//------------------------------// // Generosity guaranteed or your bits back // Story: Guardians of harmony // by WolfGoddess1990 //------------------------------// Twi felt something poking her. It was kind of pointy but not to sharp. She slowly opened her eyes and a light mulberry dragon head with moderate pistachio serpentine eyes were staring at her, Twi immediately woke up yelling making the other three wake up, "Ugh... Ten more minutes..." Dash grumbled. "Much louder then a rooster crowing." AJ said as she yawned. "What's wrong?" Sunset said rubbing her eyes. "Dragon! Here in our room!" Sunset managed to look she saw the whole dragon, his light spring budish gray underbelly, his light lime green ear folds, and his moderate harlequin spikes going down his long body and in-between his wings. "Oh that's just Spike..." Sunset said getting up, both dragon and pony were the same size, Twi then noticed a metal around the dragons neck that had a sun with a spiral in it. "What are you doing here Spike?" "Well your brother was really worried when you weren't home when he checked your room, so I followed your scent here." "Sunset!" A male voice shouted before a brilliant gamboge unicorn with light apple greenish gray spots ran towards Sunset, his blue star cloak flapping just enough that you could see his cutie mark an orange sun with bursting yellow rays and six blue stars, his vivid and brilliant vermillion mane and tail were really messy, and glasses made his moderate cyan eyes bigger. He tackled Sunset in a hug as Sunset tried to stay standing, "Sunburst! What did I say about nearly tackling me to the ground?" "I don't care because I was really worried!" The two hugged then smiled at each other, "Oh little brother I could never be mad at you." "I'm only younger then you..." "By a few minutes yes I know, must you bring that up all the time bro?" Sunburst horn glowed a light yellow as his magic flicked her mane back in place, "I'll keep reminding you until you stop calling me your little brother." Sunset laughed as she flicked his mane in response, "But I find it so hilarious, and your reactions are so adorable." "See Sunburst I told you not to freak out she's perfectly fine." A female voice said and Twi watched as a pale light grayish heliotrope unicorn slowly trotted into the room, her mane and tail were a moderate purple with light purple and light grayish aquamarine highlights, she looked at Twi with wide moderate persian blue eyes, "See you were in such a rush you missed the alicorn in the room..." Her horn glowed a light turquoise as she dragged him back to look at Twi. "Oh my gosh you now what this means Starlight glimmer?!" Starlight sighed muttering, "Visiting royalty." Before Sunburst yelled, "Visiting royalty!" Twi finally noticed that Starlight's cutie mark was a purple and white star with two blue glimmering streams before Starlight turned towards her, "Forgive my boyfriend he can be far sighted when it comes to things that are right in front of him." "Hey that's not fair I'm wearing these glasses for a reason." "And yet you still missed princess..." "Twilight Sparkle and no princess please, not right now." "I don't understand but I'll respect your choice." "Anyway sis mom and dad are freaked." "Ah reckon all our families are freaked." "My parents are really clingy so they're probably freaked as well." "But we can't go back to Cloudsdale and Ponyville we need to stop Daybreaker." "Hey relax everypony we can just use Spike, I enchanted his dragon fire to send scrolls to anypony you can think of." "Augh is that possible?" Twi rubbed her chin thinking, "Give me a moment I'm going through my mental library now..." In her mind she was pulling books she read, until she reached the books on creatures, she went through them until reaching dragons then went through the book and then answered, "It's very possible if you can make a deep connection with the dragon." Sunset looked impressed, "Wow that's some memory you got there." Dash snorted out an, "Egghead." AJ just hit Dash's head. "Anyway just write your family a message on these scrolls, tell Spike the pony to send it to, and he will think of the name before burning the scroll sending it on its way." Sunset said giving AJ and Dash a scroll and quill, she then looked at Twi who sighed lightly, "It's not that easy for me." After they wrote what they needed and Spike sent them on their way Twi nodded, "Alright is everypony ready to go?" "Wait go? Sis where are you going?!" "See this chest plate? It's an element of harmony, we need to find the others." "Yes and we need to do it quickly so I'm sorry but we got to go." Spike followed them to the flying chariot. "Wait why are you pulling it?" He asked as he saw Twi going to the front, "I'm the only one strong enough and can fly who can pull it." "Get in the chariot I'll pull it." He said hooking himself in. "Spike you don't need to do this." "Like I'm going to let my little sister go on a journey without me." "Wait... Sister?" "My mother found his egg in an empty nest when she was traveling, she told some dragons who said it was a runt, so she kept his egg and managed to hatch him, she raised him way before she had us." "Ah that's why he's so big, he's a teenager in dragon years. You see dragons age slower then ponies." Twi explained when she saw AJ and Dash's confused look. They all climbed into the chariot and Spike looked at them, "Where to now?" "We should try Manehattan." Spike nodded taking off. Twi sat in the front of the chariot then Sunset, Dash, and AJ. They eventually landed and Spike pulled the chariot into Manehattan. Some ponies stared at the odd sight of a dragon pulling a flying chariot with an alicorn and three other ponies but Spike moved on and Twi looked at all the ponies, "Now I don't know which pony would carry the next element but..." Spike stopped in front of a clothing store. "Spike why did you stop?" He