Pumpkin and Spike
by Silver Butcher
First published
Pumpkin Cake looses the Spike plushie she got from the Crystal Empire. While looking for a replacement, the real Spike walks in. Pumpkin then proceeds to follow him around for the rest of the day
Pumpkin Cake losses the Spike plushie she got from the Crystal Empire, while looking for a replacement Spike walks in, She then proceeds to follow him around for the rest of the day.
Pumpkin is aged up in this, around the age of the CMC in the show. And Spike is quite a bit taller
cover commissioned from Mr Tech
Special Thanks to Ausbrony For Editing
this story has a sequal:Pumpkin an Spike 2: At the Gala
You're my Friend
"Where is it" Pumpkin Cake asked herself as she pulled stuff out from under her bed. Various toys sent flying haphazardly across the room. She tore the room apart while her twin brother, Pound Cake, was out playing with his friends.
He had tons of friends.
Pumpkin had friends too, at least that's what she told others… and herself. In actuality all her ‘friends’ where just her stuffed animals. She did all the kinds of things with them that one would do with friends. They went for walks, had tea parties, had parties with them and Pinkie. But her favorite one was her little purple dragon. She'd gotten it at a fair in the Crystal empire for knocking over all the cans at one of the games. The tag said it's name was Spike, and she'd loved it ever since, and had taken good care of it, until her brother took it so he could play a game with his friends and use it as the monster. He'd left it somewhere in the house, and she couldn't find it.
The only place left to search was the dinning area where the customers ate. Pumpkin ran downstairs, hoping to find it but stopped when she saw what was at the counter talking to her mother. It was Spike, the real one, The little purple dragon who ran the library in the castle.
"That will be twelve bits please" Mrs. Cake said, Spike was fishing out the appropriate amount when he saw Pumpkin from the corner of his eye, turning his head to look at her.
"Oh, hi Pumpkin" he said, smiling cheerfully. "It's been a while since I've seen you." Pumpkin jumped back out of view, hiding behind the counter. "Oh dear, was it something I said?" Spike asked Mrs. Cake.
"No, she's just nervous around others," Mrs.Cake said as she took the bits and Spike went to wait on his order. Cup Cake turned and went to find her daughter, who was peaking out to see if Spike had gone. "You know—" her mom said "—If you want to make friends, you should try talking to others." her piece said, she went to bake Spikes order. Pumpkin mumbled a response under her breath.
"I have friends, I just lost one…” Pumpkin poked her head out from around the counter and saw Spike sitting at one of the tables, reading a really long piece of paper and talking to himself.
"Its re-shelving day," she heard him say, She took a deep breath and walked out from the counter and quickly ran and hid behind a table. She heard her mother call his order and Spike went to get it,
"What’s a re-shelving day?" She wondered aloud as she watched him take his bag of goodies. Wanting to know, but not wanting to have to talk to him, she waited for him to leave, and decided to follow him. "Mom I’m going out for a bit," she called.
"Try and make some friends," her mother replied as Pumpkin left and started her journey to discover what a re-shelving day was. Spike was pretty easy to follow. It was raining slightly, so not too many ponies were out, she saw her brother and his friends playing in the mud. Most of the usual market stands stands where closed too. As Pumpkin followed Spike, she saw he was heading for the library.
"Is it a library thing?" she wondered as she saw him enter the castle. Pumpkin slowly made her way up the steps, and using her magic she phased through the doors so as to not attract Spike’s attention. She saw him walking to a side room she guessed was the library, so she followed him and when she entered the room…
The library was huge, it had so many books. She gasped, then shoved her hoof in her mouth and looked to see if Spike had seen her. She almost forgot she was supposed to be hiding.Thankfully, he had his back turned and seemed to reading his list again. He then proceed to walk to one of the shelves and started taking books off of them, and putting them on a table where a big book was sitting. She just stood there and watched as he kept doing this.
She was wondering if this was the re-shelving day when it happened, Spike was grabbing a book and pulled it out, only for several others to be pulled out with it and tumble down on him. Before any of the other books could hit him, Pumpkin used her magic to push them all away from him.
Spike looked at them in surprise, then turned on the spot. He saw the little orange filly as they looked at each other for a second, before Pumpkin jumped behind a desk and covered her face with her hooves.
"I'm sorry!" She squeaked in embarrassment. "I wanted to know what a re-shelving day was, and I followed you here, please don't be mad!"
"Mad?" Spike asked, now leaning on the table she was hiding behind. "It’s hard to be mad at somepony who just saved you from getting smacked in the face by a bunch of heavy books."
Pumpkin took her hooves of her face and used them to pull herself over the table just enough to see Spike.
"So you’re not mad?" she asked, and to her surprise, he just laughed.
"Hahaha! Pumpkin I'm honored that you chose me of all the ponies in this town to spy on, otherwise I might be missing a tooth right now." After he stopped chuckling, he wiped his eye and said. "Re-shelving day is the day I take all the books off their shelves and put them back in order."
"Order?" Pumpkin asked with a curious tilt of her head. "Why wouldn't they be in order?"
"When the Library is open, ponies are touching and moving books all day. As well as when somepony checks one out. This is also the day I put the returned ones back on the shelves, and resort any misplaced books." There was a moment of silence, then Pumpkin surprised Spike when she asked…
"C-Can I help?"
"Help?" he asked, repeating what she said to make sure he heard her right.
"Yeah, I'm a unicorn after all, so wouldn't it go faster if I helped you by putting them back?"
Spike smiled at her enthusiasm. "My dear friend I would be honored if you would help me," he said as he got up. Pumpkin was shocked when the realization hit her.
"You’re my friend!" she said out loud causing Spike to turn back.
"Hm?" It was his turn to tilt his head now.
"You’re my friend… you’re my first friend."
You're my Friend too
Spike was shocked. In the last 5 minutes, he had been saved from falling books, discovered he had picked up a stalker at the Cake’s bakery, and became someponies first ever friend. Not too bad if he said so himself. He made a new friend, and she was willing to help him with his job. Of course he wouldn't blame her if she wanted to quit during it. Re-shelving was long and boring job after all. It used to go faster, but with Twilight’s job as a Princess, she had less time to help him.
Spike brought Pumpkin over to the big book on the table. "This is the log book, the first part has listed inside it the names of all the books in the Library." He then opened to book and flipped through it until he was in the middle. "The last part where all the books go and what shelve they’re supposed to be on."
"What kind of books are in the Library?" Pumpkin asked him as she looked at the pages and pages of words and numbers.
"Well, we have books on Equestrian history, geography and such. Adventure novels, romance books and other fiction. A few books about Dragons, Griffons and other species. A few about nature and how to grow gardens and take care of them. We have spell books for beginners, all the way up to advanced spellcasting. Honestly, the list goes on and on."
"Wow, and we have to sort them all?"
"Well, I have to. You’re free to go whenever you want."
"No!” Pumpkin stomped a hoof and shook her curly mane. “I’m your friend, and it wouldn't be nice to leave you where you could get hit in the face by more falling books."
Spike chuckled, "Thanks pal, now let’s get to work."
Pumpkin began taking books of the shelves, and Spike began looking through the log book and organizing the books in accordance to where they belonged. it took several, long hours… But they finished it.
"That took forever!" Pumpkin moaned as she flopped into a comfy chair, Spike sitting in one next to it.
"You think that was bad?" Spike chuckled. "Usually it takes a whole day"
"WHAT!?"
"Yeah, you just helped me not have to work for the next 5 hours." there was an long awkward silence before Spike said… "So what do you want to do?"
"Me?" Pumpkin blinked.
"Yes you,” Spike smiled. “We just spent the last 2 hours doing something I wanted to...or needed to do. So, what do you want to do?"
"Um....can I try one of the spells in the spell books?" She could tell immediately that this was something he would be happy to help with, his face lit up like a Hearth’s Warming tree,
"I'd love to show you some!" And with that they got up and they looked through the books they had on hand, which were a lot... Though they eventually settled on a tome for beginners.
"Oh this one looks easy." Pumpkin said as she looked over one particular spell.
"Try it," Spike said happily. Pumpkin’s horn lit up and She tried to cast the spell, but nothing happened.
"Aw, I guess it didn't wo—eep!" Pumpkin squeaked as water droplet hit her nose. She and Spike froze and slowly looked up, over head was a massive storm cloud.
"Uh oh…” They both said in unison, and with a loud boom of rolling thunder, It started pouring.
Twilight was exhausted, she had been in Canterlot all day and had only just gotten back… Well and truly missing her usual dinner time.
"Spike's probably already eaten without me," She sighed as she got to the castle. Only to find the door seemed to be bulging, and leaking water. "What the hay?" she asked as she moved to the side on the door and opened it, immediately, a huge wave of water joined the already wet ground and poured out until…
"Ye-ha!" Spike and Pumpkin both yelled as they surfed the wave out on one of the Library tables, Twilight looked at the bizarre scene in front of her when Spike groaned and facepalmed.
"She opened the door, Why didn't we think of that?"
"I think my attempts to stop it just made things worse," Pumpkin added. Twilight just stared at them for a second, trying and failing to piece together what happened.
"H-How? Why?" Twilight asked Spike. The dragon was about to answer when Pumpkin stepped forward.
"It was my fault Princess Twilight,” she said and looked down. “I cast a rain spell and it… kind of got out of hoof." Her ears flattening against her head, but her new friend quickly jumped to her rescue.
"Look on the bright side" Spike added with a grin. "At least you cast that Protection spell on the library, so none of the books were destroyed." Twilight just stared at them, then shook her head.
"I’m going to bed" she sighed. She was way too tired to deal with this right now. Hopefully her room was dry at least, and with that she left. Spike and Pumpkin looked at each other until she left, before they started laughing. At least until Pumpkin sneezed.
"We better get you dry and to a warm place." Spike said, noteing she was soaked to the bone.
"I don't think the Castle is any better than outside right now," Pumpkin said as she looked up at the rainclouds. "Want to come over to my house since I got yours all wet?"
"I'd be honored"
"It’s not too hard to honor you," Pumpkin giggled.
"So I've been told." and with that Spike and Pumpkin made there way to Sugarcube Corner, and when they walked in, the look on Mrs. Cake’s face was priceless
"Oh my! What happened to you two?" Cup Cake asked while moving to get them both a towel.
"I made a new friend, it’s Spike, Spike’s my friend now!" Pumpkin said with a huge grin as her mother toweled her off. Spike chuckled.
"You’re my friend too."