Earn your wings

Hi Princess Celestia! This is Spike and I wanted to share with you the amazing adventure I had the other day. Well, yesterday but I took an afternoon nap so it's two days ago, I guess? I don´t know, Twilight insists I should be more accurate with my description or something...

The day started as usual, me waking up just a few seconds after Twilight, only this time she just stood there watching me like if I was Discord or something.

“What?” I asked.

“Spi-spike! You have wings!” she yelled.

And what do you know? I do have wings now! It seems I´m growing or something. Strange, I always thought I was one of those wingless dragons but I think I had wings that time I grow up and trashed through town, I can´t remember...

Anyways, I spend the rest of the day showing off my amazing wings. I´m amazing after all, so it was obvious I was an amazing flier as well, taking off and doing barrel rolls in a breeze! Landing, not so much.

Since I needed some help to practice Rainbow Dash suggested to take me in a Weather Patrol mission. Winter was coming to town and she needed to fly to Foal Mountains to gather the snow clouds. Scootaloo was in the ride as well since she started taking lesson from Rainbow a few days ago. Twilight was at first all “no no no he´s just a baby!” and all that but I managed to talk her out (If she tells you that I begged to her, she´s lying!). Everypony seemed a bit scared of letting me go, Fluttershy hugged me really tight and Rarity made me a new scarf and goggles. She is so amazing!

And thus we took off. Like I said I was a natural flier, keeping control, knowing when to catch a hot air current, the usual stuff. I think that made Scootaloo feel a bit jealous of me because she didn´t talk to me for a while. Once when we got with the rest of the team the question on everypony minds was what was I supposed to do you know, not being a pegasus and unable to gather the clouds and all that; but Rainbow had already think of that. my fire breath being the perfect tool to melt the ice caps and get fresh ice water. So I began to work and soon I was the hero of the day! They were all praising me and they named me Honorary Pegasus! It was the best day ever!

Now, here's the part where Twilight will scold me and call me “insensible” because I failed to notice I was making Scootaloo very upset by showing off and ruined her also first Weather mission. But hey, who was I supposed to know what goes into a crazy mare head? And trust me, she´s crazy. Why? because she ignored the team captain orders and went to gather a storm cloud from the opposite side of the cliff where they told us again and again NOT to go because there was a dragon sleeping there. I catch her before she went inside the cave and she was all screaming at me and calling me a big jerk for ruining her day and all that when the dragon finally woke up.

“Not again.” he complained and I don´t know why he said that.

I'm starting to think we´re not really nice creatures. That or I´m really bad with dealing with my own species because when I tried to calm him down and I only got him even more mad and he began to chase us. I learned hard how we dragons relied on hot air currents to rise up and in a dark, ice cave you don´t have any of that so I was dangerously at ground level or should I say teeth level. Luckily, Scootaloo let her petty jealousy aside and proved that she was a good flier, swooping down and saving me.  The entire pegasus team arrived in time and ald together took down the dragon, causinga small avalanche. Scoot and me landed on the soft snow where I did the gentlecolt thing and apologize to her.

“Scoot...” I said. “I´m sorry for acting all Trixie and the like. I was just happy of having an adventure of my own, a real adventure. I´m always just sitting in the library and some times well, you know that libraries are supposed to be quiet? They can get really quiet...”

“It´s okay Spike. You were acting all haughty and disdainful...”

Note to self, check the dictionary.

“But not matter what you have to know this. You can always have an adventure with me and the girls.”

That was the sweetest thing anypony had said to me. And the hug just made it better.

“Oh you two need a moment alone?”

And Rainbow and the other pegasi laughed and then we blushed not that there was any reason too and why I´m even telling you this?

The important thing is this. I learned a lesson,a lesson about being humble, a lesson about using your talent in benefit of others and not just for showing up and apparently a lesson about not disturbing a dragon when they´re sleeping something I already knew.

This was Spike saying over and out!

(P.S.: I´m sorry for that Princess. Spike insisted on writing  this week report. I´ll write the next one. And if you know any way to keep Spike from flying around the library I´ll be really grateful to you.)