Snow blew along the ground, as the wind felt like it would cut into your skin. The air was very cold, and the snow blowing around made it worse. For Princess Luna however, this wasn't the worst thing she could think of, but indeed it was unusual.

The Black Dragon, after sneaking through Canterlot and stealing the Elements of Harmony, fled here, to the cold north near the Crystal Empire. Of all places, one would not think of a dragon to flee to this area. They tend to stay away from cold places, mostly because they are cold blooded and had little power.

But here Luna was, hiding out in a snow bunker she made with magic, just a half kilometer away from a mountain the Dragon went into. So far, it stayed there, but it worried Luna that the dragon likely knew something she didn't.

Suddenly, one of her bat pony guards came into the fort from outside, and took off his snow block.

"Princess, all of the bases around the mountain still report no activity." said the bat pony.

"Alright, is there anything else?" asked Luna.

The bat pony shook his head, "No my princess."

"Then back to your position, we shall keep refuge here for a little while longer before retiring." replied Luna.

The bat pony's eyes widened suddenly as he looked out the small crease viewing the mountain. Luna turned quickly in response.

"There it is!" said the bat pony, as a dark figure shot out of the top of the mountain, giving off dark fire around it's body as it flew.

The Dragon was both terrifying and majestic. One could see the shape through the dark flames, as it circled the mountain.

"That must be how the creature can stay warm..." said Luna, observing it.

Suddenly, it turned course rapidly, and headed right toward Luna's fort. It was heading for a direct collision, and all Luna could do in the split seconds was brace, as the dragon burst through the top of the fort.

"GET BACK FOAL BEAST!" Yelled Luna, as she casted a spell at the dragon, and stared in horror as it simply deflected off the dark fire.

The dragon laughed, and showed its teeth, before Luna charged another spell, and fired.

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That sonic rainboom was amazing. Spyro had seen a lot for a kid, but that was on the top five coolest things. Twilight did give Rainbow Dash a good scolding, but she mellowed out in short time and invited them into Applejack's house for lunch.

"Seriously, I never expected to see something like that, especially from such a little horse. I mean, I always believed in you Rainbow!" said Spyro excitedly, though on the inside he was also kind of jealous.

"It's something special kid, why do you think my cutie mark says I'm the best flyer in Equestria?" Said Rainbow Dash, getting a bit smug.

Spyro eyed Rainbow, and then her flank, "Is that what you call that mutation on your bum? I thought you all were just some cultists."

"Mutation?" said Rainbow Dash a bit offended, as they just got inside, "Cutie marks are symbols of what your main purpose is!"

They were stopped by a greeting from Applejack, "Hey, why don't y'all sit at the table and talk about it?"

Suddenly, a yellow blur came up to Spyro, with a big smile in his face. He in turn, looked from side to side unsurely, as the red haired pony spoke.

"Yer a real dragon like Spike?! And Yer from the Dragon Realms?!?! THAT'S AWESOME!" said Applebloom.

"Applebloom! What did ah ay about getting up in other ponies faces?!" Scolded Applejack.

Applebloom got a bit of a trouble making grin, "Yah said pony, not dragon."

Applejack glared at Applebloom, as Spyro smirked at the sibling rivalry, "She has a point."

Applejack look back at Spyro, "Well let's all jus' sit down then."

With that the other ponies seated themselves at various chairs. He was greeted to Granny Smith and Big Mac in the process. The house itself looked rather humble yet nice and clean. The family was also very nice, definitely better than the farmer union that joined Gnasty, and beat Spyro with sticks when all he wanted was some sheep.

After some more small talk, his focus turned to the food.

There on the table, was the biggest assortment of apple stuff Spyro could think of. Apple Pie, Apple Fritter, Caramel Apple drizzled with Apple sauce. There was also for some reason crystals jabbed into one of the pies, that really confused him. Too bad he only moderately liked apples, and above all, loved meet.

"So no meat?" asked Spyro.

Applejack looked at him oddly, "Wha-? Oh yeah, Ah suppose you're all carnivores where you're from then huh?"

Rainbow Dash added a comment, "Don't you like crystals?"

"What?" asked Spyro in confusion.

"To eat." Said Rainbow Dash, before she stuffed a fritter in her mouth.

Spyro stared at Rainbow Dash suggestion she was a moron, as Sparx thought about it, and flew over to try and take a bite of a crystal. In tern, it hurt, so he also stared at Rainbow like she was a moron.

Twilight awkwardly laughed to break the ice, "Well, we just assumed, since Spike eats them..."

"HE EATS MONEY?!" Exclaimed Spyro, "Why would you do that?!"

