CHUNK CHUNK CLUNK Rock and mud were excavated and flung away by a pair of powerful and less than maintained claws. These claws were connected to not so soft paws, which in turn were connected to arms that bulged with muscles lying just under the speckled fur. And these two arms were connected to the body of a diamond dog. The canine was a tan on her underbelly and most of her body, with her outer thighs and shoulders being a much darker, mottled color. She also had a rather wicked and jagged looking hairdo on the top of her head, which occasionally hung down in front of her face, only for her to blow it out of the way.

"Nothing beats digging around in the dirt! And this time I'm getting paid for it." The dog said to herself. Recently, a town nearby had employed Yena to dig a few places for some workers to lay down some pipes in order to get water from the lake to the fountain in the center of town. Usually she didn't enjoy helping ponies or anyone who wasn't a follow dog, but they offered to pay her to dig holes in the ground. Imagine that! Maybe ponies weren't so bad after all. Standing up properly, the mutt wiped her forehead with a paw and gazed around her. She had just finished digging up the fourth trench, meaning there was only six more to go, not that many, unless they were packed full of rocks like trench number three. Her claws were still aching from tearing through the stones in that one.

"Well Yena, guess it's its time to get on back to work." She spoke to herself again, and sauntered over to the next marked area, and once she arrived, the diamond dog planted her claws into the ground and began digging away, humming cheerfully to herself. With a pace like this, she would finish in about two or so hours. And then she would get paid, and then what? As she thought of what to do with her bits, a cloud rolled on by overhead. However, this wasn't just any cloud.

Atop the fluffy form of rain and other such things lay an orange pegasus. From their appearance and general build they looked like a mare, but it was a stallion. A jet black mane that went nearly every which way, a tail to match, and bright orange fur. His muzzle was nice and round, not unlike that of a mare, and his wings were preened and well kept. The pony had lay down on this cloud to nap, and the winds had brought it over from its original spot to where it was now, above Yena. First, the noises of heavy lifting and working were unnoticed, but as claw met rock again and again, the noise woke the pegasus. Sitting up, he rubbed his eyes and looked around. "Huh....must've moved when I was asleep. Explains all this noise then." He mumbled, poking his head down into the clouds to see what the cause of the noise was.

Down below him was a dog, a rather large one at that, and she was digging away at what appeared to be nothing. Of course it would be a diamond dog. They made so much racket digging in those mines of theirs, and now here was one above ground, digging up the town he lived in. Unaware she had actually been commissioned to do this job, the stallion cleared his throat and spoke up. "Hey, i don't know what you're doing down there, but you need to go. I'm trying to take a nap and all that noise is making it very hard for me to sleep!" He waited a few seconds for a response, but when the canine didn't even lift an ear to him, he spoke again in a much louder tone.

"Sto.....ing....al.........nois......stup.......utt!" Was all Yena could hear. At first she didn't even know where it came from, looking left and right, but soon she looked up at the cloud and stopped a pony sticking his head through it, yelling at her for whatever reason. She smiled and simply decided to ignore it to see what would happen. After all, he was impeding with her work and she wanted to finish as soon as she could. Talking to that pegasus would mean she had to spend more time digging once he left. That wasn't entirely a bad thing, but she did want to spend some time in the town and see what was there.

Collider cocked an eyebrow when the dog looked up at him, made eye contact, and just turned back to digging. Letting out a sigh, he extended his wings and made his way down to the ground. Landing on the edge of the trench Yena was currently mucking about in, he dodged some pebbles being flung his way and spoke up again. " Excuse me, I was wondering if you could possibly do that somewhere else....whatever it is you're doing. I just finished a long day of work and I was trying to take a nap." He continued to speak on and on about whatever, and Yena rolled her eyes, backing up out of a tunnel she was digging around a rather large rock to stand up. Even though she was knee deep in the ground, the dog was a few inches taller than Collider. Putting one elbow in the ground, she rested her cheek in the pad of her paw and looked at him, waiting for his rambling to come to an end.

"Oh gee, I sure am sorry I woke you up. I'll try and be extra quiet now." The dog said, putting on her best sorry face, big puppy dog eyes and folded down ears to boot. The pegasus seemed a bit less aggressive and angry now, and after thanking her, he left. The dog simply grinned wickedly and began making as much noise as possible, throwing rocks on top of each other and stamping around in the mud, laughing like well, a hyena.

The orange stallion turned around as soon as he heard the noise and made his way back down to her. Gritting his teeth, he looked down into the trench to give her a piece of his mind, but was surprised when she wasn't down there anymore. That's when he felt something wet, muddy, and sharp grasp his shoulder. "Listen here bud, I don't care what you're trying to do. And clearly you don't care what I'm trying to do. So I'll just have to shut you up so you stop barking in me ear. C'mon" She growled, pulling the Pegasus towards a tree. Clearly, this was not going to end well. Not at all.

Author's Note

Here's the first chapter of a one shot story for one of my friends and his friend's oc. Honestly I think diamond dogs are adorable, and this Yena character is awfully cute looking.

Please feel free to point out any mistakes I made or what you think of the tale so far!