[Author's Note: I'm not sure why I'm writing these Chronicles, to be honest, everypony. I'm a huge fan of Apple Bloom, I guess. I'm also a huge fan of shipping. So there you have it. First up is: Apple Bloom X Spike. This isn't the first Fic I've done shipping Apple Bloom with somepony, but I've never shipped Spike with anypony. So pardon if a few details are off.]

{XOXO-NovemberChild13}

Spike and Apple Bloom go to the Movies

Spike the dragon stared out the circular window into the pitch-black night. A creepy bug with thin wings and about six legs crashed against the window over and over. (This was actually happening to me while I was writing this paragraph.) Spike raised an unimpressed, bored eyebrow. "Why do you keep trying?" he asked out loud. "If ya couldn't get in an inch to the left, you can't get in right here." He flicked the window and the bug, startled, buzzed off to some unknown place in the night.

Spike was bored.

He wished Twilight would hurry back from her date. He wasn't sure who she was going out with, but everypony seemed to be in love with the pretty librarian. He tapped the window with his claw, almost wishing the creepy bug would come back. Suddenly, a soft plink-plink-plink began to accompany his tap-tap-tap. He stopped tapping, suddenly scared. What if it was a burglar or something? A small stone hit the window, startling him. Then another. And another.

"What the-?" Spike muttered. It almost seemed like somepony was trying to get his attention! He opened the circular window and hissed out, "Who's there?"

"Me!" a tiny voice drawled. "Ah saw sumthin' like this on the Tee-vee!" Spike pondered the voice a moment before answering. The drawl, the childish squeakiness, the incorrect grammar, the deliberate pronouncing of "TV."

"Apple Bloom?!" he cried.

"Yeh?"

"What are you doing here?" the little dragon practically yelled.

"As ah said a'fore, ah sumthin' like this on the Tee-vee. Ya'll know how the fancy ol' prince throws the rocks at the pretty lady's window? Well, ah'm not a prince. And yer not a pretty lady, but…" The soft voice trailed off, then started up again. "Ah came to be like a prince, ya know?"

"Are you saying you… like me?" Spike stuttered. "Hold on a minute." He shut the window and hurried out of the tree over to Apple Bloom. He wasn't even scared in the dark night. "It's cold outside, Bloom. C'mon in."

Apple Bloom, noticing he was next to her, blushed and backed away. "Ah-ah can't," she said. "Ah gotta go. Ya see, ah came here with the pebbles t'throw an' an explanation 'bout why ah was doin' it, but that's about it. Well, see ya Spike!" She began to run off.

Spike caught her by the tail. "Hey, wait. Apple Bloom."

"What?" she muttered, trying to pull her tail out of his grasp. Unfortunately, Spike had claws and an opposable thumb for gripping, while all she had were hooves, so he had the upper hand. (Or claw, so to speak.)

"You really like me?" Spike asked, not letting go of the soft red fur in her tail. "I've never had anypony like me."

"Ya'll haven't?" Apple Bloom asked, and stopped trying to get away. She sat down. "Would ya let go 'a my tail now, Spike? Ah ain't goin' nowhere."

Spike let go of her tail and sat across from her on the soft grass. The night was darker than Nightmare Moon's fur, Spike noted. Puffy blue clouds covered the wisp of a crescent moon, and the stars seemed to be hiding. Spike could barely see Apple Bloom in front of him in the soft night. "Hi," he said quietly, for lack of anything else to say.

"Howdy."

"Um..." The only part of Apple Bloom he could see were her sunset-colored eyes. He frantically searched for something to talk about. "So… I heard Applejack and Rainbow Dash going out on a date. To the movies. With each other." His sentences came out halting, and he blushed while he was saying them. He'd never heard of two mares going on a date, and the subject made him slightly uncomfortable.

"Yeh," Apple Bloom responded brightly. He saw her sunset-eyes sparkle in the darkness. "Ah'm so happy for my sis! Ah heard that Twilight was gettin' a lotta dates, too."

"Yeah. Not sure who she's going out with this week." Suddenly, Spike had an idea. "Hey, I bet the movie that your sister and Dash went to is playing right now! You wanna go?"

"Sure!" Apple Bloom replied. She felt a shiver go through her body as Spike grabbed her hoof. They ran all the way to the movie theater, bursting into the lobby. The movie was a dinky little cartoon one. Suddenly, Spike slapped his forehead. "What?" Apple Bloom asked.

"I don't have any bits!"

"Aw. Me neither."

"I've got an idea." Spike distracted the pony selling tickets while Apple Bloom snuck in. After she was safely inside, Spike cried, "LOOK OVER THERE!" When the pony looked, Spike ran inside the movie theater. He nearly crashed into Apple Bloom and they giggled like fourth-graders. They sat in the front row and watched the slightly-mushy slightly-heart-warming story. During the movie, Apple Bloom reached over and kissed Spike on the cheek.

It was the specialist gift he ever gotten.