Spike the dragon's hero

Spike shut his eyes tightly and clenched his teeth expecting the "eternal reward" from Garble, however soon enough he understood that his worry wasn't necessary...

"ow ow ouch...give it a rest Garble!" Spike said trying to escape the dragon's claws

"what you took down a giant dragon eating reptile and you can't deal with a small dragon like me?" Garble said keeping noogieing him...while the other dragons kept cheering for him screaming his name

"SPIKE! SPIKE! SPIKE! SPIKE!" they were yelling all around him

Also Spike was able to hear what the dragons closer to him were saying...

"you were on fire! literally!" a dragon said

"YES!!! even a full grown dragon would have lost piece in a fight like that" a dragoness said

"how did you get that sick magic fire? is it the work of a pony?" another dragon asked

"right how did you fire that ball? i mean it was even bigger than yourself!" another one said

"can you teach me? i know a lot of cute dragonesses, i could introduce one of them to you" another dragon said blinking

Spike kept his guard relatively high, he knew he saved Garble's life and probably the one of every other dragon around him, but still he knew that Garble and his friends could have changed their attitudes towards in the fraction of a second, plus he didn't expect the events to take that turn...

"well Spike, i think i kind of misjudged you, challenging that serpent and beat him was like crushing an infinity of eggs" Garble said to Spike

"well even if i don't...like you...i couldn't have let that thing eat you that way, and by the way i hope that it didn't injure your wings and your tail seriously" Spike answered

"ah don't worry we dragons are tough, those scratches will regenerate soon, we are not like those namby pamby......." Garble paused for a second as Spike glared at him....

"well...you know what i meant Spike" Garble went ahead

"mph okay Garble...however please give me back the gems you stolen and we can call all of this an even" Spike said in the end

"mmh i kind of wanted them as main course of tonights feast, but you pretty much earned them" Garble said making Spike smile

"and, i don't know if its because of the multiple concussions, i feel kind of generous tonight, so generous that i'll add something to your reward..." Garble said

"not another noogie!" Spike said then

"what? no but let's say you can keep everything under the gems" Garble said pointing to the hoard...

"i can take all of them!?" Spike said amazed with his eyes enlarging at that sigh

"that's right, but don't eat all of them in one meal" Garble joked

"mmmmh on i surely won't...however i think that now i should go back to Ponyville" Spike said approaching to the hoard...

Garble however coiled him and took him back in front of himself "whaa? you leaving already? let at least give you the Hero burp mushroom" Garble said

"hero what now?" Spike asked

"well it's what we usually throw to a very remarkable dragon" Garble explained turning to the crowd...

"EVERYONE! a burp for Spike!" Garble said to his friends

"to Spike!" the dragons yelled preparing to release their fires

Then all of them loudly burped to the Sky generating an explosion of fire similar to a nuclear mushroom

"woah, that was spectacular" Spike said

"well consider it an event, we don't do it everyday" Garble said smiling

"i bet..." he said looking at the cloud disappearing in the night...

"i guess you'll be departing now, will you use again that crazy magic fire?" Garble asked

"yeah, and i think i should hurry my friends in Ponyville must be really worried" Spike said in the end

"well if that's so see ya Spike, you are also welcome to come back!" Garble said to Spike

Spike just smiled and climbed on his new hoard impatient to come back to Ponyville and above all to Rarity...

He then reached the top of the hoard covered with the Rainbow gems...the temptation of eating them was strong, but not strong enough for him, he was mostly happy he would have been able to deliver them all back to his beloved Rarity...

He then looked at the dragons around still cheering for him and waving with their claws...

Spike just smiled and waved back, he then fired his teleporting fire and disappeared as well as the hoard under him...

"hey Garble?" one of his friend asked

"yeah?" Garble answered

"now that Spike is an hero...does this mean no more raids on Ponies?" he asked

"well i guess not, but we still can pick on the gems of the dogs, and besides hurting ponies isn't that fun anymore" Garble said

"hey, do you think that one those ponies could improve our fire like Spike's, you know i wouldn't mind a teleporitng fire or a fire capable of doing something else" another one of Garble's friends said with a devious smile

"well now that i think of it, some upgrades would be good...also knowing that that Serpent knows where we live..." he said in the end

"anyways it's something we will worry about later, we still have a lot of hoards and the night just began!" Garble said starting again the partying...

Meanwhile the carousel boutique was filled with tears...

Rarity passed all the day crying and worrying about Spike and the gems, while Twilight was trying to help her feeling better...

"oh Twilight, it's almost night and Spike isn't back yet!" Rarity said

Twilight was worried but she tried to stay optimist

"don't worry Rarity, i know it's late but i'm sure that Spike is already coming back, with all your gems with him" she said then

"or...those brute dragons ate him and the gems!!!" she said collapsing crying again

That imagine made Twilight shiver....

"Rarity please don't underestimate Spike, he is a very strong dragon and with a lot of resources, especially when it's to help a pony in difficult like you" Twilight explained

"but he is so young...and those brutes are all big scary and mean....oh how could i make him feel so miserable! i have never been a real good friend to him...it's all my fault!!!" she said crying even more

"Rarity don't let yourself down so much, you are always kind to Spike and i'm sure he'll come back sooner than we expect" Twilight said

"i'll stop crying only when i'll see his cute little face back here" Rarity said between a sob and the other...

As soon as she said it, a giant flash of light filled the room engulfing the two ponies...

Then after they opened their eyes they understood they were completely submerged by gems...

"Rarity are you okay?" Twilight asked

"oh my...where do all these gems come from?" Rarity asked

Spike's head emerged from the sea of gems filling Rarity and Twilight of joy...

"spike you are back! how did you get all those gems!? did those horrible dragons hurt you?" Rarity asked worried...

Spike just smiled and showed her the Rainbow gems he gained back...

"SPIKEY! YOU GOT THEM BACK!!!!" she yelled jumping over exited on her little dragon covering him of kisses allover.