Like many others, that was a beautiful day for the kingdom of Equestria. The wind was calm, the birds sang, and the ponies of all kinds enjoyed the warm radiant light shining on the sky.

Equestria apparently could at last enjoy peace and uninterrupted prosperity that had been seen on the brink of catastrophe, after the events like the return of Nightmare Moon, Discord's rebirth and the invasion of the Changelings had taken place 7 years ago. And though certainly those events had happened recently, the ponies now saw them as bad memories.

The ponies who managed to end those things weren’t an exception. The holders of The Elements of Harmony, now also holders of legitimate titles of nobility and better known as “The Guardians of Harmony”, had continued with their lives.
Applejack and her family had expanded enormously the farm, having now a lot of workers to harvest and distribute their products, not only in Ponyville, but to the other towns of the region that had begun to form over the years.

Rainbow Dash no longer lived in Ponyville. As soon as she reached the minimum age of admission, Spitfire asked her to join the Wonderbolts. It was difficult for her and the rest to say goodbye, but she was willing to make the sacrifice to fulfill her dream. In addition she could afford to visit them quite often.

Fluttershy, after obtaining her degree in Veterinary, had conditioned her home even more (if that was possible) and now it was nothing less than an animal hospital. Of all her friends, she was the only one who had gotten married, her husband being a doctor Ponyville hospital called Swift Relief. A serene and friendly unicorn, but of strong character.

Rarity was an eminence in the world of fashion. Her season premieres almost always adorned the covers of magazines, and ponies of all Equestria travelled to Ponyville to make their orders. For some it was odd Rarity was still living in Ponyville instead of moving to Canterlot or another metropolis of the kingdom, but she always said there was no better place to work than her beloved land, where there were her dearest friends and her family.

The Cake family had moved to Fillidelphia long ago with their children, leaving Sugar cube corner to the capable and happy hands of Pinkie Pie. Now the happy pony was the pastry chef, manager and owner of the place.

And last, but not least, Twilight Sparkle, the most loyal student of the same Princess Celesstia, continued her studies, on her way to becoming the greatest witch ever since Star Whirl "The Bearded". Twilight’s extensive studies about friendship, her discoveries in astronomy, the recipes for spells and potions she had created had reached so much magnitude that the Princess had told her to make nothing less than her own section in Canterlot library. Besides, she had started a small project by teaching magic to interested ponies in the evenings in her library.

"Spike, I'm back!" Twilight shouted when she entered her home in the afternoon on Sunday, after her visit to Fluttershy’s house where she had gone to leave Owlicious, for the old owl wasn’t lately feeling good. Peewee wasn’t at home either, but she already knew that. It had been gone when the mating season of phoenixes started.

"Spike, are you here?" asked Twilight, having no response from her loyal assistant.

She went to the kitchen, where she thought she’d find her assistant preparing food, but she only found a scroll on the table.

"What’s this?" she wondered while bringing the scroll to her with her magic.

"Dear Twilight, I was summoned by Princess Celestia to go to Canterlot to join the meeting between our princesses and ambassadors of the kingdom of Ikaruga, which will be held in two days and in which, as you know, it’s intended to negotiate a peace treaty between the two nations. I guess the Princess called me now to give me time to stay current with what will be discussed in the meeting and so that my presence will facilitate dealing with the ambassadors. I wanted to wait for you to come to tell you this personally, but the royal came before you. Anyway, I’ll see you in a few days. I left the food ready in the refrigerator.

Your number 1 assistant Spike”

"Spike, mediator in an international political event" Twilight laughed, not conceiving the idea of her assistant in such a role.

"How many years have passed" she sighed, remembering old times.

Technically, Spike was still a baby, but having grown up as Pony, Spike had a level of intellectual and moral development bigger than possibly any other member of his species that age. While some things never change, like he was still cheerful, innocent and even awkward in some ways, Spike had grown psychologically and now had a part time job as an archivist and manager of the documents in the village hall. In addition he had grown. Now he was slightly higher than Twilight, but much stronger than her. Almost as strong as Big Mac. Dragon's blood did him justice. And speaking of that, his wings had started to emerge, though they were still very small so he could fly.