parked the chariot then went inside, "Spike wait!" All four followed him. Inside there was music, workers and Spike staring at a very light gray unicorn. Her mane and tail was moderate indigo with gradients of dark mulberry to moderate mulberry styled in curls, and her horn was glowing a very light heliotrope as she moved fabric pieces in front of her moderate azure eyes. She was even wearing light cornflower blueish gray eyeshadow, "No... No... Oh heavens no." Twi waved her hoof in front of his face but he kept staring. In fact everypony was staring at them, Twi chuckled nervously as she went to the unicorn, "Excuse me." "Just a moment darling I'm in the zone so to speak." She said bringing gemstones to look at and comparing them to the fabric pieces, that's when Twi noticed her cutie mark three blue gemstones, finally the unicorn said, "Yes this is the perfect combination!" She put everything else away keeping one gem and one fabric piece, "Now how can I help..." She turned to face Twi her mouth dropping her eyes widening, "Oh my gosh... There's a royal in my shop... There'saroyalinmyshop!" She said very quickly as she started to run around reorganizing everything, finally she bowed in front of Twi, "Your highness welcome to Rarity For You, please forgive me for ignoring you! I'm Rarity." Twi looked at Rarity while Dash whistled, "Geez Rare and here I thought you were too prim and proper for any sweaty work, you were almost as fast as me!" Rarity looked up at her, "Dash? Darling where did you get these?!" She asked using her magic to pull Dash's wing out to stare at the gold protector on it, "That yellow lighting bolt gem is simply stunning and the gold metal is simply divine." "Wait she's another old friend? How is this possible? I'm the princess of the stars not of coincidences." "I rightly don't know, also Rarity let go of Dash's wing." "AJ you got them too?" Rarity said looking at her back hooves, "And Sunny as well?" "Rarity please stop yanking my wing!" Dash yelled and Rarity let go, "Oh I'm sorry darling it's just all your accessories are just beautiful!" She then noticed Spike staring at her, "Oh my..." She trotted up to him, "Well hello there handsome." Spike meeped before looking around then pointing to himself, "Are you talking to me?" "Of course I am, your scales are so shiny, and those muscles..." She rubbed his leg, "Oh yes Rarity likes." "Rarity would you please stop flirting with my big brother." "You mean this is Spikey-wikey? I see it now but darling did you grow." She blushed when she looked him over, "How about you, me, and some smoothies." Spike's face turned red as he nodded like mad, Sunset glared at her, "Rarity we don't have time for this, we are on a mission." "Oh does it have to do with that awful proclamation I heard? Ever since that pompous Daybreaker spoke it's been day since yesterday... Well what was supposed to be yesterday it's kind of hard to keep track with the sun being constantly in the sky, and the heat! Oh it's killer on my curls, and I'm trying my best to keep my customers happy, I've been working on beautiful outfits to distract them, but not even my fabulous new fabric I've developed has helped, and it took me so long to make it stretchy but not clingy, shimmery but not showy." Rarity dramatically fainted and Spike caught her, "All my hard work, all my generosity down the drain like soap suds in a shower!" Twi touched her when she began to glow and when it was over Rarity was wearing a golden choker necklace with a purple diamond shape gem in the middle, Rarity looked in the mirror and gasped, "Am I seeing things?" "No your not, beauty has become generosity." "You mean Mistmane the pillar of beauty's element is on my neck?!" "Sort of, its now yours. It turned to generosity." "And it would be so generous of you to hoof it over now." Dark Eternity said coming into the shop scaring the customers out. Rarity looked at him up and down, "Ugh to much black, and those red eyes, what did you smoke a ton of weed or something? That magical mane, it looks like that episode of doctor hooves when he used his blue box to time travel, and those wings, they look ridiculous, all poofy and fluffy like that, what did you forget wing grooming or something?" She shook her head, "No, no, nope! I want you out of my sight!" "But I haven't even..." "Spike be a gentledrake and get this travesty out of my sight immediately!" Spike snapped his wings out growling deeply, green fire flickering from his mouth, Eternity slowly left. Twi remembered what the book on dragons said, the one thing that could take on a young alicorn was a dragon, even teenage dragons, their flames burned hotter then the sun's core, their teeth and claws can easily rip young alicorns to shreds, and when fighting for a mate they usually fight to kill, extremely dangerous do not engage! Rarity hugged Spike, "Oh Spike my brave knight, I knew you would get him to leave!" Spike blushed going back to his sweet self, "It was no problem. Anything for you Rarity." "Oh such a gentledrake." She said giving Spike a kiss on the cheek and he fell over the the side like a mannequin tipping over. "Spike are you alright?" Rarity said poking him lightly, Sunset scanned him with her magic, "He's fine, just went into a love coma. He'll snap out of it eventually." "Is this typical dragon behavior?" "No but it is typical male behavior." "Oh don't worry Spike. I'll sit right here until you snap out of it." Rarity said sitting down, Sunset sat as well, "Might as well get cozy this could last for hours." Dash groaned, "But that's boring!" "Sorry Dash but we can't just leave him here." "She's right you know, might as well get comfy." AJ said grabbing some magazines, "Come look at these clothes, some of them are a hoot." Dash laid down looking at them and laughing, "Is that a disco ball? What is that outfit for, 70's disco night?" They both laughed as Rarity huffed.