//------------------------------// // Chains Of The Elemental // Story: What's Worth Fighting For // by corrosive dash //------------------------------// Gyro sighed as the carriage ride came to a stop, he liked the calming view of the sky that was before him. He looked to his right and saw Wind Shaker trying to put his eyebrows back on his forehead. Gyro chuckled as he stepped out of the carriage and stretched, Wind followed him out but tried to get a closer look at Gyro’s weaponry. Gyro turned around and glared at Wind. “What are you doing?” Gyro asked Wind as his escort was completely staring into space. Wind shook himself and coughed, Wind pointed a hoof to a large tree 100 yards away from their location. “We go there, but stay behind me so the civilians won’t freak out.” Wind said to Gyro as he walked forward. Gyro shrugged as he followed Wind, but in the back of his mind, he felt something was watching him. Gyro dismissed the thought as Wind stuck out his hoof to stop Gyro in his tracks. “Don’t want you burning more holes into walls, now do we?” Wind Shaker asked Gyro as he laid on the heavy sarcasm. Gyro only blew a small cloud of smoke from his nostrils in annoyance, he started to learn more and more how to use his fire breathing, but he felt something was missing. Wind Shaker knocked on the door to the large tree and waited, not moments later did the door opened revealing a small purple dragon. “Hello, who are you?” the small dragon asked Wind in confusion on why he was here. “I am Wind Shaker, the Princess sent me as a escort for the being known as Gyro. Wind responded with a slightly angry look, he was still mad at Gyro for burning his eyebrows off, but his job came first. The small dragon face-clawed as he pulled out a scroll and opened it, but as he read it a feminine voice called out. “Spiiiiiike!!! Who’s at the door!?” the voice shouted as it came closer. The small dragon sighed as he rolled up the scroll and looked back. “A Royal guard is here with the one Celestia talked about” Spike responded with a annoyance. Gyro smiled on the inside as he was about to meet Twilight Sparkle his favorite pony’s student in magic. Spike looked behind Wind and dropped the scroll in his hands, what he was staring at was something he never seen before, of course he thought Gyro was an odd name but this in front of him, was crazy! Spike dashed behind Twilight and held her leg in fear. “Twilight, w-what is that thing?” Spike asked her as he cowered in fear. Twilight’s eye’s widened when she seen Gyro but not in fear, but in curiosity. Gyro seen the look Twilight was giving and raised an eyebrow as she just approached him. “What are you?” Twilight asked Gyro as she circled him, getting his every feature. “A human” Gyro calmly replied as she inspected him. Twilight put a hoof to her chin as she thought, she grabbed Gyro’s tail and gave in a small yank, gaining a gasp from Gyro as he grabbed it. “Don’t do that!” Gyro said to Twilight, confused as why she pulled his tail. Twilight became even more curious as she started asking Gyro different questions. “Does your species normally have tails?” “No” “Do your species have magic?” “No” Twilight mentally gasped as wherever Gyro was from, they had no magic. “Do you have any magic?” Twilight asked as Gyro Breathed into his hands, causing a small flame to dance on his hand, not harming him. “If you consider breathing fire is magic, then ya. Gyro said to Twilight as he stood there looking at the sky. Spike perked up with his own curiosity. “You can breathe fire? that means your a dragon like me.” Spike asked as he moved from behind twilight and stood in front of Gyro. “I’m not a dragon” Gyro responded calmly as stared at his tail, his tail was yellow and scaly that had red spines on the top that ran down to the tip. Gyro started to get confused, if he could breathe fire then how was he a dragon? “Hellooooooo, anyone home” Spike said as he tapped on Gyro’s leg. Gyro shook himself from his stupor and looked down at Spike with a confused look. “If I remember, dragons look like you they don’t look like me” Gyro said to spike as he breathed fire into his hands again, creating the rotating ball of flame. Wind seen the fire ball and ran straight into Twilight's house and hid behind her couch, he yelled from his position. “I’m not letting you burn something else off me this time!” Wind yelled as he ducked behind the couch his hooves covering his face. Gyro dispatched the flame by closing his hand completely and sighed. “You’re scared of me aren’t you?” Gyro asked Spike as he still stared at the small reptilian who wore a smile. Spike hugged Gyro’s leg and started to laugh. Gyro tried to gently shake Spike off his leg but he would not budge. “Hey, what’s got you so happy?” Gyro asked Spike as