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Chapter 7:

Spike and Twilight walked into the ballroom, seeing a few other couples already talking at the various tables around the room. It was about five minutes until the event was scheduled to start, however, the DJ hadn't put any music on yet.

Although the white ballroom had a classical look about it, the normal lights had all been replaced with bulbs of a calmer blue tint. To add to the modifications, Pinkie had put various spotlights around the room that would probably be used when the dancing started. To top off all the tweaks the pink party pony had done, at the back of the room was a DJ booth with large, towering speakers on both sides.

Twilight continued looking around some more before spotting Fluttershy at a table by herself, "Spike, let's go say hi to Fluttershy." Twilight said.

Spike was taking in the room when he heard her, "Huh? Oh, okay." Spike said as they both made their way over.

As they arrived at the table, Fluttershy looked up and saw the two, "Hey Twilight." Fluttershy greeted as Twilight sat down at the table, Spike following suit. Fluttershy was wearing a green dress with flowers accenting different parts of it, to compliment her love of nature.

"Hey Fluttershy, where's your date." Twilight asked the light yellow pony; curious to finally see whom her friend was dating.

"Oh, he's over there, helping Pinkie with the last decorations." Fluttershy said as she pointed straight forward.

Over at the opposing side of the room was Pinkie pointing at a spot on the ground where a red pony in a black tuxedo with a strong build and blond mane was placing a large table. "Is that Big Mac?" Spike asked, surprised that the two had been dating.

"Y-Yes…" Fluttershy said while softly smiling.

"That's great! I'm happy for you two." Twilight said to her friend.

"Thanks." The shy pony smiled again as she continued, "Say, who's your date, Twilight?"

Twilight was about to respond when, "Me!" Spike happily stated, accidentally cutting Twilight off, "Oops…Sorry." Spike gave a nervous grin as he received a glare from Twilight.

Fluttershy softly chuckled before she replied, "I'm so sorry I laughed, but I had a feeling you two would make a cute couple." This caused Twilight and Spike both to blush.

Music began playing, causing the three to look over as Pinkie Pie got up on a stand in the center of the room; she had a small microphone around her ear so everypony could hear her. "Hello everypony! Welcome to my party, I hope you all are ready to dance because things are about to kickoff!" Pinkie announced in her ever hyper voice as the spotlights began panning around the room, moving in no particular pattern as the music transitioned to a fast dance beat, "Come on everypony!" Pinkie finished as she grabbed two ponies from one of the tables.

"I really don't dance very well…I mean I was born with two left feet…er, I mean hooves…Well, come to think of it, as pony I do have two left hooves, don't I?" a light brown pony with a darker brown mane and British accent rambled.

"Oh come on Doctor! Hehe, It's fun!" A grey Pegasus with long blond hair and slightly odd eyes replied as she started dancing next to him.

"Alright, Derpy, you win." The Doctor said as he joined her in dancing, secretly having fun in doing so.

As they danced, a foal with white fur, brown mane, and a few brown spots joined the dancing followed by a young orange filly Pegasus with a purple mane. "Wait on me, Pipsqueak!" she yelled as she caught up to her date.

Spike watched as more and more ponies started dancing; even Fluttershy had gone to dance with Big Macintosh. Spike began to blush as he looked at Twilight, "Hey Twi, do…do you want to dance wi-""Hey guys!" A light blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail cut spike off as she sat down at the table with them. "…Hey…Rainbow Dash…" Spike said with a twinge of annoyance.

Rainbow Dash's dress had the full spectrum of colors spanning from the right of the dress to the left, as well as having a cloud trim on the end of it. Along with the dress, she had in her mane a clip that was made in the shape of a feather.

"Dash? I thought you said you wouldn't be caught dead at a party like this." Twilight questioned her friend.

"W-Well, I-I…" Rainbow Dash stuttered as she tried to come up with a response, "I was asked to go by one of the Wonderbolts!"

Twilight had a look of confusion as she responded, "But aside from meeting them at a few events, none of them really know you. Do they?"

"Don't believe me? Look over there!" Rainbow pointed at one of the food tables.

Over at the table was a light blue Pegasus with a dark blue mane. He was cutting into one of the apple pies on the food table, after he finished, he then proceeded to take the rest of the pie and leave the small slice he had just cut. Soarin wasn't in his usual Wonderbolt uniform, but instead was dressed in a formal blue officer's uniform.

Spike watched as Soarin carried the plate of pie over to another table and sat down. "Uh, if Soarin's you're date, why did he not come over here to sit with you?" Spike asked Rainbow Dash.

