“Seffron, wake up.” I looked at Spike, Twilight was still asleep, in fact it was almost sun rise.

“What?” I mumbled, I wasn’t used to getting woken up for any reason.

“You said you had more gems?”

“Did you even finish that other one?”

“Yep.”

“Wow, you’re hungry, you don’t normally get to eat gems do you?”

“Nope.”

“Rarity doesn’t give you some?”

“No.” I got up cracking my back. I went down stairs and opened the closet making his eyes go big.

“Go nuts, eat it all for all I care, I’m going back to bed.” I walked back to bed and laid down yawning a little before falling asleep.

“Spike!” Twilight shouted waking me up. I got out of bed and ran down stairs.

“What?” She looked at me.

“Not you, him.” She pointed at Spike and I paused, his belly was huge. I then looked at the closet, some large gems were missing, it was amazing he could fit his weight in gems inside his belly.

“I’m sorry.”

“What?”

“I showed him where the gems were and told him he could have them, I didn’t realize he would over eat.”

“You told him.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Thank you for telling me.” I looked at her surprised. “He knows he isn’t allowed to eat at night. Makes him cranky later in the day. Will he be alright though? I mean I didn’t finish reading that book.”

“Oh, yeah he’ll be fine, just a stomachache, nothing a few hours and a bathroom can’t cure him of. Or if he throws up, but I think he’s probably in heaven right now. I doubt he gets to eat that much.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well gems to us is like, well like candy, the more we eat, the more powerful we become, allows us to grow and mature. It also heals and cures us of sickness, but like a hot bath you can still drown in it, even though it feels good.”

“Then I can leave him to digest?” I chuckled as she poked him a little.

“Yeah, he won’t die or anything, a hot bath actually would help him digest the gems and feel better.”

“Hot bath, I guess I could warm water with magic.”

“Wait, please tell me you have, of course you have running water, but do you have a way to heat water?”

“With magic.” I chuckled.

“You guys have no technology.”

“Come on Spike, let’s get you into a hot bath.” She him float into the air and we went to her bathroom. She started water and stuck a claw into the water, I shook a little at it being ice cold.

“Where do you get your water from? Snow?”

“Well.” I held up my hand.

“Stop, I get it.” I touched the water and it started to steam. It filled up to a nice level being a good temperature.

“In you go Spike.” Twilight said floating him into the water and he snapped out of his daze a little relaxing. “You to Seffron.”

“What?”

“You should take a bath too, you smell pretty bad.” I sniffed myself.

“Did I smell bad last night?”

“No, just noticing now.”

“Oh.” I jumped into the bath washing myself.

“Now I'll be back later, I can assume you can help Spike feel better?” I nodded. “Good then I'll be reading that dragon book while you get cleaned and freshened up.” I smiled a little as she closed the door. I looked at Spike.

“You alright?” I asked poking him a little.

“Just a stomachache, nothing I can’t handle.” He sat up.

“Is the water hot enough?”

“Yeah it’s great.” We stayed quiet for a while, and his belly slowly went down to a more normal size. “We don’t have much to talk about, do we?” He asked scratching his head. I smiled cracking a few bones.

“Not too much on a personal level, no, you’re still young and I’m sure Twilight wouldn’t want me to tell you a lot of things.”

“Oh.”

“But I can teach you a simple heat spell.”

“I can breathe fire.” I chuckled.

“Heat and fire are two very different things, such as heating the water, and burning the water are not the same. Here, give me your hand.” He handed it to me and I put some water into his hand.

“Now then, magic is channeled through everything, so just channel that with your thoughts, and think heat.”

“It’s not working.”

“Feel it get hotter, and think hotter, hotter, hotter.” The water turned to steam in his hand making him look at me surprised.

“Whoa!”

“Yep and that’s only the start of it, you can do anything you want with magic, and as a dragon, not only do we have a natural resistance to it, but we have a natural talent for it, I’ve taught many dragons to use it.”

“Cool.”

“Now try to warm up the water.” He tried and it warmed up nicely after about a few minutes.

