Spike has grown over the years, and after finally realizing he'd be better off looking for companionship among those closer to his age, he asks Sweetie Belle to be his marefriend. She accepts, but they only tell Applebloom and Scootaloo, and so keep everypony else out of the loop, including Rarity and the other Elements of Harmony.

However, on the day of their first "real" date, Spike gets cold feet and doesn't know what to do. So, he decides to ask around his friends and various Ponyville residents about how to act on a date, and such how to properly treat a mare.

The results are... less helpful than he expected.

Twilight's parents divorced seven years ago when she was ten. She went to live with her mother while her eight year old adoptive brother went to live with their father. Now that she's seventeen and moved to Ponyville Spike is moving from Manhattan to live with her and their mother. Looks like Pinkie is going to make a new friend, maybe more than a friend.

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Twilight calls her friends over to help her with a spell that with temporarily enable them to use each-others attribute's, such as their wing's, magic, etc. However, when focusing on her spell, Spike trip's into the middle of the spell, causing it to go haywire! Once the smoke clears...the Main Six find themselves...transformed...

Special thanks to Coda Crescendo for editing this story!

It's Hearth's Warming Eve again, and Twilight Sparkle is freaking out about her party at the library. Nothing out of the ordinary there.

It's Spike and Fluttershy that are really worried though. Ever since Rarity turned Spike away, he's been hanging out with everypony's favorite shy Pegasus. But is just friendship, or is it more?

On this night, they'll tell each other, and we shall see. The worst they could do is say no to each other, right? Oh...

NOTE: This is a one-shot I did to take some time off from my main story. I caved into the season, so I decided to do a pairing I like a lot. I know it's very rough, but I wanted to do it this way, cause that's just how I am. Comments and constructive criticism are well appreciated. Happy Hearth's Warming.

Spike feeling unappreciated for all his work is whisked away by a royal pony of ice and snow. The girls venture to the frozen parts of Equestria to rescue him before he decides to never want to come home at all.

Sometime after she was saved from near death by her friends, Rarity accidentally discovers she can transform in her Nightmare form at will. Terrified, she hides herself away from everyone. But when a certain dragon checks on her, it will lead to something new being born between the two.

But there is something Spike has been hiding. Sure, it was possible he would have nightmares after what transpired on the moon, but there was something else he was having nightmares about. All it will take is the comfort of a newly crowned lavender Alicorn to finally fix things. Especially when said dragon is about to hit his first growth spurt.

Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle has been having a lot of trouble of her own. She seems to not even flinch at the two bullies words, she seems to be doing worse in school, and she's even seemingly pushing others who try to help her away. And this all started after Rarity was saved. Maybe her sister is what the young unicorn needs to get her back on track.

Credit to DANMAKUMAN, Eddiedodoman, & fluffikitten, all on deviantART, for all 3 pics.

Celestia invites Spike and Rarity, as well as Rarity's family, to the castle for Harvest Feast. Just like most family get togethers though, it can only end in hilarity and embarrassment. Especially when the two lovebirds have been going out for less than a year.

Thanks to Imaginary Valued for some very impressive speed editing.

Spike runs into a very depressed Sweetie Belle at Sugar Cube corner, and invites her to join Twilight, Trixie and himself for family game night to help her feel better. Of course, shenanigans ensue.

Check out the sequel, First Date!

When Twilight leaves on a diplomatic mission for the Princesses. She trusts the care of the library to the hands of Spike and Rarity. Which will get to them first: the patrons they try to serve or the romantic tension between the two of them...

This is based upon a picture by Pia-Sama, and with her permission, I was able to craft a story out of it. I also based this tale upon my own personal experience as a Librarian.

Hasbro owns the characters...not me.

Source for the picture in question...http://pia-sama.deviantart.com/art/Librarity-and-her-Assistant-399904806

Spike, the now prince of all of Equestria. Handsome and Charming, and born a thousand years before he was supposed to, is now a completely different being.

Spike, during these extra thousand years, has been training in all the fields known, his long life allowing him to retrain all that there is. Although with all good things, comes a price.

We now find us to the day of when his birth was supposed to take place, Spike is now a slightly different being. All that he has learned and experienced has changed the way he acts and feels, love not being part of that scheme.

But one day, he meet's a mare by the name of Twilight Sparkle, and his life is soon flipped. As he soon get's attached to the mare, as our lucky duo are soon sent to Ponyville.

How will the story change with a new Spike? What are some of the hardships Spike had to experience in order for him to mature from a prick teen into an sightly less prick teen? Why is Spike the why he is now? And will our lucky duo succumb to the gross element known as love?

Editors: Ventan and The Silent Watcher

Idea given to me by Smurf.