//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Everfree's Dragon // Story: My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Don't Deal with Magic // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// Driving the van into the woods, Rarity, Twilight, and Pinkie are heading to the Everfree Forest to find the Inkwell residence. They will have to stop at Camp Everfree first, since it's the only place where they can park the car at. Rarity drives the van as Twilight is sitting on the passenger seat using her phone to get information about the Cuphead game, and Pinkie bouncing on her seat with a smile. Pinkie happily says, "Ooh, I can't wait till we get back to Camp Everfree. It's been awhile since the last time we were there." "Yes Pinkie. I remember. I wonder how Gloriosa and Timber are doing," Rarity replies. "I'm sure they're doing fine. At least, I hope so. He just suspect that one of Cuphead's friends might be in the woods," Twilight replies. She blushes a little, and says, "But it will be nice to Timber again." "Of course you are. He is your boyfriend after all," Rarity with a smug on her face. Twilight's cheeks turn red, and quickly says, "He's no my boyfriend. He's my friend… who happens to a boy." "That sounds like a boyfriend to me," Pinkie happily replies. Twilight blushes so much that her face looks like it's going to turn red. Then covers her face feeling completely embarrassed. Pinkie and Rarity start giggling to see Twilight face is changing color and how embarrassed to like someone. Sometime later, they arrive at Camp Everfree. Rarity parks the car on the dirt road, and they jump out of the car. After everyone is out of the car, Rarity locks her van, and follow Twilight and Pinkie to the log cabin close by. Twilight reaches the door, and says, "I hope they're home." Twilight knocks on the door to see if Timber and Gloriosa are home. So far, no one is answering. Twilight knocks a few time again, but no one is answering. "Hmm, maybe they aren't home. They probably went out or something," Rarity says. Pinkie points out, "Actually, Timber is walking right towards us." The girls walk over to see Timber coming this way, more like running this way. Twilight calls out, "Timber, over here!" Timber walks to the cabin to see Twilight and the girls here. He smiles to see Twilight, and says, "Twilight, what are you doing here?" "Well… um… this is going to sound silly, but did you see anything unusual today?" Twilight asks, blushing with a smile on her face. "Well, your unexpected visit is something different, but I'm glad that you show up. I do wish I know ahead of time," Timber replies with his cheeks blush. Timber and Twilight blushes and smiling at each other. With a grin, Rarity says, "Adorable." Pinkie giggles in reply. Twilight and Timber snaps out of their love daze towards each other, and focus on the question. "To be honest, something did weird happen this morning," Timber answers. "What will that be?" Rarity asks. "Well it depends, have any of you see a sick green dragon before?" Timber responds with an unsure expression in his face. "A green dragon?!" Pinkie exclaim in shock. Timber nods his head, and says, "Yeah. It happened this morning." Timber remembers what has happened this morning. Gloriosa and Timber are having breakfast. They have eggs, fruit, hash browns, toast, and some sausages. "Sure is a good breakfast sis," Timber says. "Glad you like it. So what do you want to do today?" Gloriosa asks. Suddenly, they both begin to hear groaning sounds. Whatever it is, the groaning sounds very loud. "What was that?" Gloriosa asks. "It sounds like it's coming from outside," Timber suspects. Timber and Gloriosa quickly head outside to walk around to figure out where the sound is coming from. There are moaning and groaning in pain around the woods. Gloriosa hears the sound, and says, "It's coming from the direction of the rock quarry." Gloriosa head to the pathway that will lead them to the rock quarry. Timber quickly follows her. Gloriosa walks down the path and hear the noise getting louder. She finally hears the groaning coming from the bushes. Gloriosa pushes the bushes to opposite sides to see what making the noise. When she looks ahead, she lets out a gasp in shock. Just then, Timber walks over, as he asks, "Gloriosa, are you alright? Did you find…" Timber looks to where Gloriosa is looking and lets out a gasp in shock. They see a big green yellow green dragon with pale yellow stomach and long jaw, and stubby limbs with white claws, big green wings, a long tongue sticking out of his mouth, and white spikes on his back and tail. The dragon is laying on back rubbing his stomach and doesn't look very good. "Is that… a dragon," Timber asks in shock. "I think it is, but…" Gloriosa says, and looks at the dragon. The dragon continues to rub his stomach, and stags his tongue, and his scale looks a little pale. Gloriosa walks past the bushes, "That dragon doesn't look too well." Gloriosa leaves from the hiding place and walks to the dragon. Freaked out, Timber whispers, "Gloriosa, come back!" Gloriosa walks to the dragon who is groaning and continues to rub his stomach. Gloriosa worriedly asks, "Excuse me Mister Dragon, are you alright?" The dragon looks at Gloriosa and answers, "No. I… i think I over ate last night, and now I have a tummy ache." "Oh you poor thing. But don't worry, I got this," Gloriosa says with a smile. Then she says, "We can get you something to help settle your stomach." "Thank you. And… who are you?" The dragon asks. Gloriosa smiles, and says, "I'm Gloriosa Daisy, it's nice to meet you. And the boy hiding behind the bush is my brother, Timber Spruce." Gloriosa turns, and calls out, "Timber, you can come out! I think he's a friendly dragon!" Seeing how things are going, Timber decides to agree with his sister, and leaves the hiding spot. He then walks to Gloriosa. He looks at the dragon, and says, "Uh hi. It's nice to meet you. I'm Timber. What's your name?" "My name is Grim Matchstick, but my friends just call me Grim," The dragon names Grim answers. "Grim, that's a nice name," Gloriosa comments. Timber has a different opinion, "Grim Matchsticks?" Gloriosa whispers, "Timber, don't be rude?" "I'm not. His name sounds very familiar, but can't put my finger on it," Timber whispers. Gloriosa thinks about ti, and says, "You know, I think your right." Suddenly, Grim feels sick to his stomach again, and groans even louder. "Aww poor guy, he really doesn't feel good at all," Gloriosa says, feeling sorry for Grim. Gloriosa turns to Timber, and says, "Timber, go back to the house and get some medicine for him, and maybe some ginger ale for his stomach?" "Right," Timber says. Timber hurries down the path to get medicine from the house. After the flashback, Twilight and the others are surprised to hear Timber's story. "And that's pretty much what happen," Timber says. Twilight asks, "You said his name is Grim Matchsticks?" "Yeah," Timber answers. Rarity speaks up, "Timber, we know what dragon you're talking about." "Really?" Timber questions. "Yeah. Grim Matchsticks is the green dragon who lives in a castle in the Cuphead Video name," Pinkie happily answers. "Huh?" Timber replies with a confused looks. Twilight ignores Pinkie's statements, and asks, "Can you take us to him?" "Sure. but I think Gloriosa and I deserve an explanation," Timber answers. "Of course darling," Rarity replies. Then Timber says, "But first, I need to get some medicine for our scaly friend here." The three nod their heads in reply. By the rock quarry, Gloriosa is watching Grim, who is still having stomach trouble. "It's okay Grim, Timber will be here with the medicine soon," Gloriosa reassures. "I hope is soon. I don't feel good," Grim sickly groans. Gloriosa turns to see Timber bringing a bag full of medicine and ginger ale. She becomes surprised to see Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie are with them. "Oh hi girls, I didn't expect you to be here," Gloriosa happily says. "Yeah. Timber told us about your new friend, Grim has a stomach ache," Twilight says. "Yeah. He really doesn't feel so good," Gloriosa sadly says. Timber holds out the bag, "Don't worry, I got the medicine and ginger ale. Anyway, Twilight and the others have an answer to our mystery." Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie explain to the three about their situation. After they finish, the three are rather surprised. Gloriosa is the first to say, "I thought that name is familiar, you're the dragon from the game." "It seems so, but I'm glad to be in a forest. I do like my castle home, I love wide open spaces. It kind of pains my stomach knowing I'm unable to fly like that," Grim says. "Don't worry darling, we'll help with your stomach problem and help you get back to your castle," Rarity says. Twilight hears her phone vibrating and looks to see the message from Rainbow. As Twilight takes a look at the message, Pinkie says, "Yeah. Were also glad that we got to you first before any of the Devil's lacky could get here. And I'm sure we won't have any more problems." After reading the message, Twilight gulps, and worriedly says, "I wouldn't be too sure about that. I just got a message from Rainbow. And… there is good news and bad news. And well, worse news." "What's the good news?" Rarity asks. "They found Cala Maria and Captain Brineybeard at the beach," Twilight answers. "Whoa hoo!" Pinkie cheers. Timber frowns, "What's the bad news?" "Apparently one of the Devil's minions, Hopus Pocus attacked them at the beach. Luckily, Captain Brineybeard saved them," Twilight answers. Gloriosa nervously asks, "And what's the worse news?" "After having the battle with the rabbit apparently…" Twilight nervously says. Then scaredly shouts, "The Devil wants us!" "What?!" Pinkie and Rarity exclaims. "I know. But from what Hopus told them, he knows about us having magic and wants us to be brought to him," Twilight explains. "Oh no!" Rarity worriedly says. Gloriosa sniffs something that is in the air, "Uh guys, did you smell something? And what's with the smoke?" The other hear her and look to see some kind of smoke in the sky. When they smell the air, there is a unsettling smell. "Whatever it is, it doesn't smell good," Timber answers. Rarity says in disgust, "Eww, what is that horrible smell?!" "It smells like… like… a cigar," Pinkie answers, while holding her nose. "A cigar?" Twilight questions. Timber looks at the frees, and says, "I think the situation just got worse." The girls and Grim look in the trees and gasp in shock to see what appear. It's giant cigar. It has a gray ashy top, yellow eyes and teeth, black eyebrows, and a brown nose with a black tip. The cigar chuckles, and says, "Hello ladies, my name is Mr. Wheezy and I'm here to smoke things up." Mr. Wheezy takes a deep breath and blows smoke at the girls and Timber. They cough as the smoke surrounds them, and are not pleased with it at all. "Ugh, that's disgusting!" Timber says in disgust. Pinkie coughs, and shouts, "It's bad!" "Cigar smoke smells awful," Gloriosa says. Rarity makes her diamonds appear, and use them to fan away the cigar smoke. Soon enough the place is clear. "That was awful," Twilight replies. "Smokes are really not good for you," Gloriosa comment. Mr. Wheezy chuckles, and says, "Too bad you are unable to take in the smoke and smell, but I'm here to collect you girls and the dragon here. However, I think I'll take these two along with me." Rarity becomes very steamed, and scolds, "You my sir are a ruffian and a cur, and I have half a mind to find whoever is responsible for such a clearly insufficient upbringing and rearing and give that individual a rather significant piece of my mind! Are we quiet clear on this matter?!" "Uh yes?" Mr. Wheezy answers, looking skeptic. "And furthermore, I daresay that I might just report this behavior to…" Rarity continues. But think about it, "Oh, which officials are tasked with regulating this sort of this because…" "Let me tell you…" Rarity adds in anger. Twilights puts her hand on Rarity's shoulder and says, "Um Rarity, you can calm down now." Timber whispers to his sister, "Wow, I never seen Rarity this mad before." "I know," Gloriosa replies. Mr. Wheezy tries his best to be calm, and says, "Um look, how about I just leave and uh see to my boss about what you said." Mr. Wheezy disappears down a hole without putting up a fight. "Wow! That what… unexpected?" Pinkie questions. "At least he and his smoke are gone. That was not a very pleasant smell," Gloriosa says. Suddenly, they hear a voice saying, "Now that's what I call being aggressive with words. And I thought I'm the one who acts aggressive." The gang look around to see if there's anyone around. Rarity firmly asks, "Friend or foe, whoever you ask?" Just then three giant vegetables pop out of the ground. There is a wrinkly brown potato with eyes a mouth and arms. A yellow onion with blushing red cheeks, a purple nose, arms and eyes. Finally, there is a big orange carrot with green leaves, eyes, and arms with hands. "Um well, we're friends. We… we hope that you're friends too," The onion shyly says. The gang sigh in relief. Well Pinkie happily shouts, "Hey it's The Root Pack: Moe Tato, Weepy, and Psy Carrot." The three vegetables look at them with confused looks. "How you know our names?" Psy Carrot asks. Twilight interjects, "It's kind of a long story." Twilight, Rarity, and Pinkie explain to everyone what is going on, and the kind of danger they are in. "So that how it is? The Devil is not only after us who refused to pay his debt, but you girls are being targeted because of your magical abilities," Moe says. "T-t-this s-s-sounds s-s-serious," Weepy replies. "I know. The Devil is going to spread his wrath in this world if we don't do something," Psy replies. Then Twilight says, "We know. But don't worry, we already found Cagney, Hilda, Goopy, Cala Maria and Brineybeard. And now we found you and Grim." "Unfortunately, he is suffering from a stomach ache. It's a good things we didn't get into a fight with that ruffian of a cigar," Rarity says. "And Gloriosa and Timber will watch over you guys until we find the others, deal with the Devil, and get you all back home," Pinkie says. "That's what I like to hear. And since Cuphead and Mugman are with you, you three should have too much trouble," Moe replies. "Yeah. But from what Rainbow explained, the Devil has interest in me and my friends," Twilight says. "This is rather unsettling knowing that we're targets for a villain and will do horrible things to us if we're in his clutches," Rarity worredly says. "Well as long as we work together, we'll have nothing to worry about, "Pinkie happily says. Twilight takes her phone out, "I'll let the knows know that we found you guys." "And maybe you guys can stay with us at Camp Everfree for a little while," Gloriosa suggests. "The camp might not be big enough for them, but we could try making some room," Timber says. Twilight begins to text an important message to the others about the search and them almost being attacked by one of the Devil's men. She knows the others are having luck finding the other debtors, and hopefully deal with the casino employees.