Twilight took from the refrigerator the food Spike had prepared for her. Green salad with orange segments and dried cranberries for sweetening. And as always, the food made by Spike was simply delicious.

"Instead of working in the town hall, he should open up a restaurant" she told to herself when she finished her meal.

She washed the dishes and went to read a book in the comfort of her studio where there were her astronomy artifacts. It was Sunday, so there was no need to worry about attending the library and she was also in the middle of her holiday period of her studies, so she had the whole day to herself.

But the reading Twilight had chosen to spend the afternoon, which was nothing but a love story, ended up depressing her when it reminded her of what she didn’t have… Fluttershy was happily married and she was already making plans to have her first baby. The romance between Rainbow Dash and Light Strike was the best known secret of the Wonderbolts. Rarity did not even bother to leave home. The suitors came to her business to woo her from all of Equestria. Everyone knew the only thing Applejack loved more than her farm and her land, was her family. And Pinkie… well, Pinkie was Pinkie and apparently no energetic and positive enough (if not crazy) stallion had been born to maintain a romantic relationship with her.

But… What about Twilight? She knew all the friendship variables. She knew astronomy as much as someone with a doctoral degree. The Princess trusted her even more than her oldest royal advisor. She had saved Equestria from its destruction in 3 different occasions… and yet she knew absolutely nothing about relationships. Not empirically at least.

"Do I have something wrong?" she said to herself while looking at herself in the mirror.

Twilight wasn’t ugly at all. She knew it. Though she didn’t have a sex appeal that left the chart like Rarity’s or Fluttershy’s, neither did many other ponies in the town, but they still had a partner. Why didn’t she?

It was no secret that Twilight never cared too much for her social life in Canterlot. The other mares rarely sought her for a walk or something like that. Much, MUCH rarer was that a Stallion did it. Especially with her reputation as a little mouse library. "I'm telling you! It’s like she's trying to be virgin!" she remembered hearing that from a stallion some days before moving to Ponyville. Twilight would never admit it, but that comment had deeply hurt her self confidence in the subject.

Upon arriving at Ponyville, she had certainly and enormously been open to socializing, but only with ponies of the same sex. And as the conditions of her stay in the village were to study the magic of friendship, not love, Twilight never considered necessary or pertinent to get into the matter…

"Until now" she wailed, returning to her couch.

Her title of nobility had brought her several suitors, but they were only opportunists and sycophants she didn’t want to have anything to do with. The rest either ran away or treated her with too much respect or caution to give her confidence or interest to seek a truly romantic relationship.

"I only want a stallion who’s handsome, strong, who loves me and shares with me the things I love in life, like magic, astronomy and literature" She said, extending her arms to the ceiling.

"Is it too much to ask for?"

Twilight decided to go take a bath to soothe her sorrows, passing through a night table where there were several photographs. In one of them, it was seen the celebration of her 19th birthday with all the girls around her: her 6 best friends, Zecora, the CMC and of course, Spike hugging her by her side.

"Well… At least I have you, right Spike?" she said while smiling, as if the dragon could hear her words.

But her smile faded quickly.

"I have you, but… For how long?"

Spike was growing. What would happen when he no longer fitted in the library? Would they have to build him another house? Would he have to look for a cave near the village to live? Would he have to go and live with his fellow dragons in Ikaruga? Twilight sighed and stared at her home. She felt so alone and quiet. Would it be like this when Spike was no longer by her side?

A loud sound pulled Twilight out from her melancholy. The Ponyville alarm sirens were sounding.

"What’s happening out there?" she wondered confused, since when she looked out the window, she saw there was no disaster or anything like that worthy to alarm all the people.

Then several pegasi passed through with speakers.

"It is requested the presence of all the people outside the city hall for an urgent announcement. Please go to the city hall for a state of emergency communiqué"

Without a second thought, Twilight teleported herself to the place mentioned where there had already been formed a crowd of ponies.