he finally let go. “You can go to the Great Dragon Migration with me! It will be awesome!” Spike said in excitement as he ran inside the tree at great speed. Gyro looked toward Twilight as she rolled his eyes and trotted in, Gyro stood outside confused as to what just happened, he only seen 2 episodes of the show but what was this “Great Dragon Migration” Spike was talking about. Twilight turned to face Gyro with a look of kindness on her face and spoke to him with a laugh. “Are you coming in?” Twilight asked Gyro as she walked in. Gyro facepalmed as he followed Twilight into her home, Gyro rubbed his knuckles as he became nervous. Gyro was going with Spike to a dragon migration, the dragons would probably take him as food. Gyro took out his SVD and checked his ammunition, Spike came back running down the steps, but he tripped and was falling down the high staircase, to normal ponies they would be okay but Spike, he might get badly hurt. Spike yelped as he fell, but Gyro seen this coming and darted from his spot and caught spike in mid air. Gyro set Spike down with a smile as the small dragon looked at him in relief. “Be careful next time, okay little buddy” Gyro said as he petted Spike’s head in a friendly manner. Spike playfully swatted Gyro’s hand away while laughing. “Are you ready to go?” Spike asked Gyro as he jumped up and down in excitement. Gyro nodded as he shouldered his SVD and stood up, Gyro and Spike walked toward the door until Twilight stopped them. “Gyro, keep Spike safe please, i can’t stand for him to get hurt” Twilight said as she gave Spike a hug. Spike sighed as she hugged him, but Gyro felt depressed, Twilight was like a mother to Spike, he lost his in deadly warfare. Gyro nodded and walked out while Spike followed him, Spike walked in front of Gyro and led the way to the dragons resting place. On the way the climate started to change very rapidly, harsh cold, devastating winds, and lastly Scorching heat. Spike’s legs started to get shaky as he fell face first into the dirt. Gyro picked Spike up and set the dragon on his left shoulder as they continued on. *7 hours later* Gyro fell on one knee as he regained his breath, Spike was fast asleep on his shoulder, Spike held on with his claws and stayed still for the entire trip. Gyro grasped the edge of the hill and came to a view that made him a little edgy, in front of Gyro was over 50 dragons inside this volcano.There were Dragons ranging from collosal to infants like Spike, but one Dragon particular struck his attention, A Dark emerald colored dragon laid at the highest point of the open volcano and rested. Gyro felt a presence within that dragon, the feeling was it was trying to pull him toward the dragon, but he pushed the thought away and shook Spike. “Huh, what?” Spike said as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Spike looked forward and gulped, he seen how many adult Dragons were laid sleep on the sides of the volcano, but deeper inside were the teenage dragons. Spike pointed. “There, go there Gyro” Spike said as Gyro followed to where his claw pointed. Gyro slid down the steep rock side past the adult’s to the teenage dragons below, Gyro dusted himself off as the onyx colored dust stuck to his clothing. Spike hopped off of Gyro’s shoulder and ran toward the group of teenage dragons with joy, Gyro watched Spike from his spot checking if the dragons tried to hurt him so he could protect him. Gyro was about to close his eyes until he felt a hand touch his leg, Gyro turned to find Spike tugging his leg. “Come on Gyro, i can’t let you sit here by yourself come with me, the others are giving you awkward looks” Spike said as he tugged on Gyro’s leg. Gyro sighed and walked with Spike over to the group of teenage dragons, Spike came up with a smile and spoke to the group. “Hey guy’s, this is my friend Gyro” Spike said as the entire group laid eyes on Gyro. One blue dragon came up and looked Gyro in the eye’s and questioned. “He looks nothing like a dragon, except for the tail” the dragon pointed at Gyro’s tail which still slightly wagged. “Of course he doesn't look like one, but he can breathe fire, show them Gyro” Spike said excitedly as Gyro made the same swirling ball of fire in his hands. The dragon’s went wide eyed as they seen the ball perfectly morphed into his hand, the blue dragon spoke. “Well he can breathe fire, but if he is a true dragon, he has to pass the test’s” the blue dragon said as he smiled. Spike shivered as he remembered the same test’s he had to go through in his first time coming, he looked toward Gyro and smiled. “I know you can pass Gyro, just be calm” Spike assured Gyro as he patted his leg. Gyro looked forward and asked. “Okay, what’s first?” Gyro asked as the blue dragon led him to a rock and laid his tail