“I’m tired.” He said laying back and I chuckled lightly.

“Yeah magic takes a lot of energy, you probably just burned off a third of the gems that you ate.”

“Really?”

“Yep, so try to eat a bunch whenever you can, but don’t over eat alright, I don’t think Twilight would be very happy with me if you did it again.”

“Why wouldn’t she be happy with you?”

“Well they are my gems and I’m telling you to eat them. So just don’t overdo it, there are plenty for you to eat, they aren’t going to go anywhere, and if we need to I can teach you to find more.”

“That’s great!”

“Anyway are you clean?”

“Yeah.” We got out drying off and going into the library.

“Spike, there you are.” We looked at Rarity.

“Rarity.” Spike said running over to her.

“Come on Spike, I’m going to take you some place nice today, and we are going to spend the entire day together, you are not to leave my side.” She put him on her back with magic. “Bye Twilight.” Rarity said waving with a smile.

“Bye?” She asked as Rarity left with Spike slamming the door behind her. I went over to Twilight. “Seffron, good you smell better, anyway I need your help with this spell. I think I have it almost right.”

“Actually before that, I’ve been meaning to ask, is it, I don’t know, normal for an adult mare and baby dragon to be in a relationship?”

“What, oh, not really, Spike is the only baby dragon I know of anywhere, well other than you.”

“Sorry I didn’t say that right, she’s not, you know doing things with him.” She stared at me completely shocked.

“NO! Of course not! That’s wrong with you? Rarity would never do something like that to Spike, he’s still a baby! I’m shocked you would even think that, I mean why would you think that? Did Rarity do something while you were Spike?”

“No, it’s just, I noticed she was a bit comfortable with me while I was Spike, I just didn’t know how, normal that was.”

“Well Rarity liking Spike is a little bit of a shock, but not unexpected. Spike has liked her for a very long time since we came to Ponyville. I didn’t know how Rarity felt, I just thought she liked it, and sooner or later would like him. I guess him almost dying made her realize she doesn’t want to lose him.”

“That’s a relief.”

“What do you mean?”

“Well when I was young.”

“Stop!” She held up her hoof. “I don’t want to hear that, and I shouldn’t have even tried to ask you about that. I know your life hasn’t been easy, and probably has been a nightmare, but I don’t want to hear it.”

“Sorry.”

“It’s fine, now help me with this spell.” I hopped up and looked at her notes. I chuckled a little bit.

“You might want to switch this and add.” I wrote down the new spell. “That way you won’t pluck every feather off a pegasus and shave them, but now this will make them glitter, is that really what you want?”

“Yes, Dash wanted something to make her look good.” She paused and we both laughed imagining the other part of the spell. “Oh she would have been mad if I did that to her, but on to the next one!” We went through nearly a dozen spells before Applejack slammed open the door stopping us.

“Twi I need help!”

“What is itttt.” Twilight couldn’t finish as Applejack grabbed her throwing her onto her back and running. I hopped off and followed them to her farm. She set Twilight down and pointed at a very large weird purple bear.

“Help! The Ursa Major is back and it brought family!” Twilight backed up a little bit as two more came from over a hill.

“What, when did it come back?!”

“Wait you’ve dealt with those things before?” I asked.

“Yeah,” Applejack said. “And she was the only pony able to beat it. Quick, Twilight, you gotta do something! They are ripping down ma trees!”

“I don’t know if I can handle three of them, one of them was hard enough and even then I nearly passed out afterwards.”

“Please do something!”

“Why not talk to them?” I asked and they looked at me.

“What?!” Applejack shouted.

“Yeah they can talk, they aren’t stupid.” They stared at me for a minute and Applejack grabbed my throwing me onto her back, running to them and throwing me in front of them, I slid to a stop in front of the biggest one.

“Do something’!” She shouted. It roared at me and I sighed changing my size to my full size making all three of them back up scared becoming easily twice as large as the male of the three.