Everyone in the room looked around unsurely, as Spyro was slightly appalled, since gems and crystals were used as a valuable currency in his homeworld.

"Apparently Dragons here are a bit different than from where you are." suggested Big Mack, as he nonchalantly continued eating a piece of pie.

Spyro laughed, "So the silent one finds the solution, good job!"

"Perhaps yah kids should take more time to LISTEN to your elders, you would be that good at solving things!" Said Granny Smith dryly.

Everybody sat for a moment silently, then laughed. Now that awkwardness seemed to be over, Spyro sat down and tried himself a piece of apple pie. It crumbled at he took a bit, and the texture felt horrible to him. However, it made up for that in taste, mostly, it still wasn't bacon. Oh glorious Bacon, how good it tasted well roasted, and even on the go with a quick spit of flame. In fact, those pigs outside would probably taste real good with this apple stuff, maybe if he just-

"Are you listening?" Asked Twilight directly to Spyro.

"Sorry, I was just in la la land." Replied Spyro as he set the piece of apple pie down.

Twilight sighed, and began again, "As I was was saying, Princess Celestia suggested via her last letter that we get every pony together for the day and teach Spyro a bit on friendship, to see how much he understands the culture we have here..."

Oh lordy, culture talk. Personally to Spyro, this was sounding more like a cult initiation to the church of rainbows and friendship. Though perhaps he could learn a few more things from the locals, like that Sonic Rainboom.

"I sent Spike to go update Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rarity, so we can converse more without disturbing the townsponies..." continued Twilight.

Spyro rolled his eyes as he laid his head on his claw. More sitting around and talking didn't sound like it was going to get him anywhere, and this Twilight pony is beginning to sound a bit controlling over things. His stomach also was beginning to get upset with him for not having a good meal yet, those pigs outside were getting more and more appetizing.

"So, thoughts?" concluded Twilight.

"Yeah, Twilight, your boring him to death." Said Rainbow, as Spyro seemed out be out of it again.

In fact, he was now drooling a bit, thinking about perhaps taking one of the pigs and going rogue to find the dark dragon himself. Besides, he has never been forcefully hand held through things like this before, he could definitely find his way by just chatting with locals like his other adventures.

"Spyro, Yah better not be thinkin' about eatin' us..." said Applejack.

Spyro shot up, "No! No! What makes you think I want to roast your pigs?!"

Sparx did a metaphorical face-palm to his companion, as everypony stared at him awkwardly, as Applejack was getting a bit of an un-amused look.

"Ah'm just going to assume that was a joke, but if I lose a pig now ah'll know who dun it."

"Why do you even have pigs?" asked Spyro.

"So back on an earlier subject, Rainbow, weren't you chattin' with him about cutie marks?" said Applejack.

It was now Spyro, who gave the un-amused look. However, Applebloom immediately started talking.

"Oh! Everypony get's cutie marks when they find out what their special talent is! Me and mah friends have been workin' real hard for ours, and we're sure we'll find ‘em soon!"

"So... you have one basic talent for your whole life?" Asked Spyro with his eyebrow raised, "I prefer the idea of working toward accomplishing multiple things, and having options later in life."

Granny Smith popped in the conversation, "In all mah years, Ah have found that your cutie mark can mean more than one thing, just as long as yah keep looking. For me ah was content on this here farm, but I have known others who did all sorts of different things."

Out of the conversation, Applejack trotted over to Twilight at the end of the table.

"Twi, ah'm not to sure about this dragon, It's not that ah think he's evil, but what if he's never been around herbivores so long? Ah mean, we don't have much meat in Equestria, aside from in the animals."

Twilight shrugged, "We talked for a little while, and so far he claims to have been around other races, so I doubt he'd eat anypony if that's what you're thinking."

Applejack sighed, "Ah don't know, it’s jus’ that maybe we're going about this the wrong way. He seems very, bored."

On the other side from the whispering ponies, Spyro was already getting bored of the conversation, sure it was kind of interesting at first, but now he pretty much knew the basics. Now not only boredom plagued him, but the back of his head started to hurt.

"... and that is how our family started this here farm." concluded Granny Smith.

Spyro looked to his side to noticed Rainbow Dash was also getting ancy, maybe now he could suggest they go somewhere else.

"Hey Twilight." started Spyro, "Can we get going elsewhere soon? Not that I am not having a good time, but I feel like I should be doing something... you know, about your problems..."

Twilight and Applejack suddenly stopped whispering, and Twilight replied, "Well we were about to head back to town, as soon as Spike get's ba-"

Suddenly, Spike burst into the door, "TWILIGHT! The Princess has been attacked!"

Twilight gasped, "Oh no?! Canterlot is in trouble?!"

