A New Drake in Town

     The sun was shining on Sweet Apple Acres, and on the picnic of a young teenaged drake and a lovely wight unicorn. But this was no ordinary picnic for the dragon, oh no today he finally had the confidence (and he had a growth spurt this last month along with getting his wings with he couldn't use yet but was taking lessons from Rainbow Dash which is were the confidence came from) to tell the mare of his dreams his feelings. Honestly who could blame him in the past for being to shy to tell her before, after all this is Rarity were talking about, the most beautiful pony in Ponyvill.

     "How do you like your daffodils sandwich Rarity?", asked Spike in a deep voice (which also came with the growth spurt)

     " Its just divine darling, how is your um... what did you call it again?", she replied.

     " Its a triple rubby, cristal caramel covered diamond, with emerald sprinkles", he said eating the diamond treat in one bite," and its awesome!",spike stated, half of the caramel on his face.

     Rarity couldn't help but let out a girlish giggle, "hold still you got cristal caramel all over your face, let me get it.", she said as she took a papertowel, licked it and started to carefully wipe away the sticky mess.

     "Thanks", the dragon said sheepishly, "so Rarity I've been meaning to tell you something... and its kind of personal", he now could feel the butterflies in the pit of his stomach. He just sat there a moment, jaw open starring into the two diamonds she called eyes. When he saw something red in the corner of his eye fly by and disappear from site. "What was that?"

     "What was what dear?",Rarity said confused. When he saw two more blurs from the other corner of his eye, this time one large and black, the other whight and thin.

     "There goes two more, no.", his face was one of disbelief.

     Spike's hart skipped a half a dozen beats. Three adult dragons stud before her and it only took a split second to identity them.

     The leader a tall muscular red dragons name was Garble, (as for the other two they don't talk much so call them thug 1 and thug 2)thug 1 was just as tall but very thin and whight scaled, thug 2 was just the opposite. With a large waste and was short, with black scales.

     "Run Rarity, run!", Spike shouted grabbing her hoof and ran and ran.

     "That's right run away since you can't fly yet!", thug 1 shouted.

     "I said I do the talking brimstone for brains!", the red dragon said hitting thug 1 on the  top of the head.

     "Hay Garble weird they go?", thug 2 asked there already angry leader.

     "Danmit you let them get away, stupid, stupid, stupid", they all stud there for a moment,"why are you still standing here, go find them", as the two took flight Garble stud and mumbled ,"those two clawheads couldn't find them if they were in there claws.", and with that he took off.

...

     Rarity ran as fast as she could but she still wasn't as fast as Spike. He was running like Pinkie Pie when the cakes were giving free cupcakes at Sugercube Corner, he knew exactly were he was going and he wouldent stop till he got there. They ran for what seemed like hours, but was really only about half an hour.

     As he ran up one last hill he sighed in relief when he saw the big red barn he had been sprinting to,"well hide in the Apple family barn for a while.", he told Rarity as she was two feet from the top.

     "Good... the... the sooner we get in there the better", she said in between breaths.

     "Sorry, here let me carry you...", she stopped him mid sentence.

     "Its quite alright dear, you look out of breath yourself, let's just get there and be done."

     So they did, and as soon as they got there Spike opened the door for Rarity and closed it behind him. Inside was just as you would think it would look, very large with bails of hay everywhere you'd look.

     "Well its not the first place I would have gone but its definitely better than out with those, those ruffians. Don't you think darling?", she asked the now pacing back and fourth across the barn,"I know that face, what are you thinking Spike?"

     "Its my fault there chasing us"

     "Spike we've been through this, during the dragon..."

     "I'm not talking about that... yesterday I was looking for the diamond I ate earlier today. Shortly after finding the gem I found them looking for gems as well, I thought I lost them but they must have followed me. Then they must of never lost me, and then waited for the right time"

     "That does not explain why they followed you"

     "Because they can, because they know I can't win, we got lucky before but now they know the area were in its just a mater of time.", he said deep into thought ,"I need to tell you something, actually its what I was going to tell you before they interrupted our picnic", he took a deep breath in and let it out."Rarity?"

     "Yes Spike.", she said there eyes making contact once more.

     "I ", that's all he could say before being silenced by a low voice and a thud

     THUD

     "Come out come out where ever you are, Spiky-Wiky!", the voice boomed

     "Oh come on!", Spike shouted in frustration.

     Just then the big doors to the barn swung open and the red dragon come into view on all fours,"There you are you little...", he was cut off by some thing hitting him in the face,and a cloud of dust kicked up. Both Rarity and Spike could only sit there frozen for what seemed like ages, lessening to the sounds of fighting going on behind the curtain of dust.

     When the dust settled down, what the two saw made there jaws drop. Garble was in bad shape he had cuts all along his body, he had several fangs missing, his right arm was broke, and he had a limp. He called to thugs 1 and 2 with a roar, and on que they picked him up and carried him off.

     But the most shocking thing was that there was a black dragon just a half a foot taller than Spike, with big bat like wings with a wing span as wide as he was tall(which was about six feet). He had red spines that ran from the back of his neak to the tip of his long tail. His claws were red with blood that made the two quiver with fear. A few seconds went by that felt like hours to the frightened pair.

     Apple Jack came running from the east field like a bat out of hell screaming,"Wat in tar nation is goin' on here?"

     "Who are you?", both Spike and Rarity said together.

     "My name is Drake", he said turning to face them his yellow eyes looking straight into Rarity's,"and I'm new around here"