As it was getting late, the girls brought Spike back to his home. Upon entering, Mrs. Drake spoke, "Welcome home, Spike. How was your day?"

"Pretty tiring." he yawned.

"Well, as long as you had fun."

'Fun isn't what I would've called today.' he thought.

His mother spoke to the girls, "By the way, girls. Would you like to stay and join us for dinner?"

"Really? We wouldn't want to impose on your home, Mrs. Drake." Twilight answered.

"Nonsense, any friend of Spike's is welcomed."

"Thank you kindly, Mrs. Drake," Rarity said, "It would be rude of us to turn down a request now, wouldn't it?"

Twilight couldn't deny her logic, "You make a good point. Ok, we'll stay."

"Yay!" Pinkie and Rainbow cheered.

Spike watched and thought, 'I'm having dinner at my house with six hotties. This is so cool.'

Soon enough everyone was gathered at the Drake dinner table with Spike sitting in between Twilight and Rarity. Pinkie was salivating over the spread, "Wow, it's so delicious I don't know where to start."

"Everything looks wonderfully prepared, Mrs. Drake." Rarity said.

"Thank you, Rarity."

"Come on, let's eat.' Rainbow said, and soon everyone was digging in.

Applejack took a bite and enjoyed the taste, "This is some delectable cookin', ma'am."

"Thank you, Applejack."

"I got myself a killer recipe for a delicious apple pie I'd love to share with ya."

"That would be nice."

Spike sat quietly and ate while seeing what a good first impression his parents and the girls were making with each other.

'So this is what it's actually like to have friends over for dinner.' he smiled to himself.

After dinner, Spike was showing the girls out, "So we'll be by tomorrow to continue with your training." Twilight reminded Spike.

"I'll be ready." Spike confirmed.

Twilight smiled, "Goodnight, Spike. We'll see you in the morning."

"Goodnight, girls." he bid them adieu, as they headed off and he went back inside.

Unaware to him, watching from atop a lamppost was Trixie who was looking outraged, "He's alive?! No! No! No!" she steamed.

"Looks like you messed up." came a voice. Trixie almost fell off the lamppost but kept her balance. She saw hovering behind her was a shadowy anthropomorphic pegasus wearing black armor, dark blue mane and tail.

Trixie frowned, "Descent! You know I hate it when you do that!"

"Why do you think I did it?" he asked rhetorically, and Trixie growled, "So you failed in your mission to eliminate the boy?"

"That is not true. I killed him myself!"

"Then he should be nothing more than a lifeless corpse. How're you going to explain this to the boss?" Descent teased.

"Explain what?" came a voice.

Both Trixie and Descent looked and saw a purple, blue, and black cloud manifest, and a pair of eyes appeared in it.

Trixie looked nervous, "Mistress Nightmare! What a pleasant surprise."

"Is there something you wish to share with me, Trixie?" the eyes squinted.

"Well, actually you know the boy you sent me to eliminate?"

"Yes."

"Well, he's sort of... still alive." she winced.

"WHAT?!" the cloud boomed.

"I assure you this was not my fault. I killed him just as you asked. His blood spilled!"

"Then how is he still alive?!"

"It was that Twilight Sparkle. She had to have revived him with her magic." Trixie theorized.

"That boy is a threat to our plans. He must not be allowed to live!"

"Why is he a threat? You haven't told me anything about him." Trixie wondered.

"The boy is the only one capable of bonding with the Dragon's Fire Ruby. There's no questions, the Princess of Magic has already fused it into him."

"The Dragon's Fire Ruby?" Trixie gasped, "So then he's..."

"Yes. The new chosen one for the Dragon King." Nightmare explained.

"Now I get why you want him to be eliminated, but what can we do now?"

"Tomorrow you will take Descent and finish the job. Fail me, I promise you the consequences will be dire." Nightmare warned her as the cloud poofed away.

"Looks like tomorrow we're gonna be busy." Descent said, as Trixie scowled at him before they both vanished.

The next morning in Spike's room, his alarm clock went off and Spike reached out and turned it off. He yawned, "Oh, mornings are evil." he groaned, before rolling over and came face to face with a smiling Pinkie Pie laying in his bed.

"Good morning, sleepyhead." she greeted him.

Spike panicked as he backed up against his wall, "Pinkie! What're you doing in my bed?!"

"Your mom said you weren't up yet so I came up to get you myself. You surprised?" she asked with a smile.

"Surprised doesn't come close to explaining how I'm feeling." Spike answered, still in shock.

"Well, we're all downstairs waiting, so get yourself ready." Pinkie said, as she got off Spike's bed and left the room.

Spike sat at the edge of his bed and spoke to himself, "I just practically had a girl in bed with me... And it felt good." He remembered his training and got ready before meeting up with the girls.

