One month later

Alot’s happened since the situation with Ignia.

For one Ponyville was being repaired, it took awhile but there were plenty of claws on deck.

“Look out below!” Pinkie said as she helped fix the sign on Sugarcube Corner.

“We’re being careful Pinkie,” Mr Cake said as he was fixing a wall that got smashed in.

There were a few irreparable things.

“Applejack, help me move this dead tree here,” Granny said as she tried to move a downed tree that was burned during the attack.

“Alrighty,” AJ said as she moved the tree to a pile of dead trees.

But what was important was that everypony was okay, and the town was repairable.

As for Ignia… it seems that when she came too, she was belligerent and uncooperative in aiding in the situation, unsurprisingly…

She’s being held in Tartarus in a special cage that could hold her and for good measure, Discord is to check up on her every now and then to make sure she doesn’t escape until the solution is found.

As for the solution…

There seems to be no way to glean the info from Ignia, even having Tirek use a truth spell seems to be ineffective, as Ignia knows how to use the rune spell Balko without a handsign.

In the end it seemed ponykind was on its own in finding the cure.

“We need to search further! She has to have a secret reversal spell!” Twilight said looking stressed out as she ran through several tomes from the dragonlands.

“If she did she did a good job of hiding it…” Tirek said as he dug through another shelf.

“I wouldn’t think even in this place of draconic knowledge there would be dragon rune books, otherwise we would have had a defense sooner,” Starlight said as she flew around looking.

“Then what do we do?” Twilight asked.

“Don’t look at me pony, I’m strictly looking out for number one here, if we can’t find a solution then I’ll just head back to-”

“No. we. aren’t, listen, we need to get moving, if a solution isn’t found soon we’ll never reverse Ignia’s spell,” Twilight said.

“You're not thinking-”

“We need to see her again,” Twilight said.

Tartarus

“She won’t talk to us,” Starlight said as they walked past the guards stationed at the entrance, due to a change in protocols, more guards were needed than usual.

The group entered Tartarus and made their way down some stairs to a darker area of Tartarus.

And they approached a cage with a familiar dragoness in it, she was wearing a specially made fireproof, magic proof, straightjacket.

“Hello Ignia,” Twilight said.

“Hmmph…” Ignia grunted in acknowledgment.

“Look, we can play this silent game for years, or we can end it now, what is the spell to undo this,” Twilight demanded.

“...” Ignia just looked annoyed.

“Ignia, please, so many ponies are wanting to return to normalcy, you lost, you might as well tell us,” Twilight pleaded.

“....” Ignia stayed silent.

“TELL US!” Tirek said losing his cool and firing a weak truth spell at Ignia, who just muttered ‘Balko’ and it was blocked.

“Calm yourself Tirek,” Twilight said.

“You're asking me? I just want this all to be over with!” Tirek said.

“You're never going to get it out of me Twilight,” Ignia said suddenly.

“Finally decided to talk?” Starlight asked.

“Yes, if just to tell you lot to go jump off a cliff,” Ignia growled a little.

“Ignia, why perpetuate this? You lost, there’s no victory in the end for you now, no benefit to this,” Twilight pressed.

“On the contrary, I benefit from seeing you ponies running around like a bunch of scared chickens trying to find a secret I’ll never tell, and besides, I may not have mentally wiped ponies out, but at least Equestria is now ruled by dragons, my intent is fulfilled either way,” Ignia said “Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a life sentence to enjoy,” Ignia said before laying back down.

“She won’t talk Twilight, let’s just go,” Starlight said.

“...Ok, we’ll find the cure, one way or another Ignia, you can bet on that,” Twilight said as she and the others left.

“Good luck,” Ignia chuckled as they disappeared through the door.

Another month has passed…

The search was looking bleaker by the day…

No solution has been found and the dragons are growing restless.

But something good did happen in the middle of this month at least.

The royal dragon carriage parked outside of the Crystal Empire,

Celestia, Luna and the six stepped out and with them, Spike.

“I hope it works,” Spike said as he suddenly became and adult dragon again and he stumbled a little from it.

“I hope so too dear,” Rarity said nuzzling up against Spike making him blush.

“Last chance Spike, do ya really want to give up yer childhood?” AJ asked as they entered the castle.

“I’m sure, I never liked being a kid anyways,” Spike said.

“Well… ok, just don’t regret it later,” Twilight said as they approached the science lab.

“Yay! Soon I’ll be throwing a get together party!” Pinkie cheered.

They entered and saw Starlight and Sunburst chatting rather close to eachother, when they noticed the others they turned to them.

“What’s up?” Spike said with a raised brow.

“We interrupt something?” Rainbow asked with a smirk.

“Uh, no, nothing happened… so hey, want to get this done?” Sunburst said as he walked over to a fridge in a corner and pulled out a black liquid.

“Eugh, that looks gross,” Spike said as he shrunk down again.

“It will be, but this is what you wanted, the month long chilling period is over, so I suppose all that’s left to do is chug it and hope for the best,” Sunburst said.

“...Hope for the best? As in you don’t know whether this’ll kill me or not?” Spike asked.

“Well, I a hundred percent doubt it will kill you… but there’s always a chance it could have an unforeseen side-effect,” Sunburst said.

“Spike, if that’s the case, maybe you shouldn’t,” Rarity said worriedly looking down at him.

“...I’ll do it,” Spike said.

“Spike-”

“I didn’t spend over a month hoping and waiting to just turn away last second, you and me are finally dating, when i’m big at least, but I want to go further, and we can’t if I’m small,” Spike said.

“Ok, just be careful,” Fluttershy said.

“Ok, best to wait until you're big again,” Sunburst said.

“Gotcha,” Spike said, the group stood there waiting anxiously Spike turned to his left and saw his reflection, and decided to dedicate it to memory because this was the last time he was going to see this version of himself if he had anything to say about it.

He suddenly sprouted into adult form and he turned to Sunburst.

“I’ll hold back any transformations, hand it over,” Spike said.

“Good luck,” Sunburst said handing him the potion.

“Well… down the hatch,” Spike said before pouring the black potion down his throat in one gulp.

He gagged and nearly threw it back up, but he held it down.

“Ugh! It tastes like year old jade,” Spike gagged.

“Well? Do you feel any different?” Twilight asked.

“Hmm…” Spike let go of his restraints and even tried to force himself back into his child form, nothing happened.

“I-I think it-” Suddenly an intense pain hit his stomach and he fell to the ground clutching his stomach.

“SPIKE!” Rarity cried rushing to his side as the others did the same.

“AGH!” Spike grunted as he felt intense pain bubbling up from his stomach, all the way up his neck and he shoved the others away before he clambered to a window, opened it and heaved as it came out his mouth.

A massive gout of black flames, afterwards Spike fell on his back and coughed.

“Spike! Are you okay darling?” Rarity ran over to him.

“Ugh… that was not fun… did it work?” Spike asked.

“Yes, I think it did,” Rarity said.

“We’ll have to wait and see if-... guys?” Twilight paused when she saw the two making out.

“Wow, they move fast,” Rainbow said.

“Come on now, let’s get moving, Spike needs to rest,” Twilight said walking up to them and helping Spike up as Rarity got off of him.

“So… guess I’m now a big dragon for good?” Spike asked.

“Like I said, we’ll need to wait and see,” Twilight said.

“Ok,” Spike said before smiling at Rarity and she smiled back, feeling the heat that she feels when she’s around his adult form, and she’s no longer fighting it.

“Let’s get going,” Twilight said and they both walked out together, ready to pursue greater things.

The next week

Fluttershy waited outside the Winterbrooke hospital, she had Twilight accompany her, to visit a downed drake.

The doors to the hospital opened and exiting was a familiar red drake.

“Thanks, for the help,” Razer said as he exited and he paused when he saw Fluttershy and Twilight.

“Oh… hey,” Razer blushed.

“Hey…” Fluttershy blushed

“So… the intense head trauma is fixed, my head still aches everynow and then but, seeing your face again makes the wait worth it, so how about that volcano visit? I know a cozy volcano over by-” Razer nervously said.

“Razer… stop,” Fluttershy said.

“Wh-what do you mean?” Razer said.

“I intend to be a pony again,” Fluttershy said.

“You can’t!” Razer said suddenly before pausing “I-I mean…” Razer said before Fluttershy looked down.

“You're a very sweet drake, you don’t need to act tough to me, I am willing to still be friends, but… I don’t want to be a dragoness, I like being a pegasus, I can have fun with my animals again, and-”

“So I’m being rejected…?” Razer asked.

“Not rejected it’s just…” Fluttershy attempted.

“You’d rather a stallion? You'd prefer a short life? You’d choose a happy pony life over a scary dragon… I get it, I’ll leave then,” Razer said turning to leave but Fluttershy grabbed his shoulder.

“Please let me explain,” Fluttershy pleaded.

“You’ve explained enough… I’m rejected, why wouldn’t you? I’m the least tough drake of my size, I’m going to go tell the others and hibernate for… I don’t know… the rest of my life…” Razer said before shrugging her hand off and flying away.

“Razer!” Fluttershy tried to follow him but he disappeared into the distance, she fell over and watched him go, she began to cry.

“It’s alright Fluttershy,” Twilight said patting her shoulder.

“Is it?... I’m so confused Twilight…” Fluttershy said.

“What about?” Twilight asked.

“I… do care about him… but I want to return to my pony life… which do I choose?...” Fluttershy asked.

“I can’t say, only you can,” Twilight said honestly.

Another month passes

The Equestrian dragons began to lose hope they were ever going to be fixed, but Twilight never gave up.

She continued her work throughout the weeks, she had ultimately started to wonder if there was a cure, but her assistant, who had shown no signs of turning back into his child form allowing him and Rarity to begin dating, made a discovery.

Spike and Twilight were in Canterlot, late at night, searching through several of the notes Tirek had listed out.

“Ugh… I need more coffee,” Twilight said looking tired.

“It helps if you sleep more often,” Spike said.

“I can’t rest until this cure is found…” Twilight said.

“You're no help to the situation if you're a tired basketcase,” Spike said.

“But Spike…” Twilight mumbled before she fell forward onto the desk and began snoring.

“There we go,” Spike said before picking Twilight up and carrying her to the couch and setting her down and she slept there.

“Oook, better make my own way to bed…” Spike said as he began closing up shop.

As he moved to put away Tirek’s gatherings on dragon runes, he noticed a slip of paper fall out of an unread portion of the book.

“Huh?” Spike picked it up and unfolded it, and it was a page on rune difference.

“Darn, I was hoping that- huh?” Spike looked to see a small footnote in the corner of the page that mentions a theory, that reversing a rune reverses the spell… but it's only a theory Tirek came up with… could Spike trust it?...

“I may be onto something here…” Spike said as he moved to place the stuff back on the table and he picked up the paper with rune names on them.

“What spell would work in my favor if spoken backwards?” Spike wondered outloud.

The next morning

Tirek trotted through the door with a couple of escort dragons.

“Alright I’m here, can you let go of my arms?!” Tirek demanded.

“It’s alright guys, let him in,” Spike said and the guards did so and left.

“Sheesh, how am I going to get any rest when I’m being pulled out of Tartarus everyday?” Tirek demanded.

“Listen, I may have found a solution, but I needed a knowledgeable person in here with me,” Spike said.

“Why didn’t you ask her?” Tirek said pointing at Twilight who was still asleep.