Spike corrected himself, "No! Princess Luna! Princess Celestia said she wants you to head to Canterlot immediately, but to leave Spyro... uh..." Spike read the letter in his claws over again, "At Fluttershy's?"

A sudden bit of annoyance hit Spyro, it sounded like the monarch did not see him as a viable option for help at this point. In fact, he groaned out loud.

Rainbow Dash shot up, "Well let's get going Twi!"

Spyro raised his claw, "May I suggest something, perhaps you can just Sonic Rainboom me right into the Black Dragon, and I can get this over with now."

Twilight shook her head, "No Spyro, the Princess said for you to stay here. Besides, she usually has a plan."

"But She hasn't even met me!" argued Spyro, "Are you really going to suggest she can know how to best fix this without even considering all the options?!"

Sparx the Dragonfly began looking at Spyro oddly, noticing he was losing his cool.

"It's alright Sparx, I'm just stating this from experience." responded Spyro seemingly knowing what Sparx was thinking.

Twilight sighed as she head toward the door, "I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to leave you here. But I can be sure to tell the Princess you insist on coming along soon."

Spyro grumbled to himself, then said, “Alright, fine, it’s just that I usually am not restrained this much.”

Rainbow Dash then spoke up, “I will take you to Fluttershy’s then! If, you’re done here.”

"Ah think I'll start cleaning up then" said Applejack, as she began to take leftovers too the kitchen.

Spyro got out of his chair, as Twilight read over the letter Spike got, too make sure there wasn’t anything else.

For Spyro, things didn’t seem to be getting better. It didn’t sounds like the Princess, whoever she was, trusted him, or would even give him the light of day. Not only that, but the pain in the back of his head wasn’t getting any better.
“Maybe I should just go off on my own… if this pain in my head would go away…” he thought.

"No, it's gone now..." Spyro then stared around the room, realizing just now he said that out loud, "I... Uh, was just talking to myself..."

"Well, I think Rainbow is ready to take you to Fluttershy’s, I’m taking the hot air balloon to Canterlot.” said Twilight.

"Really? I actually know some balloonists." Responded Spyro.

“Well, let’s get going bud!” said Rainbow, nudging his shoulder.

Spyro sighed, “Well okay then, see you apple pony people!”

“By Spyro and Sparx!” replied Applejack, as she happily cleaned.

In reality, Spyro was feeling a bit off now, something looked, different, about the ponies. In fact, it felt like something slightly changed since he has been here already, but he couldn't put his claw on it.

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From the bushes near the path Spyro was being lead by Rainbow Dash, a figure stared out on a creepy manner. It was shadowy, and creepy, did I mention shadowy?

"So it's true... the purple one has come." Said a cheesy villain voice, "You don't know how much you mean to me yet, but soon you will..."

Suddenly, The figure pricked his hoof on a spike in the bush, and jumped back. Revealing itself to be Button Mash, the obsessive arcade lover from the ponyville school.

"OW!" yelped Button Mash as he stared at his hoof, before turned back to the bush and spoke in the evil voice again, "This will have to wait, but soon I shall meet the one from my game, Spyro!"

"Who're you talking to button?" asked SweetieBelle, as Scootaloo came up behind her.

"AH! I uh! I was never here!" Yelled Button, as he ran off.

Sweetie and Scootaloo looked at each other, the back at button as he ran as fast as he could, which wasn't too fast.

"Soooo..." said Scootaloo, "Love poison."

"Oh yeah!" said Sweetie, as she and her friend went on, the conversation they had before noticing Button acting oddly again, "Apparently, Featherweight made himself a batch of that love poison we had that, experience with."

"Oh yeah, why?" asked Scootaloo.

"He said it was so he could see what would happen if bit's were used on a few forest critters. Apparently he thinks Fluttershy will help him with this, quote on quote, scientific article."

Scootaloo giggled, "Does he really think that'll work? Fluttershy would never let him try that!"

"I know, that's why I figured we'd watch and see what happens." said Sweetie.

Suddenly, Applebloom came running up from behind, "Wait up girls!"

Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo stopped and stared at Applebloom as she got her breath, "Y'all will never believe what just happened at mah place!"
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"And here we are!" said Rainbow Dash, "Do be a bit more careful, Fluttershy is a kind of, afraid of dragons..." Said Rainbow Dash as she knocked on the door.

Spyro stared at Rainbow, "And your Princess said I should stay here?! Great idea! Next thing you know is the place is full of all sort of critters that will really make me really hungry for meat."

"Eeerrrr..." said Rainbow Dash, just before Fluttershy opened the door.

The smell of critter was a bit overwhelming for Spyro, and his appetite got a little more powerful right then.