down. “The first test, is Tail wrestling, you have to be me to pass the first test” The blue dragon smiled as Gyro laid his tail down and wrapped it with the others dragon’s tail. The match began as Gyro felt force starting to push his tail down, Gyro moved his shoulder to the right s his tail moved in unison. Gyro felt his tail push against the blue dragon’s as his enemies tail came closer to the flat surface of the rock, Gyro pushed again as his tail slammed his opponents tail onto the rock, causing it to crack. The blue dragon grunted in defeat as he rubbed his tail. “You got lucky, the next test will be the hardest so don’t get cocky” The blue dragon said as he led Gyro to a high cliff on the edge of the volcano. They reached the top and Gyro looked below and went wide eyed, down below was a pool of lava. There were dragons swimming inside the fiery pool of heat cheering for Gyro to jump, Spike ran past Gyro and dived. “Spike!” Gyro yelled as Spike hit the lava as it made a splash. Spike came up spitting lava from his mouth in a playful manner and shouted. “Come on Gyro, the lava’s great!” Spike yelled in joy as he swam around inside the lava. Gyro looked below and tried to back away, but he was shoved off the cliff and falling toward the lava below. Gyro yelled as he was seconds away from his death, he closed his eyes and waited for his burning doom and breached the lava. He felt warm and opened his eyes, he was alive! Gyro swam up to the surface and breathed, he was swimming inside lava and it felt... great! Gyro smiled as he swam to where Spike was talking with another dragon and snuck up behind his small friend. “Hey Spike” Gyro calmly said as Spike turned around. Spike wore a large smile as he spoke. “I knew you were a dragon!” Spike shouted in joy as him and Gyro fist bumped. Gyro started to enjoy hanging out with the dragons, Gyro played King of the Hoard as they battled for the top spot on the gold pile. Gyro dominated his dragon comrades and laughed as they sat on the pile of gold, the blue dragon from before tossed a red gem into Gyro’s hand and smiled. “The name’s Nubis by the way” Nubis said as he held out his claw for Gyro to shake. Gyro shook Nubis’s hand and opened his mouth, he seen all the other dragons including Spike eat various gems, so he popped the gem into his mouth and crunched down. The gem was pulverized as Gyro chewed on it, it strangely tasted like strawberries as he swallowed the gem. Gyro burped as the gem entered his stomach, Gyro’s ears perked up as he heard Spike yell. He turned and found an older looking dragon holding Spike by his tail, this dragon looked like a young adult but still not fully grown. “Alright, all of you come over here now or get tossed off the volcano!” Red dragon yelled at Gyro and the group. The group moved behind the red dragon in fear, the red dragon looked at Gyro with a disgusted look. “So your this traitors new friend huh, well Spike has a date with the ground as he'll be sleeping six feet under ground!” The red dragon yelled as he held a sharpened claw toward Spike’s neck. Spike yelled at his captor as he struggled. “Let me go Garbie!!” Spike yelled as he tried to escape. Garbie punched Spike in the nose and Spike fell unconscious, Gyro started to get angry to the point where his body started to form waving green flames around him like tentacles. Gyro’s eyes transformed into slits and he roared, the ground shook with tremendous force making the group fall on their backs. Garbie still held Spike in his grasp as he shook his head to regain his stability in vision. Gyro sped towards Garbie with his knife ready to strike, one of the dragons tried to dive bomb him from above with spines shooting from his tail. Gyro side stepped the spines and blasted a fireball from his mouth toward the attacking dragon, the fireball made impact and exploded into a ball of intense light. Garbie took flight and sat on a high ledge to avoid danger, Spike was still unconscious. Gyro rushed the group and breathed fire into his knife,the fire wrapped around the blade and glowed with intensity. Gyro swiftly hacked and slashed at the group of dragons, hitting nerves as he cut through their scales which temporarily immobilized them. Gyro jammed his knife into rock and yelled as he climbed. “GIVE HIM BACK!!!!!!!!!!!” Gyro yelled as he vaulted over the edge and slammed into Garbie’s chest, knocking the wind out of him. Garbie released Spike from his grasp as Gyro slammed Garbie into a corner, Garbie cowered in fear as Gyro slowly walked closer with a sadistic smile on his face. Gyro began to laugh maniacally as he stood over Garbie with his glowing knife in his right hand, Gyro smiled even wider as he spoke. “Poor Garbie” Gyro said as he laughed at the cowering dragon. “Shut up!” Garbie