I let out a roar of my own causing the ground to rip up from the air pressure sending all three of them rolling back away from the apple trees. I growled making them all fall back onto their backs in the fetal position. I changed back and they turned over looking at me with surprise, I cracked my neck a little sore.

“I hate changing that fast.” I cleared my throat and changed my language, their language was growls and snarls. “What is the problem?” I asked.

“A dragon which understands us.” One of them said shocked.

“Why are you attacking the pony?”

“A cub was stolen from our cave, the ponies are the cause, we demand you return our cub without harm!” The father Ursa Major commanded growling and I growled backing making him shut up quickly.

“First of all I'll find your cub, second of all if you keep destroying trees in my territory I'll kill you.” I growled making the ground rumble. They backed up nervous. “Now then, you will wait outside of the pony lands or I'll make your stay a permanent one!”

“Fine.” The mother Ursa Major said.

“I'll be back shortly.” I went over to Applejack and Twilight which were staring at me rather shocked.

“You can speak to dem, wait your telling me that,” Applejack started. “Your twilight is more powerful than you are! That, if she came to our world then, that would be bad.” She looked at Twilight scared. Twilight shook her head a little.

“You really are a full grown dragon, and you know magic.” Twilight said.

“Well yeah, but that doesn’t matter, it would seem a pony stole one of their cubs, their scent probably ran through here so.”

“What does the pony look like?” Twilight asked and I repeated it.

“She was light blue, white hair, stars on a cape with a gem holding it on, and then she had a wand and sparkling sheet as a cutie mark.” The Ursa Major said and I repeated it back.

“Trixie!” Applejack said mad.

“You know the pony?” I asked clearing my throat.

“Yes,” Twilight said. “She wasn’t the most happy to find out I became a princess, she even tried to steal my crown.” She pointed at the one on her head. “I don’t know how we’ll find her, she could be anywhere.”

“Well, we could just let them follow the.” Applejack frowned getting in my face pressing her forehead to mine.

“You ain’t letting dem search through my apple fields!” I swallowed blushing a little and she backed up blushing herself.

“Yeah, um, give me a moment.” I cleared my throat. “We will find your cub, she will not be harmed, please wait for us to bring you your cub. You can trust that it will be done soon, just give us a while.”

“Can we trust a dragon?” The third one asked.

“I’m not giving you a choice,” I said darkly and she backed up. “Do not forget whom you’re speaking to, or I will have to remind you painfully. Now go a wait, you can search the sounding woods, do not come here again till I call you.”

“Come, we will come back later.” They started walking away and I cleared my throat rubbing my neck a little. I didn’t like talking in animal tongues, it left a bad taste in my mouth and a sore throat.

“Ma trees!” Applejack shouted after the Ursa Major left. She looked out at over a hundred ripped to pieces trees.

“I’m sorry Applejack.” Twilight said.

“What’s wrong?” They looked at me.

“Look at the damage.”

“Do you have a spell to fix this?!” Applejack asked getting close to me, and this time on purpose making me step back.

“Um, can you stop getting so close to me, you are, um kind of are making me uncomfortable.” No, far from uncomfortable, it made me want to lay her down and really enjoy her. Not that I could do that yet, I needed their trust before anything.

“I know, so do ya?” I stepped back and into a tree making me look at her.

“Applejack!” Twilight said stopping her. I fell to the ground holding my chest trying to stop my heart some way, but it just wasn’t working. The memory of AppleCran was still too fresh to me, I would need thousands of years to get rid of it.

“Yes, I do.” I hurried pass her. “But first, Twilight can I have some of your magic to help me?” I held up a gem from my pocket dimension under my scale. “Blast this please, with a bunch.” Her horn glowed and she blasted the gem making it hot.

“Whoa, cold!” I tossed it around for a few seconds and then threw it into my mouth swallowing it without chewing.

Power flowed through me making me smile. I stabbed into the ground with both of my claws making the ground shake repairing, broken trees flew back healing. I sat down once I finished, this was a lot of magic to use on trees. It would have been easier to heal them, but since they were ripped to pieces that wouldn’t work.

