Tyrant Bird King

Spike groaned, slowly feeling his body sway to and fro. His head was throbbing, and his tail was still being picked up by a strong force. He had fainted after the large creature had taken him into the jungle. He opened his eyes, only to close them, a bright light invading his retinas, making him yell in pain.

This made the swaying stop, before continue on again. Spike slowly opened his eyes, slowly getting used to the light. He looked all around, to see dirt and trees swaying. However, this isn't what confused Spike.

It was that they were swaying upside down.

He looked down-err up, and saw the toothy maw of the creature that had dragonnapped him. He smelt the stench of decay, making him shudder in fear and disgust.

Spike growled a little bit, causing the creature to glance down at him. It then lifted it's head above the trees, making quick movements, looking around. Spike felt bile rise in his throat, then clamped his hands of his jaws, trying to stop himself from losing his breakfast.

The creature continued onward a short distance, before raising Spike up.

"HELP!" Spike yelled out in vain, struggling to escape the creature's hold. "HELP!" He yelled out again, before the creature's rumbling growl made him go silent.

Spike felt two claws grab his tail, making him give a yelp of surprise. The creature lifted him up as easily as Spike would a gem, making Spike look where they were. A small cave had been carved into the side of a mountain they stood on.

Large vegetation and trees covered where it was, the only indication was tiny gaps through said foliage. The creature stuck its head through the foliage, then moved its head down picking Spike up with its might jaws. Spike felt leaves brush against his scales, making him gasp as he saw what the cave looked like. It was large enough to hold maybe twelve of the creature that he was picking up, and tall enough to fit four of them standing on top of each other.

Spike felt the weight release his tail, then the large sound of cracking and growling got his attention; just to see the creature had crawled it's way into here. It gave a snort, looking around, nodding to itself.

"Good to be home..." A loud, deep voice said, making Spike jump out of his scales.

"H-hello...?" Spike called out, shaking in fear. "Is anypony there?"

Recieving no answer, he looked to see the large creature had moved the corner, giving a muffled growl. It then started to walk towards him, something in it's mouth. It dropped the thing on the floor, revealing itself to be a dead deer. It's antelers were crushed, and one of its limbs were missing.

The stentch of death finally made Spike run the the edge of the cave, losing his breakfast onto the side of a tree. He wiped his bile away from his mouth, giving a disgusted look. He looked at the creature, seeing it tilt it's head at him.

It moved its snout over to the carcass, moving it a little closer, looking at him expectantly. He looked at the carcass, then up to the creature, seeing it wait for him.

He wants to feed me? Spike realized, seeing it walk away, moving over to a large stream at the back of the cave, lapping at some water noisily.

Looking down at the carcass, her shivered, scooting it away with his foot. He ran over to the stream, carful of the large creature, greedily lapping at the water, soothing the dragon's dry throat. The creature looked at him, then back to the carcass, where it sat there, bleeding. Spike stomach rumbled, causing the creature to snort as it looked at him.

Spike blushes, his now empty stomach bothering him. There was nothing edible in the cave...well, edible to him. He looked down, before noticing a small glimmer of light.

The creature stood up, walking over to the carcass. Suddenly, it took the entire body into it's mouth, throwing it's head back, swallowing it whole.

Spike, seeing the creature was distracted, he quicky started to dig the small glimmer out. Suddenly, a large ruby appaered in Spikes claws, him giving it a hungry stare. He was about to pop it in his mouth when a sound made him stop.

"Spike!" It was faint, but Spike could hear it.

Unfortunately, so did the creature, making it growl angrily. Spike ran over to the edge of the cave, cupping his claws to his mouth, hollering out an answer.

"I'M HERE!"

The creature peered down at him, before it's tail wrapped around his stomach. Spike gave a yelp of surprise, before being put inbetween some rocks at the back of the cave.

"I'M COMING! HANG ON!"

Spike had heard the female, before the creature went into hiding behind the foliage. It gave a growl of anger, looking down. A few minutes passed, before the creature narrowed it's eyes, then gave a low, rumbling growl.

"Spike, where are you?!" The female voice, which Spike recognized as the dragoness Blaze. "I'm here! Come out!"

Suddenly, the creature striked, it's head quicky darting down, it's jaws open, ready for the kill.

"BLAZE!!!"