"Hey Twilight!" shouted an unmistakable voice.

"Hey Pinkie, how are you?"

"Excited! The sirens never sound unless something horrible is happening, but this time nothing horrible is happening. But they still sound and they called here. I bet something amazing will happen! My Pinkie sense tells me so!"

‘Well, I think we’re about to find out’

“Your attention, please” spoke the Mayoress.

“I’ve been informed about a terrible accident that took place in the weather factory of Cloudsdale, a few moments ago. Because of this terrible mishap, several meteorological disasters got out of control and it’s estimated that one of them will pass through our village today at 9 pm”

“But there are only 4 hours left for that!”

“What kind of natural disaster?!”

“The climate patrol can’t do anything?” The cries of the crowd were heard.

“Citizens, please calm down. The natural phenomenon cannot be dissipated by the weather patrol because it’s very dangerous for them to approach. It’s a level 3 hurricane, besides it comes while dragging powerful thunderstorm clouds. I ask you all to protect your homes and take the necessary security measures immediately to protect your assets and yourselves from this phenomenon that’s moving towards our people. If you know somepony who doesn’t know this, make them know now. You may leave. We’ll see here tomorrow for a damage report”

And with that said, hysterically the crowd dispersed to their homes.

“Well, that IS bad. I had to bake a lot of… Twilight?” asked Pinkie while turning her head in all directions when she saw her friend had disappeared.

“Twilight?”

Twilight reappeared inside the library with a frightened face.

“Oh no! Oh no! Oh no ohnoohnoohnoohnoohnoohno! What do I do, what do I do?” She asked out loud while hitting her hooves against the ground, as if she was dancing professional Flamenco.

“Keep it together Twi, keep it together… I must make a plan… First the windows. That’s it!” that being said she teleported herself outside her home, appearing at the entrance of a hardware store.

“Hello, is there any service? I need some adhesive tape!” she shouted while knocking the door desperately.

“Mrs., we are closed. Didn’t you hear the news about the hurricane?” an earth pony leaned out the window beside the door.

Before answering, Twilight teleported herself and appeared inside the establishment.

“Yes, I did, that’s why I’m here! I need some adhesive tape for my windows” she said while running through the corridors.

Moments after, Twilight came back.

“I’m taking this” she said with a lot of products floating around her.

“It…it’s fine. It would cost…”

“Take this and keep the change!” Twilight interrupted him and left a generous amount of bits on the counter and then teleported herself to the library.

Later, Twilight had already upholstered all the windows of the house. But besides she’d wrapped, though it was only moderately, all the ceramics, glass or any object that could break into pieces. In Addition, she turned off all the electrical devices in the house, and put some adhesive tape over the outlets of the walls.

“Very well, now… Let’s save the research instruments!” she went to her studio, where she disassembled all her telescopes, earth globes, scale models of the solar system, barometer… And she put them in cardboard boxes stuffed with newsprint paper and anything that could absorb shock.

“Very well, now all that’s left is to save the books”

Twilight stood in the middle of the lobby of the library with a briefcase next to her.

“I always knew I would someday use this spell” she smiled ironically.

Her horn began to glow while she was singing a strange chant, really very catchy. All the books of the library started to ‘dance’ through the air, heading slowly to the briefcase next to Twilight, where they disappeared as if falling into a deep hole without end.

“Finally, now only remains the refuge”

Moments later, Twilight was in the basement of the library. On the floor, there were the mattresses of her bed, the guests’ and Spike’s, who now didn’t only have his own bed, but also his own bedroom. The pillows were scattered on the floor and she had formed a perimeter around her that was made with the pillows from the rest of home furniture. It was like entering a kindergarten equipped so no child could get hurt playing in it.

“Now… Let’s wait” she said while covering herself with a not very thick blanket and hugging a pillow.

