A teenage boy with a broken heart and a lonely bully with a hole in her own cross paths.

This is a humanized Spike x Diamond Tiara story in which both characters are aged up. Spike being 19, and Tiara being 17.

Life is pretty unpredictable for me, but that alone is the predictable part of it. Pretty early on, I learned that I should expect the unexpected, and enjoy the brief moments of peace when they were there. Such an outlook helped me early on to keep from going crazy with all of the stuff that's happened to us all.

As the years passed though, I found my own source of peace: my closest friends.

My best friends were always there for me, and I for them. We held each other up when we fell below the surface of the sea of life, and offered friendly smiles and listening ears to each other when we needed it most. Even with all the insanity we weathered over the years, we became closer in spite of it...or, perhaps because of it. In a world of hoarding dragons, I may be the only one that cherished a small group of ponies over gold or jewels.

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Rated T for use of alcohol, language of a sexually suggestive nature, and implied sexual acts.

Cover art provided by Zwagyzonk, used with permission.

Note: Ponies are considered adolescent/mature at a much younger age than humans (six and fourteen, respectively). I've made an oversight on this, and I believe this explanation will fix that. Also, this will be a Spike-harem fic, but as with all my other submissions, there is no clop; just a heads up.

Featured multiple times!

While Twilight Sparkle and her friends go off to fight a dragon, a distressing thought occurs to Spike - as a dragon, he won't always be loved. As the insecurity sets in, he makes a brash decision: running away to pursue a life of crime!

When Spike decided that he was a special kind of dragon, he hadn't meant it literally. Now with a mysterious voice in his head, a growth spurt, and his friends, he's going to learn his own lessons about friendship, love, and the very essence of the world around him as he becomes the dragon he was always destined to become.

Spike and Twilight return from the alternate world to only see that Spike has not changed back to a dragon. This Spike isn't a puppy though and must show the world that he isn't a pet but much more. Watch as Spike grows into his destiny as a protector of not just the wildlife of Equestria but the very balance of nature itself. Spike will have to battle against everything from, manticores, hydras, constellation beast, timberwolves, corrupt forest gods, and everything in between.

Featured 5/18/14

When the mane six go to battle Discord, the CMC's have to stay at the library. After a potion mishap Spike wakes up to see he's a pony. Can him and the fillies find a way to turn him back? Does he even want to be turned back?

Spike/ Sweetie Belle shipping

Discord's only friend is Fluttershy not only is she his friend, but he's also in love with her. He tries to get on the good side of her friends, but he gets rejected. Queen Chrysalis uses Discord's situation to her advantage to find food for her changelings.
[ I don't really know how to explain this well. XP ]
[[Cover photo by Hungryman.]]

To save her sister and her faithful student, Celestia herself must travel into the ancient tunnels beneath the ruined castle in the Everfree Forest. She, and the guards who accompany her, must face the dark, twisting corridors. Still, what was Luna and Twilight's purpose at the old castle? Why were they unable to return of their own accord?

And what watches Celestia from beyond the light's edge?