Spike was on the ground unconscious from the fall down the statue’s throat and back into her stomach.

The carpet flew by Spike’s side and nudged him a little to wake him up. Spike woke up and shook his head a little, feeling a little dizzy from his fall.

“Ugh… That really hurt…” He groaned. The carpet helped him up slowly to keep his balance from the fall. Spike looked around as he heard a fast heartbeat and heavy breathing. “Hey, you alright?” Spike asked the statue.

“I… I am fine, little one. Are you alive?” The statue asked.

“Yeah, I’m okay, but I think I’m stuck inside your stomach right now…”

“I know… Just… give me… a few moments… little one…” The statue said between breaths.

“Okay… I need to find a way out of here…” Spike turned to the carpet. “Hey, uh… do you have any ideas on how we can get out?”

The carpet nodded and pointed at the egg in Spike’s claw.

“The egg?” Spike said in confusion. He looked at the egg and saw a bright magenta light flash inside. “Huh? What is that, is something in here?”

The carpet nodded, and then it motioned for spike to rub the egg with his thumb. Getting the message, Spike rubbed the egg with his thumb, and it began to glow, blue and pink mist and smoke fuming out of the egg ever so gently. Spike looked in awe as he saw a figure beginning to form.

It was a blue alicorn with magenta splotches on her legs, sides and muzzle, her mane flowing with pink and white colors with streams of golden yellow coloring as well, and her wings as elegant and graceful as Celestia’s. She had blue sapphire eyes and the cutie mark of a pink heart surrounded by swirls of purple and yellow and stars of white.

She was as large as an Ursa Minor, and her hindquarters was replaced with a pink and blue misty tail attached to the egg.

She looked around to find the one who released her, seeing that the one who rubbed the egg was a small purple and green dragon.

“Greetings, young dragon,” She said with a smile.

Spike stared at the pony, until he heard her and composed himself. “Uh… H-Hello…” He said a little nervously.

“I’ve been waiting for you to come.”

“Y-You have?”

“Of course. Waiting for 100 millennials has taken quite a handful of time to stay within my residence.”

“O-Okay… So, are you supposed to be… big, or…?”

The pony looked at herself to see that she was indeed larger than she should be. “Oh! Please forgive me.” She then shrank to her normal size, which was the size of Celestia. She swirled around Spike in inspection of him. “Interesting… I expected my releaser to be… a pony…”

“... Is being a dragon… bad?” Spike asked a little offendedly.

“No! No no no, of course not! Please forgive me, I didn’t mean to offend you.”

“No, i-it’s fine. A lot of ponies expect important people to be ponies.”

“Ah… Of course… Ahem, so… is there anypony or anyone else here? Or is it just the three of us?”

“Well, there was someone else who wanted your egg, but they’re outside,” Spike responded.

“Oh, so it’s just us in here?”

“Yep. Just you, Carpet, and me.”

The pony looked over to see the carpet waving at her. She giggled, “I’ve missed you for so long, my old friend.” the two embraced each other after many millennials of waiting for each other. Then the two released each other and the pony looked at the dragon. “So, you’re the one who rubbed the egg?”

“Uh, yeah, yeah.”

“Oh, alright. May I stretch?” the pony said and she got into position for stretching.

“W-Wait, are you asking me?” Spike said in confusion.

“Of course, you are my master,” The pony said as she stretched a leg.

“I’m your master?”

“Yes,” The pony said as she stretched her back.

“Huh, usually its the ponies that give me things to do.”

The pony stopped stretching and looked at Spike. “Really? I thought dragons were creatures of their own free will?”

“Well, I was used as a test exam for Twilight Sparkle was I was just an egg.”

The pony was rather shocked and perplexed for the young dragon. “If you ask me, it sounds like you were stolen.”

“No, I was abandoned, but Celestia found me and took me in.”

“But, using you as a test exam for a student, that seems a little low, don’t you think?”

“Well… I-I guess…”

“Right? I mean, even if a princess found you, that shouldn’t give her the to use you as an exam for a student, or any student for that matter.”

“You got a point there, but I shouldn’t hate her because of that… Although…”

The pony sat on her belly and looked at Spike with concern. “What?”

Spike started explaining how his life was with Twilight and the others.

A few minutes later…

Spike finished off with how Celestia never spends time with him anymore. He was simply in tears and wept into his lap. The pony felt such sympathy for him and wiped a few tears of her own. She and the carpet hugged him with comfort.