Later, that same day, Twilight was trembling and completely terrified. The hurricane was visible in the distance from the window and the electric light was gone a few moments ago, leaving her only protected by the light of three candles she had brought with her. Twilight was covered with her blanket, hugging a pillow fiercely against her body while other 2 were rested against her body on both sides as if they were a camping tent.

This was nothing compared to ‘The big storm’ when she’d just moved to Ponyville. First because nopony was sure this natural disaster could wipe out the town or not, but in addition this time she was all alone to face it. She thought about her friends and prayed to Celestia they were well. A smile appeared on her face knowing they would be well. Rarity would probably be with her sister and her parents, protected by the love of her family. The same with Applejack. Pinkie would be in the basement of Sugar Cube Corner with music at full volume and eating cupcakes of all flavors without even realizing the great danger. And Fluttershy would be well protected in her loved husband’s arms.

Twilight then realized what distinguished her from all her friends: she had no one to turn to and who was by her side. She considered herself too much old and mature to go and cry looking for her parents’ support. Her brother? Pfff! That idiot? Okay, he didn’t inform her about his wedding because he was under Queen Chrysalis’s spell. But before that? He didn’t fall in love with Cadence the same week he decided to marry her, RIGHT? There was no excuse. ‘Hey sister, I’m marrying’ It wasn’t so difficult to inform her about how he was in his life, right?

She had forgiven him for being a heartless jerk, in time of course. But it was obvious the trust and affection she had for him had never been the same.

Who could she turn to in a situation like this, in which it seemed any moment the strong winds that whipped her home would remove it from its foundations, or in this case, roots? Owlicious was just a little owl. Added the fact it was an old one and possibly in a few years it wouldn’t be in this world. Peewee was a powerful and virtually immortal phoenix. But it being a magical being and not talking by using words, it was difficult to communicate with him more than other animals, besides, whereas Owlicious was always more attached to her, Peewee was more attached to Spike.

“Spike” whispered Twilight.

Her mind was focused in an instant. Of course! Who else she could trust more than Spike, her beloved number 1 assistant? The one who had been with her, no matter what. In all her long nights of study. To take care of her mental sanity in all those moments when (much to her regret) her neuroticism and hypochondriasis would take her to the brink of insanity. The one who surely had influenced her more than anypony, even more than Princess Celestia, so she would be the pony she was nowadays. If there was anyone in the world who could help her, it was him. But as she well knew, he was far away from the library.

“Spike…” she whispered in a broken voice because of the fear as her pillow absorbed the tears in her eyes.

“Spike… Help me…” she kept asking for her assistant’s help, though the logical part of her brain told her it was nonsense.

“Help me, Spike… Please, help me…” she kept begging with her face buried in the pillow.

“Twilight!” she suddenly heard in the distance.

“What?”

“Twilight, where are you?” she heard, louder than before.

“Spike?” she said, pulling her head out of her improvised refuge.

“Twilight!” cried the dragon when he opened the connecting door to the basement.

“Spike, I’m here!” she yelled, jumping out of her refuge.

Spike closed the door behind him and went down the stairs in one leap. Twilight ran towards him, who stood on his hind legs and spread his arms to receive her.

“Spike, thank Celestia you’re here!” shouted Twilight with relief, burying her face in Spike's chest, almost stabbing him with her horn in the process.

“I couldn’t have been at peace until I knew you were safe” he said while wrapping her in his arms.

“But… How come you’re here? How is it possible?” she asked, confused while looking up to face him.

“The news of the accident in Cloudsdale was known even in Canterlot. As soon as I knew it, I came here by running” he said as if that was the only necessary explanation.

“But… Did you come on your own from Canterlot by running?”

“Yes. Don’t forget my strength and stamina are bigger than most ponies’. It wasn’t so difficult. Besides, I couldn’t call myself your number 1 assistant if I couldn’t be by your side in a situation like this”

“But you had to run through the storm and the wind. You could have died! Besides… What about the meeting with the ambassadors? You were supposed to be there! What will the princesses think when they see you left?” she scolded him.

