Spike the dragon's hero

Spike landed quite near the phoenix's grove and tied his hot air ballon to a tree.

"okay here i am...now let's go" he said beginning to cross the forest.

In a moment he felt something on his head: it was his little phoenix friend.

"oh hi there, so long, how are you?" the little dragon asked to the little phoenix.

However everything the little phoenix did was wimping and emitting a crying sound.

"hey hey what's wrong little guy?" Spike asked worried

The little phoenix so pointed at a part of the grove which was completely destroyed

"OH MY! who did this? the dragons?" Spike asked even more worried

The phoenix chick shook his head and pointed to the tracks left by what destroyed the trees, all leading to the volcanoes...

"oh my...but if it wasn't a dragon...what could have been?" Spike asked to himself

In that moment Spike heard someone yelling exactly from the volcanoes...

"HELP! PLEASE HELP ME!!! I DON'T WANT TO BECOME A SNACK!" a young dragon was yelling desperately

Spike recognized the voice almost immediately...

"Garble? what the heck it's going on?" Spike asked to himself...

After locating a safe enough tree Spike deposed his little phoenix friend on a branch from which his parents would have been able to spot him, then he ran towards the volcano and after a little climbing he found himself at the edge of the crater...

"okay from here i should be able to see...FOR CELESTIA!!!" Spike yelled as he saw the towering creature at the center of the crater...

"what in Equestria is that thing?" Spike asked to himself...

The creature was an enormous serpent, even larger than a full grown dragon, with smooth shining scales, dragon like wings and fearsome teeth coming out of his mouth...

Spike was frightened but something caught his attention of it mostly: the creature was holding Garble in the spires of his tail...

"now morsel, you know it doesn't happen all the time to find such a delicacy as a teenage dragon, i really want to memore this, how about we play a game?" the serpent asked with a devious look in its eyes

"no...wait! please...not me! i taste terrible and i'm not very good at playing!!!!!! SOMEONE HELP!!!!" Garble was keep yelling

"okay round one..." the serpent said beginning to thrown Garble back and front allover the crater making him leave marks allover the place...

"Pain........." Garble said as the serpent lifted him again...

"pain? how so? we just got started!" the serpent said making Garble gulp...

After that Garble began to wish he was born without capacity of feeling pain...

"NO! not the wing breaker!!! ahh!!, not the lava swirlie! please not the dragon boiler...no wait...NO! not the tailtwister...classic, reverse, with the magma, NO! ANYTHING BUT THE EVERFREEEEEEEE TWISTER!!!!!!!!!!" Garble was yelling from the creature's clucthes...

"sweet Celestia and Luna...." Spike said looking at what was happening before him...

...the poor red dragon was covered in scratches and bruises, had tears at the corners of his eyes and his tail and wings didn't look very well...in the end the creature throw it's prey at the ground and unceremoniously spat some green goo on him....

Spike was horrified, Garble was a jerk yes, but no creature deserved such a torture and he knew he had to do something before it was too late...

"well i think it was enough, how about some grub now? you mind?" The creature said coiling Garble again and bringing him to its mouth...

"ohhhh man....." was everything Garble was able to say looking at the multiple lined teeth ready to grind him...

Garble was almost better off dead when...

"HEY YOU!" a young by the sound voice yelled recalling the attention of every dragon and of the serpent...it was Spike...

"why don't you pick on something your own size!" Spike said raising his clawed fist...

The serpent kept Garble in his spires but prepared to add something else to the dinner...

"good another morsel!" the Serpent said preparing to attack Spike...

Spike got in pouncing position, and arched his back...

As the serpent was about to tackle him with his mouth the young dragon jumped on it's muzzle, and climbed him until reaching it's back

"okay let's slide!!" Spike said launching himself on the serpent's back and sliding trough it...

"and where do you think you are going?" The serpent asked trying to bite Spike while he was sliding....

After a few tentative Spike thought he needed a diversion and so something snapped inside him...

He suddenly stopped and hidden something behind his back...

"hey scaly! come and get me!" Spike taunted him

"prepare to meet my stomach!" the serpent said charging towards the young dragon...too bad for him that before it could have got Spike the little dragon used his teleporting fire and transported him somewhere near the serpents tail but not before he opened the bottle of gassosa right in the eyes of the creature...

"ahhhhh!!! it burns!!!!!!!!!" the creature said rubbing its face on some porous rocks...

Spike got advantage of the situation and tried to free Garble

"hey Garble if you are still here, give me a claw..." Spike yelled to the teenage dragon trying to free him from the serpents grasp...

"Spike? what the heck are you doing here!? do you want to be eaten, do you have any idea of what this is?!" Garble asked shocked by his presence....

"i don't know, i don't care, now unless you want to become a snack for real, help me!" Spike said

"mmmh grrrrh...mmph" Garble was gruting trying to enlarge his wings and get some more space to fly away...

For a moment it seemed that it worked as the serpent let go of Garble for one moment, but right after that the serpent coiled him again capturing also Spike in it's grasp...

The creature than hauled the two dragons in the air and prepared to eat them...

"good job Spike now i'm going to be your stomach mate until it digests us completely..." Garble said glaring at Spike

Spike had his teeth clenched...he had to do something! and quickly or they both would have became the serpent's dinner...