Rarity watched with mild curiosity as Spike dug up the earth to uncover more precious gems. She watched as he grabbed the jewels from the earth and looked longingly at them before throwing them into the wagon. More than once he needed to wipe the drool from his chin because his mouth was watering so badly.
"Alright, dear, that's enough for today." Rarity said, breaking spike out of another gem-filled daydream. "Let's head home, its getting late."
"Yes ma'am!" Spike said, wiping the dirt off his claws and grabbing the wagon handle, he began to pull it back towards town.
"Spike," Rarity said. "Why is it that dragons like valuable materials so much?"
"I don't know, they just taste good." Spike said. "Really, they kind of taste like pony foods, or at least they do to dragons. To ponies they probably taste like rocks."
"So what would say, a ruby taste like?"
"Depends. What kind of ruby are we talking about? Fire rubies actually taste a bit like cinnamon, while regular rubies are more cherry flavored."
"Is there really that much of a difference between gems of the same family?"
"Sort of. Jungle Emeralds are more grainy than regular emeralds, but rubies have the biggest difference."
"And what about sapphire?"
"Blueberry."
"Diamond? Topaz?"
"Diamond in its purest form isn't really conceivable to taste, legend says only dragons who have found immortality can taste it, but topaz tastes like buttered popcorn. Really, the more rare the gem, the more of a rarer taste it has, if You can understand what I'm saying. Some of them are actually pretty terrible, like quartz just tastes really bitter, impurities in that only mask the flavor a tiny bit..."
Rarity listened while spike talked. She was interested in this concept, and she wanted to know all she could about it, after all, eventually she would have to choose Spike as her special somedragon, she was just waiting until he got a bit older and understood the world a little better.
But she knew he had good taste.
3907629 What are you even doing? All these random sound effects are giving me a headache! Or that could just be the crushed skull and mashed brain that you caused...
Rock candy. That's what gems taste like to dragons.
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GRAMBLE
*SQUICH MASH SMOOSH SMUSH*
Why do I keep killing the author with my crowbar! *cries*
P.S. Internet cookie if you get my reference in the comment chain
But... rubies are more rare than diamonds...
What do gems really taste like?
3908074
Could it be Bender, from Futurama!?
Or maybe it's someone in the Simpsons. It sounds like something that writer would do.
--Sollace
3908471 depends what area of the world. Diamonds are still more valuable however.
3910383 Actually, they aren't. Rubies currently command between 20% and 50% higher prices than similar size and quality diamonds.
3910404 WELL IF YOU'RE SO SMART, WHY DON'T YOU WRITE THE DAMN STORY????
just kidding, thanks for the info.
3909776
*sigh*
It's from 10 million BC where Cain attacks his brother, starts weeping after thinking he killed him, then his brother wakes up, Cain hits him with the rock again, says "What have I done," weeps some more and so on...
3910557 one would think that you should make sure your murder victim is actually dead before you begin to grieve over it, and if you regret it then don't try to kill him again... but that's just me
3910732
What?!?!?!
*ssmash bang squish smoosh smash crush crack*
*breathes heavily*
*looks down at the now completely flat gooey red disk that might once have been the head of the author*
What. Have. I. DONE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
3910740 How many times to I have to create a decoy before you realize I'm hiding in my secret subterranean evil fortress of doom under the Saharan desert?
... oops. shouldn't of told you that.
3910833
OHHh....
That makes a lot more sense...
*Two years, and many dead ends later*
Found you at last!
*SMASH*
Fuck, now where do I hide the body. Anyone know of any terms and conditions around here? Or a textbook?
3911165 Final Will and T estimate: I, Gallagsp, being fully aware of my actions and currently having my face pounded in by GordonFreebrony, hereby leave all my material possessions, finances, and estate to my cat Mister Snugglebottom, and I request my body to be shot into the sun to cleanse my spirit of the evil inside brought on by Mister Snugglebottom. He's an evil mastermind that corrupts people with his cuteness, so don't look him in the eyes. Also, Congrats on finding my secret evil lair of doom! You win a cookie.
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Ah, his will! perfect place to hide the body. No one will look there since no one knows he's dead.
Now to eat my cookie and skin me a cat....
But which way do I do it?