“I left a note notifying them I was coming back because of an emergency. And yes, I know it was dangerous to come just like that. I know, Twi. I know. But not even all the strength of nature would have made me let you face this alone. Specially, not after what happened the last time.

New tears started coming out of her eyes, but these were because of joy and gratitude. He well knew she needed him and he had risked his life only to be able to be with her.

“Oh Spike… Thank you, thank you so much! I was scared, so scared!” she yelled, breaking into tears and hugging him tightly.

“You no longer have to be, Twi. I’m here and I won’t let anything bad happen to you. I promise” he whispered to her ear while stroking her head and giving her a kiss on the forehead near the base of her horn.

Spike sat down and grabbed Twilight so she could rest her body on his. Eventually, Twilight’s crying became sobs, until her breathing finally slowed and her body relaxed in the embrace of her loyal protector. Twilight sighed, letting her head rest on Spike’s chest, as he continued stroking her mane to relax her.

Twilight started to feel an unusual mix of sensations. She felt happy and grateful that Spike had come to the library just to be able to be with her and protect her, which was very natural. But there was much more. She felt strangely comfortable while she was resting her body on the dragon’s. She felt an unusual warmth enveloping her. A warmth that was coming from everywhere and seemed to relax her body and mind. And she finally felt safe in Spike’s arms. Protected and safe. A strange safety that invited her to believe he could protect her from any danger.

She wondered what was that strange mix of sensations she was experiencing, but her reasoning was interrupted by a loud song outside that made her return to a high alert status, putting her hooves on Spike’s chest.

“Wha… What was that?” she said while looking at the ceiling.

“I don’t know. I’d better go and see what happens” said Spike, breaking the embrace.

“N..No, don’t go!” she said terrified.

“Twilight, calm down. I’m only going to check what that noise was”

“It doesn’t matter, Spike. We’re safe here. You yourself said it. Stay with me. Please, don’t abandon me” she said, begging, with new tears in her eyes.

Seeing her that so miserable, weak and vulnerable way, broke Spike’s heart.

“Twilight, please, relax. I wouldn’t abandon you for anything in the world, but I have to go check. If a window is broken, I have to find a way to cover it or else we’ll soon be swimming down here. If a lightning has fallen on the roof, I’ll have to think what the hell I can do or in the worst cases we’ll have to find another place to stay in, but I have to go up to see what that noise was” he tried to reason with her.

“What I know is I can’t ask you to go up with me. In any case you’ll be safer here. I promise I won’t delay. I’ll come back before you notice it. Ok?”

“Oh… Ok” Twilight answered doubtfully, though she knew Spike was right.

“I’ll come back here soon” he assured her –I’ll leave the door open, so you’ll only have to scream if you need me”

Spike quickly climbed the stairs, leaving the door open when he left. Twilight felt the fear invading her again as her legs started to tremble. Her fears started to grow more, now that she had noticed the lightning storm had gotten stronger.

“S…Spike… Is there everything up there alright?” she tried to scream, but her voice had gotten very weak.

She started listening noises coming from moving furniture.

“Spike, what’s happening up there? Co… Come back, you’ve already taken a lot!”

A strong wind stream opened the door, turning off the 3 candles that lit the basement and leaving the room in a deep darkness and Twilight helpless, prisoner of all her fears.

“SSPIIIIKE!” she shouted, invaded by fear and despair.

“Spike, please! Come back, COME BACK! Spike!” she kept yelling while throwing herself to the floor, and as she had no pillow in her hooves, she shrank in a fetal position, covering her head with her forelegs.

She suddenly felt the wind stopped and felt two hands that took her under her armpits in order to hug her, which she returned, almost by inertia.

“I’m here, Twilight! I’m here, you’re safe”

“DON’T EVER DO THAT AGAIN!” she shouted to his face, though actually the only thing she could see was his eyes that glowed in the darkness.

“Never leave me alone like this again, ever! Never abandon me again! Don’t ever leave me alone, ever! EVER! Don’t you ever dare do it again!” she went completely hysterical, screaming in tears and hitting Spike in the chest with both her hooves.