"Great..." mutter Spyro.

Fluttershy saw Rainbow first, "Oh high Rainbow! What are you doi-..." then she noticed Spyro, and visibly got a lot more nervous, "Oh hi, uh...."

"Spyro" Said Rainbow.

"Yes, hello Spyro! I-I remember seeing you, uh, get brought here." responded Fluttershy examining the dragon all over.

Compared to Rainbow Dash, he was a tad shorter, but his horns stuck out to the top of her head. He also had more noticeable claws and teeth, as he bit down on his tongue for some reason. It didn't help that his posture seaming like that of a wolf holding back from lunging out at something.

Featherweight then came out behind Fluttershy, and noticed Spyro. Immediately he gasped, pointed, and looked up to Fluttershy, "That's a dragon! I can start more articles on the life of a dragon now! Spike was getting too boring for readers before."

Spyro just nodded in greeting toward Featherwieght, biting his toungue down harder, as for some reason he was beginning to fantasize about eating that little pegasus, probably because he looked like fodder in general.

"Featherweight, this I-Is Spyro..." Said Fluttershy.

Featherweight jumped forward to shake Spyro's hand, making Fluttershy jump, but she avoided anything else to not seem offensive.

"Hello Spyro! Mind if I take a picture?!"

Spyro shook his head back and forth, hoping this wouldn't take long, as his appetite level was reaching over nine-thousand.

Featherweight smiled big, and got his camera from around his neck. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash flew up to Fluttershy.

"Hey, Twilight said Princess Celestia wanted him to stay here, but we were just talking about rethinking that, considering you’re afraid of his... type." said Rainbow quietly,

Fluttershy looked over to Spyro, whom was letting pictures be taken, but not really posing much, or changing his posture, "Well, it's not so much that he's a dragon, he is only a little bigger that Spike... but I don't like his posture."

"What do you mean?" asked Rainbow Dash.

"He's holding back from charging onto the critters inside, I have seen other carnivores like that when I have them around. That and he get's more anxious the closer Featherweight get's to him." said Fluttershy.

"Are you saying he's thinking about eating featherweight?" asked Rainbow.

"Not exactly, he's just holding back a sort of instinct." said Fluttershy, “And its that instinct that is making me nervous… and the claws…”

Suddenly, featherweight spoke up to Spyro, "That's good! Thanks for your time!" he then turned to Fluttershy, "I’ll just leave now... and can I have the potion back?"

Fluttershy looked to featherweight, "No, it is too dangerous! Ask Twilight how dangerous something is before you try it next time, alright?"

Featherweight sighed, "Alright Miss Fluttershy!"

In a short few moments, the scrawny little pony was gone. Spyro loosened up a bit as a result, and began to worry about his state of mind around these ponies. Sparx flew up beside his head, and buzzed at him like a form of communication. Spyro in response smiled a bit and patted the dragonfly.

"Huh." said Fluttershy, "That Dragonfly seams to keep him docile."

"It's a thing the old monks brought about a long time ago in the dragon realms, to teach dragons from a young age to avoid turning out all brutal.” Said Spyro, surprising Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, “We dragons get a magic dragonfly become our partner from infancy, to basically teach over your life to value companionship over greed and other things that used to plague other generations."

Fluttershy smiled a bit and spoke quietly, "Well that's nice... could you hear us the whole time?"

Spyro smirked, "Just parts. But I don’t mind if you don't want me to come inside."

"Oh no that's fine!" said Fluttershy, "Come on in, I have some cookies on the table, I have been keeping them around for when the crusaders hang around."

"Cookies? Heck yeah!" said Spyro, as he hopped in, they would partially suffice his appetite for now.

Rainbow Dash eyed Fluttershy, "You sure you're alright with him alone?"

"Yes Dash..." started Fluttershy, "He proved himself to me already."

"Heh, maybe he can help you get over your fear of dragons!" said Rainbow while she nudged Fluttershy's shoulder.

"Oops, a cup of water fell on the cookies!" yelled Spyro from inside, "I'll still eat them though!"

Fluttershy giggled, and turned to go inside, then gasped as Spyro swallowed a cookie whole, "DON'T EAT ANYMORE!"

Spyro jumped, "I'm sorry!"

"THAT'S LOVE POTION! Not Water!" Yelled Fluttershy.

Spyro immediately looked at the cup, and noticed the liquid was indeed pink, which apparently was the color of love. With this realization, he dropped the plate of cookies, and freaked.

Author's Note

Worked real hard here, and will proofread on more time before the night is over.

PS: If you don't know, Spyro has always found romance pointless, he is still a kid after all, so this ought to freak him out even further.