"Huff, huff..." Panted a certain purple and green dragon as he finally climbed the mountain and ended near the other dragons that were there for the dragon migration. He was Spike, the assistant to Twilight Sparkle and the only dragon that was raised in ponyville.

Recently Spike was feeling down about not being a "real" dragon, just as teased by Rainbow Dash and other ponies, and so he decided to "find himself" by going to the place where dragons reunited with each other for the dragon migration.

"Woah..." Spike gasped upon seeing the many kinds of dragon that were there, some with wings, some with big horns, hell some had several heads!

Twilight, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash all had the same thoughts as they were stunned at the spot for the dragon migration. They had put together a dragon costume to blend in and to make sure Spike was alright.

Spike smiled and grabbed his bundle before looking around for dragons around his age. He saw a group of teenage dragons surrounding two others who seemed to be playing a game with their tails.

"Let's hope their friendly." replied Spike who knew to be cautious in an unknown territory like this.

And with that thought in mind and the hope of making new friends that were of the same species as him, Spike quickly walked over to the nearby dragons, whom happened to be teenagers.

"Well, well, well...what do we have here?" A teenage dragon with dark purple skin, blonde hair and wings asked as he grinned smugly at Spike. "A cute little dragon. What are you doing here brat?"

"I-I was..." Spike tried to say before another dragon, this one with brown thick scales, blue horns and pudgy wings, went near him.

"Yeah! Why don't you go with someone else, little baby?"

But then another voice, a female one at that, said, "ENOUGH! Don't antagonize the child..."

"S-sorry boss..." Both dragons flinched as their boss came in sight.

This dragon happened to be female as her curvy body could tell. She had red scales on her body while her underbelly and wings were a yellow-white color. Her spines that went down her back to her spear tipped tail were all orange.

The rest of the dragons cleared a path for her as she walked over and looked down at Spike. "Sorry for them, they tend to get this way around newbies."

"N-No problem..." replied Spike who was relieved, and mystified by seeing a female dragon for the first time in his life.

"Names Garbledina, and yes I'm a girl. My parents were hoping for a boy, but they got me." replied Garbledina.

"My names Spike." replied the dragon assistant.

"Well I'm gonna go on a wing here and say you're new here, right?"

"Y-yes, ma'am. Why?" Asked a curious Spike.

"Oh nothing..." Garbledina just smiled at the dragon before her. "So where do you come from?"

"Em...I-I came from...Ponyville..." That surprised some of the dragons as others were about to laugh...before Garbledina's glare stopped them as they went pale.

"Oh? So raised by ponies?" She said in surprise. "Quite unusual, after all dragon's eggs ARE heavily protected. How did you ended up with ponies?"

"Well, my adoptive mother, Princess Celestia, told me that she found my egg in an abandoned cave that was on fire...but that's it, she didn't see any nearby dragon..." Spike said while wondering what had happened to his parents.

Spike soon burped up a scroll with his signature green flames. Garbledina grabbed the scroll after it was burped up and began to read it.

"Dearest Spike," Gabledina began to mumble ot herself as she read and stopped after reading it. "Seems like your moms worried." replied Garbledina after reading it.

"Yeah, but she knows I'm a tough dragon." replied Spike puffing out his chest.

"Oh really? Then why don't you join our group? We can show you the ropes to really being a dragon." offered Garbledina. "And don't worry, I'll keep the others in line."

Spike smiled at a chance to learn form real dragons and nodded his head with vigor.

Meanwhile Twilight and the others were surprised about Spike making new friends with some of the teenager dragons, mostly Garbledina.

"Well, at least Spike wouldn't have any problems with her around..." Twilight realized happily with Rainbow Dash nodding and Rarity looking a 'little' annoyed how the red dragoness was around Spike. "Rarity, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, darling...nothing at all..." The while unicorn said with a tick mark in her forehead as the blue pegasus chuckled.

"Yeah right."

Spike was having quite the blast with Garbledina and the group. First, they played a game of tail wrestling, which Garbledina went a little easy on him due to his small stature. Next they played king of the horde, where he amazingly got on top after getting Garbledina to fall down. Finally, they all took turns doing cannonballs into a lava pool. Spike was nervous at first, but Garbledina got him to jump due to her encouraging words.

The result was him falling flat on his stomach, but it still got respect from the others who figured he was as soft as pony.

Now they were both lounging on a big pile of gems.

"Man, this is the way to live." replied Spike with his claws behind his back.

"Yup, this is what it's like for us." replied Garbledina munching on a gem.

Spike was about to let sleep overtake him, but noticed something.

"Hey, what are those guys doing?" asked Spike pointing to a few of the teenage dragons who had some eggs with them.

"Crap!" Cursed Garbledina, knowing what they were about to do. "Those idiots plan to smash those phoenix eggs!" She never liked doing that, and even in secret would take any egg she found back to their nests.

"W-what?!" Spike gasped before getting serious. "We gotta stop them!"

"Just what I was thinking." Garbledina said before she took Spike and flew them towards the direction where the teenage dragons went.

