The Stars That Bind Us

Rachel jumped out of feral Spike's way when he lunged at her. Scrambling when he missed but continued to pursue her.

Ten minutes, the venom lasts ten minutes. Rachel would either had to hold off that long or was forced to bring him down. She was glad he didn't grow again but this was just as dangerous or even more in his current height!

She doesn't want to beat him, but she also doesn't want to die!

Aspa and Snowball were the ones that were going to die tonight!

"Fuck! Spike, come on man, we already went through this -- Shiiit!" Rachel tried to stop and talk, but narrowly missed his claws that came at her.

When he momentarily stood on his feet to lunge, Rachel quickly grabbed him by the shoulders and knees him harshly in the groin. He let out a yelp and doubled over, hands grabbing his crotch and whimpered.

There was a loud ooh! Coming from the male captives.

Capper and Tempest turned to look at each other. Both know what to do.

Tempest pulls out one of her orbs out of her pockets and slammed them down on the floor. It created a loud bang and smoke began to bellow. It shocked and made the henchmen hogs jump as they made their getaway.

"How long do you need to get into that safe if that remote is in it?" Tempest asked as they raced to Snowball's office.

"Eh, sixty seconds. We can't get it wrong or otherwise we can't get in it." Capper said.

As they ran, some more henchmen came to block their way. Capper himself got on all fours to launch himself up, using one of the henchmen as a base to push off, harrowing, missing grabbing him before landing five feet away from them.

He puts a hand over his chest and pants. "I'm getting too old for this action hero stuff, oh Lord." He said out of breath.

He hears grunting and squealing, causing the old Tom to turn around and watch. Seeing Tempest putting the hogs in their place as their bodies lay motionless at her hooves. She pulled her dagger out of the head of one of them, wiping the blood off on their corpse.

"Right, mercenary." Capper remembers.

Tempest smirked before she sheathed the blade back and the two continued.

As Spike was momentarily down and rolling in the pain, Rachel gave him an apologetic look before her ears picked up Snowball laughing in the comms.

Snarling, she shot a fireball out of her mouth, sending it flying right at the viewing box.

Snowball squealed in surprise, seeing the ball coming at him and dived across his office. The fireball smashed into the glass and shattered it, sending glass everywhere and setting some of his office on fire.

"Mother fuck-AYEE!" Rachel went to curse before being caught off guard by Spike tackling her from behind, knocking both of them off the ring and colliding on the ground.

The two struggled as Snowball quickly extinguished the flames, being careful with the broken shards.

He stops when he hears Rachel screaming. The pig looks over and sees Spike was on top of her. He didn't get a good look but he thought he saw Spike eating her face.

Snowball laughed. "Aww, the star-crossed lovers come to a bitter end. How ironic." He giggled.

Once the venom wears off and Spike realizes what he has done, he'd be so overwhelmed with grief that it would ruin him for the rest of his life. Perfect for Snowball to be used and manipulated.

Even Aspa looked appeased by this.

However..

"Nononononono, not there, not there!" Rachel squealed in laughter.

"What!?!" Snowball shouted, hearing not screams of pain he believed. It was screams of laughter.

"Huh?!" Aspa croaky gasped.

The captive residents were also baffled by what they were seeing.

Upon closer inspection, Spike was indeed on top of Rachel and was going at her face, he wasn't eating her, he was showering her face in loving licks. His tail wagged happily. Rachel squirmed, trying to get him off of her, his hands were going over her tickle spots as she squirmed to get him off!

Rachel's hooves kick as she howls. "You big lug, get off, ahhh!" She laughs, tears in her eyes. "D-dude, stooooop, you're going to make me pee!"

She managed to sit up, only to have him wrap his arms around her body, nuzzling his head against hers, making loving purrs and other critter noises.

When Rachel looked at his eyes, his eyes were still feral like, but his pupils went from paper thin to large saucer plates and could've sworn there were hearts in them.

"Why are you so damn cute?" Rachel giggled, realizing that she wasn't at all in danger.

