Destroy grinned as he stood tall, looking over where he had ended up while looking for fuzzy ones.
His mountain!
As he easily rushed up the slope, ignoring the fact that his very steps made the avalanche zone trigger and stone slam into him, he rushed towards the peak.
He could smell it. His collection! It was still here!
And it had… grown?
As he finally got to the top, his eyes widened.
‘WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THIS GOLD COME FROM! ME CANT EAT GOLD!’
He scowled, stomping forward as he walked into the cave, crushing a crown meant for a king under his foot.
He didn’t care.
His iron, his steel, his copper. All gone. Replaced by this… this FLASHY TRASH! Gold was the most DISGUSTING metal he could think of! It tasted like something died, and judging from the dried blood on most of the gold something HAD died on it, and the gems were no better!
If it was platinum he could feast for days. Even ALUMINUM would suffice, but he was surrounded by GOLD!
Bah, and from the smell a scaly one had been living here. He hated scaly ones. They talked in big words, breathed fire at him, and ate fuzzy ones.
‘Also explains me metal not here.’ He grumbled in his mind. ‘Scaly ones no have sense of taste. Must have thrown me metals out when me not here.’
As Destroy grumbled and groaned, he continued forward, finding his secret stash.
A pile of rocks.
With a simple flick of his tail, the rocks shattered, revealing a cavern only half the size of the one he was currently inhabiting, but filled to the brim with stolen metals.
And not a speck of gold to be seen.
‘Good, me secret stash still here.’ Destroy thought, grinning to himself, before walking inside and beginning to eat.
“Spike, are you ABSOLUTELY SURE that’s what the letter said.” Twilight frowned, as spike held the scroll in front of him.
It was just after her little, eh-hem, ‘breakdown’. She blamed discord for the extra stress.
“Yes twilight I’m positive.” Spike sighed. “What’s the big deal anyway? I know it’s probably not the nicest creature with a name like ‘Destroy’, but it can’t be that bad, right?”
A book landed in front of him, thicker then twilights hoof. On the cover it depicted a massive metal beast with horns and claws, standing tall on tree trunk legs with a long tail.
“The book of Destruction?” spike asked, looking at it.
“A book of legends and stories concerning Destruction, also known as Destroy.” Twilight said, spike starting to flip through the book.
“Ok, let’s see. Burning down prance, freezing dodge junction… how does one creature FLOOD Mainhatten! Twilight this book can’t be right.” Spike dismissed.
“But what if it IS, spike.” Twilight stressed. “Ponyville could be in terrible danger!”
“Bah, what are the chances it’ll come around here?” spike asked, before slapping his head. “Oh great, Marephy’s law.”
And with that, a massive roar echoed around the town, making a certain yellow Pegasus squeak and fall over in fright in her home.
It had come from the old dragon nest. How it was heard that far away was anyone’s guess, but heard it was.
‘ME NO LIKE THIS!’ Destroy growled in his mind, chasing his own tail. ‘Me just want to clean cave!’
What he was talking about was the dragon trap stuck on his tail. He had sneezed for some odd reason, and had fallen over at the force of it. Of course, when he had, his tail had landed on a massive pile of gold and had triggered the iron trap’s jaws.
He had seen these before, fuzzy ones used them to ward off or injure scaly ones. A fuzzy one must have put it here, and now his tail was suffering because of it.
‘Who put dragon trap in me cave?!’ destroy whined in his head, chasing his tail to try and pry the jaws of the massive trap off. It had come flying out of the ground when he had jumped in pain, trying to get away from what had hurt him. ‘WHY someone put dragon trap in me cave?! Me hurt so much!’
And with that, he roared again, the sound echoing around his cave like a megaphone before being blasted across the landscape.
“Twilight, ah hate to be the loud one, but what in equestrian WAS THAT!” Applejack asked, wide eyed. “That darn roar knocked near every apple out of my trees in the northern orchard a week before they were ripe!”
“It knocked me off course and made me crash into the well!” a soaking wet Rainbow Dash growled.
“It popped my balloons!” wailed Pinky, holding one of said deflated balloons.
“It made me miss my stitching.” Rarity frowned. “I had to undo the entire string and re-stitch it.”
Fluttershy just shivered and hid behind rainbow.
“I know girls.” Twilight sighed. “But we don’t have time for that. If we wait much longer, that monster might come and destroy Ponyville!” she exclaimed.
“And what IS it.” Applejack stressed.
“A beast known as Destruction.” Twilight explained. “Responsible for killing thousands of ponies and destroying just as many towns.”
“And you want us to go fight it.” Applejack said, deadpanned.
“Well, I think we can handle it!” Rainbow crowed. “We beat a dragon, the spirit of chaos, even NIGHTARE MOON! We can beat some stupid beast!” she boasted.
“I’m not so sure.” Twilight said, looking at a picture of an artist’s rendition of Destruction burning down prance. “It’s said to be unstoppable. It was only defeated because Celestia and Luna used the elements on it when it was just waking up from some kind of hibernation.” Twilight said, frowning.
“It hibernates?” suddenly Fluttershy was VERY interested in this new animal. “What else is known about it?”
“Breaths fire, causes blizzards, summons tidal waves, knocks over buildings with a single stomp, the list goes on.” Twilight said, frowning.
“And you want us to go fight it?” Applejack asked again, still deadpan.
“It was beat by the elements once before!” rainbow said. “They can do it again! I’m in!”
“Aw heck.” Applejack sighed. “I don’t want it knockin any more of mah apples down before its time. I’m in.”
“It nearly ruined my design.” Rarity huffed. “I am in as well.”
“Well,” pinky started. “I WAS going to make granny pie’s super-special-triple-chocolate-fifteen-layer-marshalain recipe, but I guess it can wait.” Pinkie said, smiling. “I’m in!”
Everyone looked at Fluttershy, expecting her to be cowering again, only to find her with a curious look on her face.
“Something about that roar didn’t sound right.” She said, before nodding. “As an animal caretaker, I have to go.”