//------------------------------// // Part 3: Hot Headed // Story: Spike x Rarity: Las Pegasus Wedding (Garbage Fic) // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// The ponies had reached the area near the crater, and it was a good thing all the dragons were far too preoccupied watching Spike suffer, so they could move about easier without being noticed, but they still stayed well out of sight as they tried to form a plan. Rarity could see Spike in the cage as the cage was being smashed about by the other dragons, and how Garble and his gang were using their magic to torment him further as the lava continued to heat below him. Rarity almost screamed out to Spike and would have given them away had Applejack and Rainbow not pulled her back down and covered her mouth. “We must get Spike out of there!” cried Rarity. “And we will,” said Twilight “Remember what we talked about on the way here?” Pinkie nodded rapidly, and her head practically rattled, showing how eager she was to get back at those dragons. Fluttershy felt very nervous, especially at how angry the dragons looked, but the way they were picking on Spike helped her balance that fear with determination. “I guess I’m ready.” she whimpered. “Okay, let’s go.” said Twilight, and the ponies all split off. Spike was being rocked about in his cage by more dragons, and finally Garble decided, “I think the lava’s hot enough now; so let’s get cooking!” Spike was sweating bullets from both the feel of the heat and his fears. Garble then used his magic to slowly lower the cage towards the scalding pit below. “No!! No!!” he cried. “Yes…!” Garble laughed, and the other dragons laughed with him. Suddenly, they all heard a shout. “HEY, DRAGONS…!!” Pinkie Pie called, and then she jumped out from behind the rocks sticking her tongue out and shaking her tail them. “Over here! Here I am!” “A pony!” snarled Garble. “Hey! She was at the wedding!” growled Fume. Pinkie taunted them and called out, “You can’t catch me!” Applejack came running out and about, “Me ether!” she called “Come on, you overgrown lizards!” The dragons were furious. “Oh, they’re asking for it!” bellowed Charcoal. “Let’s get ‘em!” roared Clump. Garble agreed, but he decided to stay behind and look after the cage as it continued to descend deeper into the pit. The dragons began to rush at the two ponies, but something came rushing past in a streaking rainbow glow. Charcoal looked up as Rainbow stopped in the sky and looked down at him. “Hiya, Stinky… long time, no smell.” “Stinky…?!” growled Charcoal “Oh, you’re asking for it!” Rather than breathing fire at her, he simply shot a blast of magic at her, which she dodged easily. Charcoal then lead a bunch of dragons flying through the air to chase her around. Some breathed fire, others snapped their jaws for a bite, but Rainbow just kept dodging each blast. “Am I too fast, or are you too slow?” Rainbow teased. The dragons grew furious, and that’s when Rainbow started getting sneaky. As two dragons tried to rush her, she zipped up high causing them to crash into each other. Another one tried to breathe fire at her, but Rainbow only flew in furious circles creating a strong twister that blew the flames back towards him and some of his friends, forcing them to scatter. Charcoal then used his medallion to grab Rainbow in a strong magical bind, and she wasn’t able to break out this time! “Not so tough now, are you?” he laughed at her. Other dragons, led by Fume and Clump, were chasing after Pinkie and Applejack on the ground. “Get them!” shouted Fume. The dragons all rushed forth, straight at Pinkie Pie, who was just standing where she was not even making any attempt to run. …This because Applejack had set a small trap! The dragons were so focussed on charging at Pinkie, they hadn’t noticed Applejack had thrown her rope around a narrow pillar, and the second the dragons came close, she pulled on the rope hard, raising it, and the dragons all crashed right into it, like a giant elastic, and were flung back hard into each other and sent crashing into a pile among the rocks. Applejack then leapt out while she and Pinkie slapped a high-hoof with each other, only to then be ensnared by the magic of Fume and Clump. “That wasn’t nice!” sneered Fume. “Then again, dragons don’t like to be nice.” added Clump. Poor Pinkie and Applejack were helpless. “I hope… Twilight’s plan… works!” groaned Applejack. “Me… too!” cried Pinkie. Spike’s cage was halfway down to the lava, and the heat was starting to be too much, even for a dragon like him, when suddenly, he felt his cage was rising. “What’s going--” he groaned, and then, as the cage rose higher, he could see Rarity and Twilight using their combined powers to overpower Garble’s spell and lift him out. Spike knew he wasn’t hallucinating from the heat, and he smiled, more over at Rarity, and she smiled lovingly at him now that he was going to be safe… …Or so they thought! A big blast of flames just missed them, forcing them to break the spell off, and Spike’s cage was halted as Garble stomped down on the ground. “Not this time, ponies!” he thundered. “Please!” Rarity begged “Please, let Spike out!” Garble only laughed and then yelled, “… No can do!! That little half-pint’s made a mockery of dragons, and this time he’s paying the price.” “That’s barbaric!” protested Twilight, “Just because he wants to marry a pony doesn’t mean he deserves to be punished!” “Nya-Nya-to be punished…!” Garble said in a mocking voice, and he grabbed his medallion, “Maybe I should punish you along with the little squirt with the very pony magic that you use!” Rarity lost patience, “I tried to be reasonable with you, but you leave me no choice!” She looked ready to charge him, and he looked ready to intercept, but Rarity then pointed behind him, “…You’ve been deceived!” Garble looked behind where the cage was, only to see it was gone! “Go Fluttershy!” Twilight called. Garble looked up high and saw Fluttershy, who had broken the chains connecting the cage to the pulley, and was hauling it and Spike away from the pit. The cage was so hot that her hooves were scalding, and she had to set it down. She began to blow on her hooves, “Ooh… that’s so hot!” “Uh… Fluttershy…?” whimpered Spike and he pointed behind her. There were many fuming dragons, glaring at her. The rest of Garble’s gang and the other dragons came over with the other ponies still bound in the magical energy fields, and the big dragon army stood all together, vastly outnumbering the ponies by a great lot! Twilight looked most disturbed, and then both she and Rarity were held in place by Garble’s magic, but neither one of them made any attempts to break free! “You see…” Garble taunted “Ponies are ponies and dragons will, and must be, dragons!” He paused, and then looked back to where Fluttershy and Spike were surrounded and thundered, “…AND DRAGONS DON’T MARRY PONIES!!” The other dragons all roared in outrage, agreeing with Garble. “Twilight…!” Rarity cried. “Don’t… worry.” Twilight said “…Any second now… it should… happen!” Garble decided the ponies would all be punished as well as Spike. “I think you all need to take a little lava bath. Maybe that’ll teach you a thing or two about respect.” The dragons all hollered in agreement… …But just as Garble and his gang used the magic to levitate all the ponies and Spike off the ground and towards the lava pit, the magic began to wane, and it grew weaker, and weaker. “Hey!” cried Clump. “What’s going on?” whined Fume. Suddenly, the magic completely diminished, and all the ponies and the cage, crashed onto the ground. Garble angrily tapped at his medallion, “What’s wrong with this thing?” Twilight got onto her feet with a smirk and said, “…It’s because you’ve used up all the magic.” The dragons all gasped, and Twilight explained, “The story said that the dragon lord only sealed pony magic within the medallions, so naturally there was only so much magic to be used, but you dragons have been throwing it all over the place, and now it’s all tapped out.” The dragons growled, and angrily threw their, now, useless medallions to the ground, and roasted them into nothing with their flames. “You realize we still out number you all, and you can’t beat us!” Twilight narrowed her eyes at him, and Garble growled. …But suddenly, the land began quiver most violently, and all the volcanos in the nearby area began to spout nasty black ash. “Now what’s happening?” groaned Rainbow. “Oh, no!” cried Rarity, and using her expert geology skills she deduced that extensive heat from the superhot lava was the cause, and it was. “The heat from the lava spread through the lava channels in the ground, leading to all the volcanos and increasing their intensive heat.” Twilight gawked at the volcanos, fearing they would blow any second, causing extremely hot lava to flow everywhere. Garble began to panic, “We can’t let that happen; all of the Dragon Lands will melt into nothing!” “It’s your fault in the first place this is happening!” snarled Applejack “So if you want to save your home, you better be willing to help us!” The dragons were most skeptical, but as the vibrations of the tremors got stronger, and the volcanos looking ready to burst. “We’ll do it!” Garble said. “What?” cried Clump. “Garble, you can’t be serious…” added Fume. “…DO IT!!” shouted Garble “If we don’t we’ll lose everything we have! So move it!” The dragons would have protested, but another violent series of tremors made them comply. “Wow!” said Pinkie “They sure know how to change their grooves fast.” “Don’t get cute!” growled Charcoal “We’re just in this to save our home, and nothing else.” Rainbow rolled her eyes murmuring, “Dragons will be dragons.” “We need to cool off that lava pit first.” said Twilight, “You