“Who ha!” Applejack shouted running around happy. I pushed my eye back into its socket. Blow back was a pain, too big of a spell was painful, it was for unicorns as well, they just took less of it. I healed my eye and Twilight touched my shoulder.

“Are you alright? Is your eye alright?”

“Yeah, it’s fine, just using a lot of magic can be painful.” Especially since going back through the portal locked even more of my magic away the second time.

“It is?” Twilight asked concerned.

“For me it is, your Spike would have to use hundreds of years of magic to catch up to this, magic will rot me from the inside if I’m not careful.”

“Oh.”

“Don’t worry, I just used more than I had been given. You only give me enough to do half of the amount required. I didn’t realize I would need to use so much magic, or I would have eaten gems this morning to build up.”

“We can go back if you need.”

“Just to get some gems first, but if we don’t find that cub and soon, I fear losing an apple tree may be the least of our worries.”

“Now then Seffron,” Applejack said coming over to me and making me crawl back a little. “It was Seffron right?” She asked Twilight.

“Yes.”

“I do believe I owe ya a big kiss for that.” I backed into a tree again. “You darn near saved my farm, those apple trees are very precious to my family, we couldn’t stand to lose a single one.”

“It was nothing, just what I’m here for.” She kissed my cheek and I sighed.

“Oh you moved.”

“What?” She moved my chin kissing me on my lips.

“There we go, now then that cub, I don’t want them waltzing through my apple fields again, not on my watch.”

“We need to go back to the library first,” Twilight said. “Seffron can’t use a lot of magic or it hurts him badly.”

“What?! Seffron, don’t you go causing yourself harm, while I love ma apple trees, the life of another comes above all else, and that’s the truth. Heck I’d tear down an entire field worth if I had to in order to save a friend. Next time tell us if you need something, don’t go hurting yourself on my account.”

“Thanks, but that spell only works within a certain amount of time, we wouldn’t have had time to go back, and it’s fine. Really I’m used to far worse than this, and I have magic shield build up, I don’t feel pain till a certain level, so I’m fine.”

“Well thank you, it was still very kind, but please, don’t hurt yourself.” I nodded standing up. She tossed me onto her back surprising me. “Now then, if you were hurt, we shouldn’t be having you walk around.” I smiled a little bit. I was certainly not going to do what I did with Fluttershy, Applejack would probably buck my face into my skull. We got back to the Library and Dash was waiting with Pinkie Pie.

“Guys.” Twilight said and I hopped off Applejack’s back, running over to the gems and started eating.

“Hey did you guys see the Ursa Major?!” Pinkie Pie asked smiling.

“Yeah we did,” Applejack said flatly. “Darn things nearly destroyed my farm, Seffron over there talked to them and had them leave, used his magic to save over a hundred trees.” I paused and they looked at me with a large gem an inch from my mouth. They looked away and I kept eating.

“Wait as in more than one?!” Dash shouted.

“Yeah, more than one, three of them, and that rat Trixie stole one of their cubs, she ran through ma fields, and they followed after her. I’m so gonna beat the living snot out of her, this time she’s gone too far!”

“She’s done this before?” I asked and they looked at me as I finished swallowing a gem half my size.

“How did you,” Dash asked shaking her head. “Where does it go?!”

“What go?”

“That massive gem silly.” Pinkie Pie said.

“I’m a full grown dragon, these things aren’t even big enough to be a pill to me really.”

“So how does that magic work?” Twilight asked.

“Oh that’s simple, I’m still a large dragon I just appear smaller, looking like a baby dragon is much easier than just looking small.” I blinked and they stared at me for a moment seeing my miniaturized form.

“Whoa.” Applejack said seeing me.

“To me these gems aren’t that big, once they go down my throat they shrink down, rather I filled up my belly or not, wouldn’t matter because I would get the same amount of energy, just one way I would feel full, and another way I would actually be full.”

“Right, once your done, let’s go.” Dash said. I changed back to the baby form and finished eating cutting the remaining pile in half. I got up going over to them.