Spike the dragon's hero

Some hours passed after the raid and Spike's departure...

Twilight was worried for her little dragon assistant and friend, but also she was feeling terrible for poor Rarity who was still crying in her shop...

The white unicorn was stretched on the couch versing liters of tears allover her shop, making Twilight struggle to keep the "flood" under control, and at the same time trying to confort her friend...

"oh Twilight, the line i would have made out of those gems would have been the most glamour and beautiful masterpiece in my life...and now i can't realize it because a bunch of dirty and dumb dragons stole them!!!!" the unicorn was keep saying

"Rarity please calm down, i'm sure that you'll find new ones..." Twilight tried to say

"how can you be so naive Twilight...those gems were practically unique, the rarest gems of all Equestria, it took months of digging and scavenging to find them....i'll be able to find them again in my next life maybe!!!!" she said crying even more

"oh my..." Twilight said seeing how bad her friend was feeling, so she began to dry her face with a napkin...

"if it makes you feel better Spike is already traveling to the badlands to get them back..." Twilight said

"what!? you really let him go?" Rarity asked shocked

"well yeah...but i upgraded his..." Twilight began to explain

"OH NO!!! not my little Spikey wikey!" she said crying even louder

"Rarity please stay calm, i upgraded his fire, now he can teleport everything including himself, those dragons won't even see him coming" Twilight explained

"but what if it failed?! oh my poor Spike..." Rarity said even more desperate

In that moment Twilight looked at the window and at the sun...

"Spike please come back soon" Twilight said worried for him...

Meanwhile Spike was still on his hot air ballon looking at where he was going...

"okay i'm just on route...soon i'll reach the area where the phoenixes make their nests..." Spike said rethinking about the events of that place, until his stomach began to grumble...

"mmmh maybe some snack will be helpful" he said taking out one of his sandwiches from the bag and beginning to eat it slowly

"mmmh rubin Dust...soo good" he said tasting it

After some time he finished the sandwich and drank a little cup of tea...ending everything with a burp

"ah i really needed it, now by the time i'll reach the volcanoes it will already be energy for my body" he said going in punching position

"Garble won't even see me coming!!!" he said thinking about him attacking Garble and beating him...

"actually...i really need a plan...i can't engage directly in a fight, they would use my claws as toothpicks after dipping me into the lava..." Spike said thinking about a good plan...

"brrrrr...no definately better if i sneak trough them, reach the gems and then teleport myself away before they can notice i'm there, this should do the trick..." Spike said looking at the sun which was descending...

"better if i hurry up, i need to get there before sunset" Spike said pulling the controls of the ballon...

In that moment however the badlands were filled with young dragons celebrating the success of their raids and showing off their loots all stored into big mounds, the biggest one belonged to Garble's gang with the Rainbow gems topping it...

All around the dragons were playing tail-wrestling, having burping contests and making dives into the lava pits, usual things for most of the teenage dragons...

Some of them were also talking about their raids and about others, especially Garble who, for obtaining the Rainbow gems was the celebrity of the night...

Garble's gang was talking with others inside a large lava pit...

"so we stormed into her shop and then we began to eat all the gems we found, Garble then looking upstairs found this big strongbox, we melt it down and we found the Rainbow gems! talk about luck" the brown overweight dragon said laughing

"yeah, we even found that loser of Spike back there ahahahhahahahahah, always at the pony's leash!" a purple dragon said laughing

"ahahahahhahahha, even if that pony was kind of cute actually..." the white dragon said

"so now you like horses? ahahahahhah why now? you finally gave up on finding a dragoness who'd want to be your mate! ahahahahahhahahahahahhahahah" another dragon taunted him...

"take that back immediately if you don't want to sink my claws into your sorry tail!" the dragon snarled

"oh how about you force me to do so eh? horse lover?" the dragon said enraging even more the other dragon...

"okay, say bye bye to your tail!" the white dragon said pouncing him and beginning a fight into the lava pit...

"FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!" all the dragons around were saying while the two where massacrating themselves

In the end the dragon who taunted the white one was defeated...

"ah ah! suck my tail loser!" he said flying away from him

After that little fight everything continued as normal until Garble thrown a challenge to all of the dragons...

"hey guys, i bet you want these gems too?" he asked showing the Rainbow gems from the top of his hoard...

All the dragons began to chant and cheer...

"well be happy, whoever defeats me gets them! let's go with KING OF THE HOARD!!!" Garble roared making fire and flames come out of his mouth

The dragons immediately launched themselves to the assault, climbing the pile of gems to reach Garble on the top, but both Garble and most of the others kind of played dirty, practically none was reaching the top...

At a certain moment however everyone stopped looking petrified by something fearsome...everyone except Garble

"what's up guys? you can't cope with a little challenge?" Garble taunted them not imagining what was going to happen...

Everyone then panicked and ran into their dens...

"what? come on is there anyone who can take me out?" Garble asked...

"mmmh i think i could..." a deep strong and menacing voice said from behind Garble

Garble in that time noticed a shadow that completely covered him and a big portion of the place...

The red dragon gulped and began to turn, until his eyes met the eyes of something that made his blood become ice...

"hi there snack, you too preparing for dinner?" the creature said licking it's chops looking at Garble in the same way a dragon would have watched a gem before eating it...

Garble began to sweat, clench his teeth and to tremble while his legs assumed an X position...

"you know i think i just spotted my main course!" the creature said coiling Garble...

"ahhhh! no wait!!! not me!!!!!!!!!!" the red teenage dragon yelled once trapped by the creature...