After the event that happened that night Spike and Jade went back to sleep. For the rest of the night everything was peaceful. Upon the rising of the sun that morning Spike, Applejack, and Zero were already awake as they waited for the rest to wake up. "Hey ah got an idea of how ta past the time while we wait for the rest to wake up." Applejack said. "Why don't we just wake them up now?" asked Zero. "Have ya'll ever tried to wake up Rarity for her 'beauty sleep'?" asked Applejack. Zero shook his head. "Well let us just say. If your not bringing her a cup of her favorite imported coffee with an orange than your in for a nasty monster." said Applejack. "How do you know she does that in the morning?" asked Spike. "One time we were at a sleep over and somepony thought it was a great idea to wake up Rarity by pushing her of the bed. It turned out ta be the worst idea ever. Rarity was yelling at us more worse than Granny does when we fake an injury." said Applejack
"Anyways, back to my plan before we got off the subject." "Yeah sure Applejack."said Spike. "Well since we have been rushing almost everywhere in the last past couple of days, ah got to thinkin. We don't know a whole lot about your lives." Applejack said. "Why are you taking such an interesting turn to know about our lives?" asked Zero. "Well after seeing what you guys can do and seeing as how we are useless without our elements. Ah got to thinkin what if you guys.........died and we couldn't help it. What are we going to say when you guys are six feet under. Then soon you guys will only be a fading memory when we get older. Ah probably won't even remember ya names." said Applejack. A small tear fled from her eye and raced down her face. Letting a couple of minutes pass Zero began to speak. "I was born in The Village of The Winds. A village that not many have heard of. Only the water dragons, certain griffins, and a couple of drakes in the northern side of of the Ridgebone Mountains." He started
"I was born into a family of three brothers and two sisters. For the most part it was a pretty good life. My mother and father had plenty of gems to go around. Our neighborhood was nice and friendly. A river that led to a water fall was not that far from the village so we always had fresh water. There in the village we learned to respect nature and the earth. In return the earth would give us her fruits of life. I did what my teachers told me. Never harvest from the same area too long, don't harm the trees, and if I was to kill an animal I was to give it an proper send of. After about four years I found my flute in the mouth of a lioness who I was looking for." This made Applejack curious. "Okay sugarcube. Why would ya kill an animal and second why would ya look for a lioness?" asked the blond headed pony.
"Well dragons and drakes at some point in their life can rely on gem and crystals to satisfy them as much anymore. I know you don't want to hear me say this, but at some point in a dragon's or drake's life will have to add a helping of meat into their diet. Its just nature. To answer your second question I found an injured lion cub and after a few days it was could walk again and I remembered the smell of it's mother." said Zero. The part were Applejack heard about the need to eat meat almost made her barf. "Don't worry I don't eat ponies." reassured Zero. "Why was the lioness holding a flute in her mouth?" asked Spike. "I don't know Spike. The world work in mysterious ways. Anyway back to the subject."
"I stay at the village for as long as I could remember then something happened. I found Manic. It was the most eventful thing to happen in years. He began to tell me as much as he could about the rest of the Dragon Chains, but sadly it wasn't much, just bits and pieces." said Zero
*Hey! You try and be locked in a bondless sleep. It's hard to remember what happened thousands of years ago!*
"Anyway by the time Manic had explain to me what he knew my interest had hit an all time high. So I packed up my stuff and began to travel around the world for information, sometimes coming up empty handed." said Zero. "Don't you miss your family?" asked Spike. "I rather not talk about that subject." quickly replied Zero. "Well I guess it's my turn." said Spike. "When I was hatched everything started out fine until someone asked where was I going to stay. Twilight was too young to handle a freshly born baby dragon, but with some arrangements made and I was placed in a nursery. A few years passed and I was able to almost walk and talk."
"Later on Twilight was a pre-teen and could be able to look after herself and someone else. I was getting too big for the nursery so they put me and Twilight together. At first we didn't see eye to eye, but after a while Twilight succumbed to the one thing she can't control."Spike said. "What is that?" asked Zero. "Her curiosity. One day she looked around in the archives and barely found anything that had to do with dragons. Only old maretales,Useless facts, and some other stuff. So for a couple of months Twilight studied how I behaved and such. Believe it or not we actually got to know each other a little better." "What did she do with the information?" asked Zero. "She pulled it all together in a report to be sent off to Princess Celestia which I accidentally burned, but with my teleportation fire. Twilight was furious and yelled at me for the rest of the day. She would have started yelling at me again if Celestia hadn't sent back a letter saying that she loved the report." Spike said
"Though both me and Twilight didn't know it that day, but I had learned my first spell. As the years past we got closer and closer together as friends. Soon I was her number one assistant." Spike told Zero and Applejack about the rest of his time in Canterlot. As he told the dragon and pony about how Twilight flipped out just because she got a ninety nine on one of her assignments the rest of the group began to wake up. First Twilight and Rarity. Twilight made sure to grab her brush with her magical grip out of her saddle bags. Rarity come outside with her hair fully intact and a cup of her favorite coffee. Next to awaken from their slumber was the happy and excited pink earth pony known as Pinkie Pie come out of her tent with a yawn.
