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// Chapter 8 
// Story: Guardian of Equestria - Rise of the Blue Sun 
// by BlueSun52 
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Guardian of Equestria-Rise of the Blue Sun
Chapter 8
The Rarest of Love



Hawke was just enjoying his day in Ponyville. He was enjoying his ice cream that he had got from Sugarcube Corner. As he was eating it he notices that the ground was shaking. The entire town’s people stopped to figure out what was happening.

Then all of a sudden a giant worm-like monster came out of the ground. It had no eyes, several arms and legs, and it was quite short. the town’s people started shouting and running from it, all except Hawke. The creature started barrowing again and as it did, it made Hawke stumble a bit. He accidently dropped his ice cream to the ground and said, "HEY! That cost me one bit."

The worm didn’t care and dug its way towards Hawke. He had to think fast, it was obvious that the worm was after him and it could do serious damage to the town if it wasn't stopped. He jumped high up in to the air and came back down with his magic concentrated to his right hand. He smashed his hand to ground and causes a shockwave to occur and trapped the worm underground. He quickly tries to found where the worm is and used his magic to charge up a large energy ball. He threw the ball at the ground, a huge explosion was set off, and the worm was destroyed.

After the worm blew up, the Town’s people came out to cheer for their hero. Mr. and Mrs. Cake came out of the bakery with another scoop of ice cream in their hands and gave it Hawke. Hawke took it, gave his thanks to the Cakes, and went off to wonder off some more.

After Hawke was done eating his ice cream, he decided to go to Rarity’s place to get back his suit after it was messed up after the fight with the insect creatures from a couple of days ago. As he was on his way, he notice Spike was heading for him. The young dragon then said, "Hey Hawke how are you? I just heard you defeated another monster."

"Yo Spike, yeah I did, but it was a lot easier to get rid of instead of the last two," Hawke replied.

"Yeah, but still, it was cool," Spike replied.

"Yeah it was," Hawke said.

"So where are you headed for?" Spike asked.

"I’m going to Rarity’s place to grab my suit," Hawke answered.

"Did you say Rarity’s place? Can I come along?" Spike asked excitedly.

"Well sure, do you want to pick up roses for her too?" Hawke replied with a giggle.

"Well….I….ah…..wait, how did you know about me having a crush on Rarity?" Spike asked while he was shocked.

"Ehhhh….I didn’t," Hawke pointed out.

Spike smacked himself in the face after hearing that.

"So you have a crush on Rarity? Umm…How old are you again?" Hawke asked.

"Love has nothing to do with age……..and I’m 14…..in dragon years," Spike said.

"Right (I hope he realizes that Rarity is 18 and is in a very different class then him.) So you want to head there now," Hawke said.

"Umm, right lets go," Spike said.

Hawke and Spike headed over to Rarity’s place, they went in the front door to see if anyone was in and heard, "I’ll be there in a sec."

They both sat down near some chairs and waited on Rarity. Then she came to see them and said, "Oh! Why hello there Mr. Gregory and hello my little Spikey Wikey."

Rarity gives Spike a hug.

"......……Spikey Wikey?" Hawke said with a whole lot of confusion and shock.

"Why yes, after all he did give me this beautiful fire ruby that you can see around my neck," Rarity said while she firmly put her hand on the ruby.

Hawke looked at the ruby and saw that it was a very beautiful neckless. It had also convinced him that Spike might have a chance with Rarity…….only a little……its very small.

Rarity the said, "Oh! I almost forgot. You’re here for the suit yes?"

"Yes I am, sorry that it got messed up last time," Hawke said.

"Why it’s quite alright. I even decided to make you some more of those suits so you don’t have to worry about it. You can just bring in the damage ones, while you use the others to still look fabulous," she said.

"Thank you, I appreciate it. How much would it cost?" he asked

"Oh no! It’s all on me, after all as a hero you’ll need someone to make the repairs and also it might encourage people to come here more often, if you keep coming here to get your clothes fixed," she said.

"Well, if that’s ok with you, then I would be honored," he said

When the conversation was done she gave Hawke the extra suits and a thought had came to Rarity and she asked, "Why Mr. Gregory, have you heard of the Grand Galloping Gala?"

"Well no, what’s it about it?" he asked.

