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Once they made it to the library, Twilight turned to Spike and said, "We're behind on schedule, so I need you to get to work and I'll start finding some way for us to accommodate Jade." Spike nodded and immediately got to work, he picked up stray books to return to their proper place and swept the floor clean. Jade sat waiting to see what she was supposed to do next, but as time went by she found herself bored and saw they weren't paying attention to her.

Jade was tired of doing nothing, so she decided it was time to play. She saw that Spike's back was turned to her. She crept up and tackled him which caused him to topple a stack of books over. Spike picked himself off the ground, "What was that for?"

She stared for a moment before she answered, "It's time to play, come on!"

Having heard the noise, Twilight came over in time to hear Jade. She said, "Spike doesn't have time to play right now, he has chores to do."

"What are chores?" asked Jade.

Surprised, Spike asked, "You don't know what chores are? You're lucky!"

"Chores are the necessary tasks to keep a household running," said Twilight in her teaching tone.

All of what Twilight said went over Jade's head. Jade narrowed her eyes while trying to understand it. Eventually she said, "So he has to do this?"

Twilight replied, "Yes, he can play when he's done." At that point she returned to her previous business.

Jade took that and decided she could play sooner if she helped Spike finish his chores, so she asked him: "Can I help?"

"Sure," said Spike, "Just hand me a book when I ask you to, okay?" He then climbed the ladder and asked for a book. Jade did as she was told. As the task went on he started to ask for specific titles which made her job more difficult. Still, they finished the chore together and all the books were distributed among the many shelves.

With the books put away, Jade was quick to ask, "Now can we play?"

Spike replied, "Well, I still have to chop vegetables for dinner."

Jade helped him with the vegetables and then asked wearily, "Can we play now?"

Spike answered, "Yeah, I think we-"

Before he could finish, Jade let out an excited "yay" and slapped a hand to his chest. She shouted, "Tag, you're it!" then she ran off.

Startled from the slap but quickly recovered, Spike chased after her and shouted, "That's not fair!"

The game went on with Jade taunting Spike while running out ahead of him. He chased her but couldn't catch her. She was simply too fast, and he ran out of breath eventually. Half an hour went by before he just couldn't run any more, Jade saw him no longer chasing her and she came up to him.

"It's not fun if you just let me win."

Spike heaved as he replied, "You're just... too fast... are all dragons... this fast?"

Jade said, "I'm just the fifth fastest out of my siblings."

He started to catch his breath, then he asked, "How many siblings do you have?"

In a cheery manner, Jade said: "Four."

Spike groaned as he realized that he was slower than the slowest. He felt defeated on many levels, and with that game of tag he was worn out and ready to sleep. Jade, on the other hand, was ready for another game, "Wanna play hide and seek?"

With a shake of his head, Spike declined, "Count me out, maybe tomorrow." At that point, Spike walked back to the library while dragging his feet.

Twilight saw Spike enter the library, "Hey Spike, did you two have fun?"

He ignored the question, "I'm going to bed, I'm beat!"

Twilight noticed how heavy he was breathing, "You know, you really could use more exercise."

Spike kept walking up the stairs, "Gee, thanks." He fell over into his basket and passed out.

At that time Twilight broke her quill. She called upstairs, "Spike!" but the only response she got was his loud snore.

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I really like the attitude of Jade when she wants to play. She will do anything to play with someone.