“I won’t do it, Twilight! I won’t!” he answered, trying to calm her down.

“Promise me that!”

“What?”

“Promise you’ll never abandon me, Spike! Promise you’ll never leave me alone, that you’ll always be by my side! Promise it!”

“I promise, Twilight. I promise. I’m serious!

Twilight kept a moment of silence, and then almost rammed Spike while putting her arms around him and squeezing him with enough force to make his wings hurt him, though he wouldn’t let her notice it, hugging her back protectively and stroking her long mane. Twilight rested her face on the base of his neck, where she let her tears fall, and hugged him with despair as if she was afraid the dragon would banish in the air.

To Spike, it was a torture to see Twilight in such a state. He was hoping he would never see her that way again. But now, he was there to protect her and not let the same thing happen again.

Twilight’s dread by storms had been born on a fateful day 4 years ago. Wishing to explore the power of the wonders of weather, she and Spike had gone to Manehattan to study a tornado that would pass near the metropolis on that weekend. As Spike was still too young back then, Twilight asked him to wait in the hotel and she would manage alone in the fieldwork. Needless to say, things went fatal.

The tornado left the path the meteorologists had indicated, moving directly where Twilight had checked up her checkpoint. Before she could escape there with a spell, an object carried by the wind hit her horn, causing it a fissure and incapacitating her ability to make magic. Unarmed and with a refuge that wasn’t designed to hold on in the eye of the tornado, Twilight found herself literally running for her life from the natural disaster. After 2 tortuous searching days, rescue teams found her in a cave in state of malnutrition, badly injured and still in shock by fear.

Spike had promised neither anything nor anyone would hurt Twilight again.

“Cry no more, Twilight. Please. I’m here. Nothing bad will happen to you” he tried to comfort her while giving her a kiss on her head.

He turned her head and spitted small flames on the candles, which had been extinguished, so that Twilight could calm down faster, which seemed to work when Twilight turned her head to see the lights of the candles.

“Don’t forget it, Spike. Never forget your promise” she finally spoke after a long while, without breaking the embrace.

Spike took her by her shoulders and slightly separated from her to look at her face.

“Twilight, I need no promise… You shouldn’t need me to make you a promise to be sure I will always be by your side” he said while putting his right hand on her cheek, wiping her tears.

“I’ve known you literally since the day I was born. Since then we’ve always been together and the longest time we’ve been apart isn’t more than a week. We’ve shared everything, both good and bad. And you have always been the most important pony in my life”

Twilight had stopped crying and despite the strong winds whipping the house, her attention was entirely directed to the dragon.

“As a dragon I am… I will keep being among the living many centuries after you’re gone” Now it was Spike who seemed to want to cry.

“What makes you think I would want to stay away from you for a second earlier than necessary? Be assured that it doesn’t matter where, when or how. No matter how things may change or how I may change when I grow up… You’ll never be alone. I will always, always be there for you, just as you’ve always been there for me” he said, concluding his speech and planting a kiss on the base of Twilight’s horn.

For the umpteenth time that day, tears escaped her eyes. She brought her face closer to the dragon’s and gave him a kiss on his cheek and then hugged him tenderly.

“Thank you, Spike. Thank you so much. I know I don’t usually say this… I know I’ve never said this to you as often as I should, but I love you. I love you so much, Spike”

Spike felt his heart fly away, touch the moon and back at full speed to his chest.

Reply to her, Spike! Come on man, reply to her! TELL HER YOU LOVE HER! It’s only 4 words: ‘I love you too’! Don’t be a coward! Shouted Spike to himself in his head.

“Spike?” asked Twilight after a while of not receiving responses from the dragon.

“Heh? No, nothing happens! Thanks, Twilight. I’m ok” YOU’RE A COWARD!

“Can I ask you a favor?” She asked timidly.

“What thing?”

“Could we… Do you mind if we sleep cuddled?” Twilight thanked that in the position they were Spike couldn’t see her face, for she was sure a strong blush had gripped her cheeks.

