Gems, Ice, and Dice

(This occurs 3 days after chapter one)

(BGM Check Author Notes)

BGM 1 Ice Blizzard and Caliber were strolling through Ponyville and talking about their combat styles. Blizzard says, "My ice powers pretty much give me an edge in a fight, but that doesn't mean I don't know how to use my hooves!" Blizzard then punches his hooves together for emphasis. He then says, "It's a good thing too, because if I overuse my powers, I'd have to wait for them to recharge, or worse! I could get a headache!"

Caliber replies, "Yeah, uh-huh. Just like how I'm nothing without my sword." Caliber then polishes his sword a little before putting it away. "Yep. Without my sword I couldn't win a fight if I tried."

Blizzard sighs and says, "Are you sure we couldn't get you some hoof-to-hoof lessons? I mean, what if somepony takes your sword from you?"

Caliber replies with a confident look, "Ha! That'll never happen!"

Blizzard asks, "What if it does?"

"It won't!" Caliber shouts, "Sorry about that Blizzard, but anyway my sword will never be taken from me ever!"

"If you say so," Blizzard replies with some doubt, but realizes, "Nah he's the best swordspony ever! No way that'll happen."

BGM 2 Suddenly out of nowhere, a bolt of lightning struck Caliber, "Aah!" he shouts and drops to the ground.

Blizzard went frantic, "Huh? What?! What the heck was that?! Where'd that come from?! Are you ok?!"

A voice could be heard above Ice Blizzard and Caliber, "Dammit! I missed!"

Blizzard looked up to see who it was and gasped, "You! It was you! What the heck is your problem Electron?! You could've killed him!"

"I was trying to," Electron says as he hovers above Blizzard, "well not him, but you! I was trying to get you! Ever since you got your ice powers, you thought you were the best in town!"

Blizzard replies, "What?! I never said I was better than anypony when I got my powers, you just stopped talking to me for some reason!"

Electron replies with hatred in his voice, "That's because you though you were better than me. But now that I have my electricity powers, we'll see who's the better elemental!" Electron then begins to fly off and Blizzard chases him.

BGM 3 "Get your flank back here Electron Wave Storm and fight me like a stallion!" Blizzard says as he skates after Electron.

"Haha! You can't keep up with me snowball! I'm able to fly faster than anypony with electricity control!" Electron says as he begins to fly faster, "You can't win snowball, you're out of your league! Why do you think I want you crippled for life or dead? I want you outta the picture so that I can rise up and be known all across Equestria as the best elemental pony! And I'll start with you!"

"Killing me will get you nowhere Electron," Blizzard says with sympathy, "maybe we can calmly talk this out?"

"You wouldn't understand snowball, you're not as cool as you think you are." Electron says as he charges himself up to light-speed fly away, "You will be electrified with what I can do! See ya loser!" And with that, Electron shoots a light bolt a Blizzard's hooves, and flies off into the distance and out of sight, while Blizzard stops skating, dodges the lightning, and starts panting.

BGM 4 "Wah! Oof!" Blizzard says after dodging the lightning bolt and trips over a rock. "Damn...you...Electron..." he says while catching his breath, afterwards he realizes, "Oh crap I left Caliber on his own back there!" It took Blizzard awhile to get back to where Caliber was, since he had used up most of his current ice energy by skating after Electron, he had to trot all the way back.

When Blizzard had finally made it back to Caliber, he lifts him onto his hooves and asks, "You ok bro?"

Caliber replies weakly, "Yeah I'm fine. Caliber the Wanderer doesn't die!" he coughs and says, "Did you get that turd Electron?"

"I lost him," Blizzard says, "the son of a gun got away from me." Blizzard was pissed. He wouldn't have cared all that much if he was shocked, but since it was his friend Caliber who was hit, Blizz was really disturbed by it. After Caliber got up, he started to trot off.

"Hey where are you going?" Blizzard asks.

"Where do ya think?" Caliber replies, "I'm gonna hunt that no good electro-rod down and give him what for!"

Blizzard then asks, "Woah, woah hey, are you sure? You were just struck by lightning!"

"Caliber the Wanderer can't die remember?" Caliber says with confidence.

"Want me to come with you?" Blizzard asks.

Caliber replies, "No. That guy has been giving you problems for years. But when he involves me, he's made a big mistake. I'll see you later." Caliber says before galloping off after Electron.

BGM 5 Now Blizzard is all by himself. He says sadly to himself, "Oh great. Just great! Now I'm all alone. Damn you Electron!" Blizzard begins to walk back to his house slowly and sadly. He sighs and says to himself, "Darn Electron, shocking my friend like that. I should take him on one day, and show him what I can do.  But if he keeps flying off before I can get to him, he may never understand what it's like to truly be an elemental. Oh well."