yelled as he shot a spine from his tail hitting Gyro in the shoulder. Gyro pulled the spine from his shoulder and threw it back at Garbie, the spine penetrated Garbie in his left wing. Garbie howled in pain as he could not escape from Gyro, Gyro laughed even more now as he woke up the adult dragons with his evil laughter. "Ooo, I didn't know my blood was green, how pretty" Gyro said as he stared as his dripping blood. “You know what’s funny Garbie?” Gyro asked as he gripped his knife even tighter. Tears streamed down Garbie’s scaly face like a torrential downpour as he cried, begged and pleaded for his life. “Your still breathing” Gyro hissed as he raised his knife over his head ready to land the death blow, that is until he felt claws tightly hug his leg. Gyro looked down as he saw Spike crying his eyes out of there own sockets, Spike spoke through sniffles. “G-Gyro don’t kill him, your not like this, please stop” Spike wailed through his dripping eyes as more tears flowed down his scaly cheeks. Gyro looked at Garbie as he sheathed his knife and hissed toward his defeated enemy. “Value your life at this moment Garbie, for the next time we cross paths... i will kill you” Gyro said in a demonic tone that made Spike shiver in fear. Garbie stood up and climbed over the edge and rolled down the cliff side to his escape, Gyro looked to his left as he grabbed Spike and rolled. Gyro hit the side of the rock as a large crater was left were they used to be standing, Spike looked up from Gyro’s arms and screamed. There before them was an angry onyx dragon towering over them, Gyro placed Spike to his side as he rushed the dragon to save his friend from certain doom. Gyro dodged the incoming fireballs the onyx dragon blasted toward him and pulled out his AK74u, Gyro shot in bursts as they slammed into the dragon's scales, not enough to penetrate but still strong enough to hurt by blunt force. The dragon swiped it’s colossal tail toward Gyro as it collided, Gyro was sent flying toward the other side of the mountain at break neck speeds and slammed into the rocks. Gyro coughed up blood as he fell onto one knee and wiped the blood from his mouth, Gyro was hurt badly from the spine that hit him in the shoulder, to him slamming into the rock side. Gyro heard Spike scream as the onyx dragons tail swept toward him again aiming to kill, Gyro jumped over the tail as it slammed into the volcano and he landed on top of the dragons tail, Gyro raced upwards the beast’s face with smoke erupting from his nostrils. Gyro vaulted into the air once again as he soared over the dragon, the dragon looked up to his prey but it was met with an overlapping blanket of black fire. The fire wrapped over the onyx dragon as it roared in agony, the dragon collapsed onto the ground where it slept and breathed deeply as it tried to regain the lost air from it’s lungs. Gyro landed in front of the onyx dragon face with a look of rage plastered on his face. Gyro spewed fire into his hands and morphed the swirling ball of flame and smiled. “Let’s see how you like living with only one eye” Gyro laughed as he hurled the fireball at the dragons right eye. The ball exploded as the dragon howled in pain, what was left of the eye was a gaping hole of smoldering charred flesh. The onyx dragon passed out from the pain and Gyro roared in triumph, the other adult dragons witnessing one of the toughest dragons has been defeated by a unusual being has struck fear into their hearts. Gyro felt a tail wrap around him a brought him upwards with tremendous force, Gyro tried to break free but was being constricted slowly, preventing him from breathing fire. Gyro looked forward as he was met with the same dark emerald dragon from the highest peak of the volcano, the dragon breathed a intense blue flame over Gyro as he felt his body go numb. Gyro felt his eyes grow heavy as the dragon spoke to him. “You do not realize what your legacy holds, when the time is right you will come find me” the dragon said as he left Gyro fall to the rocky floor below with a thump. The dragon looked at Spike who stood speechless from the entire encounter and spoke to him. “You and your friend should return home young one, he needs rest and you do too, i shall bring you to your home and then i must be off” the dragon spoke calmly as it placed her wing to where Spike was standing for him to hop on. Spike nodded and dragged Gyro onto the dragons back as it took flight toward Ponyville, Spike asked before he stared off into the luminous night. “Who are you?” Spike asked the dragon. The dragon smiled as it responded “My name is Rubia young one” Rubia responded as she flew faster. Spike nodded and curled into a ball and sat on Gyro’s stomach and slowly fell asleep, waiting to go home to back where he belonged.