"Hey Aspa, your venom was supposed to turn him into a mindless beast, not a fucking simp!" Snowball shouted, completely baffled.

"This-s-s-s i-s-s-s unex-s-s-s-pected." Aspa's brows crooked.

Rachel giggled as she stroked underneath his chin and jaw, feeling him purr even more, melting in her hands, he slid down to where his head was up against her stomach and on her lap, curling up to her and continued to receive the strokes.

"Big ole Teddy Bear." She smiled at him. She then looks up at the snake and pig. "Lemme educate you fuckers about dragons, particularly us," she said as she continued to love on her big feral baby. "It doesn't matter how many females are in a horde with the males, dragons are fiercely loyal to their mates. Spike here is the Dragonlord of our kind. A king. The only one that can tell the Dragonlord what to do is not some low life farm animal that is about to be slaughtered. The only one that can tell him what to do is his Queen." Both her eyes and Spike's eyes glowed. "Spike has never laid a hand on me, even when he was big, he never hurt me." She said as she got him to sit up, he reminded her of a large puppy with how he reacted to her, tail waving excitedly.

"Hey baby, do you see that snake pony over there?" She asked.

Spike followed her finger and saw Aspa. He went from cute and adorable to scary and snarling almost instantly.

"What?!?" Aspa shuffles back and gets ready, knowing full and well on what's about to happen next. Even though it was the first for him when the ones who were bitten aren't going after the ones they see first.

Rachel leans close to Spike's earfin and whispers. "You already know what to do."

Spike took off immediately, going in the air with his wings and charged at Aspa.

"What!" Snowball squealed before calling out. "You scumbags, first one to bring those two dragons down, I will release you from my debt!" He called out panicking.

That got all the captive residents' attention and most stormed from the stands and towards them.

"Yo, yo that's what we're here to d- Jesus Christ on a stick!" Rachel yelped as she rolled out of the way of the captive creatures and began fighting them.

She hears a hum that reminds her. "Oh shit, I forgot." Rachel said as she knocked several guys aside before pulling the Blue Celestial out. Since she wasn't tied to the rules and this has become a battle royal.

Why fight these fuckers?

The staff's pupil rapidly looked around the room before it glowed. Rachel felt energy coursed through her veins before slamming it down on the ground.

A shockwave shot out of her, knocking away those who got too close to her, sending them flying.

She shot at them, several of their feet turned crystal and couldn't move, she grew vines and restrained some.

When she turned around, she caught both Vox and Gertie knocking some of the guys out of both hers and Spike's way as he continued to attack Aspa.

"What are you two doing???" Rachel asked as she knocked someone out with the staff.

"Lending a hand," Vox said as he punched someone out.

"Never liked any of these bastards." Gertie snorted as she sat on a couple of them.

"What about me?" Vox asked.

"I dislike you the least."

"Geez!"

As Snowball scrambled to reach for the safe to grab the remote, one of the henchmen burst through the door by Tempest. She and Capper ran in.

He squealed and grabbed the dart gun next to his desk. He pulls it out and takes aim before Tempest kicks the gun out of his hands and grabs him. Capper scampered over to the safe.

"What's the combo?" Tempest snarled at him.

"You think I can just give up that easily, bitch?" Snowball squealed, Tempest lifting him up off his tiny feet.

Several more of his henchmen came, ready to defend the boss.

Tempest grunted, dropping the pig. She took her daggers out and attacked them.

"Give me sixty seconds!" Capper shouted as he went to the safe.

"Get away from-" Snowball goes over to stop him, Capper elbows him hard in the face, causing him to fall.

"I need to concentrate, I haven't done this in years." Capper said as he got his tool bag out and began working on the safe.

Aspa was in trouble. He never realized that dragons were this relentless. Dodging his claws and jaws to duck down from his green flames.

When he went to whip his bladed tail around, Spike caught part of his tail with his teeth, chomping on a meaty part and shook his head savagely.

He ripped and tore that tail off of Aspa. Aspa let out a cry as his blood sprayed everywhere.

He tried to get away but Spike was on him. Aspa tried to use his teeth to bite down but Spike shoved his hand in his mouth and slammed him down on the ground.

Slams a few more times before Spike takes both hands and with one tug, pulls Aspa's jaw wide open, permanently splitting him open.

Rachel blew hot air when she saw that. "Ooh that was hot." She commented, now seeing Aspa not moving.

Spike then starts to groan, feeling dizzy again before shaking his head. Eyes blinking as if he's just waking up. "Ow my head,"

He was back.

Back just in time for one of the gorillas grabbing him. Spike quickly reacted by slamming his head back, hitting their face before flipping them over his shoulders and stomps on them. "Okay what the fuck is going on?" He asked anyone who would answer.

"Oh that pig sicc all of his guys at us. Welcome back, honey." Rachel calls out so casually.

Tempest brought a kick down on a hog's head. "Capper hurry up!"

Capper continued to press some buttons, muttering to himself before hearing three dings. "Got it!" He pulls the door open.

Inside were sacks of gold, documents and a single remote.

"Yes!" Capper grabs the remote. He looks at the lettering and grunts. "The words on the remote are in pig latin. I don't speak pig!"

"Break it!" Tempest shouted.

Snowball came to just in time to see Capper with the remote. He squealed before charging at him.

"That's mine!" He grabs the remote.

The two played a tug of war with it. Trying to get one or the other to let go.

They both pulled so hard, one of them trips and they both let go of the remote.

It flew out of the shattered window and landed on the AC vents.

Capper shoved the pig out of the way and ran after it. He leaps out of the window and onto the vent. It creaks and groans due to the extra weight.

Snowball yells down below. "Stop that cat!"

A couple of the fliers jumped and flew after him.

"Goodness gracious!" He puts the remote in his mouth and began running along the vents.

Rachel looks up and sees him. "Throw it!"

Capper gets to a dead end before taking the remote and throws it before he is tackled.

Spike and Rachel gave each other the same look before the two darted for it.

Rachel was intercepted by a stampeding minotaur, slamming her off course. "Fuck, go!" Rachel called at Spike as she dealt with this bastard.

Spike didn't stop as he ran after the falling remote. He flew in the air and caught it.

Without even thinking twice, with all his strength, he throws it hard onto the ground. It shattered upon impact.

All of the captive creatures and Snowball let out a pained yelp, all of them got a jolt of electricity. It caused Spike to drop from the sky and land on the ground. The shock lasted a brief second, the high pitch began making a winding down sound.

All of them collectively felt something unhooked inside their bodies.

After Spike collected himself, he reached up to the device on his neck. He grabs it with two of his fingers before he simply pulls it out. The item did have a small blade where it was embedded, the tendrils lay limp and his neck did trickle blood after he pulled it out.

They were all freed…

Snowball saw the realization of what was happening, and he began to back away from the window. He backed into Tempest.

“Just where do you think you’re going?” Tempest asked with a grunt.

Snowball let out a nervous oink before they both heard rustling noises near them. They looked up and saw Spike was entering from the window. Tempest smirked before backing away from Snowball.

“Have fun.” Tempest said before walking out.

Spike growled, baring his teeth, his earfins pinned back as he began cornering the pig.

“W-w-w-w-wait a second, I-I told you before I-I’m not a bad guy!” Snowball yelped as he backed from the dragon. “I-i-it wasn’t personal, I assure you, boy..” Snowball said.

Trying everything he could think and say that would get Spike to not go after him. Backing him up against the wall.

“W-w-w-wait. I’m sorry, I know my ways were wrong. I was having a hard time, but I see the error of my ways.”

Spike stopped about two feet from him. This deadpan look on his face plastered when the pig began spewing that crap.

“I-I wish to repent and start our relationship anew as friends?” Snowballs asked with a scared smile.

“Hmmm,” Spike pretends to think about it for a second. “No.” And attacks him.

None of that lovey dovey Princess Twilight friendship crap going on in that office. Sounds of screams and squeals and growls and snarls rang out loudly. Hearing punches thrown and fire scorching out. Getting nothing but that sweet, sweet payback.

The smell of burning pork was a bit intoxicating, Rachel couldn’t resist the smell of cooked pork.

Most of the now free slaves were carnivores, meat eaters.

And it was clear that all of them were hungry.

Snowball was then thrown out of the office, his severely burnt and beaten body landed and bounced on the ground like a rag doll, moaning and groaning out in pain. There were no words exchanged to all the freed creatures before turning towards the pig.

Parts of his cooked flesh were too good to resist.

Snowball tried to speak but he was too damaged to make a sound before he became prey. They all jumped on him.

Rachel, Capper and Tempest watched the show from afar. Wincing and oohing at the sounds they heard. Resting on the stands as they watched the mob.

Two of them were buzzing and glowing.

"Sheesh, these guys must be hungry," Capper said, brushing his coat off, his coat and whiskers vibrating and pulsating.

Tempest's mane and broken horn were glowing as well, lights and sparkles danced above those two.

Rachel on the other hand, was not.

Capper and Tempest finished their quest, Rachel has not.

"Hell, I'm hungry and that pig smelt good." Rachel whines. "I should go find my old landlord when I get back, that dragoness makes THE best tenderest, meanest fried pork chops I had ever tasted." And since she was Queen, that lady would have to make it, perks of being royalty.

But, seeing karma kicking in is also good.

Capper turns to Tempest. "Should we talk about… " Capper gestures to Rachel not glowing.

"I think she knows," Tempest said.

They soon saw Spike land near them. Rachel's face fell. Though they had survived the whole ordeal and Spike was freed, there were still a few things that needed to clear up between them.

Tempest gave Rachel a push on her back, got her to get up and she did.

She crossed her arms as she approached the male. Stopping only a foot from him.

"Rachel, I cannot express enough that I'm sorry." Spike spoke. "I'm sorry for what I said, I'm sorry for being the biggest moron in the whole world. After you had saved my ass time and time again, you didn't need to be treated the way you did. I'm an idiot, a dick, I'm literally every insult you can throw at me, especially comparing your old life with mine, I should have never said that."

Rachel stood there in silence as he continued to apologize, keeping her face straight and even.

"After how I treated you, I get it if you don't want me around… but after living in this literal waste pit for almost a year, I can't stand the thought of not spending the rest of my life with you. I want to make it up to you. I'll do whatever it takes to earn back your trust…. Your love. You were right, I can't keep running. Not with so much at stake." He declared, putting a hand over his heart. "I-I know I still have some issues that I need to deal with, I'm not all better and I think I won't be. We all lost parts of us, we aren't the same as we were when we first met on the Cruise… But I'll try. I will make mistakes but I will try. I want to be there for you, and be there for our son. I want to come home… if you have me."

Rachel studied him real close, making her face unreadable, taking in all the words he spoke. Seeing how genuine he was being.

"If you ever pull that shit with me again, if you ever take off like that and make me go through a year's worth of crap like I had, when I do eventually find you again, you better keep running and hide. I'll leave the rest to your imagination, you understand me, Spike?" She asked.

Though that threat was true, Spike's lips split to a smile." Yeah, that's not going to happen again. The Noble Dragon Code prevents me from making that same mistake."

"Uh huh, is that so?" Rachel asked, breaking her fasade and smirking. "Well I did save your ass plenty of times."

"Got me out of cruise jail, hid incriminating evidence of Bouncer and his brothers' demise, prevented me from going to Tartarus and got me to shrink down and now. So yeah, as far as I'm concerned, you're stuck with me."

"So I technically own you?" She teased.

"I got no arguments on that." Spike chuckled before the two wrapped their arms around each other.

And shared a deep kiss.

Rachel's horns began glowing and vibrating as sparkles and lights lit above them but the two were a little too preoccupied.

Mission Accomplished.