Twilight and the others brought Spike back to their club on school grounds. Out in back of the club building was a training arena set up. Spike stood on one side as Applejack stood on the other.

The country girl spoke, "Yesterday was to get you in physical shape. Now we need to work on your strength."

"And how?" Spike inquired.

"First off go into your dragon form."

Spike nodded, and concentrated before taking on his dragon form like he did before, "I don't know if I'll ever get used to this feeling."

"You will," Twilight promised, "Ok, Applejack, you're up."

Applejack nodded and took on her anthro pony form, which Spike didn't mind and actually found her looking sexier than before.

Applejack held up her palms to Spike, "I wantcha to punch my palms as hard as you can a hundred times."

"A hundred?"

"That's right. And don'tcha hold back."

"Well, all right." Spike said, as he gave one punch to Applejack's right palm.

"Not good enough." she said. Spike punched her left one, "My Granny Smith punches harder than that."

Spike frowned as he continued to punch her palms harder and harder. The others watched seeing Spike continued to punch A.J's palms, while the girl herself was smiling at his determination. When Spike reached his hundredth punch to her palm, he panted, "How-how was that?"

"Not too shabby." she admitted.

Spike looked at his fists seeing their didn't look too bad, "I thought my knuckles would look more bruised."

"Dragon hide is very durable, Spike." Twilight explained.

"Which means you can take a multitude of blows and still be strong enough to fight. As long as they're not all critical blows." Rarity added.

"Ya got your punches down, now lets see you do some hand to hand." Applejack said.

"Me against you?"

"Of course."

"Well, ok." Spike said, as he got into a stance along with A.J.

And so the two began sparing hand to hand, with Applejack giving Spike advice as she blocked his blows, "Make your opponent give you their all, but make sure you're at a good distance in case up close don't work. Then when they leave themselves open, take them down!" she delivered a kick to his stomach.

Spike gasped before falling onto his back and groaned, "Good shot."

Applejack walked up and extended a hand to him. He took it and was pulled back to his feet, "Sorry about that. Just teaching a lesson."

"I got it." Spike groaned.

"We'll give you a minute to get yourself together." Twilight said.

"After that your ass is mine." Rainbow smirked.

Spike looked nervous, and thought, 'Somehow I don't think she means that in the way I hope.'

Soon Spike stood next to Rainbow and Fluttershy who assumed their pony forms. Rainbow spoke up, "all right, Spike. Being a dragon is cool and all, but you know what makes it even cooler to be a dragon?"

"Tell me."

"You can fly." she answered.

"I figured as much." he replied.

"But flying isn't as easy as it looks." Fluttershy warned him.

"It was for me." Rainbow boasted.

"Well, we can't all be like you, Rainbow Dash." Rarity called from a bench.

"I know. That's what makes me awesomely unique."

Spike spoke up, "So how do I start."

"First off spread your wings out, like this." Rainbow demonstrated by spreading her wings.

Spike spread his dragon wings out, "Ok, now what?"

"Start slow with a few flaps." Fluttershy suggested, as she demonstrated.

Spike started flapping his dragon wings slowly, as Fluttershy nodded at his pace. Rainbow spoke up, "Now try it with a little jump." She jumped up and flapped her wings that kept her above the ground.

"All right, here it goes." Spike jumped up and started flapping his wings. He remained airborne for a bit until he landed on his feet.

"Not bad for a first try, but we gotta get you higher. What you need is more altitude." Rainbow said.

Soon Spike was standing atop a pile of crates courtesy of Pinkie Pie. He looked down seeing how far it was stacked up. He gulped, and said to himself, "I hope I don't go splat." he took a chance and jumped, "Leap of faith!"

As he started flapping his wings hard he was hovering in mid air a bit before slowly touching back down. He panted, as Fluttershy spoke, "You managed to stay up in the air for awhile."

"Keep practicing with that until we're ready for even higher altitude." Rainbow ordered.

"And remember using the wind while airborne can help guide you through the air." Fluttershy put in. Spike nodded and climbed back up to the top of the crate pile to try again.

After twenty consecutive times, Spike's flying was getting better and was soon hovering longer before needing to touch down. Soon enough he was standing with Rainbow atop the club building, "Are you sure about this, Rainbow Dash?"

"Of course. This is the last test to see how much your flight can improve."

"But what if I go splat?"

"I won't let you. I promise." she smiled.

"If you say so." Spike said, feeling a bit better.

So the two spread their wings, and Rainbow called, "Here we go!" they jumped from the roof top and were diving down.

When Spike saw he was getting closer to the ground he screamed and closed his eyes. His wings suddenly spread more and caught the wind and shifted so he was flying high above the ground. Rainbow flew next to him, "Spike, open your eyes!"

