Spike was happily munching on the turquoise that the buffalo had given him as he sat near the fire they had started to keep warm. So far, he had enjoyed this place immensely. These buffalo respected dragons very highly, regardless of their age as Spike was still a baby.

But he also heard about why they took Applejack's tree and felt for them. They just wanted their land back. And they had a right to it considering its been with them for generations.

While Spike popped the next gem into his mouth, he didn't see the young female buffalo walking towards him.

Mr. dragon..." Spike looked at the female buffalo, Little Strongheart from what he could remember, looking at him curiously. "I'm curious, but why you were alongside the tree when we captured it?"

"Well, about that...It's a long story..." Began the dragon before telling her how his friend Applejack had called him and the other members of the mane 6 to go to appleloosa to put the apple tree, nicknamed Robert, there. Yet the constant talking of the girls during the night made him annoyed and thus he went to sleep with Robert, where there was silence and calm. "...And then during day you and the other buffalo arrived and...well, you know the rest."

"Yeah, sorry about that. We were just trying to do what we needed to do." replied Little Strongheart.

"It's alright. I'd probably do the same." replied Spike with a smile.

"So, what's it like in your town?" asked Little Strongheart who didn't see much about large towns or cities.

"Well it has plenty of ponies so there's a lot of different ones to meet." began Spike who began to tell her about the town.

Spike told her about the ponies he was the closest, like his surrogate sister Twilight Sparkle, who was the student of his mother, Princess Celestia herself, and how she was a very smart, and sometimes antisocial, pony. Then he spoke about Pinkie Pie's crazy but loving parties, Applejack's stubbornness during the applebuck season, Rarity's sense of fashion, Rainbow Dash's dream to join the wonderbolts and finally Fluttershy's special talent with animals.

Unknown to Spike and Little Strongheart, several buffalos were also hearing to the story as well, and they were awed at how the ponies faced several threats like Nightmare Moon and even the Chaos God Discord! This showed them that those ponies were worthy of having the elements of harmony.

Strongheart couldn't help but frown at the way Spike mentioned Rarity. From what she heard, Rarity seemed to take advantage of his good nature. Spike seemed like he deserved someone better. Someone who wouldn't take him for granted.

What she and Spike didn't notice was her unconsciously scooting closer to the dragon.

Spike noticed Little Strongheart near him, and asked. "Strongheart, was it? Why are you getting close?"

"E-eh?" The buffalo blushed before looking at her hoofs shyly. "I-I didn't mean to offend you, Mr. Spike..." But she was surprised when Spike came closer to her.

"Not that I would mind anyway," He smiled warmly. "After all, you have been very kind to me, so this is the least I could do..."

Strongheart didn't know if it was Spike's smile or the way he complimented her, but she couldn't stop herself from pressing her lips against his. Spike's eyes widened in shock before Strongheart pulled away with a guilty look.

"Forgive me, Mr. Spike, I just couldn't help myself." replied the young buffalo.

"Actually, I liked that..." Spike said happily before pulling her back and kissing her again. "So why don't we continue?"

Her answer was to kiss him again as the buffalos around them cheered.

(omake)

Pinkie was hopping ahead of Rainbow as they were trying to find which hut was theirs for the night. Pinkie soon stopped, which had Rainbow guessing that was their hut. She walked over and looked into it like Pinkie was doing and was stunned to see Spike and Little Strongheart making out.

While Rainbow was trying get her brain around this Pinkie just smiled and began to write on a notepad.

"Hey Dash? Which sounds better? Spikeheart or StrongSpike?" asked Pinkie trying to think of what name would best describe these two.

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