Spike happily looked out the window at the endless expanse of Snow that surrounded the train, the train itself had stopped while the Tracks were moved to line up with a secondary set of tracks that would take them beneath the Empire and directly to the Castle, Spike noted most of her Harem was on high alert, Solar Stood next to Spike diligently, while Red and Blue stood at the ready at both of the train cars doors, Autumn, Summer, Ash, and Smoke all sat on the large bed with Cadance at the foot of it holding up a protective bubble that surrounded the entire train car.

"Thorax, I doubt will do anything crazy," Spike said as she pulled on her shirt, having been given a Tanktop and a pair of Shorts from Ash and Smoke so as to be presentable in a public setting. "Ember, I doubt will do anything rational and that there is where the problem lies," Spike shook her head with a sigh "I have absolutely no idea what she's gonna do,"

"Dragon Lord Ember is a good friend of yours isn't she?" Solar questioned as she tried to pinpoint how worried she should be for Ember's eventual arrival.

"She's also very proud," Spike noted "And depending on what Twilight says, and how she says it, this could turn into something major, or twenty-two minutes of us arguing," Spike thought on it for a moment before shrugging "Who can say, I'll just have to wait for Ember to make the first move, might take her a while what with dragons not doing too good in the cold, but I imagine Twilight will be backing her up so I doubt that will slow her down too much,"

"So the level of danger we're currently in depends on how well Spoken the Princess of Friendship is?" Solar asked with a frown "That sounds less than good for us,"

"Oh no worries," Spike said merrily as she looked out at the far-reaching fields of snow that went on beyond what she could visibly spy with her own eyes. Spike eye's moved slightly and she suddenly let out a loud whistle, doing her best to control her powers a large vine burst to life out in the fields and whipped around to the side of the train car, the large vine ended up sweeping Blue off her hooves, Blue was quickly grabbed by Spike's magic and set on the bed as she took a seat on the vine "Welp, here she comes, wish me luck," Spike waved as the vine pulled her out into the cold, Solor rushing after her as she told the others to hold their ground, having been tasked with being Spikes personal guard she didn't hesitate to rush out after her into the freezing cold. Taking to the sky to be by Spike's side.

"I guess this proves my idea about the cold countering you wrong," Solar noted.

"I feel like I'm about to die," Spike replied without hesitation as she began shivering, "Still, can't let Ember cause the train any damage, she's coming in real-oh shit," Spike was hit square in the stomach by a Blue Blur ramming into her at full speed and both it and her where sent flying over the train and into the fields of snow. Spike landed in the snow and instantly felt a freezing pain begin to take her over. "Oh it's so much worse than I thought it would be," She practically screamed out as she jumped to her hooves shivering, across from her a partially frozen Ember got to her feet, the Dragon lord's wings looked to have frozen over, Spike expected some kind of angry threat of some kind as she winced at the bruse that now adorned her belly.

"Oh dude sorry about that," Ember noted casually upon seeing the harm she had caused "I was trying to get to the empire as fast as I could, The hell were you doing up in the sky-" Ember looked back and her confusion only grew "-Atop a giant flower?" Ember looked to Spike with increased confusion on her face "Well, I better get you out of here," Ember walked over to Spike and picked her up princess style before shooting back into the air.

"Hey," Solar called out, Ember's arrival having brought a cold front in her wake that had sent Solar crashing to the ground, she held her arm to her side in pain but was otherwise fine. Unfortunately for her the call out fell on deaf ears as Ember shot back off towards the somewhat distant Crystal Empire "I had one job," Solar cried out in anger "How did I fail that fast!" instead of returning to the carriage Solar took to the sky and flew as fast as she could after Ember and Spike. She heard the rest of the Harem call out to her but she ignored their cries as she felt they were more directed to Spike than her as she rushed to be by Spike's side.

"Does this mean war?" Autumn asked Cadance curiously.

"Luckily the contract has an exception clause in the event Spike is injured or harmed by an accident, and nothing about that seemed to be on purpose," Cadance got to her hooves as the Train suddenly started moving "Embers heading to the empire, and I'm guessing she isn't aware she's already has Spike, not that I know why she's here for sure," Cadance looked out at Spikes concerned Haram, unsure what to do until Summer and Smoke spoke up.

"Everyone remain call," Summer called out confidently

"Once we arrive at the Empire we'll spread out and find both Spike and Solar," Smoke assured them "For now all we can do is wait to arrive at our destination," a less than happy silence fell over the group as they waited for the train to reach their destination,"

Ice crystals had begun forming around Solar's wings as she made it into the Empires protective Barrier, she easily found Ember's landing spot as the Dragon seemed to have shot directly at the castle. Solar followed suit and landed just behind Ember as the Dragon Lord spoke to Spike without knowing who she really was.

"The hell where you even doing out there?" Ember demanded of the Creature she recognized to at the very least not be a conventional pony.

"I was waiting for you," Spike noted simply "In hindsight, I was a flawed approach,"

"Oh, are you one of those Kirin things?" Ember asked, "Don't suppose you could show me where Spike might be?"

"That is Spike," Solar informed Ember as she managed to get back to Spike's side "Are you alright,"

"No," Spike replied merrily "but neither are you it seems, it's not a cut, so I should be able to in theory..." Spike took Solar's chin in her hand and proceeded to kiss her passionately for a moment, the pain in Solar's arm quickly dispelled and upon separating there was no sign she had ever been hurt Spike laughed proudly at the results "God's powers for the win," Ember stared bluntly at Spike who looked back happily "So, what did Twilight tell you,"

"Oh," Ember hit her own fist and laughed "This is what she meant, I didn't understand in the slightest what she meant by you being turned into the god of the Kirin, just that you were Pink and looked like a lady," Ember laugh became more boisterous with each word "Your rocking those Tig old Bittys,"

"Ah," Spike was somewhat shocked at Ember's reaction before smacking herself in the face "Jeez I'm stupid, here I was worrying how you'd react to Twilights word's without taking into account the fact you'd probably half listen and just come running over to see what was going on,"

"Yeah, your Pony Friend tries way too hard in her speeches," Ember agreed "Too long and wordy, figured it would take less time to just come and see what was going on and then figure out what the hell she was talking about,"

"So we're cool then?" Spike asked hopefully.

"Not quite," Ember said, in a serious tone as she eyes Spike up and down "I did catch one part of what Twilight said, and I don't intend to take it laying down, so I've mainly come with a Demand," Spike and Solar looked at Ember, Solar fearing what the Dragon Lord, leader of all dragons, would demand of her beloved Spike.

Ember stared at Spike, her facial expression more serious than even that she had been caring upon their first meeting.

"Answer my next question honestly," Ember said sternly "And I'll know if you lie Spike," Ember and Spike stared deeply into each other's eyes Before Ember screened out in fury "Why the Fuck wasn't I invited to join your Harem!?"

Author's Note

When Should I start doing weekly new chapters again?

Eh, now seems like a good time, see yall next Friday.