dragons, get to all the volcanos and try to pile up rocks in their craters to block the lava flow!” The dragons actually complied without complaint and set off to work, grabbing armfuls of rocks and boulders and tossing them into the craters. Meanwhile, Rarity rushed over to the cage and used her magic to break the lock and let Spike out. “Rarity…!” Spike cried as he tackled her to the ground. “Oh, Spike, you’re safe!” she cried, and she kissed numerous times all over his face before capturing his lips with her. Applejack then broke them up, “Save it for later, lovebirds, we got a job to do.” Rarity then got up on her feet, and levitated Spike onto her back as she galloped off to help the others. Rainbow and Fluttershy tried to fly back and forth bringing rainclouds to pour water into the main lava pit to cool it off, but the clouds just kept dissolving, and the rain water, if any, evaporated away into mist. “It’s no use! It’s too hot to rain here!” cried Rainbow. “Keep trying!” called Twilight “I’ll see if I can cool it down.” She then fired her magic at the pit trying to reduce the heat, while Pinkie and Applejack rolled rocks into the pit to help cool it off even more. Soon Rarity joined them; levitating larges bundles with her magic, and Spike hopped off her back and gathered as many more rocks as he could for her to throw. The heat was so intense that Twilight could barely hold herself steady. “It’s getting hot to breathe here!” she groaned. “Come on, Twilight! Don’t give up!” shouted Applejack. Suddenly, they received more help, as some of the dragons came along to help-- throwing more rocks into the pit to cool the lava down. Garble was among them, much to everyone, especially Spike’s, shock, but Garble said nothing, still sticking to his pride that he was only trying to save his home from destruction. As the lava cooled down, Fluttershy and Rainbow found it easier to bring rainclouds in, and the water finally rained down on the pit, solidifying the lava into rock. “It’s working!” cried Pinkie. Twilight suddenly collapsed, overcome by the heat. “Twilight!” cried Spike. Applejack ran down to her and felt her neck. “She needs to cool off!” then she called up to the two pegasi, “Get some of that rain here!” Fluttershy complied and brought a small cloud to rain on Twilight. She started to come to almost instantly, but she was exhausted. “Did we do it?” she asked groggily. The tremors had ceased, and the volcanos weren’t spewing anymore ash, and the lava pit was completed crusted over. “Wee-Hoo…! We did it!” cried Pinkie. The other ponies began to cheer, and the dragons cheered as well, while Garble only sighed in relief. Then, he could see strange sounds coming from behind him, and he turned to see Spike and Rarity on the ground and making out loving. “Thanks for saving me.” Spike said as he kissed Rarity’s neck. “Oh, you know I had to. I love you, Spikey-Wikey.” Their lips met and Rarity rapped her limbs around Spike pulling him closer on top of her. Garble was most disgusted and was about to roast them both to ashes, when Applejack threw her lasso around him. “Leave them alone!” she snarled. Garble tried to protest, “But they--” “…They are happy!” snapped Twilight “Look at them…!” Garble looked again, and saw Rarity and Spike gazing heavenly at each other. Spike then turned to face Garble and his features hardened, “…I love her, and nothing is going to stop us from being together!” “I second that.” agreed Rarity “I love my Spikey-Wikey, and I don’t care if he is a dragon or not, I have never felt so happy in my life.” Garble looked at them, and was starting to feel a bit taken in by the sight of their love and happiness, but ultimately his dragon pride overpowered him, and he snapped through Applejack’s rope like it was a simple thread. “There will be no marriage between these sickos!” Rarity and Spike were most offended. Suddenly, they and their friends were surrounded by the army of dragons again. “We may not have any magic anymore,” hissed Garble “But we can still punish all of you for this disgrace!” Twilight and the others tried to protest, but they were all too weak from quelling the heat and stopping the eruptions to do too much. Even Twilight didn’t have enough power to teleport her own self to safety, let alone all the others. The dragons were all looking anxious to having a Pony Barbecue, when the tremors began to shake up again. “What now?!” cried Fluttershy. The volcanos were coming to life again. “Didn’t you block all the craters?!” shouted Twilight. The dragons began to look back and forth at one another stammering, but it was obvious they hadn’t blocked all the volcanoes, and the eruptions, and it was too late to do anything now as every single one began spew scaling hot lava, so hot that it melted all the rock away, liquefying the land. “We’re out of here!” shouted Garble, and he and the other dragons just took off like cowards, not even bothering to help the ponies or Spike, and just leaving them where they were. “YOU COWARDS…!!” Rainbow shouted at them “Don’t leave us here!” shrieked Fluttershy. The lava was getting closer, coming in from all sides, and the friends were hopeless to escape—Twilight had not enough magic, and she as well as Rainbow and Fluttershy were too exhausted to life the friends all up high enough to fly to safety. “We’re done for!! WE’RE DONE FOR!!!” Pinkie shouted. The lava got closer still, and the heat was unbearable. “Spike…!!” Rarity cried as she clutched him tightly. “Rarity…! Rarity…!! …RARITY!!!” Spike kept calling her name as things all went white before his eyes. “Rarity… Rarity…” He suddenly woke up to find himself sleeping in his own basket, in his hotel room in Las Pegasus. “Oh!” he groaned as he held his head, and then covered his eyes as the curtains were opened wide by Twilight, letting the bright sunshine in. “…Rise-and-shine Spike.” Twilight called over to him “Did you sleep well?” Spike felt most relieved, “Boy, did I have one crazy dream. I dreamt it was my wedding day.” Twilight giggled softly. “What? What’s so funny?” asked Spike. Twilight levitated him out of bed before the two doors that lead to the conjoining room across from theirs. The doors then opened wide revealing Rarity in her wedding gown, which made Spike nearly melt at the sight of her. “It is our wedding day, Spikey-Wikey.” Spike felt himself all over and confirmed that he was really awake this time, which only made his heart leap with joy. Twilight used her magic to instantly dress him in his wedding attire. “Well, come on every-pony,” Twilight called, and she poofed herself into her bridesmaids dress, and the others all showed up revealing they were dressed and ready. Before Spike knew it, he and Rarity were downstairs, in the wedding chapel, where the minister—not Snips of course, but rather a normal Earth Pony—said those magical words. “I now pronounce you dragon and wife. You may kiss the bride.” Rarity flicked her head upward so her veil flopped up, and she looked down so lovingly at Spike as she leaned down to him, and their lips came together. All the ponies began to cheer and applaud, while Cookie began to blubber, buried her face in Hondo’s shirt, while Sweetie only leapt about throwing flower petals all over. “YEE-HAW!!” Applejack shouted as she threw her hat up high into the air. Pinkie blubbered hard and blew her nose very loud, it sounded like a foghorn. “This is so awesome!” Rainbow cheered as she swirled round and around with small rainbow explosions like fireworks. Fluttershy only smiled and wiped her teary eyes, as did Twilight. “I’m so happy for them.” Twilight sobbed happily “Especially for Spike.” “Oh, I know…” agreed Fluttershy “I’ve never seen them both so happy.” Rarity and Spike finally separated and just gazed at each other deeply. “I love you.” Spike said to his bride. “I love you so much.” she said to him, and she moved forward and kissed him again. A few weeks later, the newspapers were going crazy with the story. “Mr. Dragon and Mrs. Pony” “Married to a Dragon” “Heigh-Ho Dragony Marriage” Reactions were rather mixed throughout the kingdom. Most ponies were shocked at first, but very supporting, especially as Spike and Rarity’s relationship wasn’t all that secret. Every-pony knew they were dating, and could see it with their eyes. As for dragons, they never tried to abduct Spike, or use the magic medallions-- mostly because there were no such objects. It was all in Spike’s dream. When they heard of the news, not only were they outraged, but they didn’t do anything about it and just kept to themselves. “I always knew that squirt was part pony deep down.” said Garble. His friends agreed. As for Spike and Rarity, while they were considered celebrities due to this historical coming-together, they did not really appreciate all the paparazzi, crowds, and news crews begging for interviews, or following them around everywhere they went, not giving them any privacy. So they wrote to Princess Celestia, whom agreed to their request and issued a strict order that the paparazzi give them their space, under penalty of questioning by she herself. Spike and Rarity finally managed to spend a quiet evening at home. Spike no longer slept in his basket, but naturally in bed next to his wife. “Did you trim your claws?” Rarity would ask. “Yes Dear.” Spike would comply without question. “Did you polish your scales?” “Yes Dear.” “Did you check your fire levels?” “Yes Dear.” Naturally, he would bow to Rarity’s every request, but in reality she was just playing with him this time, as was hinted by her smiling and soft giggling when he answered her. “Oh… I love you!” “I love you, Rarity.” They kissed so deeply, and Rarity levitated the covers over them as they settled down in bed together.