“Of course not, Twi”

They separated a moment to sit back and take the pillows and the sheets to cover themselves. Spike leaned back on his left side, extending his right arm for Twilight. She lay, facing Spike and allowing herself to be covered by his protector’s arm, him covering them both with the blanket in the process.

“Are you comfortable?”

“A lot. Good night, Spike. My number 1 assistant” she said while cuddling against him like a puppy in search of their mother’s body heat.

“Good night, Twi. My favourite sorceress”

Twilight let the feelings her proximity with Spike and his caresses take over her. She listened to the sounds of nature more and more distant, like her fear. She sighed one last time before falling asleep, feeling safer and more comfortable than ever.

Twilight felt herself returning from the world of dreams, opening her heavy eyelids slowly, encountering a pale green screen in front of her face, which confused her, because none of her pillows had that color cover. Besides, she also felt her blanket felt heavier than usual.

She rubbed her eyes before she could distinguish where and who she was with. At first she was a little surprised, but she soon remembered the events from the last night that led her to her current position. Twilight was surprised she was the one who woke up first, for that was an event that happened infrequently, if not ever. But she supposed Spike should be very tired after having had to come back from Canterlot in a record time by himself.

Being careful to not wake him, she broke the embrace to be able to stretch her body. When she saw her assistant because of the light that filtered from the windows, Twilight gasped, shocked when she saw Spike’s body. It was full of bruises, scrapes and even what looked like the scar from a cut on the back of his neck.

“Did he face a herd of hungry tigers?... The hurricane…”

Twilight remembered how, in her desperate escape from the tornado 4 years ago, the wind had injured her several times with the stuff it carried. But Spike hadn’t run away from the winds, he’d had to face it to be able to reach Twilight. He really had risked his life to be with her. If he didn’t have an armored skin, the hurricane would have torn him apart before getting to Ponyville. He hadn’t even taken some time to heal his wounds. Everything to protect her.

“Oh Spike, I’m so sorry” she whispered while covering his body with hers and kissing him on his cheek repeatedly, as her horn started to glow and casted a healing spell on his wounds.

Spike woke up when he felt the effects of her magic and her displays of affection.

“Twilight, what are you doing?!” he yelled very exalted when he saw her lying on top of him.

“I… I was healing your wounds and… I was giving you some kisses on your cheek. Is there anything wrong with that?”

“No, but… You shocked me. What a way to wake up”

“I’m sorry. If I wasn’t so coward, you wouldn’t have had to come here. I’m serious, you could have died just for coming here to take care of me” said Twilight, very ashamed of herself.

Spike sat up, sitting in front of her.

“Tell me, Twilight. What are dragons very good at?”

Twilight raised her left eyebrow, confused by the question that was out of topic.

“They exhale fire?”

“Yes, but, what else?”

“They eat gemstones?”

“No”

“They live some millennia?”

“No”

“They have armored skins with scales that can be as hard as diamonds?” she asked frustrated.

“They protect their treasures” he answered as if it was something obvious.

Twilight remained silent.

“You’re my greatest treasure, Twi. And if to have to get here I had had to lose my hind legs, I would have. And not because of recklessness, but because of determination. Because you are that important to me”

Twilight sighed, not being able to comprehend what her dragon said, so she just hugged him again.

“Thank you, Spike”

“Do you want me to make the breakfast?”

“No… Let’s sleep a little more. I’m still very tired”

“As you wish” he said while leaning on his back.

To his surprise, Twilight climbed above his body, resting her head on the base of his neck and covering them both with the Blanket.

“Well, what are you waiting for?”

“What do you mean?”

“Hug me, you silly dragon”

“Oh, sure”

“Hey, Spike. What you said the last night about being by my side forever, was it serious?” asked Twilight without looking at his eyes.

“With all my heart, Twilight” he answered with a smile, which she returned before embarking back to the world of dreams, protected by the embrace of her beloved dragon.

Author's Notes:

I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I did when I translated it. If you notice a mistake, please tell me and I will correct it.