Shining Time

Darkness, there was nothing and no one can just darkness, no Ponyville no Equestria, no friends just a swirling darkness. This was all that Spike was aware of, eventually his shattered consciousness slowly gathered together. There was an odd sensation indescribable, what was it love? Pain, longing, sorrow it was all of the sensations blended into one terrible bar of unhappiness.

As time went on more and more did the Dragons mind awake, he became aware of more things, the strange sensation seemed to be in two places, one more prominent was on his back a tingling stinging sensation. The other sensation was in his heart, the dull throb of knowing that he could not be with the one he wanted.

Time was irrelevant it could have been days hours or minutes Spike could not tell what was passing, slowly his mind was again capable of coherent thought, and he could understand the reason behind his internal suffering.

"Why does all this have to happen to me" thought Spike sadly to himself "I'm just a child and the yet my true love has shown her feelings, and still we can't be together.

  I turn into a fully grown Dragon in span a few hours. Then back to normal in only seconds, then the next thing I know my body is changing yet again, wings this time just another sign of ageing, growing how long will it be until I am back to that monster. I don't want to destroy this town again as soon, as I know how to use his wings I will find guidance from the other Dragons perhaps they can teach me how to control myself.

Then once again his thoughts clouded and drifted into the land of dreams.

Rarity exited the door of her boutique, shutting it leaving the closed sign on the door, then slowly proceeded through town, "I haven't given up on the search for eternal life,

whenever Spike was unconscious I would be in the library reading with Twilight she just sent a message saying that Spike was asleep for the last time, the next time he woke the wings would be fully formed" Rarity thought to herself as she jogged the library, normally she wouldn't move this fast but this was an emergency, this was her last chance to get some good researching before Spike woke up and started asking questions about why she been the library so much.

It took about five minutes to arrive at the front door the library. she knocked on the door slightly harder than usual, there was the sound of hooves towards the door, a second later Twilight opened the door smiling, "welcome back Rarity you should continue where we left off there are only a few to look at but we do have a while before Spike will wake.

So should we get started" said Twilight smiling brightly.

"Thank you dear for helping me I still can't believe you worked it out on your own" said Rarity as she thought back four days ago… It was a carousel boutique it was late when Rarity herd a knock at the door, and went to answer and on her threshold stood none other than Twilight sparkle, " hello Rarity may I come in, there are some things I need to talk to you about" said Twilight.

Rarity was surprised and slightly scared that Twilight may have discovered what was happening between her and Spike, and was here to scorn her and tell her off for hurting him.

Instead she just walked into the living room of carousel boutique, and sat down on one of the nearby chairs, Rarity moved over and sat with her "so what do I owe the pleasure of your company Twilight is it about Spike, is he okay." Said Rarity

glancing over at Twilight, with a quizzical look.  "He's fine don't worry sleeping peacefully at the moment, but I do need to talk to you about him, and I wanted to ask you a  few things." said Twilight the small amount of fear in Rarity’s heart grew but at the same time there was relief to hear that Spike was okay.

"What did you want to know" said Rarity a few drops of sweat gathering on her brow, and her face adopted a slight guilty look. "Well I know that we both know that Spike has strong feelings for you, and I know that he has told you of them I just want to know whether you felt the same way." ?

'Oh no she’s is found out, what do I do if I tell her the truth, then she might hate me for being unable to be with Spike, if I lie to her then she may find out what really happened and then she won't trust me and I may lose her as a friend, I guess there's no choice then I'd better tell the truth and hope she won't kill me.

"y-yes it's true I do feel the same way towards him, but sadly I can't be with him because he will never age and I will wither and die, she cringed slightly at the thought of her own face with wrinkles. also the fact is that he will grow to be big and it would be hard to live together, if he's bigger than my house" said Rarity, tears streaming down her face.

She confessed everything to Twilight, then hid her face in her hooves and continued to sob into the sofa. Waiting for the inevitable scolding,

but it never came, instead the  comforting feeling of warm arms hugging her, "shhhh shhhhhh don't worry you'll be all right I am not angry at you" said Twilight quietly, slowly Rarity calmed down and her sobs slowed until it was nothing but small shivers.

Eventually she brought her head of hooves and looked up at Twilight's smiling face and suddenly felt better.

"Really how can you not be angry at the me after all I've done to hurt Spike he must be hurting terribly, after finding out that I feel the same as him and then I cannot be with him, and after everything else that happened." Said Rarity she moved away from Twilight and shuffled into the sofa.

"Trust me rarity I am not angry at you, the one reason I came Here Tonight was to find out whether you felt the same way towards him, but since you gave me the reasons why you can't be together, I  can find a way to fix this " replied Twilight with a slight smile on her face. suddenly all of Rarity's  fear disappeared and there was a small glimmer of hope in her heart.

"You'd do all this just from me, I can't thank you enough thank you enough for trying to help but I don't have any clue how to solve this, I mean I went to Zacora and asked her for help and she couldn't find anything that could help me." Said Rarity her voice only shaking slightly.

Twilight suddenly smiled " you forget I live in library of knowledge and I am the Princess's favorite student, not to mention the element of magic if anybody could help you out it would be me, but I'm not doing this just for you I am also going to help Spike because I think that he's been through enough." Said Twilight happily.

Twilight stepped away from Rarity, suddenly she was knocked off her feet and on to the sofa, "Twilight Twilight I can't thank you enough for what you doing, I never felt this excited before" said Rarity in a high-pitched voice, " I can't thank you enough there must be something I can do for you" she said.

"Don't worry you don't have to repay me just make sure spikes happy" said Twilight warmly as she got up off the sofa and went to get her cloak, "so Twilight when do we get started"? Asked Rarity "well when I get back to the library tonight i will start  looking, so if you come over tomorrow feel free to join me" said Twilight.

And with that Twilight left boutique, shutting the door behind her. Rarity returned to the present with Twilight standing in front of the library door, smiling slightly as she walked in, they then both proceeded into the middle of the library, on a small table there was a pile of books "okay these are the only ones left with any relevance to what we're looking for, I'll take the right section, you may have the left."

For the next few hours Twilight&Rarity spent reading most of the books, with no little or no luck, and slowly the small bubble of hope in her heart grew smaller soon there was only one book left. "Sigh it seems even my knowledge and this library has its limits, I can't believe we spent all week looking through the books in this place, and still we are no closer to the answers than when we began" said Twilight almost defeated.

"Well darling don't worry, there is still one but left perhaps the answer is in here,? but I think I'd rather read this on my own " said Rarity.

"I suppose that's best anyway the rest of the group should be arriving soon, Spike will be waking up in about 10 min" said Twilight, as she levitated all the books back to their original position with the exception the one which Rarity slipped into her  saddlebags.

A few minutes later there was a knock on the library door, Rarity went to answer it, none other than Pinkie Pie and Flutter Shy, were waiting on the doorstep, "hello may we come in if that's okay" said the timid voice of Flutter Shy "yeah, and I want to see Spike and his new wings" said  loud and excited voice of Pinkie Pie.

"Now now I know you excited to see Spike, but you're not the only one who hasn't seen him" said the happy voice of Applejack as she walked round the corner and joined the group. all Twilight could do was try to hold back her  laughter "it's great you guys are here, come on in now we have to do is wait for Rainbow Dash" said Twilight as they walked in the door, shut behind them.

In the group walked into the main part of the library, "well we all know that Rainbow Dash will be fashionably late, so I say that we go and see Spike." Said Applejack cheerfully, the rest of the group agreed then started towards the stairs, they had to go, one at a time so they would not get stuck. Rarity was in first place with Twilight following behind, then it was Pinkie Pie followed by Flutter Shy and Applejack.

Rarity walked up the small staircase, leaning slightly on the wall as it went inside the curve of the tree, soon she came round the corner. And saw Twilight fourposter bed, but next to it was a small basket that lay empty, there was a figure on Twilight’s bed, under the covers and hidden from the world, she moved closer to give the rest of the group access to the room.

As soon as the rest were in the  room they all gathered around Twilight's bed and observed the sleeping figure under the covers, then suddenly there was a loud crash, as the window to the side was opened hard to reveal the cyan Pegasus with a vibrant mane, her face flat on the floor she looked up at the group, "what I miss you guy’s? Is he awake yet, how his wings bet they awesome? Huh not as good as mine  I bet" said Rainbow excitedly.

Rarity sighed a slightly annoyed expression on her face, trust her to get all excited about spikes new wings and  say that hers are still better, not really caring much, for spikes well being, maybe it's just her way hiding her pain and worry, Rarity thought to herself, and she looked once again at the blankets.

Once again spikes mind flared with activity, but this time it was different he could feel more than just his thoughts, slowly feeling came back to his claws, slowly down to his arms the same sensation started at the tips of his toes and tail and moved up a slight tingling sensation, eventually the feeling met the core of his body, then flared backwards there were two more new muscles and bones that he had never possessed before.

Then his mind slowly pushed against the barriers that had contained it for the past day, slowly they cracked and crumbled until he was once again in control of his body, he slowly moved his claws then his tail, shifting slightly he felt a slight weight above him and then opened his eyes.

For a second fear enveloped him because he still saw nothing but darkness, despite the fact that he had regained control of his body, he started thrashing his arms trying to get this darkness away from him. That's when he felt the warm embrace and he slowly calmed down. Twilight had hugged him to come down "hey what's going on I can't see anything" said Spike.

Then he was temporarily blinded as the  darkness lifted  and he felt a soft blanket being pulled off of him.

Spike blinked a few times to regain his vision, then he noticed that the room was filled with all his friends Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Flutter Shy, and in his opinion the most important one of all Rarity who was standing nearby staring intently as were the rest of the group.

"Hey guys what's so interesting? It's good to see you all again" said Spike then he stretched lifting his arms into the air flexing his spine down to his tail then he felt something strange movements on his back.

