A teenage human boy with a troubled past manages to get into Equestria, but finds out that it's not like the show. Waking up with fur and paws, he has to face many different challenges head on. Even when things are calm, there is always a storm rising somewhere to strike at you.

(A/N): Description is subject to change. Thanks to my friend for the cover art.

A shout-out to Rust, the writer of The Ballad of Echo the Diamond Dog.  He inspired me to do my own take on a life as a Diamond Dog.

Another goes out to Brony4ever, for the amazing cross-over.

XeRom, for working with me on over half of my story.

Here is his second story which crosses with mine: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/12500/CSF%3A-Celestian-Special-Forces

There are things in your life that you take for granted. Water, heat, a home. The family in this story, has none of these. They have nothing but their small shanty, and each other. And they're happy. But sometimes, happiness is nothing but the calm before the storm...

A/N: Tags will say sad, but it progresses towards that. At least, I will try.

In the semi-near future, a brother is saved from near death. Saved, but not fully unharmed. His understanding of the world is thrown asunder by this new world he has been brought into. Friends will be made, enemies will be had, and confusion for any and all who meet him. But friendly faces often hide dark intentions...

Shadowkin, an alicorn, has lived secretly with his twin unicorn sister, Silent Scream, for the last 18 years of their lives. Their parents left them when they were six, forcing Silent to take on a life of crime to keep them fed and in their home. After they reached 16, Shadow convinced her to stop her life of crime and get a regular job. In the present, however, she broke that promise to him. Now she's gotten him exposed, and in prison. How will the always silent alicorn deal with the prisoners and plot his escape? Only time will tell.

Princess Celestia has been worried about the decline of alicorns for some times now; with the help of her sister, she begins a reconstruction project started in a scientific bunker, deep beneath the surface of Equeastria. It's goal, to genetically modify and create new alicorns from already existing DNA or straight from scratch. The program, named the Alicorn Cellular Reproduction Project, suffered many failures early on, but after several attempts, the attempts of the scientists there came to fruition. A successful hybrid of Princess Luna's and Princess Celestia's DNA created the first of a new alicorn breed, Shadowlight. After the first success, the scientists were pressured into creating another. Running out of ideas, the took from the above town of Ponyville one of its residences, Ghost, to become transferred into the project. After her, they didn't stop. Celestia ventured farther than Equestria and pulled a human from his world, successfully altering him. She was still not satisfied, and gave the scientists the order to make an alicorn from scratch. Through many modifications to his genetic structure, Flare was created. He's unstable, powerful, and is forced to remain in the underground 'prison'.

(A/N): Collab with XeRom. (Ghost)