Spike, what have you done...

Foreword: I got the idea for this story a couple days ago, and upon requesting permission from Flamesinger599, was granted permission to use a part of his story in this one. Once I was granted permission, I texted my friends for a brainstorming session on what to call this, and what to do. Thanks to Nighthawk853 for giving me the inspiration needed to write this new fanfic, which I will not focus on solely. I am still going to be focusing most of my efforts into Maple Meets Equestria, but I just couldn't get this idea out of my head. So, instead of taking down some notes and leaving it for later like I have been doing with a couple other ideas, I decided to give this a head start.

Also, lines in ' marks are thoughts, while the lines in between ' marks in italics are Spike arguing with himself.

Spike was sitting alone in the corner of the library. He may have been surrounded by his mother figure, Twilight Sparkle, and her friends Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity, but he felt like he was the only one there. This wasn't the first time that Spike had thought this, seeing as how he was a dragon, and his "friends" were ponies. Even though they acted friendly towards him, praising him whenever he did somethign remarkable, or being there to comfrot him when he was sad, like when he found out Rarity had a crush on Prince Blueblood, he knew they were never his true friends. They could act friendly or console him when times were tough all they wanted, but they would never understand what it was like for him, being the only dragon in a town populated entirely by ponies, with the exception of one zebra living not too far into the Everfree forest.

He looked up to see Rainbow Dash deep in discussion with Fluttershy about sticking up for herself more, and the others talking about the latest cake Pinkie had managed to perfect. He sighed, wondering if he would ever meet anyone like him, but then quickly realising this was impossible, as most dragons he knew of were either too vicious to bring into PonyVille, or were nice enough, but had no intention of mingling with ponies. All these thoughts were clearly showing on his face however, as all six ponies stopped their respective conversations, and were looking worriedly at him.

Twilight finally spoke up, "Hey Spike, how come you're just sitting in the corner by yourself?"

"Yea," interjected Rainbow Dash, "and how come you look so sad?"

"Hey yea, he does look a little sad. Why don't we make that frownie go upside downie!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie with her trademark bounce and smile.

"Gosh, if I didn't know any better, ah'd say you were lonely Spike. Now what in Equestria could have ya feelin' so down in the dumps?"

Spike looked away for a second, before turnign back with a huge fake grin, that had everypony fooled but Applejack.

"There's nothing wrong, I was just daydreaming is all."

Applejack squinted at him, clearly not buying his daydreaming story. She turned back to her friends, who were continuing their conversations, but kept watching Spike from the corner of her eye. When Spike left the library, Applejack excused herself from the library and trotted to catch up with Spike.

"All right sugarcube, ah know you weren't just daydreaming back there. You know that I'm the element of honesty, and that also means that I can tell when others are lyin' as well, so spill it."

Spike tried looking everywhere but at Applejack, trying very hard not to look her directly in the eye. He ended up just looking at the ground and mumbling, "You wouldn't get it AJ, nobody here would. That's just the problem."

Spike turned towards the center of town and started walking away, all the while being watched by Applejack with a curious look on her face.

"Wonder what's got into him to make him act the way he is. I've never seen the li'l guy act like this before."

Spike was walking through PonyVille, just thinking on what he had said and heard earlier.

'I should've just told them what was going on, maybe they could've helped me.'

'Helped me how? They're just a bunch of ponies, what could they possibly know about what you're going through?'

'They may be ponies, but they're my friends. That has to count for something, especially 'cause I've known them since we came to PonyVille so long ago'

'Friends? Hah! They are ponies and you are a dragon, the only way for someone to know what you're going through is if you find another dragon.'

"Thats it! All I have to do is summon a dragon, one that's friendly and doesn't mind living with a bunch of ponies. Thanks brain, you're a genius!"

'You're welcome.'

Spike spent the next hour contemplating how he was going to summon a peacful dragon to PonyVille.

'I can't ask Twilight or Rarity. Twilight would just lecture me on how every dragon out there is violent and dangerous, and Rarity would do just about the same thing, only focusing on the facts that dragons have no sense of fashion.'

Spike continued on this train of thought for hours, before he finally came to a solution.

"I got it! Lyra could help me. She's always been fascinated by things that most ponies find wierd or dangerous, so she just might be the best pony to ask."

Spike was so happy that he practically skipped all the way to Lyra and Bon Bon's house. Once he reached their house, he knocked on the door three times, and waited for somepony to answer the door. Ten seconds passed before he could hear the tell-tale sounds of hooves moving across wood, closer to the door. When the door opened, Bon Bon looked around before finally noticing Spike just below her field of vision.

"Oh Spike, what a nice surprise. Did Twilight send you to retrieve the books Lyra borrowed last week?"

"No Bon Bon, I actually came here by myself. I just wanted to ask Lyra a question."

"Oh, well she's not home just yet. She's still out in the park, playing here lyre. If you want, you could come in and sit down while you wait. I just pulled out a plate of fresh cookies."

Spike licked his lips, thinking of the last time he had Bon Bon's delicious mega chocolate chip cookies.

"Yea, that sounds great! But, do you know how long before Lyra comes back?"

"Well, she's normally home by now, so I'd say it should only be a few minutes. Mind if I ask what you came here to ask her?"

"Well, actually... I was kind of hoping I could ask her in private." Spike said while scuffing his feet against some pebbles outside.

Bon Bon gave him a skeptical look, but let him in saying, "Well, I've known you for a while, and I guess I can trust that you're not up to any funny business, but I'd still like to know what you were going to ask her."

"If you really want to know, let's just say I need to speak with her about issues I've been having lately that I can't really talk about with Twilight or the others. They just wouldn't understand."

"But why Lyra? Why not anypony else?"

"I'd rather not answer that. Let's just say that I think Lyra will be the most sympathetic with my situation."

Bon Bon raised an eyebrow, but said nothing as she led Spike into the kitchen for some cookies. Fifteen minutes later, Lyra walked through the door yelling, "Bon Bon, I'm home!"

"I'm in the kitchen Lyra, and you have a visitor!" Bon Bon yelled back

Lyra walked into the kitchen to see Spike sitting at the table munching on a cookie.

"Oh hey Spike, are you here to get the books I borrowed from the library last week? Let me just go get them for you."

Before Lyra could dash out of the kitchen, Spike grabbed her hoof and said, "Actually Lyra, I came here on my own. I wanted to ask you a question in private."

"Well, sure you could ask me anything. Hey Bon Bon, you think you could give me and Spike some privacy?"

"I suppose so. I'll be upstairs in the bedroom if you need me."

Bon Bon walked upstairs, while Spike and Lyra walked into the living room and both sat down on the couch. Spike waited until he heard a door upstairs shut before facing Lyra.

"Hey Lyra, I actually came here to ask for your help. I figured if anyone in PonyVille could help me, it was you. You see, I've been feeling lonely lately, and I know nopony here would understand, because that's just it; they're ponies and I'm a dragon. Do you see what I'm getting at here?"

"Not exactly, but go on."

"Well, seeing as how you have an interest in humans, and there was that one time when you managed to summon one to PonyVille, I wanted to know if you could help me summon a friendly dragon."

"Whoa, a dragon!? Spike, I don't think-"

"Now just hear me out. I said a friendly dragon. I just want someone here who can understand me, you know. Someone who knows what it's like to be a dragon. Isn't there some way you can, I don't know, filter out the results so that you can only summon a friendly dragon?"

"Spike, magic isn't like a computer, where I can pick and choose what comes out."

"Pleeeeease. Can you at least try? I really don't have anyone else to turn to. I figured since you have had experience with summoning creatures from other worlds, it wouldn't be a problem to summon something from our world."

"I still don't know Spike. If I summoned a dragon, then there would be some serious hell to pay, if in the most likely event it does turn out to be violent."

"Actually, I thought ahead on that one. I remember reading somewhere in an old textbook that there was a spell that could trap a being in a certain area, designated by rune petals. I read it one day when I was supposed to be reshelving book, and one fell open. I thought it was intriguing, so I continued to read. I also managed to snag a good supply of rune petals on my way out of the library without anyone noticing."

Spike pulled out a small jar with what looked to be like hundred upon hundreds of miniscule onyx colored petals.

"Spike, where did you get that from?"

"Oh, Pinkie Pie just taught me a few tricks."

Lyra face-hoofed, before saying, "Why am I not surprised by that statement?"

"Okay Spike, if you agree to take responsibility for the dragon once I summon it, and you can guarantee that this containment spell will work, then I'll summon a dragon for you. But if it turns out to be violent, I'm sending it straight back to where it came from, and I'm sending you straight back to the library with a full explanation of what happened here to Twilight."

Spike gulped, considering his options. If there was any time to back out, it was now. He hesitantly overrode the cautionary part of his brain and began spreading the rune petals around in a decently large circle, before instructing Lyra on how to perform the containment spell. Lyra's horn began to glow, as did all the rune petals, before they started to levitate off the ground, and formed an invisible barrier.

"All right, guess there's no time like the present to summon a dragon. Let's just hope it's friendly."

Lyra began to concentrate on an image of a dragon. She thought of the scales, the wings, the tail, the way it stood on two hind feet, kind of like a human, and also it's clawed hands, which also seemed to resemble a human's.

'Oh no, I need to start over. I thought too much of humans along with dragons. This is bad, very bad.'

Before Lyra could cancel the spell, a bright light engulfed the room. When the flash of light disappeared, both Lyra and Spike opened their eyes, and saw something scaly lying on the floor of the living room.

Jeremy was an average kid for his age. He was fourteen, approximately 5'7, had decent grades in school, and played basketball after school with his friends. There was nothing extraordinary about him. In his mind, he was just another kid who went to school like everybody else, played a sport like everybody else, and got passing grades like everybody else in his class. One day, he was walking home after a rather heated game of basketball, one that ended up a tie, when he noticed something strange about his house. He had a two story house, and his room was on the second floor, with a window looking out onto the street. But when he looked up, he saw a strange green light coming from his bedroom window. He passed this off as his sister sneaking into his room to play Xbox, and he hurriedly ran up to his room to tell his sister to go and do her homework like she was supposed to. When he got to his room, he noticed that his sister wasn't there. In fact, what he saw there was like nothing he had ever seen before. Floating in the middle of his room, was a strange floating green orb. He looked at it, confused as to what it was, but more importantly, what it was doing in his room. He reached out to see if he could touch it, still unsure if it was real. The second his hand got within an inch of the sphere, he felt his arm being pulled forward. He tried to pull back, but all that accomplished was get him close to the green orb. After ten minutes of struggling against the pull of the orb, and his entire right arm plunged into it, he finally lost the strength to resist, and he was sucked in. After he got sucked in, all Jeremy could feel was an intense tingling feeling across his whole body, and the fact that it felt like he was being squeezed through a tube. The last thing he could remember was seeing a light not too far away, before everything went black.

All right, now that I finally got this out of my head and onto the computer, it's time to go back to Maple Meets Equestria while I wait for this story to be approved. Also, I put in a reference. Let's see if anyone can figure out what it was, and what it's from. If you want a hint, I can give it to you, but only a hint.