Blizzard kept walking sadly back to his house. When he was about to go inside, he heard somepony struggling in the distance, "Ugh! Come on cart thing! Unh!"

Blizzard's ears twitches when he heard that voice, "Hmmm sounds like somepony needs help." Blizzard walked int the direction of the voice. As he got closer, he found himself nearly at the edge of Ponyville in a field with rocks everywhere and thought, "I wonder who would need help with a cart. And what are they doing way out here?" He started looking around, but couldn't find any sign of the pony he had heard before and says, "Well I guess nopony's here." Blizzard shrugs and begins to trot back home, but then he hears a familiar voice.

"Ugh! Just how am I going to pull this cart AND dig for gemstones at the same time?!" Rarity says with a frustrated look on her face.

"Huh? It's Rarity! But what is she doing here?" Blizzard thinks to himself. He hadn't heard Rarity say she was looking for gems, so he had no idea what she was doing here with a cart. He decides to go up and talk to her and says, "Uh, hey Rarity whatcha doing?"

Rarity turns around to find Ice Blizzard and says, "Oh? Hello Ice Blizzard. I'm looking for gems right now for an order I have to fill. How are you today?"

Blizzard replies, "I'm fine, but why are you here on your own? Don't you have anypony to help you?"

Rarity replies, "Well, I do get some help from Spike, he's a little dragon that digs up the gems for me." Rarity sighs and says, "But he's away with Twilight in Canterlot, so I'm on my own today."

"Interesting, but how exactly do you find the gems in the first place if they're buried underground?" Blizzard asked with a confused expression.

"Like this darling." Rarity says, as she uses her magic gem-finding spell and marks where she finds a pile of gems with a stick. She then says, "I know there are gems right there but I can't dig them out."

Blizzard offers to help and says, "Here, let me help you. I'll push that cart and dig the gems out for ya, just tell me where they are."

Rarity then says, "That's very kind of you to offer, but I can handle it."

"No it's no problem. Here let me take that from you," Blizzard says. Rarity releases herself from the harness as Blizzard goes behind the cart to push it.

"Are you sure?" Rarity asks. "It's really no big deal."

"No problem, I'm always happy to help anypony out," Blizzard replies.

"Well, thank you Ice Blizzard," Rarity says, "but I must ask, how do you plan to dig up the gems if I can't?"

"Hmmm.." Blizzard says. He hadn't actually thought about that part. He was too eager to stop and think before just saying that he'll help with the cart AND dig up the gems. He was stuck for a minute until he thought of something, "I got an idea! You'll mark where the gems are right?"

"Mm-hmm," Rarity says.

Blizzard then explains his idea, "I'll freeze the ground with my ice powers and break the ice with my hoof to free the gems!"

Rarity is confused and says, "Ice powers? You mean like magic? But you are an earth pony correct? Since you don't have a horn, how are you able to control ice?"

Blizzard replies, "It's a long story, but I'll spare you the details, I got my powers as a colt from an ice spirit within a crystal that I found."

Rarity replies, "That's very interesting.  I'd sure like to hear the whole story one day."

Blizzard says, "Yeah, maybe, but for now, I wanna help you out. And I can only do it so many times before I have to let my powers recharge, so where is the first set?"

Rarity uses her gem-finding spell and locates 3 separate piles of gems underground, "Over there Blizzard, 3 piles."

Blizzard charges himself up, "I got it." He goes to each pile, freezes the dirt above them and breaks it, revealing the gems. "Found 'em!" He then gathers all 3 piles and puts them into Rarity's cart. "Where to next Rarity?"

"Over there, 3 more!" Rarity says.

"On it!" Blizzard replies.

BGM 6 As Rarity and Blizzard were gathering gems, voices are talking quietly, "There she is!" says one voice, "it's the gem finding pony! Are the dogs ready?" he asks.

"Hahaha. Yes. The dogs are ready to be released." another voice says, "This time we are prepared to capture her and we'll force her to work no matter how much she whines!"

"Good. Is the trap with big gems ready?"  the first voice asks.

"It's set, there's no way she'll miss it. And there's no way we'll miss her!" the second voice says.

Meanwhile, things are going great for Blizzard and Rarity, their system of teamwork has almost filled up Rarity's cart. "Wow! We did pretty good huh Rarity?" Blizzard asks.

Rarity replies, "Yes we did. Thank you for your help--" her horn is then suddenly attracted by a large amount of gems, "Blizzard! This way! I think I've found a lot this time!"

"Ok, I'm coming," Blizzard says as he pushes the cart, "Ugh! This is getting heavy."

"There! Right there! If we get these, then that'll be just enough," Rarity says while pointing her hoof to where she had located gems.

