My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Secret of My Excess

A/N: Well, my Halloween decorating plans are on hold due to the fact that we're getting a lot of rain these past few days, and while this is a big help with what's left of the two fires, it's causing some flooding issues in parts of the valley. Oh well, live goes on as it always does.

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER TWO: SPIKE'S GROWING!

The next morning, Twilight Sparkle woke up and was dealing with a headache since strange noises outside had kept waking her up during the night, and she hadn't been able to figure out what was making the noises. Yawning, she went to wake up the baby dragon.

"Wow, what a rough night's sleep, Spike," she remarked, getting out of her bed. "I had the weirdest drea-" she stopped and frowned when she saw a pile of stuff covering the baby dragon from view, but she could hear him snoring. "I can't believe you!" she snapped, magically removing the items. "Where'd you get all this-" she gasped when she saw that he had grown!

Still wearing the hat and holding the ball, Spike woke up with a yawn/hiss. "What happened?" he asked, obvious to her uneasy expression at first, and then he looked down at himself. "What's happening to me, Twilight?!"

Twilight Sparkle hurried downstairs and began checking her books while he followed, after prying the hat off his head. "I don't know!" she confessed, not finding anything yet. "Think back to last night. Did something happen?" she asked, glancing at him and frowned when she saw that he was staring and drooling at the books. "Spike? What did you do after I saw you?"

Spike slapped himself in order to focus. "I went to talk… to…" he began and then trailed off when he saw the globe. He went over to it and began drooling again as he spun it.

"Spike!" the purple unicorn snapped, magically yanking the globe away, getting his attention once again. "You went to talk to who?"

"Oh, um… I don't remember," said the teenage dragon quickly, snatching away the globe. "Hey, can I have that globe? You're not using it, right?" And he climbed back up to add it toe the pile. He then grabbed a nearby book. "What about this book?"

Twilight Sparkle teleported herself up, and magically took the book away, making sure it was out of his reach, hopefully. "Spike, I'm worried about you," she informed him, doing her best to keep the book from his claws. "You're usually not so… grabby!"

"My arms aren't usually" Spike said, his voice deepening "this long either." He clamped his claws over his mouth, his eyes wide. "What's happening to me?"

Before the purple unicorn could say anything, there was a knock on the door to the study and it opened to let Sunrise Blossom inside. "Twilight? Spike? Are you both up?" she asked. "I'm having troubles finding my- Yikes!" she yelped, staring up at the teenage dragon and her twin. "Spike?!"

Twilight Sparkle teleported herself back to the floor to talk with her sister, who was staring wide-eyed at the former baby dragon. "I woke up this morning and found Spike had grown," she informed her, and about how she caught him trying to convince Junebug to give him a gift. "I've never known Spike to be greedy."

"That's odd, especially for Spike," Sunrise Blossom agreed, frowning and noticed something in the pile. "There it is!" She teleported up to the pile, magically retrieved a jewelry box, and teleported back to her sister's side before the teenage dragon could stop her. "Apparently, he snuck into the Apothecary last night and swiped my jewelry box," she added, shooting him a stern look. "Now, how can we get Spike back to normal?"

Twilight Sparkle shrugged. "I don't know, I just don't know."

While Sunrise Blossom headed back to the Apothecary with her jewelry box, Twilight Sparkle took Spike to the doctor's office to see if Dr. Horse could help in figuring out what was wrong with the baby dragon. They sat in the examination room, where she had to slap his claws to keep him from grabbing at stuff.

"Well now, what seems to be the problem?" Dr. Horse asked upon entering the room.

"This is Spike," the purple unicorn announced while slapping the teenage dragon's claws away from the bowl of suckers. "And something's wrong with him." This time she slapped his claws to keep him from grabbing a car of tongue compressors. "He used to be half this size! And he keeps trying to take things that aren't" she slapped his claws again "his!"

Dr. Horse nodded and moved to stand in front of Spike. "All right then, let's just have a look see, shall we?" he suggested and began doing baby talk while examining him. "Widdle guy not feewing too good? Who's a brave widdle boy, huh? Who's a brave one?" He grunted when he was hit with a blast of green fire that left his face covered with soot.

"So?" Twilight Sparkle asked. "What do you think, Doctor?"

"Well, I think I know what the problem is," said the doctor, frowning. "He's a dragon!"

"That's not the problem," the purple unicorn complained. "He's always been a dragon."

Dr. Horse went to the sink and washed his face off. "Oh. Well, that would explain it," he remarked and sighed, turning to her. "Listen, I don't know anything about dragons, I know about baby ponies. Maybe you should try a vet."

Twilight Sparkle sighed while Spike snatched up the bowl of suckers. "Okay. Thank you, doctor."

The purple unicorn dragged the teenage dragon to the vet and shoved him onto the table, where Dr. Fauna examined him, perplexed.

"Hm, well, I'm flummoxed," she admitted, walking around Spike, who was looking grumpy. "Y'bring me a dog, I've got it diagnosed in seconds. Snake even faster, but… to be honest, I've never seen a real live dragon before." And while the teenage dragon snorted, she tried a trick with doggy treats. "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? Sit."

Spike immediately sat down and panted like a dog. When Dr. Fauna gave him the doggy treat, he put it in the bowl of candy that he was holding with his tail.

"Thanks anyway," said Twilight Sparkle, deciding that there was one pony who could possibly help… well, a certain zebra. "C'mon, Spike."

Soon they were in the home of Zecora, who examined Spike from all sides, poking and prodding him. Then she waved a gold watch in front of him, and snatched it away when he tried to grab it.

Putting the watch away, Zecora informed the purple unicorn of what she'd discovered. "Ooh, he is starting to mature," she announced. "Of this fact I am quite sure."

"Mature?" Twilight Sparkle repeated, surprised. "So he's just… growing up? But that doesn't explain why he keeps grabbing things." And she magically yanked a vase out of his claws.

"A dragon's heart is prone to greed, a steady diet to make growth speed," the zebra explained, tossing green powder into her cauldron and they watched the images that were created in the dark liquid. "Then, the resulting bigger size only makes their hunger rise. If this trait should go unchecked, if Spike continues to collect, more growth will certainly occur – he is going to turn into a monster."

The purple unicorn gasped, fearful. "You mean the more things a dragon collects, the bigger and greedier he gets?" she asked. "But how do we stop him before he's completely out of control?"

"If his monstrous ways you wish to impede," Zecora advised, "you must prevent him from practicing greed." She then realized that Spike had swiped all of her stuff while they'd been talking, leaving the hut bare, and she frowned while Twilight Sparkle laughed nervously. She then left to locate the AWOL teenage dragon.

How was she going to stop Spike from practicing greed if she couldn't find him?

A/N: Talk about your growth spurt issues. See you all on Tuesday! ;) R&R everyone!