Spike, Vinyl and Octavia entered to see Twilight pouting on her bed. Spike deadpanned “What’s wrong?”

Twilight whined “I finished reading all of the books in the tower. What am I supposed to do now?”

Spike gestured to Vinyl and Octavia “How about you meet my new friends, Vinyl and Octavia.”

Twilight hopped off her bed, approaching the two with a smile “Hi. I’m Twilight Sparkle. What do you do for fun.”

Vinyl and Octavia looked at each other than a back to “We don’t know how to have fun exactly.” Vinyl continued “We did prank Celestia with Spike, that was fun.”

Twilight’s eyes widened “You shouldn’t prank the Princess, how you read some books. Book are fun.”

Octavia rubbed the back of her head “I wouldn’t mind that but we don’t know how to read.”

Twilight exclaimed “Let me teach you how to read!” She levitated down a huge book. Spike deadpanned as he looked at the book title ‘Senior Physics.’ Vinyl and Octavia looked at the book in terror.

Spike levitated down a much smaller book, ‘The Three Little Ponies and the Big Bad Timberwolf’. Spike smiled “This will be much more suitable for someone who is learning how to read for the first time. In fact.” He levitated two empty journals, an inkwell and a pair of quills over “The easiest way to teach somepony to read is to first teach then how to write. That way they learn how some words are spelled before stringing them together with punctuation and grammar.”

Twilight whined “But this book is full of such marvellous knowledge.”

Spike frowned “How can they understand the complicated terminology surrounding as Black Holes when they can’t even write their own name. Let’s start simply.” Spike turned to them with a smile “Write you own name on this paper. Don’t worry about getting it wrong.”

Octavia picked up the quill in her mouth while Vinyl used her horn to levitate the quill. A few hours past where Spike aided in teaching them the basics. Spike then smiled “That’s good enough for today. Now let’s go raid the kitchen for sweets.”

Vinyl grinned “Yeah let’s do it!”

Octavia sighed “Fine but we better not get caught.”

Twilight who was watching joined the three of them “I head they were baking a massive cake.” The four youngsters looked to each other with a smile before they left the tower. They snuck into the kitchen, the sound of Kitchen Nightmare shouting allowed them to sneak past undetected . A massive cake was sitting covered in whipped cream and berries was sitting on the benchtop. Spike and Twilight levitated the huge cake down.

As they snuck out Vinyl whispered “I’ve never seen any dragon do magic before.”

Spike grinned “I’m an exception, not the rule. All Dragons have magical energy in them but few can actually cast.” They heard the sound of shouting behind them. Kitchen Nightmare burst into the hallways, he saw them. They bolted as the Head Chef shouted obscenities at them that were in no place words that any foal should here.

Octavia panted “Why did we think this was good idea!”

Vinyl quipped “The allure of good cake was just too much to pass up. How you tiring, you are the Earth Pony here?”

Spike frowned “She is out of shape, the species advantage isn’t enough to overcome those who do a lot of physical activity. Not to mention being young means that advantage is not as great as an adult’s would be.”

Twilight whimpered “Um, Spike. He is gaining on us.” Kitchen Nightmare was right behind them.

Spike grimaced “Twilight, teleport yourself and Octavia away from here with the cake. We’ll catch up.” Twilight nodded, her horn glowed teleporting herself and Octavia away with the cake. Kitchen Nightmare shook his head from the flash of light as Spike and Vinyl continued to run away from Kitchen Nightmare.

Vinyl commented “What now?”

Spike smirked as they turned a corner, he turned around sending a wave of smoke out of his mouth. Spike dragged Vinyl out of the smoke and they then bolted. They made their way back to the tower where Twilight and Octavia were waiting with the cake.

Spike smiled as they joined the other two “Let’s eat the cake before anyone find it here.” Twilight cut the cake into pieces with her magic and they devoured the cake quickly.

Twilight commented after they were finished “I wonder who the cake was for?’

Octavia raised an eyebrow “That is a good question?” Vinyl, Twilight and Octavia turned to Spike.

Spike shrugged “Probably it was baked for the Princess.”

Spike’s two new friend and his sister paled. Twilight levitated all the books and built a massive fort “Princess Celestia is going turn me to stone then banish me to the moon then stick the moon inside a sun in another dimension.”

Spike blinked as he saw Octavia and Vinyl huddling up to her, he deadpanned “The Princess won’t hurt any of you or she will have to go through me.” He started to grow until he was as tall as the room “Isn’t that friends and family are for?”

Octavia looked at his massive head as it peaked into their little bookfort “You’re huge!”

Vinyl grinned “That’s awesome!”

Spike shrunk back down to his normal size “I can’t do it for very long and I don’t like being that big for very long but it can help.”

Meanwhile back in the kitchen Kitchen Nightmare was rushing to get another cake baked, shouting louder than usual. Chefs were running back and forth as quickly as they could. None of them wished for the Princess to miss out on her cake.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter.