Ponyville, Inside of the Castle of Friendship.

Spike yawns, tired from not sleeping well yesterday. It wasn't because of the date no, no, it was because of the mess the girls left in the kitchen and the ballroom, since the party was taking place there. He was going to ask for Twilight and Starlight’s help but saw them both sleeping on the couch, probably exhausted from the party. So he decided to take them to bed and clean the mess himself, taking him almost 2 hours to do so, ruining his sleep schedule as a consequence. But he didn't really care if it meant that he had one less problem to deal with.

Right now he was cooking breakfast for him and the other residents of the castle.

Yawn.

Speaking of which, both Twilight and Starlight enter the kitchen, greeting Spike on the way in.

“Good Morning Spike.” They both say almost in unison, sitting down at the kitchen table.

“Good Morning you two,” he turns off the stove and walks towards them with a stack of pancakes on his right hand and 3 empty plates with his left one, “how was the party?” he asks as he places the plates down.

Starlight is the first to talk.

“Oh it was great, you should've been there Spike.” She grabs a few pancakes. “We played games, talked about our lives and whatnot and even ate a lot of food,” she said excitedly, but her excitement turned into disappointment, “sadly I couldn't eat a single slice of cake since Princess Celestia ate it all herself, honestly it was a sight to see, she kept talking about how amazing the cake was and how she was going to thank you or something like that. I don't know what else she said since she was mumbling most of the time, it was kinda creepy not gonna lie. But other than that it was great.” she finishes by putting a piece of pancake in her mouth.

“Yeah and it was all thanks to you spike,” Twilight finally said, “if it weren't for you I don't think this party wouldn't have been as successful as it was.” She says a proud smile adorning her snout.

“Aw shucks, thanks Twi.” He blushes, feeling a tad bit giddy thanks to the compliment.

Starlight swallows the piece of pancake she had in her mouth. “Oh yeah you were supposed to keep Chrysalis away, and by the looks of it you somehow manage to survive.” she pointed at him with her fork. “So tell us hero, how did you stop the evil Queen known as Chrysalis?”

Twilight was interested as well “Oh do tell Spike, how did you keep her away? And please don't spare any details.”

Spike stopped mid chew and looked at both of them, how was he going to tell them that he didn't really defeat her and more like befriended her. Maybe he should lie to them and say that he managed to defeat her in combat, but then he remembered that he didn't have the scars or injuries to prove it. So after a few seconds he decides to tell them the truth and hopes to Celestia that they take the news well. So he swallowed and tried his best to tell them what happened.

“Well I didn't really defeat her…I kinda just talked to her and i uhm…Ikindatookheroutonadate…” he said, saying the last part as quickly and quietly as possible.

“Sorry Spike but I didn't quite hear that last part,” Twilight says, not understanding what the dragon just said, “Could you please repeat that.”

“I took her out on a date…” he whispers a bit louder.

“C'mon Spike you gotta speak up, we can't hear you at all.” Says the pink unicorn, while she floats another piece of pancake into her mouth.

“I WENT ON A DATE WITH HER OKAY!” He covers his snout, shocked at his own words.

Both of the ponies were in shock. Starlight was frozen with shock, her fork falling from her grasp. Twilight on the other hand, was shaking like a chihuahua, her mind running at 100mph barely able to keep herself from fainting on the spot. Their reaction worried Spike to no end, he was about to stand up and help them get out of their shock but was quickly interrupted by laughter. It was erratic and sounded desperate. Both the dragon and the, now unshocked, unicorn look at the source of the laughter, and to their surprise it was coming from Twilight. She was going insane.

“You're kidding right Spike? Because if you are then you got me! You got me real good!” she says, trying her best to keep the small piece of composure she had. “So come on tell me it's a prank and then we can all go on with our day!” He doesn't respond, making the poor alicorn’s behavior worse by the second. “Please Spike tell me this is a joke.” She said desperately hoping that she was right.

The dragon nervously shakes his head, afraid to even speak to her.

“ok that's fine…that's fine…I uhm…I think I'm going to take a nap now…yeah that sounds good actually…i’ll be leaving now goodbye.” She stands up from her seat and begins to slowly trot away from the table, barely making a few steps before hitting the ground, fainting on the spot.