“Because you know dragon rune magic, now listen, do you remember that theory you had about whether or not reversing a rune will fix things?” Spike asked.

“Yeah, what about it?” Tirek asked.

“I need you to tell me the effects of these runes if spoken backwards,” Spike said as he handed the paper to Tirek.

“If it’s theoretical how would I know the effects, I’m sure even Ignia doesn’t know,” Tirek said.

“Just make a guess,” Spike urged.

“Ok ok, based on assumption I assume that Rouk dispells illusions, Ralts would give you… ice claws?... I’m ninety percent sure most of these don’t even have a reverse function,” Tirek said.

“What about the ones that do?” Spike asked.

“I’d assume Var makes invisible users visible, Devnak makes others wake up, and Livio would… I don’t know, make you see into your own mind,” Tirek said.

“Wait! See into my own mind… as in reading memories?” Spike asked.

“Once more, this is hypothetical dragon, how do you know this will work?” Tirek asked frustratedly.

“...Anything is worth a shot at this point,” Spike said before he turned to Tirek again “How does this Livio thing work?” Spike asked.

“It helps you spy on others or to read minds, using this hand sign,” Tirek said making the sign with his hand.

“Alright, now we’re getting somewhere, okay, let’s get moving,” Spike said turning around and setting up a mirror before stepping back.

“This is going to end in disaster, what does looking into your own mind even have to do with solving this problem anyways?” Tirek asked.

“I was the tool Ignia used to do this to the world in the first place, maybe I can be the tool to fixing this,” Spike said before forming the handsign and saying.

“OIVIL!” Spike said and suddenly his view shot forward and then rebounded off the mirror and back at him.

He opened his eyes and saw he was now inside a green void with tons of images floating around.

“Ok, it worked. I’m literally reading my own mind,” Spike said before thinking carefully and trying to remember what happened on the day Equestria was turned into a second dragonlands by Ignia.

As he remembered various things from his past he saw various memories floating by.

“Ok Spike, be careful,” Spike said to himself as he thought about the events at the dragon lands… and he saw himself being controlled by Ignia and used to attack his friends, and reciting something, he couldn’t understand all of the words but he got something out of it.

The final announcement by Ignia that triggered the change in the first place.

“Draconum potestatem frange?.... And the reverse would be… I get it now, LIVIO!” Spike called and he was suddenly outside his head and he shook his head to clear the dizziness.

“About time, we’ve been standing here watching you stare off into space for an hour now,” Tirek said.

“Spike, are you okay?” Twilight asked.

“Just testing a theory, and it looks like it was right! Twilight I got it!” Spike said excitedly and he ran over to the table and worte down the words from his memory trip.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked.

“Twilight, do you remember the words spoken to activate the super rune that caused the initial situation?” Spike asked.

“Yeah…. I think…” Twilight furrowed her brow trying to think of it.

“Draconum potestatem frange, that was the spell that was used to do this all in the first place! And now we have the means, Tirek, what is the translation?” Spike asked.

“Dragon cast rune, why?” Tirek asked.

“We say it backwards we can fix this!” Spike said.

“Backwards…. I never thought of that! Spike your a genius!” Twilight hugged him.

“It worked for Livio, it could work here, can I go yet?” Tirek asked with an eyeroll.

“Not quite yet, we need to gather the others, test this out,” Twilight said.

“Ugh, this is why I hate ponies,” Tirek sighed.

“Egnarf mesatsedop mumocard?” Ember asked, confusedly trying to recant it.

“No, Egnarf metatsetop munocard, according to Spike it can fix any transformative rune,” Tirek said.

“Including the one that was used to turn ponykind into dragons?” Celestia asked.

“One way to find out, stand over there,” Tirek said.

“Alright,” Celestia said as they set up the test area.

“Should we test on a volunteer first?” Twilight asked.

“I am fine with going first my student,” Celestia said as she stood in the center of the room “This won’t hurt will it?” Celestia asked.