"I got 'em," Blizzard says as he moves towards the gems, unaware of the trap that was set. "Wow! These are huge!" he says as he knelt down to retrieve the gems, he set off the net trap that was meant for Rarity and barely dodges being caught and says, "Woah! What was that?! I reached down to collect the gems and there was a net that almost trapped me!"

Rarity asks Bllizzard, "Are you alright?"

Blizzard replies, "Yeah, I'm fine, but what kind of messed up individual would set a trap with gems?"

Suddenly, multiple strange characters jumped out from behind bushes. It was the Diamond Dogs. Blizzard had never seen anything like them before and was going a little nuts when he saw them and says, "Wh-what?! Who are you?! Want do you want from us?!"

Rarity says in a serious voice, "The diamond dogs. What do you want? Haven't you ruffians learned your lesson that last time I was here?"

Blizzard is even more confused and asks Rarity, "Wait you know them?! How do you know these freaks?!"

Rarity replies to Blizzard, "Yes I do know them. The last time I was here with Spike, these dogs had the gall to hold me captive. But I managed to escape by outsmarting them." She then speak to the dogs, "If you're trying to capture me again, you might as well give up, because you and I both know what will happen if you do."

"Oh your whining won't be a problem for us anymore," one of the dogs say, "We plan to force you to work for us this time while wearing this muzzle!" One of the guard dogs show the muzzle that they plan for Rarity to be wearing.

Another dog says to Blizzard, "You can walk away now blue one, just leave us the gem pony and nopony gets hurt!"

Rarity says with frustration, "For the last time, my name is Rarity!"

Blizzard attempts to process the situation and says, "So wait, you're telling me that you plan to make Rarity work against her will for what reason again?"

"To make her find all the gems!" one of the dogs shout.

"Yeah, now to me, that's just unethical," Blizzard says, "Nopony's being captured on my watch!"

"This doesn't concern you blue one!" another dog says, "Leave now, or face the hounds!"

"Blizzard go!" Rarity whispers, "I've dealt with these dogs before, and I can do it again!"

"There's no way I'm leaving you here by yourself," he whispers back. He then speaks to all the dogs, "I'm not leaving her! Bring it on! i can take on anything you've got!" Blizzard was confident with what he said, even though he had no idea exactly how many enemies he may have to face, but there was no way he'd leave anypony behind, or turn down a challenge.

"Your choice...release the hounds!" one dog says before he blows on a dog whistle, which calls around twenty guard dogs that surrond Blizzard and Rarity. "Last chance." says the dog.

BGM 7 Blizzard was a little nervous, but had confidence, "Y-your puppies don't scare me! Rarity, get behind me. This is about to get ugly."

Rarity whispers to Blizzard, "Can't you just freeze them all?"

Blizzard replies, "I could, but not right now, I used up most of my ice energy finding the gems! It's gonna be about 10 minutes before my power fully recharges."

Another dog says, "Hounds attack!"

A guard dog jumps at Blizzard, but before he could react, Rarity karate kicks him in the face. "Hiya!" She says as she kicks him.

Blizzard and the Diamond Dogs were astounded, "You can fight?!" Blizzard asks with a surprised expression on his face.

"She can fight?!" the 3 Diamond dogs say together.

Rarity says to Blizzard, "Just because I'm a lady, doesn't mean I don't know how to get my hooves dirty." she then says to the Diamond dogs,  "Well, is that it?"

Blizzard finds the time to think to himself, "Wow! She's beautiful AND she can fight?! There's more to her than I thought!"

"Continue to attack!" one of the Diamond dogs say.

Blizzard snaps out of his thoughts and says to Rarity, "Well let's get them together!"

"Let's do it!" Rarity says before punching another dog in the face.

Blizzard still has to wait for his ice powers to recharge in 7 minutes, so he couldn't do much except what few hoof-to-hoof moves he did know, "Shattering drop kick!" Blizzard says as he drop kicks a dog in the face. He then slides under another dog and says, "Sliding kick!" taps the dog on his back, and punches him square in the face.

Rarity was doing pretty well herself, bucking a few dogs in the face here and there, but she knew it wasn't enough and asks Blizzard, "How much longer before your power recharges?"

"Just a bit longer, 5 minutes at the most!" Blizzard says while punching another dog in the face. And he thinks to himself, "Come on come on! Regenerate! If my powers don't regen soon, we could be in big trouble." He was also getting a little tire, but he wasn't about to give up yet!

Rarity and Blizzard manage to defeat 10 dogs, but Blizzard had dropped from exhaustion, was bleeding from lip a little, and to make things worse, his powers weren't regenerating for another 2 minutes. Rarity had also got tired from fighting and was on the ground.

The diamond dogs walk over to Blizzard and one of them says, "Well, well, well, look who tried to be a hero and failed!"

Another dog laughs and says, "Maybe next time you'll think before you jump at the chance to save somepony! Tie her up!" A few of the standing guard dogs began to walk over to Rarity with a rope. "Any last words before we take the pony away?" The dog asks Blizzard.