Following the pink earth pony was Fluttershy. The shy pegasus stretched for a while before continuing to the rest of the group. Then finally with a couple of attempts Rainbow Dash left the comfort of her sleeping bag. "Argh. Its to early for all of this." said the tired, cyan pegasus. "It's not that early. Well for me it is. The average pony wakes up for the day at about six thirty in the morning. Early would be waking up at three o'clock in the morning." said Twilight. "And you would know this how?" asked Rainbow Dash. "I did some research at our last slumber party." replied Twilight. "I'm going to just pretend I didn't here that."
"So.......whats for breakfast?" asked Fluttershy. Before anyone could reply a voice came from behind the group. "Don't worry guys I got it covered." said the voice. Everyone looked around to see where the voice came from. "Um.....I'm up here." said the voice. Zero looked up and immediately ran and hid behind a nearby tree. Then the rest of them looked up and greeted their surprise visitor. Crystal the Princess of The Sea and her guardian Sir Gared. "Hi Crystal." said Pinkie Pie. As the two descended from the sky Crystal asked "How do you know my name?". "Well duh. Your Spike's girlfriend that we heard about the other day." the pink mare replied. Upon hearing Pinkie both Spike and Crystal blushed.
"Ignore Pinkie Pie. She can be a little out of control sometimes." said Rarity. "What was I going to say? Oh yeah. I brought you guys breakfast." said the now blushing water dragon. "And where is it?" asked Rainbow Dash. As a reply Crystal clapped two times. Nothing happened. "What was that all abo......" "It takes a while for them to get here.". In a few minutes a white mist began to swarm around the campsite. The mist was so dense Pinkie Pie cut a piece of it off with a butter knife. Then parts of the mist started to separate from the rest and began to take shape. One slowly formed into the shape of a timber wolf. One turned into a naga. Then the last one turned into a diamond dog. "Nice to see you again guys." said Crystal.
"It is nice to see you again my friend. I believe these are for you?" said the naga. The timber wolf howled as he summoned three more of his kind with plates on their backs. The timber wolfs set down the plates at the center of the campsite and returned to the mist. "Thank you Negi. Tell your family I said hi." said Crystal. The naga nodded and receded back into the mist the only one left was the diamond dog. "Why is he still here?" ask Rarity. "I think your friend has his tail." replied Crystal. Pinkie Pie looked at the piece of mist that she had cut out and saw that it was a misty tail. With a shy smile she returned the tail back to the diamond dog and he returned to the mist.
"Crystal what is this?" asked Twilight. "My family has had a ties to many beings and creatures through out the world and when they pass on a part of their soul stays behind and serves my family when ever we summon them." said Crystal. She took the lid off of one of the plates and revealed a plate of assorted fruits. "I'm going to go on ahead and eat of that is alright with you guys." she said.
Very slowly the group began to eat the food that was brought to them by the weird mist creatures. "Is this stuff safe to eat?" asked Applejack. "Of course it is. I've been eating food delivered by these guys for years and I'm still okay." said Crystal. "Says the girl that froze me." said Zero still behind the tree. A clump of mist wondered off from the rest and found it's way to where Zero was sitting. The clump of mist slowly took it's form. Pearly white paws formed followed by it's legs then it's body. It's neck and head soon came next. It was a little bear cub with a plate of sandwiches in it's mouth. It laid the plate on the ground and spoke. "You weren't with the rest of the group. I didn't know if you were with them or not, but I brought you some food mister." said the cub.
"I am with them and thank you." said Zero as he ate the food that was brought to him. The cub smiled as it left to join back with the mist. As the group finished their meal the plates were taken away by the timber wolves and the mist began to disappear. "So. Did you guys like the meal?" ask Crystal. "Yes we did." said Spike. "Though I still find it weird that those ghost delivered food to us." said Pinkie Pie. "Since when do you find stuff weird?" asked Twilight. "Since a few minutes ago.". After an hour of packing up Crystal, Spike, Zero, Twilight, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy started to head to Ponyville.
The journey was filled with tales and stories. Sometimes even Fluttershy would say something. Though everything was good for now the adventurers would have a surprise waiting for them at their destination.
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The trio of Rubixen, Poison, and Garble made it to the entrance to the Diamond dog's caverns. "Shall we do this silently or do this Garble's way?" asked Poison. "I'm don't feel like sneaking around so. I say we do this Garble's way." said Rubixen. "You already know what I'm going to say Poison." said Garble. "Okay then. Lets do this." said Poison. As they walked in to the caverns they found a huddle of diamond dogs mining. "Garble your up." said Poison. Garble focused his powers and fire breath in his mouth and released it in a huge ball of fire. The fire ball sped towards the diamond dogs. They noticed that the fire ball was heading towards them they tried to dig down to safety, but it was too late. The fire ball hit it's target and exploded massively.
The explosion massive enough that it almost made the trio lose their balance. Once the explosion died down their was a huge crater and flames everywhere. "That was a little too extreme Garble." said Rubixen. "I haven't blown anything up in weeks Rubixen. I'm on the edge right now." said Garble. "It doesn't matter. We have company." said Poison. The now newly destroyed cave was filling up with diamond dogs. Each of them looked angry and ready for battle. "I see a total of one hundred diamond dogs. This isn't even fair." said Rubixen. "I know." said Poison. "Keep that ego of yours in check Poison. You know happens when your ego gets too big." said Garble. "Thats enough talk for now. Lets battle." said Poison.
Rubixen summoned his katana while Poison summoned a long sword. Garble summoned his claw blades and charged into battle along with Rubixen and Poison.