Hey everypony! I'm back! With more! So now, Spike's had lots of crap on him. He's been raising a phoenix, training his dragon skills, and singlehandedly saving dress shops from bankruptcy. Our Spikey-wikey's getting to be pretty badass. However, even the best of us need a break. So, this chapter is going to be silly, or at least try to be. I've never tried writing humor before. This will be an experience.

Also, I don't really know where to find a good picture to use as cover art for the fic. Anypony got suggestions? Or want to draw something up? Maybe? Okay. Story time!

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The not-so-little dragon awoke from his slumber. He had taken to sleeping on a makeshift bed of pillows and blankets Twilight had supplied him until he stopped growing so rapidly. After all, it was hard to make a bed for anything that grew in size every two weeks it seemed. He stood up and stretched, feeling joints pop and crack with a degree of statisfaction. Once he had gotten chewed out by Twilight, he'd promptly went to sleep.

And he pretty much stayed asleep for a few days. He was told that Rarity had done the same thing, as the two of them were exhausted. While Twilight had been angry with him, she was still proud of him for what he had done and let him sleep. After all, he'd been running three jobs with almost no rest. Spike eventually had stayed up long enough to write a friendship report, and then passed back out into dream land. Thankfully, his dreams were devoid of the dream dragon, who'd he'd now dubbed "Dreamy" on account of not having another name for him/it. He'd done his best to put Dreamy out of his mind.

He finally felt rested back up. Spike hadn't realized just how crazy tired he had been. After his stretching, the dragon slowly walked downstairs. A bit of guilt struck him. He hadn't intended on sleeping so much. What if somepony had needed him? What if Fluttershy had had to treat a bear with a broken leg that she couldn't get back to her cottage? Or if Twilight had discovered some great friendship lesson to send to Princess Celestia? Or if Rarity hadn't had enough gems and had to go dig up more?

Spike paled, a considerable talent given his fairly deep purple colored scales. What kind of assistant was he to just do that? A pretty terrible one, he thought. Granted, he'd worked as hard as any of them, trying to keep the three mares from falling behind in their work. And he'd risked his life as well, even though it had probably been dumb of him to do. Twilight had been very right to chastise him for it, and Spike knew it. That was usually how he learned from his... mother? Older sibling? Whatever she was. Granted, he usually would argue with her first, but she was almost always usually eventually right. But the point was, he'd deserved a break and he knew it from the bottom of his dragonic heart. He walked down to their kitchen and picked up a sapphire from the bowl of gems they kept on the counter for his snacks. They were like pieces of fruit would be to a pony. He didn't feel like cooking breakfast, or lunch. He really had no idea what time it was. Oh well. A late start was better than no start at all.

As he munched on the gemstone, the dragon walked into the library, trying to find Twilight. To his surprise, she wasn't there. He approached her work area where she kept notes of what pony checked out which book and her own personal research notes. Her clock read that it wasn't even close to noon, and her calender had "SPA DAY" written on the date.

So she was at Aloe and Vera's Spa? He grinned. That usually meant that at least Rarity would be there, possibly Fluttershy. Dash didn't much care for the place, but maybe Pinkie and Applejack were there as well. He'd bonded with the honest earth pony when they watched over Fluttershy's animals during the whole fiasco with the dresses. The dragon made up his mind. If they were having a spa day, he'd relax too. Maybe a nice stroll through town would help? He made his way to the front door, ready to go outside.

Or so he thought, when the door burst open and a very pink pony tackled him.

"SPIKE! OMIGOSH! COME WITH ME!"

Like a bolt of lightning, the party pony was out the door and Spike, having nothing else to do, decided to follow. He shut the door and broke into a run to keep up with the mare who had managed to somehow appeared a good ways away. At first, it seemed like they were heading towards Sugarcube corner, but they eventually passed it. By a certain miracle, the dragon finally caught up to Pinkie at the edge of Sweet Apple Acres.

Panting, he had to ask.

"What are we doing here? Is there something wrong with Applejack?"

Pinkie Pie just smiled and pointed to the barn.

"I'm so excited! I can't wait to show you! COME ON!" The entirely too energetic mare darted off towards the barn, bouncing with every step.

Spike shook his head and sighed.

"How does she have so much energy? Jeez louise," the dragon muttered. He debated just going about his day, but Pinkie Pie really seemed excited about something and had obviously wanted him to see it. While they weren't close, Spike thoroughly enjoyed just how sweet and happy she was. Anytime he was having a bad day, Pinkie Pie could cheer him up with no problem. Spike personally didn't think that her cutie mark represented parties so much as just making people happy in general. It was like she was a more outgoing, comedic Fluttershy.

After all, who didn't smile when they got a balloon? Balloons were awesome.

He poked his head into the door and saw a very awesome party set-up. A huge banner hung in the middle with the words, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY APPLEJACK" imprinted on them.

"What do you think?" The party pony had the biggest, most hopeful look Spike had ever seen on her face. The dragon walked in and took a full view of the room. She had definitely decked the barn out. A huge cake with decorated with apples stood on a table, a small pool stood to the side filled with water and apples for bobbing, and it all looked fantastic.

"You've outdone yourself, Pinkie! It looks fantastic. But, uh... why are you showing me this?"

Pinkie grinned and bounced over to him.

"Oh, well, you see, Applejack's with Twilight, Fluttershy and Rarity at the Spa so she's distracted, Big Macintosh and Applebloom are getting the family together to plan out the surprise, Rainbow Dash is out flying around trying to make sure the weather is fine and also scouting to see if Applejack is coming, and everypony else was busy and my Pinkie Sense told me you'd be waking up so I decided to come get you and show you the party! Besides, you weren't awake long enough for us to tell you that the party was today, so I figured the best way to tell you was to show you!"

Spike nodded, his brain trying to adapt to working at Pinkie Speed with mixed results. He looked around a few times and nodded again, as his inner assistant woke up.

"Need anything? I can help do something, right?"

Pinkie shook her head.

"Eeeenope! Hee hee hee! I think it's so funny when Big Macintosh does that. But as exciting as it would be to have an awesome dragon be my assistant, I'm actually all done! I just gotta wait for Bic Mac to get here with the Apple family! OOOH! IDEA! You can maybe start helping me out with some parties sometimes! Only if you're not busy because I know that Twilight and Rarity and Fluttershy all use you as an assistant and you're busy being Peewee's parent!"

Spike frowned. He would really like to help Pinkie Pie, if only because what she did didn't seem like too much work and seemed like loads of fun. But she was right. He just simply did not have time to help the party pony unless he gave up helping one of the other ponies. He couldn't abandon Twilight, so that left Rarity his crush, or Fluttershy his newest teacher. He was still learning from Fluttershy about animals and Rarity did the closest thing to paying him when he helped her.

"Well, once I'm done learning from Fluttershy, I should be able to start helping you! I think it'd be loads of fun!"

Pinkie beamed.

"OH! I should throw a "Spike is going to be the best dragon assistant ever!" party! It would be so much fun!"

Spike laughed, the enthusiasm contaigous. Pinkie was definitely the happiest pony he knew. In fact... really, why was she so happy? Spike tried putting his more matured and wisened mind to the task of figuring the pink mare out, but if Twilight had all but given up on that, what chance did he have?

Maybe it wouldn't hurt to ask?

"Hey, Pinkie... This is kinda a wierd question, but why are you so happy all the time?"

Pinkie's eyes widened and her smile didn't quite reach it's usual width. She chuckled quietly and put a hoof on Spike's shoulder.

"That is a wierd question, silly! I'm happy all the time because I'm alive and this world is full of color and smiles!"

Spike nodded. Made sense, really. He'd been told that Pinkie grew up in a very dismal childhood. Twilight had been very quick to fill him in on the cutie mark stories of all her friends and telling him how they related to hers. Pinkie Pie was so happy because she was alive, and the simplest happy thing could make her day better. A new feeling of respect grew in his heart for the mare, and he was about to comment when Pinkie had a mischievious look in her eyes.

"TAG! You're it!"

Pinkie bounced/dashed out the barn door without a stop.

"Oh, Pinkie Pie. You're so random," Spike said, before running out the door to give chase.

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Yeah, this chapter's short, but it and the next part of Party Spike Anthem are mostly just filler anyway. I've started working on how I want the rest of the story to go. One more arc and then wedding time. I've got a rough outline of how it's going to go. It'll be similar to the canon wedding plot wise.

Also, the wedding arc will be huge. I'm going to try and detail everything and even include focus on the Mane 6 for once instead of just Spike's perspective. They could have easily made the wedding into a full length movie and I'm going to try and capture that and also fill a couple of plot holes that make no sense to me.

Thirdly. It was recently my 21st birthday. Help me celebrate by reviewing. I really hope I got Pinkie Pie's character right. I've turned Spike into something of an author avatar and a lot of what he thinks about the cast is what I think. Obviously. You guys probably caught that. Anyways, tell me what you all think, and the next chapter should be up in a few days! Next chapter is where Spike gets his groove on with the Apple Family! And yes. This means Braeburn. Who is best pony.