Broken Hearts Part 1: Entropy's Wrath

Spike had just finished cooking Twilight breakfast, and was about to start on his morning chores when Twilight interrupted. "Hey Spike, *chew chew* no need to do the cleaning, *chew chew chew* I was gonna have another messy study today, you know how comfortable I get in those book piles." She said to Spike, her mouth still somewhat full of her breakfast. "Well alright Twilight, I'm gonna head over to Pinkie's if that's okay." Spike said as he headed towards the door. "Yeah sure, *chew* go ahead and take the day off." Twilight said before taking another bite of her breakfast. "Kay see ya later Twilight." Spike said before heading out the door. "*Mmf* Bye." Twilight said mid-chew. Spike had started on his way towards Sugar Cube Corner as he did most every morning after his chores; he took a brief moment to breath, "Ah, such a nice day today." He said to himself before continuing on his way to Pinkie's. When Spike arrived he hopped up on the bar stool on the opposite side of Pinkie's counter and ordered his usual, a root beer float. As usual he was greeted by an unusually happy Pinkie Pie, compared to most ponies that is, and they began to discuss what Spike loved to talk about, Rarity. Now Pinkie, who is great at keeping secrets, started with their usual code for the topic. "Still Gem hunting Mr. Spike?" Pinkie asked sly and quizzically. "Yeah you know, same old same old." Spike said sadly. "Well not that I mind you coming in everyday Spike but I hate to see you down in the dumps like this, it can not be good for you." Pinkie remarked in a surprisingly knowledgeable manner. "I know Pinkie but come on, what's a dragon like me gonna do to get a pony like that to like him?" Spike said, now beginning to sound deeply depressed. "Well I really like you Spike and all it took was a lot of hanging out, you come in here everyday, maybe all you need to do is hang out with her some?" Pinkie said trying to sound hopeful. "Well I hang out with her as much as I hang out with Twilight and you and yet it seems like there is nothing there, sometimes I think there is but I don't know. I need to think on this some more thanks Pinkie." Spike said finishing his drink and taking his leave. "Yeah anytime Spike." Pinkie said somewhat sad her friend was leaving. On his way home he could not help but think about his feelings for Rarity, he went on thinking to himself, "If only I could bring her something to make her love me; is that possible? Whatever, it would never work, not on her anyway." Spike never really thought Rarity didn't like him, and he had been with fillies before, the problem was he could never tell anypony directly how he truly felt about them. However this was only his first problem, he had also throughout time developed a notion that ponies could never be with dragons, which for the most part was true. But Spike gained a spark of determination and made a promise to himself, "I think I know what I'll do, I will spend as much time with her as possible, and maybe with time she could learn to love me!" Spike continued the rest of his way home, almost as gleeful as Pinkie Pie.

Days had gone by, weeks, months, years; by the time Spike was about seventeen, the mane six being in their mid-twenties, he had spent an unimaginable amount of time with Rarity. Spike had gotten out of most of his chores at the library, Owlowiscious was more than happy to become Twilight's number one assistant, and he spent a lot of time grooming himself for Rarity, at Pinkie's with her help of coarse. Almost an hour a day he would sharpen his spikes, clean out and polish his scales, and make sure his wings and horns were not grotesque looking, which was becoming difficult lately due to their size and twisted shape. However most of his day was spent at Rarity's, helping her and talking to her, well it was more like listening, Rarity was quite a talker. As time went on Rarity went through plenty of coltfriends and even some marefriends, and for the most part Spike was more than happy to be there for Rarity , whether she was talking about how great this new stallion she met was, or crying about how much of an ass her ex was. This all began to build hatred in Spike with each passing relation; at first Spike was getting closer to her, but with time he never had a moment to tell her how he truly felt, and he began to grow angry, bitter, and resentful towards Rarity and anypony around her. One day,sometime in the late afternoon, Rarity was going on and on about how great this new stallion, Peachy Keen, was; Spike had finally broken, his anger broke out in a fit of sadness and rage, "Well if this stallion is so great why do you need me?!" Spike shouted Rarity shriveled and grew silent. "Why don't you just go to him with all your Celestia-damned problems instead of stringing me along helplessly?!" Spike screamed leaving Rarity's boutique sobbing, Rarity was left there shocked. When Spike returned to the library he could not stop crying, while sniffling he pulled out a quill and a small piece of paper and began sloppily jotting something down. The dragon later passed out with the quill and parchment in hand, slowly crying himself to sleep.

The next morning Rarity showed up at Twilight's library, very confused about what had happened the day before. When she arrived the door was already open, she could see Spike laying in the corner on his bed, a quill in his hand and a piece of parchment spread out on the floor next to him as if it had been recently read. As she entered the room she noticed Twilight crying and sitting next to and open book titled "Dragon Lore", Rarity approached the book, Twilight had yet to notice her, she read the small article that was open, and began to tear up. The article read, "The Sadness of a Dragon: ... at certain points in time a dragon can reach a peak of sadness where the pain becomes too unbearable for the dragon's heart and it will just, give up..." as Rarity read this she began to think about what Spike had said the previous day, but this only made her cry more, how could she be so inconsiderate to Spike's feelings? she had thought, she was the element of generosity after all! Twilight noticed Rarity and scowled at her furiously, she screamed at the top of her lungs, "This is all your fault!" Hearing this Rarity began to bawl as Twilight screamed, Twilight began to feel bad immediately, she apologized putting a hoof over Rarity's shoulder, they cried together in that room for a while, Twilight had shown Rarity Spike's note.

Spike's note: "I am sorry everypony, I had a great time being friends with you all, it's been magical. But, I am writing this because my heart can't take much anymore, the pain is too much, I just hope that Rarity can forgive me for what I've done. Rarity, I should have never yelled at you, I should have been honest from the beginning, I never wanted it to end like this. I have always loved you Rarity, from the moment I laid eyes on you I knew I could never be happy with anypony else, I just hope you can forgive me for not being honest with you. And to everypony else I'm sorry to put you all through this, I know you think I'm being selfish, I just can't take this sadness much longer. I hope you can all move on with your lives after I'm gone, I love you all very much and am thankful to have the privilege to spend my life with all of you, I will miss you all.

Forever yours, Spike."