Garble drove his claws into the nearest diamond dog and forced his claws apart causing the dog to be torn into two pieces. After that he rushed to the next one and dug into the dog's chest and took out his heart. Using the freshly torn out heart he shoved it down the a diamond dog's throat that was to his right. A dog came up from behind and tried to spear him, but was stopped by Rubixen as he sliced off his head.
Poison allowed himself to be surrounded by dogs before he lifted up his long sword. A thin layer of green liguid covered the blade as Poison began to twist it and spin. "Poison tornado." He stop spinning all together as he poison slashes were sent flying towards his enemies. Each slash hit it's target in the chest or forehead leaving slight gashes. Though the physical damage looked small the was something else working it's way through the diamond dog's nervous system. One by one the group of diamond dogs fell down.
"Liquid Nero Toxin. Will any luck you guys will die in a few minutes." said Poison. Rubixen ran away from a group of dogs. He suddenly stopped his movement and turned his katana so that the blade was behind him. Not seeing the dragon's sudden stop of motion a diamond dog had the blade of the Rubixen's katana drove into his stomach. Rubixen ripped out his sword from the diamond dog's stomach. He then did a back flip and jumped off the head of the diamond dog he just stabbed.
When he was high in the air he slashed the the air causing a giant lightning slash to kill the rest of the dogs that were following him. As he landed he saw that Garble was already half way through the entire league of diamond dogs. "Hey Poison!" yelled Rubixen. Poison finished slicing a diamond dog into three section when he heard Rubixen yelling towards him. "What?" he replied. "Why don't we let Garble finish off the rest of the diamond dogs." Rubixen suggested. Upon hearing the suggestion Poison released the bond of his long sword that kept it on this plain of existence. "Sure why not." said Poison as he sat down.
The two left Garble to do his destructive work. With his claws bloody and his bloody thirst barely satisfied Garble charged into the battle again. Garble's claws dug their way into a diamond dog's body and pulled out it's intestine. Using the guts of the dog Garble wrapped the bloody intestine around the dog's neck and used him as a shield from oncoming spears. Digging into the back of the diamond dog shield Garble formed a fire ball inside the body of the diamond dog. Garble then through the dead dog towards a crowd of diamond dogs. The fire ball that was planted inside the dead body exploded causing a giant explosion of fire and body parts.
While more than half the numbers remaining was killed in the bloody explosion the rest was sent to a more painful fate. Garble ignited his claws as he ran and dug his claws into each of the remaining diamond dog's hearts. When his job was finished his claws returned to normal.
"A total of ten minutes and not even a scratch. Told you not even fair." Said Rubixen. "Come on I still smell some diamond dogs in the next few chambers." said Garble. "We are not going to kill them Garble. We have to keep them alive so that we can find what we need." "Alright, but if one of those dogs steps even one inch out of line I'm grilling them." said Garble. The trio began to walk deeper into the caverns unaware that under a pile of dead diamond dogs on dog had managed to survive, but not without damage being dealt to it.
The diamond dog had lost half it's tail, a part of it's ear, and he lost an arm. Though he should have been bleeding from his arm Garble's flames burned the open wound that was the rest of his arm. The diamond dog knew what to do. He could journey down to the nearest town and they could heal him. They might not be able to give him his arm back, but he had seen the works of unicorns before. Also he knew he could not avenge his dead brethren by himself.
He didn't know who would help him or even if someone would help him, but he didn't have any other choice. He would die if he went to face those three in the condition he was in. Though he keep thinking to himself as he left entrance of the cavern that he was going to avenge his fallen brethren, deep down he knew he wasn't going to be able to fulfill the far off dream.
With the pain of not only his torn off arm, with the little nub being burnt by flames, but also the loss of his family and many more to come. The diamond dog began his slow, long walk to the town up ahead.
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The trio traveled from cave to cave. From mine shaft to mine shaft. With their new guide a female diamond dog that was in a cave a couple of hours back.
She was feed her children when the three dragons barged in demanding that she tell them where they could find the black gemcrystals, but she refused. Seeing as how they would get nowhere by arguing the female dog Garble went back the way they came for a while and brought back the female's mate. He was battered and bruised. He had a cut that led from his head down to the base of his tail. His armor that he wore was almost destroyed and had deep cuts in it.
His mate was terrified to see her mate like this. Though her fear was soon drowned by a sea of her newly found rage, all thoughts and feeling about her surroundings was gone as she raced towards the three responsible for this. Raising his left claw Rubixen shot a small lightning bolt at the charging diamond dog. The lightning bolt hit it's mark and made the ragin diamond dog fall to her knees. The lightning bolt was not strong enough to kill her, but at the same time it was powerful enough to stun her for a few minutes. "I wouldn't do anything to rash if I were you. You already have an injured mate to deal with. You don't want to lose your pups do you?" said Rubixen. Suddenly the mother realized that she forgot about her pups. She looked back to see that the green dragon had all four of them in range of his long sword. "Fine. I will take you to gemcrystals." said the female dog feeling defeated.
