Spike the dragon's hero

Spike ran quickly to the golden oaks library and began to prepare supplies for his travel to the badlands, where Garble and his friends were probably heading to...

"okay, let's get started, i need to be quick, the more I wait the more they could have eaten those Rainbow gems..." Spike was saying to himself preparing his bag...

After some minutes he got all the stuff he needed, he knew that he wasn't going to stay out for a lot of time but still the travel would have been pretty long...

His bag was then filled with two sandwiches with veggie and gem dust as filling, a bottle of apple gassosa and a thermos of tea...

"okay i'm ready to go now" Spike said finishing to pack up...

In that moment however Twilight came down the stairs and noticed her little friend Spike while he was putting the bag on his shoulders...

"Spike? what are you doing?" The purple alicorn asked to her little dragon

"oh hi there Twilight, i was preparing some supplies for an important travel i have to do" Spike said

"an important travel? what are you talking about?" Twilight asked a little worried

"yeah, Garble and his friends somehow found ponyville, raided Rarity's shop and ate a lot of her gems, besides stealing some extremely rare ones, that i intend to retrive" Spike said shocking a little Twilight

"you mean...? Spike you can't go on a travel like this by yourself, if those dragons caught you they would tear you apart" She said worriedly

"i know Twilight, but i'm taking the risk, i have to get back Rarity's gems, she needed them for an extremely important line she was projecting and i'm not going to let it fail because of those jerks..." Spike said with his expression darkening...

"mmmh at least let me come with you, i could help you with some new spells Celestia gave me..." Twilight said

"well i know they could come in handy, but i'd feel better if you went to visit Rarity, she was in tears when i left the shop, and i think that your company will make her feel better" Spike said to Rarity

"are you really sure you want to go on this travel alone?" Twilight asked

"yes i'm sure Twilight, Rarity needs you all more than ever right now and i'm confident i can get the gems back...for Rarity" Spike said

"if that's so, lemme at least cast a spell on your teleporting fire to upgrade it at a new level" Twilight explained

"upgrade it?" Spike asked

"yeah upgrade it Spike, passing it to another level, and by it i mean that this spell will allow you to not only teleport paper, but also to teleport living things and objects wherever you see fit" Twilight explained

"cool would i be able to teleport myself too?" Spike asked

"actually yeah you could, you would just need to fire at yourself" Twilight explained

"seems it will be useful...go ahead whenever you want Twilight" Spike said opening his arms...

"okay but be careful Spike, it will work only 3 times then your breathe will be normal again" Twilight finished

"okay i'm ready Twilight" Spike said preparing

Twilight's horn began to glow bright and then a sphere of fire orbited towards Spike engulfing him...

Spike felt his throat burn for a second and then it came back to normal

"okay, so i guess it's done right?" Spike asked

"yeah Spike, now you can use your teleporting fire" the purple alicorn said

"really thank you Twilight" Spike said heading towards the door

"i'll try to be back as soon as i'll be able to" Spike said opening it

"be careful Spike" Twilight said in the end as her little friend left the home...

"now to the badlands" Spike said running around the town when something popped in his mind

"mmmh i'll need a transport mean to arrive there..." Spike said looking around

"that's perfect!" he said spotting an hot air balloon.

"let's hope i'll make it in time" Spike said paying the price for it and then taking off...

Meanwhile Garble and his friends were flying back to their homes carrying Rarity's rainbow gems inside some haversacks...

"that was one heck of a raid, i never ate that much!" an white dragon said

"yeah, it reminded me of the mega gem devouring party of two years ago, only that this time it was in a fancy place" the brown overweight dragon said burping "and they were all so clean and polished, you don't get so good ones near a volcano"

"right, and we even saw Spikey Wimpey again" a purple dragon said

"yeah, do you think that pony all polish and whitening was Spike's adoptive mom?" another dragon asked

"if he was that explains why he is such a wimp, i think that if he clipped a claw he'd explode in tears! ahaahhhhahahahh" a purple dragon said

"we totally need to come back there one of these days..." one of them said with a devious smile

"yeah guys, but we need to be careful there, Spike could be a problem..." Garble said looking serious shocking everyone for a second...

"he could write a letter to his namby pamby pony princess!!!!!!" he said making everyone explode in laughters...

However between their laughters the group of dragons couldn't advert something that was following them, sneaking inside the forest under them, watching them carefully with hungry eyes and licking its chomps...