Nearby Twilight and the others listened what Garbledina had said, and they were shocked.

"You heard that girls?! We must help them!" Twilight said seriously as her companions nodded.

"Hell yeah! No way I'm letting those idiots get away with that!" Rainbow Dash snarled.

"Indeed, those ruffians have gone to far!" Snapped Rarity.

"THEN LET'S GO!" And with that, the 3 ponies went to help Spike and Garbledina...not noticing a pair of dragon eyes narrowing and some huge figures following them...

"What are you guys doing?!" yelled Garbledina as she and Spike caught up to the dragons.

"You've gone soft, Garbledina. Now we're doing what needs to be done." replied the purple one who held one of the eggs up. Before he could throw it down, it disappeared in green flames that soon dropped the egg in spike's claws.

Spike ran to give the parents the one egg and turned around to see Garbledina hold the second one and held the brown dragon with her other claw. Spike gave the second egg to the parents.

"You'll pay for that." replied the purple one as he and the brown one got ready to charge them, and that's when Twilight and the girls threw off their disguise.

"Not so fast!" called Twilight.

"You two aren't gonna do anything to our friend!" Rainbow held her hoofs out like a boxer.

"That's right. Now, have at you!" yelled Rarity getting her magic ready.

The two dragons continued getting closer, but stopped when they saw three dragons standing there. Twilight and Spike recognized them as the red dragon who was causing smoke to seep over Ponyville, while the other one was the green one that Spike met when he ran away. The third dragon had golden scales and blue fins on her head.

"Enough!" roared the gold dragon. "You two will receive a strict punishment for your actions." replied the dragon pointing to the two teenage dragons.

"B-but sir, we were ju-" Tried to say the brown dragon, but the red one snarled as smoke went out of his nose, showing his anger.

"YOU WERE WHAT?! YOU WERE ABOUT TO SMASH PHOENIX EGGS, WHICH HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN AS CONDITION OF THE FOUR SACRED ALLIANCE! YOU COULD HAVE STARTED A NEW WAR WITH THE PHOENIX AND EVEN THE PONIES THEMSELVES!" Growled the red dragon, making the teenagers almost past out and the other presents nervous. "I was lucky that Celestia DIDN'T attack me back then..."

"Calm down Ignis..." Said the green dragon before looking darkly at the teenagers. "But DON'T think this is over! We'll make sure you regret this for the rest of your miserable lives! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?" Both teen dragons just fainted in response. "Pathetic..."

"Thank you, my lords." Garbledina knelled with Spike and the ponies following soon there after. "And you too mother..." The golden dragoness just smiled.

'MOTHER?!' thought Spike and the others upon seeing Garbledina hug her mother.

"Don't worry my daughter, I'll always protect you." She said before noticing her daughter's friends. "So who are your friends?"

"I'm Spike, an these are my friends Twilight, rainbow Dash, and Rarity." introduced Spike for all of them.

"Wait a sec, I know you." replied Ignis glaring at Twilight and the two girls.

"Same with you." replied Chrome looking at Spike.

"Enough you two! Whatever happened is over. Get over it or I'll make you get over it." threatened Garbledina's mom glaring at both of them.

"Sorry." muttered the two of them looking away.

Eventually Spike and the ponies returned to ponyville with surprisingly Garbledina, her mother and both Chrome and Ignis, whom didn't wanted to remain so close to the dragon lands after the fiasco with the teenager dragons, whom were punished severely by the chief and their parents.

And while some ponies, particularly Fluttershy, were terrified at first, they accepted the new company after Celestia, whom happened to know quite well the three adult dragons, approved their stay and soon Chrome and Ignis went to the Everfree Forest to rest and so that nopony could bother them while Garbledina and her Mother stayed near the abandoned castle.

We now find Spike outside Garbledina's door as he paced back and forth. "come on Spike, just tell her how you feel."

Inside her won room, Garbledina was having the same problem. "He's young, but he's more mature than any other guy you've dated. Just confess and hold him tight.

It was at that exact moment that both dragons ended up looking at each other. Too bad for Garbledina that she didn't have a door to her room yet as she and her mom were still building their own home from the remains of the castle. So they basically heard each other.

"Do you really think that?" asked Spike.

"Of course, and what about you?" asked Garbledina.

"Well, you've made me have the most fun ever, plus your really cute." blushed Spike looking away with a smile.

Garbledina smiled as they both stared at each other and began to lean towards each other, but stopped when they heard a cracking sound. They looked into the room and saw the lone phoenix egg that was given to them by the parents who felt they would take good care of their child. The egg hatched to reveal a baby phoenix.

The baby turned its head and saw the two dragons. And by nature laws, it saw them as its parents. Spike and Garbledina walked over and smiled at the phoenix as it slowly walked on its feet.

"Awww, he thinks we're his parents." replied Spike wagging one of his claws near the phoenix.

"In that case..." Garbledina picked Spike up under his arms and held him in front of her. "...you may kiss the bride." Garbledina pressed her lips against Spike's as the young phoenix who would later be named Peewee chirped in happiness at seeing his parents close.

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