Spike and Limestone were playing a game of hide and seek. Limestone hadn't wanted to, at first, but she lost her will to refuse when she noticed Spike's lack of common sense a few weeks ago. She quickly found out after watching Spike and Pinkie for a while that both of them did really stupid and dangerous things. Luckily, Pinkie went to school and was too distracted by homework and party planning to do dangerous things too often. But unfortunately, after an incident where Spike learned to breathe fire, he had been banned from the school. Thankfully Dad knew a unicorn who could fireproof the house, but the school refused to let Spike come back. Since Limestone had already left school to work full-time on the farm, it was up to her to watch over Spike and teach him how to be a strong rock farmer. Surprisingly, she was enjoying her time with her dragon brother.

Limestone was worried their game would end up with Spike doing something dangerous, which turned out to be correct. This became apparent when a shadow crossed over her and she found him twenty feet in the air, drifting with the wind thanks to a lot of balloons. "Oh not again." She moaned.

Spike and Pinkie had discovered they had the uncanny ability to alter their own gravity. Spike was using it to fly around hot air balloon style, using his tail as a propeller to steer. It was cool until he did it outside and fell asleep, he had almost drifted away, but thankfully Pinkie woke him up with a water balloon.

They were weird, but they were her family. But this time Pinkie was at school and Spike was floating out of reach. "SPIKE!!"....no response. She looked around then threw a small rock at Spike.

CLONK

"YAH!!" Spike yelled in shock and dropped a few feet. He lowered himself so he was in front of her with a guilty expression, "Oh, hey Sis"

"What have I told you?" Limestone demanded.

"... Not to fly around without telling somepony first."

"You know what that means?"

"... The rope?"

"Yup." Limestone agreed. After finding out Spike could randomly fly around, she came up with a plan. Spike was allowed to fly around if he told somepony and kept in their sight. If he didn't, then he would be tied to Limestone with a 10-foot rope like some kind of weird balloon. Neither of them liked the rope as it was very itchy, but it worked. So it was a thing she did. After a few seconds, Spike and Limestone were tied together. "When you're older you can fly around like that 'cause you'll be able to find your way home. Right now though, you can't even find your way to town, much less back home if you got lost." They continued to aimlessly walk around.

After a while though, Spike asked a question that made Limestone stop in her tracks. "Do you think I'll grow wings one day?" Spike asked.

Limestone didn't know how to answer that, as she'd never seen a dragon before; besides Spike. Some ponies had told her different stories, most said dragons had wings and could breathe fire, a few said they had gills and could spit boiling hot water, and others had told her that some could swim through the earth like a shark and could both breathe fire and drink magma. Spike was definitely not the water one. but that still left 2 more options, a sky dragon, or a ground dragon.

"There's only one way to find out!!"

"How?"

"We figure out if you can fly through the sky or swim through the ground!! Lets see, you can fly, but only if you have some balloons. and both breathe fire. maybe if we found a picture." After talking for awhile they decided to go to the house and check their collection of books for one on dragons.

"Lets see," Limestone said as she looked through the books, "One about rocks, one about our family history, more on rocks, AHA! The Egg-cyclopedia." She picked it up and scanned through the glossary.

"There," Spike said "Unusual Creatures!" Limestone flipped through some of the pages and found a picture of three eggs listed as, The Three Species of Dragon. She looked for Spike's egg.

"You are a.....ground dragon." she looked at Spike sadly, "Sorry, I guess yo.." but stopped when she saw the grin that was on his face.

"AWESOME!!" Spike yelled, "Once I get big and strong, I'll be able to help in all sorts of ways!!!"

Limestone smiled. "I'm happy that I decided to let you stay."

"You're the best big sister ever," Spike said as he hugged her. "No, you're my...BEST BIG SISTER FOREVER!"

Limestone cracked a smile for once. "I love you, little bro."

"I love you too sis."

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