Spike's Green Rod

[twilightpony]

To my surprise, Spike has been keeping a few more of the gems from the lunches that the crystal ponies pack for him. The train ride home after the fireworks events is long and snacking on jewels while watching the scenery go by is just the thing Spike would do... until he ran out of jewels. But in an amazing feat of restraint, not only did he save some for later, he has been growing them. I knew that he had planned on growing an emerald and a sapphire, but I didn't know that he had followed through on that plan, although I should have guessed. Spike did grow a very nice fire ruby once, and it got quite large and attractive, so he seems to be skilled at this. The sapphire is from Rarity's bat cave, but the emerald was the first of the lunch gems that he successfully avoided eating on the train back from his Crystal Empire duties. He showed it to me today and it's pretty impressive. All the cracks and inclusions are gone and it has grown into a fat hexagonal rod as long as Spike's arm. He hasn't decided when or on what occasion to eat it yet. He's having too much fun growing the gems.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Wow, that's pretty cool!

[twilightpony]

Spike is full of surprises.