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Blaze ran on all fours, quickly darting between trees, her goggles hanging uselesly at her neck. Her wings were tucked at her sides, she quickly darted between broken trees and trampled bushes, folowing the trail of destruction.

Her claw print was left in a muddy footprint of the large creature, showing how small she was to it. She snorted some smoke into the air, before giving a look around, slowing down, before stopping, still on all fours.

Her snout raised to the air, deep inhales hinting she was trying to find the trail again. She walked over, before stopping, seeing blood on the ground. She bent down, sniffing the blood, noticing it smelt like the creature.

She looked around, before taking a deep inhale through her nostrils. She could smell gems and the scent of blood, which belonged to the creature, mking her smile, then she then became bipedal.

She felt her lungs fill with air, then opened her jaws, yelling out, "SPIKE!"

Straining the fins that were her ears, she listened intently, before inhaling again, hollering out the name again. Straining her fins again, she twisted her head to and fro.

She started to walk forward, following the scent. It had been a couple of hours since Blaze left that pony settlement, and by her standards, it was only a few mintues. The sun had started it's great descent in the sky, casting and orange glow all around her a she walked. She couldn't help but sigh, giving a glare at the trail of destruction.

She decided not to give in to the large creature, then inhaled deeply, opening her gem crushing jaws to yell out, "SPIKE!!!"

She strained her ear fins, before smiling brightly, hearing a reply.

"I'm here!"

She couldn't help but feel pride in her chest, seeing as he had tracked down the hatchling by herself. She crouched down onto all fours, starting to sprint the direction his voice had come from, unable to stop her grin.

"I'M COMING! HANG ON!" She hollered out, the rush of the wind going near her fins, her wings bunching up, ready to quickly grab the hatchling and fly out of there.

Her claws made a small splash in a puddle, her not noticing it, thinking it was nothing but water. However, if she looked closer, it was actually blood, a small shaking of bushes folowing her as she ran by.

Her back right foot was wet, but she didn't care. She suddenly stopped, her claws digging into the ground, leaving long gashes as she skid to a stop. In front of her, was a massive skull and ribcage of a dragon. It was right next to a cliff, holding trees and bushes. She started to take deep breaths through her nose, before letting her serpentine tongue flick out of her mouth, tasting the air.

Spike was nearby, she could smell the pony off of him. She inhaled, forgetting about the creature for a moment.

A deadly mistake.

"SPIKE, WHERE ARE YOU?!" She hollered out, looking around. She did not notice the slight rumbling from the trees, or a small rock coming loose and falling down.

She did hear, however, a snort, which made her freeze up. She quickly, moved towards the small cliff, looking around. Though it was a small opening, it extended out for a dozen meters in each direction, so it could not sneak up on Blaze. Unless it could climb walls. She looked around, a small pillar of smoke erupting from her nostrils.

Some drips on water hit next to Baze, before a giant drop of water hit Blaze's head, making her wipe it off. She sniffed it, before her eyes widened, making her look up. For it was not water, but saliva. And one that smelt of rot and decay. And what met her vision was the creature, ready to chomp down on her.

"BLAZE!" The hatchling shouted out, making her snap out of her daze, dodging quickly, the creature's snout meeting the ground, digging a small crater.

It came out of the foliage, roaring at her, blood running down it's lower jaw, showing it had just eaten something. She roared back, flaring out her wings, her fight or flight insticts kicking in.

It glared at her, recognizing her, it's large green eyes trained on her. It shook it's head a little, almost as if it was disapproving of her. This made her chest puff out in anger, making flames lick at the end of her throat.

It roared, charging forward, making Blaze breath fire to distract it. This cause the creature to back up, peering through the smoke, sniffing around. Ember, who had used the distraction, was hiding under the skull of the large dragon skeleton.

She had forgotten about her wet foot, which, if she had noticed, was covered in blood, not water. The creature looked at her direction, smelling the blood off of her foot, causing her to back away, further in the skull's upper jaw.

A bright light had shown in Blaze's eye, making her hiss, then look over to where the offending object had come from. She saw the glimmer coming out of the foliage, along with a pruple claw attached to an arm. She gained a grin.

Bingo.

Suddenly, th front half of the skull was smashed in, a large, bird like foot coming back out of the dust. Suddenly, the creature launched it's head in, jaws snapping at Blaze.