“I hope so, after all the trouble this situation has given me, now hold still,” Tirek said before he formed several hand signs “Egnarf metatsetop munocard!” Tirek said and a bright beam shot from his hands and struck Celestia who yelped in surprise before a glow overcame her.

When the glow faded everydragon looked and was surprised to see that a familiar alicorn stood before them they all gasped in surprise.

“D-did it work?” Celestia asked.

“It did, you are a pony again!” Luna cheered before running up to her sister and hugging her.

“Ow! I’m not a dragon anymore, stop squeezing!” Celestia gasped.

“Sorry sister,” Luna said with amusement before turning to Tirek who looked a little tired.

“Hurrah, I expect my sentence to be further reduced because of this,” Tirek snorted.

“We’ll discuss that,” Luna said “Are you able to do it again?” Luna asked.

“Without magic, no,” Tirek said.

“Then we must teach others how to use it immediately, gather the dragons who can be trusted with this task,” Celestia ordered.

“Yes princess,” The guards said, sounding eager to return to normal.

It took awhile but several dragons including Starlight, Sunburst and even some dragons from Celestia’s personal friend group and the school of friendship, were taught the cure to the dragon spell.

Not wanting any panic of any sort, they decided to do this one town at a time, and in weeks time the pony population was slowly but surely recovering.

Now came Ponyville.

The dragons of Ponyville cheered as they heard a cure to the dragon change was found.

And so dragons everywhere were eagerly awaiting Celestia’s arrival.

Meanwhile the mane six and Spike were hanging out beside the crowd

“Ah can’t wait ta be a pony again,” AJ said.

“I don’t know, maybe I can afford to continue being like this,” Pinkie said.

“Say what? You want ta stay a dragon?” AJ asked.

“Yeah, being a dragon is cool!” Pinkie said.

“I want to be a pony again, being a dragon was cool but I miss being able to fly fast, do rainbooms, and control the weather,” Rainbow said.

“And I miss being able to do magic,” Twilight said.

“...” Fluttershy looked conflicted.

“You okay Shy? You’ve been looking like you want to say something for awhile,” Rainbow said.

“I… don’t,” Fluttershy said.

“Well, when you want to I’m here,” Rainbow said.

“What surprises me is Rarity choosing to stay a dragoness,” Twilight said.

“I have simply chosen to remain as I am, because Spike convinced me to,” Rarity said.

“Yeah,” Spike wrapped his arm around her and pulled her in closer and she hummed.

“Daww,” The other girls cooed.

“But real talk here, are we sure we want to all be ponies again?” Spike asked.

“Sure, I don’t want to lose my ability to do rainbooms forever,” Rainbow said.

“And ah gotta be able ta work at the farm again,” AJ said.

“And how can I be the princess of magic if I’m a dragon?” Twilight asked.

“You could just study it,” Spike said.

“I don’t know,” Twilight said unsurely.

“What about you shy?” Rainbow asked.

“....” Fluttershy didn’t answer.

“Shy?” Rainbow asked again, but before she could respond they heard loud cheers from the other dragons and they turned to see a carriage arriving.

“Looks like it's time,” AJ said as they all got up.

“Alright, attendance is mandatory, so let’s get moving,” Twilight said and they went over to the crowd.

And the cheers got louder when they saw a pony Celestia exiting the chariot along with Starlight and Sunburst who were still dragons and they approached.

“Calm down my little ponies!” Celestia called with the Canterlot voice and they did.

“As you can very well see, I have been returned to my equine form, I now with the help of some volunteers restored at least a quarter of Equestria’s ponies, and I am certain that the rumor mill is active on this, I am here to help restore you all to your original forms,” Celestia said and the dragons cheered, hearing that.

Starlight stepped up “If you’ll all form a line with the guards help, we can get this started,” Starlight said.