"U-Uh…B-Because. We're uh…" Rainbow Dash thought for a moment, "Because we're sitting over there at that table!" Dash stated.

Rainbow Dash was trying to come up with something more to say to get them off of the subject when, "Hey Dashie, hey Twilight, Hey Spike!" The three heard Pinkie greet as she bounced over to the table.

"Oh hey, Pinkie!" Dash greeted back with a sigh, happy to have a distraction from her.

Pinkie looked at Twilight and Spike, "Soooooo," the pink pony began, "how's the new couple?" Pinkie finished as both Twilight and Spike blushed.

"Wait! Wait, wait, wait!" Rainbow Dash interrupted, trying not to laugh at what Pinkie had just said, "Are you two here…as dates?" Rainbow Dash finished, trying ever harder not to laugh.

Twilight looked at Rainbow Dash with annoyance, "Yes." She stated, causing Rainbow to burst out laughing, unable to contain it any longer.

"Oh that's hilarious!" Dash said between laughs.

"So Dashie, have you talked to Soarin at all since he got here?" Pinkie asked.

Spike looked at Pinkie, a little confused, "Wait Soarin invited Rainbow Dash to this dance, didn't he?" Dash stopped laughing and gulped.

Pinkie looked back at Spike, a look of confusion now on her as well, "What?"

"Rainbow Dash told us that Soarin invited her." Spike explained.

Pinkie gave a confused look before explaining, "Oh, no, you see I went to find Soarin so I could give him an invite him to the party in pony because I found out that Dash has a crush on him." "Pinkie!" Rainbow Dash tried to interrupt in order to stop her friend from embarrassing her, however it didn't work as Pinkie continued, "And so after some convincing I got things with Soarin taken care of. Then I all I had to do with Dash was say that Soarin would be here, and that made her instantly agree to come. So that second part was easy." Pinkie proudly smiled as she finished.

Twilight thought a second and then asked, "So how exactly DID you convince Soarin to come?"

"Well, I told him that there was a pony who I thought he'd be a perfect match for that was going to be here. …That and I told him there would be apple pie." Pinkie explained.

Things went silent for a second before Twilight turned to Spike, "So, what were you going to ask me a second ago, Spike?"

"Oh…um, would you like to…" Spike shifted his eyes and saw Pinkie with an excited look on her face and Dash about to start laughing again, "Will you dance with me?" Spike finished as he looked back at Twilight.

"Of course!" Twilight smiled as she responded. Spike smiled back as they made they're way out to the dance floor, hearing Rainbow Dash's laughter in the background.

"Now about you and Soarin." Twilight heard Pinkie saying to Dash as they walked onto the dance floor.

Once out on the floor, as if on cue, the music transition into a slower melody. Spike put his arms on the sides of Twilight's neck, not being quite able to reach around. As the music continued, the two began to dance with the music.

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They danced through various songs that played, Spike still in unbelief that he had Twilight as his date. He looked at Twilight and saw that she was smiling, her eyes closed as she continued to dance with him, "Twilight?" Spike tried to get his date's attention.

"Yeah, Spike?" Twilight responded as she looked at him.

"Thank…Thank you for being my date tonight." Spike said with a light smile.

"Spike…" Twilight began, "Thank you for asking me to go as your date." Twilight took a moment before she began to lean her neck down.

"What are you doing, Twi?" Spike asked before Twilight kissed him, blush rapidly covering his face.

As she went back to dancing she noticed Spike was now just standing in place, "Uh? Are you okay, Spike?" Twilight asked as she saw Spike looking up at the ceiling with a dazed, smiling expression.

It was another moment before he spoke, still dazed from the kiss, "That's good…yes, Spike is very good…" Spike shook his head as he snapped out of his zombie-like state, "Huh? Oh, sorry Twi, I didn't mean to zone out. I just didn't expect that…I mean I guess I…" Spike stopped when he saw Twilight chuckling, "H-Hey! Why are you laughing?"

"Hehe, sorry, I thought you looked cute just then, with that expression." Twilight stated.

"Cute? ...Don't…don't you mean handsome?" Spike said.

"Yes, I but mainly cute." Twilight chuckled as she finished.

"Oh…" Spike sighed. It took a second before Spike's smile came back as he realized that if anypony else had called him cute, he would have instantly gotten mad. Although in this case, for some reason, he let it go and decided to happily take it as a compliment instead.

The two soon resumed dancing, Spike being happier right now than he had ever been. Although the party would eventually end, Spike just wished they could keep dancing forever.