling proud at how he used his wings.

Descent and his team flew after him in equal speed, and the four of them grappled in mid air, before Nightshade and Nightingale restrained Spike. Descent spoke, “For a newbie who just became a dragon, you’re surprisingly good.”

“Thanks. Wish I could say the same about you and your teammates, but I don’t know you very well. And quite frankly, I don’t wanna know ya,” he then threw a kick at Descent knocking him back causing him to lose balance, but regained it. Then, he spun around and threw the other two on the ground.

Trixie came at him from behind and managed to nail him with an electric attack, shocking him. The girls looked worried, and Twilight wanted to jump in, only to see Spike look back at Trixie growling.

“I’m gonna make you pay for killing me!” he roared and attacked Trixie with all his strength, while the girl used magic shields to block his blows. As Spike’s anger somehow intensified, he felt his insides like they were heating up, and thought, ‘Oh man, my stomach feels like it’s burning up. Wait a minute, my dragon fire. It’s heating up. Now’s my chance to use it!’ he opened his mouth and started spitting fireballs at Trixie who was surprised.

One fireball was strong enough to have overpowered her magic shield causing it to shatter. Spike took the opportunity and flew in delivering a flaming punch to her face. Trixie took the blow and fell down landing on top of a building roof.

Trixie looked up revealing her bruised cheek, “You punched me in the face! How dare you?!” she cried.

“That was for deceiving me,” Spike began, as a green fiery aura surrounded him, “And this is for killing me!” He then unleashed a blast of fire straight at Trixie, who was ready to take the blow, but only for Descent to fly in and take the attack himself.

Descent rolled across the roof looking burned with scorch marks on his skin, while Trixie was shocked, “Descent, are you ok?”

“Oh, fantastic, for being barbequed,” he joked.

Trixie couldn’t help but smile at his joke before seeing Spike touch down on the roof, “I will kill you and leave no trace of you this time!”

Spike, who looked worn from all his fighting and massive fire blast, still stood strong, but knew he probably wouldn’t last too much longer. Nightshade and Nightingale swooped in and tackled him. When Trixie was ready to attack, another blast of magical energy was fired at her from above.

Trixie jumped aside, as she, the other shadow pegasi and Spike looked up seeing Twilight and the girls in anthro form landing on the rooftop protecting Spike.

“You mess with my friend, and you mess with all of us,” Twilight warned her.

“That’s right,” Applejack said.

“So answer us this, Trixie,” Rainbow began, “You feeling lucky all of a sudden?”

Trixie knew she was outmatched by all seven, and knew she had to get Descent and his crew out of here, “Another time perhaps!” she quickly opened a magical portal, grabbed Descent, and then she and the shadow pegasi escaped through it.

“Yeah, you better run!” Pinkie called.

“That’ll teach them to mess with my little Spikey-Wikey ever again,” Rarity said with a scoff.

“Girls?” Spike asked, as they looked back and saw him panting from over usage of fire.

“Spike!” they cheered, as all but Twilight gathered around him for a group hug congratulating him.

“Glad we got here in the nick of time!” Rainbow Dash said, ruffling his hair. “What are you guys doing here?” Spike asked confusingly.

“Our geodes were pulsing that we realized you were in danger, so we decided to come help and rescue you at the same time!” Pinkie Pie said.

“How did you know that I was in trouble if your geodes were pulsing?” Spike asked. “Our geodes pulse if there’s danger,” Twilight said.

“Oh, Spike... that was amazing!” Fluttershy said.

“Even better! That was awesome!” Rainbow cheered.

“You saw all of that?”

“We sure did. You were all…” Pinkie was making noise effects to describe his fight with Trixie and the three shadow pegasi.

“We were worried something would happen to you,” Fluttershy said.

“But you pulled through. You even made my hair stand on edge,” Applejack chuckled.

“I thought you were absolutely brave back there,” Rarity said.

“Uh, thanks,” Spike said, as he blushed. He noticed Twilight approaching, “Hey, Twilight, what’d ya think of that, huh? I was pretty good wasn’t I?” He was taken by surprise, until Twilight knelt towards his level while squatting, and then threw her arms around him, and hugged him close while burying her head in his shoulder. The girls themselves were also surprised at her move. Spike could hear her sobbing, “Twilight?”

“Oh, Spike, I was so worried about you. I was so afraid you would’ve died again,” Twilight cried, before looking at him with tears in her eyes, with her hands on his cheeks, “Promise me you’ll be more careful next time.”

Spike, seeing how worried she was for him answered, “I promise, Twilight. And I’m sorry I worried you.”

Twilight smiled, “I should’ve warned you to be more careful when going home. But next time, we’ll fight together. And, Spike... You did well.”

Spike seeing Twilight happy for him smiled back, “Thanks, Twilight.” he started groaning in exhaustion.

"Spike?" Twilight asked.

“I’m feeling... I… I feel…” Spike groaned and moaned, until he fell forward, landing face first into Twilight’s breasts. Twilight held him close to her as he changed back into his human form.

The girls gathered around as Fluttershy asked, “Is he?”

Twilight heard Spike lightly snoring, “He’s asleep.”

“Oh, poor little thing,” Rarity cooed.

“He must be so tired,” Fluttershy said.

“Can’t blame him. He’s had quite a long day,” Applejack said.

“No kidding,” Rainbow agreed.

“We should get him home right away,” Rarity suggested.

Twilight nodded, as she wrapped her arms around Spike and held him in bridal position, letting him use her breasts as pillows. She then flew up and started slowly flying in the direction of Spike’s place, as Fluttershy took Pinkie’s hand and flew off after Twilight, followed by Rainbow who held onto Applejack, and Rarity using her unicorn magic to levitate herself after them.

They arrived at Spike’s place and noticed the lights were out, meaning his parents had probably already went to bed. Without making a sound, Rarity used her magic to open the lock of Spike’s balcony screen door. They all went inside quietly, and then Twilight gently laid Spike on his bed, and used her magic to poof him out of his clothes and into his sleepwear.

Fluttershy covered Spike with his bed covers and straightened his pillow to make sure he was comfy enough. She whispered, “There we go, Spike.”

“We better get going. It’s gonna be a long day tomorrow.” Applejack said.

“I concur,” Rarity agreed. As the girls left the room, Rarity looked back seeing Twilight looking down at Spike’s sleeping form, “Coming, Twilight?”

“Be right with you,” she answered, as Rarity went on ahead with the others. She continued to look at Spike sleeping and whispered, “Don't worry, Spike. I promised I’d take good care of you. And I mean it,” she leaned down and kissed his forehead, “See you tomorrow.” She then walked out to the balcony and used her magic to lock his sliding screen door before flying off.

Author's Note

This is what Descent, Nightshade and Nightingale look like: