Tirek made his way out of the room slowly before being followed out by Zestar, who looked less than happy about who he'd been teamed up with.
"So," he said nervously as he looked at the huge Centare before him "We gonna help with the evacuation or..." Zestar was interrupted when Tirek picked him up and set him on his back before running full speed to the stairs, Zestar screaming at the full extent of his lungs the entire way, He briefly saw Cozy glow and Jasper pressed against the walls to avoid Tirek's charge but after that, it was nothing for stairs, It didn't take long for them to reach the end of them and arrive at a set of large doors, Zestar stopped screaming and his noise was replaced with the sounds of blaring horns, Tirek opened the door and Zestar got the honor of being the first one to actually see the Diamond Dog City, It was huge, he could see homes and building lining the walls for hundreds of feet up with a lot of foot traffic, for what was essentially a deep trench it was also very well lit, thousands of torches filled with blue flames could be seen around the city, oddly enough though they weren't making blue light.
"Good the evacuation's started," Tirek said as he looked around the city "Alright hold on kid, you and I are in charge of making sure the market distract is properly evacuated, we have three hours before Spike brings Twilight back and the Market Distract is bigger than most towns,"
"How do I help with that?" Zestar asked in confusion.
"Tell any Diamond dogs you see to go pack light and head to the nearest Highway,"
"Highway?" Zestar asked, Tirek gave no verbal response and instead pointed up at the walls, about 200 feet above them was a hole around 3 times the size of Spike's castle. "Oh, a tunnel road, should of put that together," Tirek began walking at a slow pace as hundreds of thousands of Diamond dogs began swarming around the city.
"I didn't know there were so many Diamond dogs in the world," Zestar said, before he could try and start Small talk Tirek suddenly ran forward and Zestar almost fell off, Zestar was about to complain, but then saw Tirek had just caught a tiny Diamond dog that had fallen from the roof of a nearby building, several Diamond dogs were breathing sighs of relief from the roof and Tirek held the small pup back up and handed it back to the group.
"Thank you, Lord T-rex," one of them said before hugging the child and rushing out of sight to presumably join the rest of the family in packing up for the evacuation.
"T-rex?" Zestar asked with a chuckled.
"Don't laugh at them" Tirek said with a serious tone "Most of these Diamond dogs are wild and not all of them can talk, some can't even walk on their hind legs,"
"Ok, but why did he call you T-rex?" Zestar demanded, Tirek sighed at the question.
Tirek looked around the large city, most of the homes had been built on or in the walls of the gorge, but there was a fair amount of construction near the base of the wall.
"Lot of space," He noted as Spike casually walked beside him.
"Yeah, when I first took over as king they all lived in burrows, didn't really have positions or homes, just kind of slept in random holes until another Diamond dog threw them out and took it," Spike shrugged "You would not believe how hard it was to stop them from doing that,"
"Sounds like wild animals," Tirek noted, "So, what did you need my help with down here?"
"Oh yeah, a few weeks back we began work on another settlement, but the tunnels keep collapsing, Chrysalis has been very helpful in ending tunnel collapses but ever since we got the tunnel to work we've had some...problems with another tribe of Diamond dogs that took over the new settlement and refuse to leave until they, and I quote, fight a real beefcake," Tirek looked at his muscular arms and smiled.
"So you called me down here..."
"To beat some respect into them," Spike said happily "I tried but all that did was piss them off, cause I'm so noodly and just had to be cheating,"
"Technically you cheat at everything with magic," Tirek pointed out.
"And your so big and bag without any are you?" Spike asked with a chuckle "Anyway there a different species than my Diamond dogs and the only buff creature here beside you is My Throne, and if they beat a female they claim her on the spot so it's either you beat 'em or I might have to kill them,"
"Sounds fun," Tirek said before hurriedly adding "The beating them part, not the killing them part," Spike smiled at the Centar as they made their way to the hole, it was about twice the size of Tirek. Standing in front of the hole were 4 Diamond dogs, none of them anywhere near as tall as Spike's throne.
"I'm pretty sure your wife could take care of this," Tirek said casually when they came into view.
"I sincerely doubt these guys will fight fair, when I tried fighting them it was a one versus five, and they had nothing to gain during that fight so I don't wanna see what they do if they actually get something out of the fight,"
"Please, like you wouldn't kick all their asses,"
"I would, and I have, but it has solved nothing," Spike gave Tirek a thumbs up before melting into the shadows to watch. Tirek made his way to the Diamond dogs and noticed a difference between them and the ones frequenting the cave, their tales were longer and looked more whip-like than club-like, he also saw them harassing the club tailed Diamond dogs and spotted a few Diamond dog among the whip-tails who had an assortment of tails along with collars and chains on them. Upon noticing him two of them stepped forward, one without the collar and chains and one with them that's tail looked as though it could function as a tree cutter's ax.
"Greeting," Tirek said, his answer was a hearty bark "Spike, translation?" Without hesitation, the Dog's bark turned into words.
"-And am Claiming territory in name of me!"
"I decline your attempt in claiming this territory," Tirek said calmly.
"Then I declare fight," The whip-tail replied as he stepped back, the chained one moving forward, exhaustion evident in its eyes.
"Your friend looks exhausted," Tirek noted, "I don't think he should-"
"No Fight means surrender," The Chainless dog snapped.
"Very well," Tirek said with a sigh as he got ready to fight, the Chained one looked at him for a moment, and proceeded to fall down onto its knees, Tirek was prepared for this to be a dirty trick of some kind, and instead watched as the Chainless one ran forward and began fiercely kicking at the chained one.
"Bad!" It screamed "Fight!" Tirek watched as the whip-tailed who were chainless, a total of 4 males and three females, all rushed forward and began fiercely breathing the dog, Tirek watched the beating, then looked to the others in chains, several males and females, all cowering away from the beating.
"Slaves," Tirek realized out loud before walking forward and forcefully picking up the one who had challenged him, whose tail instantly lashed out and stuck Tirek in the face, It left a small red mark but Tirek stood strong. "Your slave traders, He realized as he got a better look at the Diamond dogs in the collars, they were all beaten and bruised, and there were one male and one female of multiple different tail assortment, he spotted the female ax-tail, two club tails, two white one's with furry tails, a pair with long tails that looked to end in hooks, and even a set of whip-tails.
"So whip-tail," Tirek said as he dropped the one in his hand, "You wanna fight for ownership of this land, then if you lose I get ownership of all your slaves," The whiptail growled, then Tirek smiled and sweetened the pot "Just me in a fight against all the none-slave whiptails," The dog smiled at that and snapped his fingers, his 7 comrades all surrounded Tirek and Tirek added, "Now them, the one rule is that you are allowed to use everything at your disposal and I get to do the same," Tirek was given no reply as all the whiptails curled their tails and all lashed out at once, Tirek ignored the lashes across his body and grabbed the tail of the leader.
Before it could pull back Tirek began swinging him around and used him as a club against all the other whiptail before letting go and sending the leader flying across the floor of the cavern. the other whiptails attempted to lash out at him from afar but Tirek simply started grabbing their tails in one hand and placing them in his other before grabbing another tail, after a moment he had a lovely bouquet of Whip-tailed Diamond Dogs and very easily swung the entire group into the wall of the cavern a few times before letting go, the dogs all lay on the floor, bruised and probably with a few broken bones as the leader got back to his feet and began screaming.
"Cheating, you cheating, not count!" Tirek was about to turn to him when he heard whines and looked to the whiptails he had just beaten against the walls, they were all on their hands and knees and bowing before him, whining for mercy. The Slaves very quickly following the other's leads and all bowed before Tirek, Tirek turned to the leader and declared loudly.
"I, Lord Tirek, have won, surrender now or be sent to the dungeon," The Diamond dog screamed out in defiance and ran at Tirek, only for Spike to Pop out of the ground and seemingly eat him before swirling into existence in front of Tirek.
"And he is now in the dungeon with the old king," Spike said happily, before Tirek could say anything one of the slaves held up its hand in salute and declared proudly.
"All hail lord T-rex," Tirek blinked and was about to correct him when Spike jumped at the opportunity and made his voice echo from every shadow.
"Yes, Everyone please give all your praise Lord T-REX!" Upon hearing Spike's voice every sing Diamond dog started changing the name Lord T-rex and Tirek looked at Spike in irritation, who was laughing so hard he was crying, making it look like his eyes were melting.
"You son of a bitch,"
Tirek was motioning towards a group of Hook-tailed Diamond dogs while Zestar laughed on his back, A large number of Diamond dogs had crowed around them when Tirek had started telling his story and he had used it to help gather the Diamond dogs in the marketplace for the evacuation.
"That's fantastic," Zestar said as he whipped his eyes "Has Spike done that to anyone else?"
"Well no," Tirek said before smiling "But Cozy and I did to Sombra, and Sonata did it to herself," Tirek picked up Zestar and set him on the ground, "Now let's get things started, we have to make sure this entire area is empty before Spike brings Twilight in, and we've wasted enough time on stories, just tell any Diamond dogs you see to head to the Nearest Highway and to bring only what's needed, oh and don't get swept away in the crowd," Tirek turned away from Zestar and got to work helping as many Diamond dogs as he could in the evacuation, Zestar stood in the center of the street and started directing any Diamond dogs there were running the wrong way to head to the closed Highway, pointing at the large hole as he did so.