Rarity then answered, "Why it’s just one of those high class parties that happens once a year, but truth be told it wasn’t as good as last year."

"Why? What happen?," he asked

Both Spike and Rarity remembered what happened last time and how the girls messed up the party one by one. They quickly snapped back into reality and the both said, "Nothing! Nothing happened!"

Hawke looked confused and puzzled by their answer and said, "Ok…well I would love for you to make me a suit for it."

"Great! I will get to work on it as soon as I can," Rarity said.

After that Hawke decided to take his suits and head back home. Spike said goodbye to Rarity and he joined Hawke on the way out. Looming the shadows though, a creature stood near waiting for a chance to catch its prey.

"Isn’t Rarity the most beautiful pony in the entire world?" Spike asked.

"She’s nice, but she isn’t really my type of girl," Hawke replied.

"Well of course you would say that, you’re more interested in Twilight right?" Spike said.

Hawke turned red and stopped. Then he asked Spike, "What excatly made you say that?"

"Well for one thing you can't stop looking at her with your eyes and you can't help but always be near her when she needs you," Spike pointed out, "You have either blind or stupid not to notice."

"Right....wait, does Twilight notice?" asked Hawke.

"Well I know she's not blind and definitely not stupid, but for some reason she always not notice these things or she just dosen't care at the time," Spike pointed out.

"Ah," Hawke said with relieve.

As they were walking they suddenly heard a screaming voice coming from somewhere. Hawke then said, "DID YOU HEAR THAT!"

"YEAH and…….THAT SOUNDED LIKE RARITY!" Spike said.

Spike quickly went back to Rarity’s place; Hawke dropped his suits and followed him. When they got to the house, a giant gorilla came from behind the building hold a fainted Rarity. Spike was enraged and said, "LET HER GO!"

The gorilla ignored him and looked at Hawke. Then it swung its arm at them. Hawke quickly push Spike out of the way, got hit by the arm, landed against a tree, and was knocked out. As the gorilla was standing there triumphant, Spike got back up and said, "I said LET HER GO!"

All of a sudden Spike started transformed into a full-sized land dragon. Hawke woke up and saw what happen to Spike, he was amazed that such a little human-like dragon transformed in a real life dragon. Both Spike and the gorilla prepared for the battle. They stared down at each other to see who would go first. The gorilla started first and swung its arm at Spike. Spike blocked it with his arm and used swung his tail at its head. The gorilla started spinning around, but stopped and it still had Rarity in its hand. Then Spike used his claws at the gorilla and cut it around the chest. The gorilla felt pain, but was able to hold it in and went to bite Spike around the shoulders. Spike was in incredible pain and it looked like the gorilla was going to win. But then a huge explosion was on the back of the gorilla and it was in intense pain. Hawke had shot an energy ball at the back of the gorilla and threw an energy spear at the hand of which Rarity was on. The spear hit it and the gorilla let of Rarity and Spike grabbed her as she was falling. Spike then push the gorilla back and breathed fire on it. The gorilla was finished and it finally fell down dead.

Spike calmed down and started transforming back himself again. He was still holding Rarity in his arms and made sure that she was ok. Hawke ran over to them and asked, "Is she ok?"

"Yeah she is. She’ll wake up in no time," Spike said.

"Ok that’s good. So when did you learn how to do that?" Hawke said.

"Well that only happens on two thing; one was where if your greedy you can transform into a full-sized dragon and the other is when a dragon is really angry and can use that to become powerful," Spike explained.

Hawke the asked, "Wow, so it’s like a defend mechanism?"

"Yeah sort of like that," Spike said.

After their conversation, they got Rarity back into her house and into her room on her bed. Hawke decided that it was safe to leave Spike and Rarity alone. He also told Spike to tell Rarity that he saved her by himself, while Hawke was still out cold. Spike didn’t want to take all the credit, but said he would think about it. Hawke left the house, got rid of the gorilla’s corpse, got his suits, and went home. On the way, he thought about what he told Spike about his crushes and was wondering which one he wanted to be with. Then he thought, "Well I'm going to have a tough time."

Hawke then looked back at Rarity’s house and said, "Well Spike, at least you and I have the same problem with love."

End of Chapter 8