Lyra was first, she stepped up into the middle of town and Starlight stood there before she rapidly made the hand signs and spoke the rune backwards.

“Egnarf metatsetop munocard,” Starlight said and she fired a beam at Lyra, upon hitting her she glowed and when the glow subsided, she was a pony again.

“YES! I’ve never been so happy to have hooves again,” Lyra said pronking all over the place.

“Me next!” A drake called.

“Mares first!” Another dragoness said.

“No me first!” A whelp demanded.

“SILENCE!” Celestia called from above and she flew up to the dragons “You will patiently wait your turn, understand?” Celestia said, not wanting a riot.

“Ok,” The pony dragons said.

It has been an hour and already half of Ponyville were ponies again, to avoid any issues the ponies were made to stand on one side and dragons on the other to avoid anypony from being stepped on.

“Next!” Starlight panted.

“You should rest,” Sunburst said.

“Good idea,” Starlight walked away and Sunburst took over, as they took care of several more dragons they saw the pony side getting bigger.

“Honey!” Mrs Cake ran to her pony husband and hugged him.

“It’s good to be back,” Mr Cake said.

“Whew, next up Rarity Belle,” Sunburst said and Rarity walked up to him before she cleared her throat.

“This may come as a surprise to you all, but I wish to remain as I am,” Rarity said earning a gasp from multiple ponies.

Discord who was watching the whole thing from atop a building, eating popcorn chuckled.

“Had a feeling, and better yet the author finally remembered to put me in this chapter,” Discord said.

“You’re… certain Rarity?” Sweetie Belle asked approaching her, now a pony.

“Yes, you all see… I found love at long last, and that is with my mate to be, Spike,” Rarity smiled at Spike who walked up to her and hugged her and she hugged back.

The other ponies went ‘aww’ as they saw the two hugging.

“And look what I gave her awhile ago,” Spike said before Rarity reached into her dragon-sized saddlebags and pulled out an enormous diamond.

Everypony gasped, remembering Ember’s teachings, blue diamonds are given between dragons who wish to get married!

Immediately the ponies stamped her hooves in approval and the remaining dragons clapped.

“OMG! WEDDING PLANS! WHERE DID I PUT MY WEDDING PLANNER!” Pinkie cheered before running off.

“Ah had a feeling,” AJ said with a smile.

“I am happy to hear this, well if you wish to tie the theoretical knot, then you have my blessings,” Celestia said happily.

“Alright, next is Pinkie… where is Pinkie?” Sunburst looked around but Pinkie popped up next to him.

“FOUND IT!” Pinkie said and she hopped over to the two dragons and began reading out what they’ll need for the wedding.

“Um… Pinkie! It’s your turn to be reponiefied!” Sunburst called to her.

“Oh, no thanks, I like being a dragon!” Pinkie said before resuming.

“...Not even going to question her on that,”

“Alright, next up is Twilight Sparkle,” Sunburst said.

“Ok,” Twilight said as she walked towards the spot, before she could however Spike stopped her.

“Wait, Twilight…” Spike said.

“What?” Twilight asked.

“Are you sure? I mean, Rarity and Pinkie are choosing to stay as is, maybe we can all be dragons,” Spike said.

“Spike, I’m the princess of magic and friendship, I can’t govern the power of magic as a dragoness,” Twilight said.

“Sure but I mean, we could all be together longer and in similar ways if we’re dragons…” Spike said.

“...Sorry Spike, but I have to return to normal,” Twilight said before she continued on.

“...Ok,” Spike said.

“Hey, no biggie, we could always find a way to hang out like we used to as ponies, and dragons, congrats by the way,” Rainbow said patting Spike on the back.

“Thanks,” Spike said as a flash occurred and he looked to see Twilight as an alicorn again.

“I am glad to be back to normal,” Twilight sighed with relief.

“Ok then, next up is Applejack,” Sunburst said.

“Bout time,” AJ went up to the spot where the detransformations had been occurring.