As she began to get the feeling back into her body she began to guide them toward a large deposit of gemcrystal. To make sure that she didn't double cross them Poison and Garble brought along the pups as well.
The diamond dog cursed at herself for not thinking about what would happen to her pups. Now they could die because of her mistake. "When are we going to get there?" asked an impatient Garble. "They are not far now." said the dog. Then with a small flash of light Snow Streak returned to his wolf pup body. "Hi Miss!" he said. The female dog jump when she saw the tiny pup. When she saw Snow Streak she gave huff. "Its bad enough you hurt my mate, kill my pack members, then threat my pups, now you steal wolf pups." she said angrily. "They didn't steal me Miss I'm tagging along with them and can you tell me your name?" said the little pup.
"My name is Gloria and why would you join these.........monster?" asked Gloria. Snow Streak thought about it for a bit. It took him a while to respond to that question, but soon he replied "Because. I like Rubix and he is my best friend. Plus its kinda fun adventuring with him even though he can be a handful sometimes." Rubixen scuffed.'Look hows talking.' he thought. "How can you be.....friends with a monster like him?" she asked. "He's not a monster. He's just insane." said Snow Streak. "Insane?! Who are you calling insane?!" asked Rubixen. "You of course who else would I be calling insane. I can't call Garble that because he tried to rip my head off the last time I called him that." said Streak. "Well I'll rip your head off if you call me insane again!" said Rubixen as he held Snow Streak in a head lock. "Let go of me you insane dragon!" "I'm not insane!" "Oh yeah then why do you talk in your sleep!" "Its a condition!"
As the two argued the rest of the group carried on. Gloria soon led the group to a large rusty iron door. As she opened it the light from the mine shaft illuminated a crystal. The crystal reflected the light to a nearby crystal, then that crystal transferred the light to another crystal, and the process repeated until the whole cavern was lite with lights. Gloria brought up a cart filled to the brim with black gemcrystals. "This looks good. As promised we will return your pups." said Poison. Gloria scooped up her pups and ran out the cavern as fast as she could.
"So how many should we take?" asked Garble. Then suddenly a giant purple arm crashed into the cart of black gemcrystals, sending thousands of gemcrystals flying through the air and landing in random places. The claws of the hand that had destroyed the cart opened as a ball of lightning erupted from it's palm. Then three more dragons entered the cavern. Spike, Zero, and Crystal stood ready to battle.
"How did you guys get here?" asked a surprised Poison. "Well you see..." Crystal said as she recalled on a memory.
As the town of Ponyville entered the sites of the travelers almost all of them raced toward the town. Each having a reason to reach the town. For Rarity she wanted nothing more to go the spa and relax. Fore Rainbow Dash she wanted to go home and get some more shut eye. Applejack wanted to check on the farm and see how her family was doing. For Fluttershy she wanted to get home to check on her animals. Pinkie Pie was thinking about Crystal's Welcome to Ponyville party.Twilight wanted to contact the Princesses and say that they had returned safely with the next Dragon Chain. Spike wanted to show Crystal around the town. Crystal and Zero wanted to catch up with the rest of the group.
Though their run got cut short as a wondering figure was sited walking towards them. All of them stopped to see what it was, all but Fluttershy she hid behind Twilight. What they saw was a wounded Diamond dog barely able to stand on it's own hind legs. "Diamond.......caves.......important............help.....others." he said before he let himself be consumed by darkness when he passed out. "What did he say?" asked Applejack. "He said something about caves." said Spike. "Could something could have happened at the diamond dog caves?" asked Rarity. Then Zero began to piece together the tiny bits of information together. He used Manic's gem to open up a map. "I got three energy signals coming from those mountains!" He said.
"It can't be." said Spike. "You guys go on ahead and check it out we will get this guy to the hospital." said Twilight. Not being told twice the trio of dragons began their journey towards the diamond dog's mountain.
"Now that we are here where going to kick your butts now." said Spike. "In your dream!" said Garble as he charged towards the baby dragon. Both of them summoned their metal claws and began their hand to hand combat. Crystal summoned a spear and rushed Rubixen as Zero used his daggers and rushed to Poison.
Garble tried to uppercut Spike, but his opponent bent his back in order to dodge the attack. Then Spike come back and used his fire breath, but was blocked by Garble's. Spike though putting up a decent fight was no match for the teen dragon's fire breath so he used his tail as a spring and launched himself in the air. Using the momentum of his fall Spike's claws met Garble's right claw. Seeing an opening Garble used his free claw to strike Spike in his side. Though his attempt was smart it was blocked by Spike's now free claws.
Soon the two began to attack each other faster and faster. One being larger and more stronger, yet not fast enough and the other being small and fast, but not powerful enough. These two seemed to be locked in an eternal dance that could spell the death of one of them.
Crystal tried to run Rubixen through with the spear, but the attack was easily side stepped. Rubixen focused his lightning energy into his right palm and hit Crystal with it causing a small explosion of electricity. This sent Crystal rolling away from her opponent. "You do realize that your a water dragon and I control lightning right? Your out matched here." said Rubixen. Crystal got up and prepared for her next attack.