"I don't think I should!"

"But you're missing it."

Spike opened his eyes and saw he was flying above the ground and saw how high he was, "Holy shit, I'm flying!" he cheered.

"Yes you are." Rainbow nodded.

Spike laughed as he whooped in joy. Rainbow started leading him through the sky as they flew side by side, "This is the greatest thing I've ever done!"

"I felt the same way when I first flew." Rainbow admitted, as they looked down seeing the entire campus from their point, "Look around you, Spike. We're on top of the world."

Spike smiled, and called out, "God, I love being a dragon!"

Down below the girls smiled at Spike success at learning how to fly, "The fella sure learns well, don't he, Twi?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah. But we'll see how he manages his final training exercise." Twilight said.

After Spike and Rainbow's air show, all of the girls were in their pony forms, "Ok, Spike. You managed to deal in strength and flight, but now you must learn your final ability your elemental magic."

"Elemental magic? But I thought only unicorns can use magic, or Alicorn."

"Yes, darling, but there is a different between our pony types magic and elemental magic." Rarity answered.

"Explain." Spike said.

"Well, the elements are just about any force of nature or property," Twilight began, "Take me for example. My element of harmony is the element of magic, and magic and energy is my elemental power." she created magical beams of energy and blasted a target that was set up.

"Whoa!" Spike gasped.

"When the the rest of the girls bonded with their elements of harmony, they gained elemental magic power too." Twilight added.

Pinkie spoke up, "My elemental power is water and ice." Pinkie concentrated and conjured a torrent of water, which she manipulated with body movement making it move around like a serpent. She then turned the water into ice that shattered.

"Cool." Spike gasped.

"Dude, you haven't seen cool yet," Rainbow replied, "Check me out. The element of storm and lightning." she flew up and fired lightning strikes and thunder booms at some of the practice targets. Spike watched in amazement at how effective her elemental magic was.

Rarity spoke up, "My elemental power includes both earth and crystal." the bustiest girl concentrated and suddenly from where she stood rose up a pillar of earth that lifted her up high.

Spike's eyes widened as he watched how high Rarity was taken up. Suddenly the earth pillar changed into crystal and molded into the form of a slide, which she slid down on her feet. She reached the bottom perfectly and Spike clapped in impressed.

Fluttershy spoke, "My elemental magic is manipulation of the air and wind." she started manipulating air around them into a breeze.

"Wicked." Spike said.

"And my elemental magic is the wood element and plant." Applejack concluded as she concentrated and wood pillars emerged from the ground and molded together creating a shed. Applejack further demonstrated her element by making plants and flowers bloom from the ground.

"Magical." Spike gasped, "So what elemental magic do I have?"

"Being a dragon, your elemental power is basically fire." Twilight explained.

"Of course," Spike realized how obvious it was, "So how does a dragon actually breathe fire?"

Twilight explained, "Well, Spike. When a dragon digests its food, it passes on into a second stomach where it is digested further. This process turns left over food and acid into chemicals which are used in producing fire. A dragon also produces an oxidant agent and a strong high smelling, highly flammable fuel. So when a dragon opens up the glands it lets out hydrocarbons which mix with the oxidant agent and fuel, creating the beginnings of a fire."

After her explanation, Rainbow and Applejack looked very confused, while Spike was just as clueless, until Pinkie spoke up, "Whatever you eat gets digested twice and molds into a substance combined with your own flammable fuel inside you resulting in a dragon breathing fire."

"Oh." Spike said, getting the idea better.

Twilight rolled her eyes, "Yes. Exactly what I meant."

Spike started feeling his stomach gurgle, "Uh-oh, I think I'm feeling something."

"Don't aim it in our direction!" Rainbow called.

Spike turned around and let out a belch which also released a fireball from his mouth which incinerated a target. Spike coughed up some smoke, "Whoa. That was hot."

"No kidding." Fluttershy shook.

"Well at least he can produce fire." Applejack told Twilight.

"Yes, but we'll have to teach him how to use his fire without having to belch." Twilight said.

"And please say excuse me next time." Rarity added, as Spike felt sheepish.

"Sorry about that."

As it was getting late, Spike decided to walk home himself. As he walked down a block he spoke to himself, "I can't believe I got to fly and breathe fire. This dragon thing is even better than I could've dreamed. And with wings now I can fly to school." he chuckled happily.

He was so caught up in feeling good about the day, he didn't realize he was being watched. Suddenly he was blasted with magic, causing him to crash onto the ground, "Hey, what the hell?" he looked up and saw Trixie in her sorceress attire from before and an anthro pegasus with her.

"Hey, handsome. Miss me?" Trixie smirked.

Spike looked shocked to see his ex-girlfriend, "Oh, shit."