“I assume you want to be a pony again?” Sunburst said.

“Eeyup,” AJ said readying herself.

“Ok!” Sunburst performed the spell and AJ was back to normal.

“Yeehaw! Back in business!” AJ said happily.

“Ok, next up is Rainbow Dash,” Sunburst said.

“Alright, so long scales, hello feathers,” Rainbow said as she walked over to the spot and the spell was performed on her and afterwards Rainbow without warning shot back into the sky and performed a rainboom.

“Uh… is she coming back?” Sunburst asked.

“AAAWWW YEAH! Rainbow Dash is back!” RD said as she did several corkscrews and swoops over their heads.

“Watch it,” Sunburst said ducking a swoop.

“Sorry, now if you’ll excuse me I gotta check my home for birds,” RD said as she flew off.

“Next up then is… Fluttershy!” Sunburst called.

“O-ok,” Fluttershy moved to enter the firing range… and paused as a memory of Razer entered her mind, she looked away.

“Fluttershy?” Sunburst said.

“I-i’m fine,” Fluttershy entered the shooting range.

“Ok, let’s get this over with then…” Sunburst prepared the spell, he rehearsed it in his head a few times, and he prepared to say it.

Fluttershy had a few more thoughts pass through her head… and she remembered how she and Razer met, he courted her even though she was really a pony… he saved her…

“Egnarf metatsetop!” Sunburst fired the spell.

“I don’t… I DON’T WANT THIS!” Fluttershy hit the ground before it hit her and it struck another dragon instead, she got up and ran off.

“Fluttershy?! Come back!” Rarity said but Discord stopped her.

“She just realized something, let her be,” Discord said.

“Oooh…” Rarity said worriedly.

Fluttershy ran through the forest with tears in her eyes and she ultimately tripped and landed in front of a lakeside, as she got up she saw the water was lava.

“This… is where me and Razer met again…” Fluttershy said as she noticed Discord never returned the lava back to water.

As she decided her actions from before meant she’s made her choice she climbed into the lava and sighed as she laid back to think about what she was going to do now.

“Even I never suspected I would do that… I… think I do care about him… but… no… I do care… I need to find him,” Fluttershy said coming to a decision she got out and took to the air again.

“Whew…” Sunburst sighed as he sat back and Starlight finished up with the remaining dragons.

“So… uh, Sunburst?” Spike asked as he approached the tired drake.

“Hmm?” Sunburst said.

“What about you and Starlight? Are you two going to return to normal?” Spike asked.

“No, we decided to remain as is,” Sunburst said.

“Really?” Spike asked.

“Yeah, we… kinda wanted to explore some things together, and dragon forms offer new opportunities and-”

“Yeah, yeah, just invite me to the wedding,” Spike chuckled as Sunburst blushed.

“Alright, Bulk Biceps is staying a dragon too, that means we’re done here…” Starlight wiped her brow and walked over to Sunburst and helped him up.

“Thanks for everything Starlight,” Twilight said flying up to her.

“No problem, we have to get moving, there are more towns to fix,” Starlight said.

“Ok,” Twilight said and the two dragons moved on.

“So… um Twilight, I was hoping you’d be the spokespony for me and Rarity’s wedding?” Spike asked.

“Of course, I’m so happy for you two,” Twilight said hugging Spike’s snout.

“Thanks,” Spike said.

“I just hope Fluttershy is okay,” Twilight said.

“I’m sure she’s just looking for a place to cool down,” Rarity said.

Fires blazed in the dragonlands as Fluttershy stood at the edge of it.

“Ok… time to do what you thought you’d never do… go into the dragon lands of your own accord… here we go,” Fluttershy said before she wandered in.

Author's Note

Surprise, sorry for the wait, but I have been in a bit of a creative funk as of late, but I won't let this story die.

I am nearing the end and some more surprises await, sorry for the wait.