BGM 8 Blizzard looks up and says, "Yeah....pain is best served cold!" And before the dog could react, Blizzard delivers a powerful ice uppercut to his chin, and freezes the two dogs that were about to tie up Rarity and says, "Now you know what it means to be cold! Now get outta here before I put you in the deep freeze!" Blizzard says as he threateningly charges himself up with an evil look into the dog's eyes.

"Let's get outta here!" One of the dogs say as they all jump back down a hole.

BGM 9 Blizzard then pushes the frozen dogs down the hole as well and says, "And stay down!" He then goes over to Rarity and asks her, "Rarity are you ok?"

Rarity coughs and says, "I'm alright darling. What took you so long? You know it's not good to keep a lady waiting." she says jokingly.

Blizzard helps her onto her hooves and says, "Sorry, but I had to wait for my powers to recharge. If I didn't I would've given myself a massive headache. Anyway, are you ready to go? I think you got enough gems right?"

Rarity looks at the gems in her cart and says, "Yes I think this will do." Rarity looks at herself, she's covered in dirt and had a few cuts on her body and says, "I look terrible."

Blizzard consoles her and says, "You don't look THAT bad, Trust me, I've seen way worse, Caliber could probably tell you."

Rarity blushes slightly an says, "You're too kind darling, but I must get home and clean up."

"Ok, let's go," Blizzard says.

Blizzard then begins to push the cart back to Ponyville. As he and Rarity were walking, she says, "I saw what you did back there with those dogs before they tied me up. That was impressive I must say."

Blizzard replies, "Me? You're impressed with me? No, you were awesome Rarity! I can only recall a small amount of mares that can fight like that. That was truly amazing!"

Rarity replies, "Thank you, but like I said before, just because I'm a lady, doesn't mean I can't get my hooves dirty. And I must admit it was pretty fun." she says before she giggles. "I'm still grateful you were there to help me. Without you, I might have never gotten these gemstones I needed."

"Eh, well it's no problem," Blizzard replies, "I'm always happy to help anypony out, but that fight! Whew I'm gonna need some rest later."

As they keep walking, they eventually make it back to Ponyville and to Carousel Boutique. "Thanks again for all your help Blizzard," Rarity says, "but now I must get these orders filled and get cleaned up." she says while levitating the gems into her house. "Oh and this is for you." she says while levitating a gem as deep blue as Blizzard himself to him, "A little something for your trouble."

Blizzard was stuck for a moment before he grabs the gem out of the air and says, "Thanks Rarity," "I'm gonna cherish this gift from her forever!" he thinks to himself, then says, "wait a moment I'll be right back."

"Huh?" Rarity says as Blizzard dashes back to his house. He quickly gets something from his house and runs back to Rarity at her doorstep and gives her a necklace. "I want you to have this." he says while handing the necklace to Rarity.

Rarity's eyes are beaming when she sees the necklace as she gasps and says, "For me?! It's beautiful! Oh thank you Ice Blizzard." She says before hugging Blizzard.

While Rarity was hugging him, Blizzard thinks to himself and blushes a little, "I'd never thought I'd get a hug from her! This is an awesome day!"

After Rarity lets go of Blizzard she says, "Thank you so much!"

Blizzard replies shyly, "Hehe, you're welcome. I'm gonna let you get back to your work now. Bye!"

Rarity waves as Blizzard walks away and says, "Goodbye!"

Blizzard was tired after a long day and said to himself as he walked back home, "Between chasing Electron and fighting alongside Rarity, I gotta get some rest." He then sees his friend Caliber walking up the street with a content look on his face, and Blizzard asks, "Bro what happened? Did you get Electron?"

"I found Electron and got him back for shocking me," Caliber replies, "Anyway I saw what happened with you and Rarity. Good stuff bro. Did you finally gave her that necklace?"

"Yes and she hugged me," Blizzard replies, "I think I might be getting somewhere."

"Well good for you," Caliber says, "I'm going to Sugarcube Corner wanna join me?"

Blizzard yawns and says, "Nah, I'm tired maybe later."

"Ok see ya later!" Caliber says as he trots off to Sugarcube corner.

Blizzard goes into his house, lies on his bed and puts the gem Rarity gave him on his relic shelf, and thinks to himself, "Wow! That was an awesome day! Electron got away from me, but I got to pound some Diamond dog face in! And Rarity hugged me! I think that's just about one of the best things that could've ever happened to me. I even found out that somepony as ladylike as Rarity can fight! Who would've thought it?"

Blizzard yawns again and drifts off to sleep, imagining all the cool things he has done that day, as well as hoping that he could eventually admit his true feelings to Rarity one day. Be he's gonna take it one step at a time.

THE END