Then he noticed an entirely different section of muscles that hadn't existed before, he experimentally gave one a flick, then felt something rub against his side.

He turned his head to look at the toils of the last week, what he saw almost made him fall over again, on his back the line of spines that ran down to the tip of his tail was still there but,  either side of them were new thick muscles that went along new bones that formed thin finger like bones that stretched down, the muscles covered the main part of the long bone, but the thin bones were covered by a fleshy membrane about half a centimeter wide, that stretched down and formed the wings at the end where the bone protruded slightly from membrane there were small spikes, the membrane itself matched the color of his scales.

The sight seemed so strange to him, he had looked at this back many times and seen nothing but smooth scales the strange new appendages seemed out of place but I guess I'll just have to get used to them thought Spike "wow you look amazing  Spike your wings almost as good as mine, and you  finally look like a true Dragon.

But do you know how to use them that's the question" said Rainbow Dash "well I guess I don't" said Spike slightly embarrassed, "oh really Rainbow Dash he's only just woken up, he has these new things he's never felt before, and you asking him if he knows how to use them, this must be very strange for Spike you can't expect to get used this instantly don't you even care or worry about how he is feeling?" Said Rarity angrily.

Rainbow dash suddenly felt terrible and stopped talking then bowed her head for a second and looked ground, "sorry Spike I guess I should have asked how feeling first." said Rainbow Dash "don't worry about it Dash I'm fine thanks for asking" replied Spike with a smile, he was then hugged hard by Rarity she jumped forward on the bed, "I'm glad to see your okay Spike, I've been worried for the past week, but it seems the gems I gave you helped a little" said Rarity a smile on her face.

"You bet they did thanks we surely would have ran out  if it  weren't for you," said Twilight Rarity let go of Spike and jumped off the bed, as soon as she had, the rest of the ponies in the room began bombarding Spike with questions, about ten minutes later once he had answered all questions from everypony so they knew what happened, Spike decided he'd been sitting on this bed for too long.

The rest of the ponies cleared out of the room and proceeded down stairs, only Rainbow Dash and Rarity remained.

Spike jumped the bed,as his wings were still unfurled snapped up slightly and his fall to the ground took a few seconds longer than it should have, soon as his feet touched the ground he looked behind once again in awe.

"Spike do you know how to fold your wings, it looks more polite when folded  by your side than flared out like that and it takes up less room." Said Rainbow Dash with a quizzical look on her face trying to hide laughter.

"oh right no I don't how exactly do you move these things? they are strange I've never had muscles there before." said Spike as he stared at his back once again.

Then Rainbow Dash moved over to him and stood by his side "don't worry I'll help Rarity could you please get the other wing once we've moved them in all the motions, Spike should be able to learn  how to move them by himself" said Rainbow Dash "okay then" said Rarity her face heating up slightly at the thought of touching spike's sensitive new wings.

  Then they moved to ether side of  Spike, and took each wing in their hoofs and stretched them out their full-length, Rainbow began flapping the wing she held and Rarity did the same.

Spike acquired a slight blush to his cheeks as he thought of the two females moving his wings for him, but then he memorized movements of the muscles several of the smaller muscles that he had not felt before suddenly became known to him as well, then Rainbow Dash went through all of the correct flight patterns, and Rarity copied then Rainbow slowly moved the right wing into a folded position on his back.

When he looked at it the wing seemed a lot smaller now when it was folded it had a good 5 foot radius Rarity mimicked with the other wing, and they both let go and walked off to face Spike. Spike memorized vision of his wings. "now I want you to unfold your wings and fold them again a few times to get the hang of it on your own" said Rainbow Dash excitedly Spike complied.

First he unfurled his wings moved them around a few times and return them back to a folded position, he repeated this process until Rainbow Dash seemed satisfied. "Well how did I do/" said Spike "meh you did okay maybe with some practice you can flying around like me come outside tomorrow and call for me outside the town Hall I'll come and we can teach you how to use those properly" said Rainbow dash.

she exited through the open window, her tail and mane leaving a rainbows streak in the air after her, Rarity then used her magic to shut the window, her horn glowed brightly for a few seconds then faded, she turned her head to look at Spike, and laughed at what she saw he had a childish expression on his face as he continually opened and folded his wings "seems this week was worth it I see looks like you're enjoying yourself" said Rarity.

In a giggly voice, Spike then realized what he was doing and once again folded his wings by his side neatly he then looked around the room to check there were alone then moved closer to Rarity " I'm sorry that I will live forever and continued to grow, I wish something do about it" said Spike sadly "don't worry about it Spike nothing will stop me from finding way around this we should probably go down stairs, tomorrow is going to be a long day learning how to use those wings" said Rarity lovingly.

It was then that Spike started planning I think I will leave Ponyville, I can go to find others of my race, maybe they can help me with this problem thought  Spike. as he walked downstairs with Rarity, unwilling to let his physiology getting away of their relationship no matter the cost.