Spinel barely had time to take in her surroundings before a large shadow engulfed her. She turned to look at the large creature casting down upon her
"Morning?" she said in greeting as she gave it a once over, it was a large blueish monkey dog thing with a hand on the end of its tail, it also had a very long face.
"This is my temp?" The creature asked in confusion as he looked at the staff he was holding with his hand tail, the staff was a simple long stick with an orb floating over its end, around the orb was a slanted ring. The Orb started glowing and flashed several colors. "No need to be rude," The Creature muttered before clearing his throat. "I am the Mighty Ahuizotl,"
"Neat," Spinel replied merrily "Where am I?"
"These are the Ruins of the once great...um," The Creature blinked then rubbed its eyes, giving the look of pitching his nose as he did so "...Dangit, witch ruins were these?" after a moment he snapped "Oh yeah, these are the Ruins of the once-great trib of Ponies that went on to be the founders of the Crystal Empire, and you have been summoned by my Patron Goddess to keep tabs over this place while I-"
"I'm sorry," Spinel interrupted "Could you repeat that in smaller words?" Ahuizotl sighed at that and started again.
"I need you to keep any ponies from going into that temple and touching anything while I do the same thing, only about 100 miles to the north, do this and you shall be rewarded, fail and I'll probably be fired,"
"Rewarded how?" Spinel asked suspiciously "Cause I'm not very easily bought," The Orb Blinked a few times and Ahuizotl Translated.
"Do the job and you shall receive an Artifact from your homeland," Ahuizotl thought on that for a second "Ah, that's why you look so odd,"
"Your one to talk," Spinel snapped back "You have a hand tail!"
"Fair enough," Ahuizotl said with a shrug "know, will you guard the-"
"Sure," Spinel replied with a shrug "I can punch some ponies,"
"Excellent!" Ahuizotl cheered "Good luck, please don't get me fired," with a wave and a flash of light Ahuizotl and his staff were gone. Spinel looked around for a moment in silence.
"Man I have a weird life," she decided as she jumped up and crossed her legs in the air and bounced on the ground as she waited for something to come and get punched, as her luck would have it, she didn't need to wait for long as not even a full minute later three ponies were watching her from afar, just out of her line of sight. One of them was trembling with fear as he gazed at Spinel through his binoculars.
"Is that it?" one of his companions asked as they gazed at Spinel "Is that the Anti-heart?"
"It is," the pony confirmed as he sat down and poked at his Clover cutie-mark, his two companions watched him for a moment before he gave a large grin and looked at them. "Revenge will soon be mine,"
"Not to kill your dreams or anything," his 2nd companion said as he used his hoof to point at Spinel, "But that thing beat the snot out of you when you had home field advantage, and now where sitting on its floating island temple,"
"Yes, my dear brother Topaz was a fool, we should have shattered it the second we captured it, but he was always about rituals and what not, but not I, for I am a pony of action! I am a pony who does what needs to be done and does it without hesitation, I-" There was sudden moment and the pony found himself alone as his two companions ran as fast as they could. "-Hey! I was giving a motivational speech about how great I am!"
"I noticed," Spinel said as she leaned on her rejuvenator, it's blade facing the pony "Say have we met, I feel like I've seen you-" Spinel was cut off as the pony let out a high pitch squeal and ran as fast as he could after his companions. Spinel watched as he ran and returned the Rejuvenator to it's capped state before putting it in her gem. "I swear I've seen that guy before," She said as she went back and sat back in her spot, as she sat in wait the ponies re-grouped.
"Ok," The Clover leader said "so my speech was a little to loud, but there's no need to fear, it isn't that smart of a creature, we just need to remain silent,"
"We did remain silent" his companions deadpanned back at him
"Silence," he screamed at them before stuffing his hoof in his mouth before they scattered, just as Spinel arrived at the spot, she gave the are a quick once over then went back to her spot "Hide and go seek," She said loudly "You either run away or get punched, either way I win," as Spinel sat in wait for her prey they grouped back up.
"ok," The Leader whispered in his softest tone "Plan B, one of you peons cause a distraction and while your getting pummeled I stab it in the back," there was a moment of silence before one of his companions pushed him over and the other cried out loudly.
"This Clover guy called you the Anti-Heart" and with their part done the duo turned and bailed on their idiotic leader as fast as they could as a large hand shot out and snatched up the Clover pony who started squealing again.
"I remember you!" Spinel said angrily as a her pupils got bigger "Your the guy who kept hitting my head on the ceiling, and your the guy I used my rejuvenator on," His reply was to continue squealing Spinel frowned and as she waited for him to stop after about a minute he stopped to breath in before continuing, he got to keep going for about three seconds before Spinel started beating on him, after a few seconds Spinel was suddenly sent flying into the wall by a blast of magic, the Pony went from squealing to laughing.
"You fool," he said as he lit his horn "You may have taken my Magic before, but I have since regained it and-" Spinel removed her Rejuvenator and the pony turned tail and started squealing again as he made a run for it, Spinel turned into a wheel of light before easily out pacing his and slashing him with her weapon, depowering him again and causing him to trip, she stored her weapon before picking him up, he continued squealing and Spinel decided to pass the time until Ahuizotl return by beating the living daylights out of her captive.