She scrambled back, the creature's jaws just snapping inches from her face. She breathed fire at it, scorching the front of the creature's maw, making it back around, giving a pain roar.

It shook it's head, digging it's snout in the ground to stop the burning. Seeing it was distracted, Blaze jumped out of the skull, opening her large wings, quickly flying into the foliage.

Only to slam into the hatchling, Spike, who gave a surprised yelp as the both tumbled into the cave. Baze was the first to recover, hearing the creature's pained roar and snorts. She looked over, seering a dazed Spike slowly get up on weak knees. In his claws was the gem, the one she had grabbed her attention with.

Spike shook off his daze, his eyes lighting up once he recognized her. "We have to get out of here."

"Seconded." She said, grabbing him in her claws, opening her wings, only to feel a pain shoot through her, causing her to groan in pain and annoyance.

"What's wrong?"

"My wing, I think I sprained it..."

"Brilliant..." Spike muttered, before looking outside, seeing the creature shake it's head, snorting angrily. "How fast can you run?"

"Faster than you." Blaze muttered, pride swelling in her chest once again.

"Because we may have a slight problem."

"What's that?"

The creature turned, roaring into the air as it stumbled it's way to the cave, shaking it's head, it's eyes burning with fury as it could smell them through the smoke.

Blaze followed his gaze, seeing the creature stumble towards them, causing her to put Spike on her back, making him yelp in surprise.

"Hang on!" She yelled, backing up, before the creature's snout erupted through the foliage, roaring angrily.

She started to sprint on all four, jumping from it's snapping jaws, landing on it's neck. It looked back at them, snapping it's jaws and shaking it's body, roaring angrily. Blaze ran down the creature's back, jumping off of it's tail, gaining speed as she did so.

The creature did a full one-eighty and roared, starting to run after them, it's foot falls shaking the ground.

Spike heard trees being smashed and crushed around them, daring not to look back. If he did, he would've saw something that would've made a lesser being die on the spot. The creature, smoke and black soot off of it's snout, followed after them, giving a trumpetting roar as it did so.

Blaze ducked under a tree, Spike laying on her back, making her growl as she ordered her body to run faster. He claws gripped at the dirt as she made a sharp turn, the creature doing the same, it's claws gripping at the ground. Blaze glanced back, seeing the massive creature chase after her, making her gasp, then look forward, jumping off of a root.

The creature crushed the root, before slamming the trees, roaring at them angrily. Blaze skid to a stop, Spike looking at her, confused, before he saw the massive waterfall to their right, then a cliff in front of them.

"What'll we do now?!" Spike asked, hearin g the cracking and shaking of trees behind them, indicating the creature was still hot on their tails.

"I don't know!" Blaze yelled back, before glacing around nervously. She looked around, before looking down, seeing a large pool of water at the bottom of the cliff.

Spike looked around nearvously, the sound of the trees cracking made him nervous. The creature gave a fury filled bellow as it slammed through the trees, now in the vision of the two dragons.

It's glare softened when it landed on Spike, who started to shiver in fear, before seeing happiness return to its eyes. It crooned loudly, lowering itself, appearing non-threatening to Spike, who felt less afraid.

"Hang on!"

That brought Spike out of his stare with the creature, making him scream i fear as Blaze started runbning on all fours, then jumping off the cliff, making the massive creature roar in fear, watching the two.

Spike let out a fear filled scream as Blaze started to dive towards the water. Ony a few seconds before they hit the water, painfully, she spread open her wings, grunting in pain as she started to glide across the water, her sprained wing screaming at her.

A sudden blast of wind slowed them down, before they hit the water near the shore. Spike was the first to surface, giving a gasp of air, swallowing as much oxygen to sate his starving lungs. Blaze surfaced, closer the shore, paddling towards it. She slumped on the muddy bank, gasping out loud, before she looked up, seeing the creature eye Spike, looking...relieved to see he was not harmed.

"I hate water..." Blaze grumbled out, before slowly climbing up the bank, landing on a rock, which was warm, thanks to the sun.

Spike watched as the creature turned, it giving a lonely bellow as it walked away. It was then that Blaze noticed her goggles were missing, but she didn't care right now. She had escaped the creature, but they were still trapped in the forest.

Spike walked out, shaking all the water off of himself. He shivered, then looked up, seeing the sun slowly finish setting, painting the sky in a hue of pink and orange, clouds lazily floating by.