Spike had been running for Celestia knows how long, and finally slowed down enough for an exausted Fluttershy to catch up. "Spike, *huff* please *huff* stop running *huff* from me." Fluttershy said as she lay on the ground heaving
Spike's knees buckled as he fell to the ground. "Why are you still *huff* following me?" All he wanted right now was to be alone and wallow in my own self-pity. At least I know what to wallow in.
"Because I was concerned for you Spike, I didn't want you to get hurt out here in the everfree, with all the cockatrices, hydras and a lot of other...dangerous...creatures..." She screamed and hid in fear when she realised just where they were at. However her fear didn't last long as she soon heard soft sobbing behind a nearby tree. She walked around to see a depressed Spike with his face stuffed in his hands.
"Why? Why is this happening to me?" Spike asked her crying rivers as he looked at her through red, puffy eyes
She seemed lost in those emerald eyes, not knowing what to say. "Spike, can you please tell me what happened? I cant help you very well of I dont know."
"O-ok fluttershy." He said, slowly regaining his composure "I told you earlier how I was going to ask rarity to......" Spike explaining what had happened, all while trying to hold back the dam full of tears that were threating to break through the more he talked about it. Finally he finished.
Fluttershy had know idea what to see say, she wasn't quite sure if she heard Spike right. "I didn't even know Rarity and Fancy Pants were seeing eachother. Rarity never mentioned him in our spa visits." Fluttershy wracked her head in the hopes of a way to fix this without anypony getting hurt. "I'm so sorry things happened that way." She tried to give him a hug but he backed away, his expression turning from sadness to anger. "Spike?" She asked timidly, fear starting to enter her mind.
"Why am I not good enough for her? After everything I did for her, and she just throws me to the curb? Doesn't she care at all?" He wondered how stupid he could have been to be wasting three years of his life trying to chase after her. "I helped her in every way I can, take on dogs three times my size and all I get is a "thank you for trying darling", she sticks needles in my ass and she says "thanks see you tomorrow" well I'm sick of it. Sick of wasting my time on a mare that doesn't give TWO SHITS ABOUT HOW I FEEL!" Spike hit a tree, it fell over after one punch.
"Umm...Spike, please calm down, all the creatures will know we're here." He either didn't hear her or didn't care. He continued his rampage, knocking down tree after tree, roaring and setting things on fire. "Spike please!" she shouted. He simply roared at her her and kept going. This did not go on for much longer, a four headed hydra who was aware of it's "visitors" began to rise from it's hell hole of a home. Fluttershy screamed in terror.
Spike, finally acknowledged her presence and looked over at what she was screaming at. He looked the hydra right in the eyes as they stood off, each waiting for the other to make a move. After a full minute, Spike charged. He threw a punch at the body. The hydra dodged him and one it's heads tried to bite Spike. It made full contact with his arm but his scales protected him for the most part. The hydra's head threw Spike into a tree, leaving him dazed.
Watching it all go down from the base of a tree was a cowering Fluttershy. She helplessly watched as they went back and forth, neither one of them gaining any ground. The hydra would charge Spike, he would dodge and jump on top of it. Spike would try to throw a punch, and the hydra would bite at him. She tried looking for a safe escape without alerting the hydra, but the opportunity never came.
Spike couldn't seem to beat this thing. He kept trying and trying but he kept on missing the openings, and he was starting to run out of stamina. He looked around to see if there was anything that might give him an upper-hand on this thing. He saw a phoenix nest in a tree that was several meters away. 'I don't like playing dirty but if I want to get away without getting severely injured, I'm gonna have to use whatever is available.' Just as he had prepared to slam the hydra, it threw him in the air hundreds of feet away. He soon lost sight of the his enemy after something else seemed to catch it's attention. He flew back fast and found it almost as quickly as he had lost it. Seeing that his opponent didn't notice him come back he quickly charged into him. The hydra was knocked into the tree with the phoenix nest. Thoroughly pissed off the male phoenix came downto find the perpetrator. As nimble and quick as he was the hydra couldn't seem to get a hit in on him. "That will keep him occupied long enough for us to get out of here." He realized quick what was missing. 'Where's Fluttershy?' Spike had looked around for a couple seconds and was about to look elsewhere when he saw something that made his heart nearly stop. "FLUTTERSHY!!!"