(Thats what the last person said to her before she beat them.)
Channeling her magic and energy Crystal managed to cover her shoulder's, upper thighs, waist, and chest with ice armor. "Ice armor. Third class." said Crystal. Rubixen looked surprised. "That is an amazing move you just did there to bad it won't help you." said Rubixen. Crystal ran towards the dragon again and again her attack was side stepped. This time Rubixen shot a lightning bolt at the baby dragon. Using her shoulder armor she blocked the attack and turned on the spot. "Water hurricane!" said Crystal as she created a giant water vortex.
Being sucked into the vortex Rubixen had no other choice, but to form his Lightning Cage around himself to prevent any damage. Crystal through the dragon into a close wall with all her strength. The impact cause the Lightning Cage that Rubixen formed to be destroyed and cause Rubixen to be stunned in recoil. "Dang it. I didn't see that coming." said Rubixen.
Zero rushed towards Poison with his daggers covered in wind. Bringing the daggers across his chest he created a wind slash in the form of an 'X'. Using Anubix's powers Poison summoned his green snake aura guardian. The snake wrapped itself around Poison to block the attack. Though the attack was blocked the snake took too much damage and returned back to it's gem. "I see that you have gotten stronger. This might actual serve as a fair fight." said Poison. "Talons of Eagles!" said Zero as he launched himself into the air with his wings.
When he reach the top of the cavern he flipped and landed on the ceiling. Then he pushed off and prepare his daggers. Seeing Zero coming fast Poison raised his long sword in defense and blocked Zero's attack. Using his daggers at close range now Zero repeatedly attack Poison. Foreseeing this Poison was able to start dodging his rival's attacks. Finally having enough of these attack Poison stabbed his long sword into the ground and converted his powers into the blade. The ground beneath them began to crack as a light green gas began to leak out of the ground.
Upon hearing the gas coming out of the ground Garble grabbed Spike as he tried to attack him and threw him into Zero. Also on the other side of the battle field Rubixen was dodging Crystal's rapid Chilled Water attack. Summoning his powers he used the electric charges in the air he caused an lightning bolt to strike Crystal in the chest sending her rolling into Zero and Spike.
Seeing his chance Garble fired a fire ball into the gas causing it to explode in a giant explosion. As the dust cleared the trio of Rubixen, Garble, and Poison was uninjured. With their defensive moves at the ready they were able to escape the explosion in time. "Hahaha. I got 'em!" yelled Garble.
/Look again\
^The pup is right^
(I agree)
All three dragons looked at their rings to see that they were glowing. Then they looked at the area from where the explosion happened through the smoke that still resonated from that stop they saw a slight peak of what happened. Using his magic and Jade's powers they joined together with another energy source that was in the shape of a cyan pony. A golden energy shield had protected the other trio of dragons. As Spike made his shield disappear a gust of wind cause the smoke to vanish.
Then thats when they saw him fully. He had new clothes suddenly and he had a golden aura around him. He had a black coat with a green under shirt and black pants. As he opened his eyes they were revealed as a bright gold. His and Jade's powers were so strong they managed to even make Garble take a step back. Rubixen knew this energy somewhere before, but he couldn't tell where. Raising a claw and rapidly bringing it down Spike caused a shockwave the filled the cavern the black gemcrystals began that was scattered around began to ignite with a golden light as they shot rays of golden light around the cavern.
Faster than any of the dragons could dodge the rays of light hit each of the six dragons causing them to fade away quickly along with the black gemcrystals themselves. After all that was done the cavern was left devastated and empty.
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Somewhere in another universe the changeling queen known as Chrysalis began to slip into a hot tub at the Ponyville spa. She had worked hard for the past few weeks and that war against those albino changelings and Nattjaril was no walk in the park. As she allowed the hot water to do it's work she relaxed finally after so many nights. Then barely five minutes into her soak a pegasus mare with a deep blue coat and electric blue, long flowing mane with a green amulet around her neck came toward the relaxing changeling.
Hearing the approaching pegasus Chrysalis frowned. "What do you want Whirly Wind?" asked Chrysalis. "Sorry to disturb you on your spa day my queen, but there are six unconscious dragons outside the castle." said the changeling Whirly Wind. "Full adults?" asked a now curious Chrysalis. "No four teenagers and two babies. One of them seems to be Spike." said Whirly Wind. "Didn't Spike go to Canterlot on Royal Business this morning?" asked Chrysalis. "Yes my queen." answered Whirly Wind. Chrysalis just had to see this. She got out of the hot tub and dried off.
She went out the door as she payed. "Where is Staghorn?" asked Chrysalis. "He is at the castle awaiting your arrival." said Whirly Wind. "Okay you can continue you day Whirly Wind. I shall return to the Hive and see what is going on." "Yes ma'am."
As Chrysalis began her way toward her castle and on the way she couldn't help, but wonder. 'What the hay is going on?'