Both the unicorn and dragon stared at their unconscious friend not knowing what to do next…Well that is until Starlight approached Twilight and used her magic to put her on her back. She started to trot away with her friend but not before staring at Spike, she wanted to say something to him but didn't know what to say, Spike noticed this and just motioned for her to leave. She nods and quietly trots out the kitchen, leaving the dragon with his thoughts. But no thoughts came to him; only three words popped through his mind.

“Oh pony feathers…”

Canterlot, Inside The Royal Castle

The royal kitchen was a mess, ingredients like eggs, milk, flour, were sprawled on the ground thrown away like they were trash. The perpetrator was standing among the mess desperately decorating a cake she just created, by the look of the cake many would consider it to be a masterpiece of the culinary arts but to its creator it was just another cake set to fail.

She finishes decorating it and gets ready to taste it. She carefully envelopes a spoon with her magic and uses it to grab a piece of the Sweet delight she has just created, she glides the piece into her mouth slowly munching on it, tasting it for what it was worth, yet no matter how good it tasted it still didn't taste like the one He made and that made her angry. She tossed the cake at the wall just like the rest of them.

Splat

“How?” She slams the table she was using with all her strength, breaking it in the process. “HOW?!” She shouts her scream making its way around the castle.

Slam

The door leading towards the kitchen opened violently, revealing a ticked off alicorn, Luna was her name and guarding dreams was her game.

“Why are you still here sister?” She asked as calmly as she mentally can.

Celestia breathes exasperated. “Well isn't it obvious Luna,” she points at the wall filled with her failed creations. “I'm making cake.”

Luna sighs. “Yes Celestia you are indeed making cake, but you are also making a mess.” She points at the ground and then at the walls. “I mean look at the floors, the walls, the everything, like seriously this is something Discord would do just to mess with you. Yet here you are destroying our kitchen in the name of what exactly?” she asks, already tired of her sister's shenanigans.

“In the name of cake my dear sister, yesterday on my birthday I received one of the best gifts somepony could ever give me.”

“That being…?” Luna asks, not following.

“Cake Lulu, it was the cake Spike had made for me.” She trots towards her sister. “You see the moment a piece of that cake entered my system, the moment I felt like my mouth had just entered heaven itself.”

“Was the cake truly that good? I mean it's just cake-”

“IT'S NOT JUST CAKE LUNA!” she shouts, startling her sister in the process. “It's not just cake,” she breathes in and out trying her best to calm herself down. “Spike somehow managed to bake the perfect cake and it was the best cake I've tasted in years, maybe even centuries, it was even better than Pinkie Pies, which in of itself is already hard enough to beat. It has come to the point that none of our personal chefs have been able to replicate it successfully.”

“Is that why you’ve been here for the past 15 hours? Have you been trying to make a cake?” Luna asks in disbelief.

“Not a cake,” she turns around and looks outside one of the kitchen's windows, “The Cake, but no matter how many times I try it just isn't the same,” she puts a hoof over her face and sighs, “what am I going to do?”

Celestia was desperate at this point, so many cakes yet so many bad results, maybe she should give up and just live her life without ever tasting that cake ever again…

“Why don't you ask him about it? I don't think he would mind.” Luna simply says.

Celestia's eyes open wide, why didn't she think of that. But then another thought came through her mind, what if he doesn't want to share his recipe? What would she do then? Thoughts and plans were going through her brain trying her best to find a way to guarantee that recipe will fall into her hoofs. Until it hit her, a foolproof plan that had no flaw whatsoever…or so she thought, well let's not tell her that now shall we, anyways back to the story.

She turns to look at Luna with a smile and a more calm demeanor, which started to worry her little sister. “That's a splendid idea Luna, I'll send him a letter when I can but for now,” she makes her way towards the exit of the kitchen, a plan forming in her mind, “I've got preparation to make.”

Luna looks at her sister leaving the room, worry was still on her mind, ‘What type of preparations is she speaking of?’ she thought to herself, not liking what she was doing already but if it means that she'll stop baking cakes for hours at a time then she's fine with it.

She starts to make her way out of the kitchen, as she trots away she decides to turn around and take one last glance before continuing her way out the kitchen.

She sighs. “I just hope she doesn't do something stupid.” She says to herself finally trotting out of the room to continue her royal duties.

The End…For now.

Author's Note

This was fun to write, I really hoped you enjoyed reading this fanfic of mine.

Also there will be sequels, I just gotta get write some chapters on a fanfic I have over at Ao3 and it'll be straight to working on a sequel for this.

But for now I really hope you enjoyed this.

~Red

P.S.

I made a few fixes. That is all.

-Red