“I’m so sorry, master… I wish there was something I could do to help…”

“It’s okay, it’s not like they take notice of my feelings anyway…”

“Actually, you’d be surprised with who can feel for you…”

Spike looked at the pony in confusion. “R-Really… who…?”

The pony simply giggled, “I’ll keep a secret, but what matters right now is that you have us.”

“Yeah, y-you’re right. But, I don’t think we’ve introduced ourselves…” Said Spike.

“Oh! You’re right, please forgive me. My name is Alistria.”

“I’m Spike.”

“Spike… I think that’s a wonderful name.”

“As is Alistria,” Spike complimented back. “So Alistria… What exactly do you do?”

Alistria giggled, “I thought you’d never as.” Suddenly, there were trumpets and clapping that created a jazzy tune.

“Feel free to dance if you’d like, Spike,” Alistria with a smile.

“Heh, nice rhyme.”

Alistria bowed and started dancing to the tune.

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Alistria made exactly 40 ponies with masks over their faces and surrounded Spike. Spike grew scared.

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Then Alistria grew large above Spike and caused the thieves to scurry away.

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Alistria charged her horn and created fireworks around Spike.

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Alistria rubbed Spike’s scales, causing him to giggled.

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Then Alistria swiped her hoof in front of Spike, and the young dragon found himself in a very fancy restaurant.

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Alistria presented Spike with soup in front of him.

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Spike then came out of as small cart and found himself inside of a spa and getting his back massaged.

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Spike then found himself on a throne with two ponies fanning him.

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Spike then found himself on a tall pillar surrounded by two aisles of many treasures and clothing.

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Alistria moved her ear next to Spike for him to whisper to her.

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Spike soon found himself dancing with the carpet with a smile on his face.

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Spike began to sing himself.

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Alistria and carpet looked at each other with sympathy for the dragon.

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Sang Alistria as she twirled around with Spike in her hooves.

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Alistria and Spike then began to dance as the song came to an end.

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And with that, all musicians and singers disappeared.

Spike and Alistria laughed with each other on their backs, Spike on Alistria’s left wing and the carpet motioning its own laughter with them.

“My goodness, I haven’t sung for so many millennials, I forgot what it was like to sing with a friend.”

“Yeah, I never knew that in this or any world, that anypony actually cared about my problems.”

“Just remember, Spike, there is another who feels for you.”

“I know, but you said you would keep it a secret,” Spike remarked with a smile.

“Indeed. So, what is your first wish?” Alistria said as she got back up.

“Well, first, you should probably tell me how it works. Like, how many wishes there are, what I can and can’t wish for, and if there’s more to this than just rubbing the egg and letting you out,” Spike stated.

“My goodness! You’re right,” Alistria said with a slap to the forehead. “So, wishing is very simple. All you have to do is rub the egg and say ‘I wish’. The things you cannot wish for are bringing anypony back from the dead, I cannot make anypony fall in love with another, and I especially do not grant the wish of others to be harmed,” Alistria explained.

“Obviously, only bad guys would do that,” Spike said.

“Indeed. But the unfortunate thing is that every single time when the wisher finds me, the only things they wish for are riches, money, treasure, gold, diamonds, an excessive amount of power… You get the idea. I beg you not to be like those wishers, because there is absolutely no amount of riches, treasure or power in this universe for you to be satisfied.”

“Well, I do eat gems from time to time, but I’ve never really been interested in treasure or power, because I was raised by ponies my whole life.”

“Indeed. Now, depending on how many masters I’ve been through, there are either 3 or 4 wishes for them. So my last master was an odd number, so he had three, and that leaves you with four.”

“Cool.”

“Alright, now that I’ve explained the rules of the Spirits, what is your first wish?”

“Hmm… Well, I need to get out of here, because who knows how long I’ve been… SWEET HARMONY!! I’ve been gone for 8 hours! The princesses are probably worried sick about me!” Spike panicked.

“Well, don’t just stand there, Spike, make your first wish of four!” Alistria said.

“Okay! Alistria-”

“Wait, you also have to rub the egg while you say your wish.”

“Oh, sorry. Okay! Alistria, I wish for you to take us back to Canterlot castle.”

“Very well, master, hop on,” Alistria said as she lowered herself to the ground, allowing Spike to hop on her back. Then Alistria charged her horn, and pink light began to envelope them.

“Carpet!” Spike cried. The carpet panicked and quickly went by the two beings sides. And with that, they whiffed away to Canterlot.