Dragonheart Broken

Summary: Story 7 of my True to Your Heart series. Discord, Garble, and his teenage dragon gang trick Spike into thinking that Rarity doesn't love him back, despite his trying to tell her in Secret to my Excess, causing him to run away and join the gang again and help them kidnap Princess Celestia! Can the Mane Six and their boyfriends hope to get both Celestia and Spike back? And will Rarity confess how she really feels to Spike? The names I've given the five dragons in Garble's gang are fanmade; I don't own anyone or even the show.

Ch.1: A Deal with a Demon

Within the ruins of the ancient castle of the Everfree Forest, Discord reclined upon his checker-patterned divan, gazing deeply into the eyes of Princess Celestia, the white Alicorn in the heart-shaped picture frame in his hands.

"Oh, my sweet Celestia," he sighed, pretending she is the real thing and turning onto his side to that he can cradle the picture frame/"Celestia's head" into his lion arm. "You are just so cute when you blush like that. What is that, my sweet? You want a kiss? Oh, you are such a naught filly…but if you insist…" He then started to kiss the picture softly with light moans, running his talon alongside the picture's mane…

"Massster, we—Whoopsssie!" Discord shot his head up to see Kaa and Sir Hiss standing at the open doorway, shocked looks on their faces.

"Guys," he yelled angrily, "what did I tell you about knocking before coming in here?!"

"Our deepessst apologiesss, my liege," Hiss cried, groveling with a quiver in his voice, "but we came in to inform you that we have found the onesss whom you had asssked for." Discord's face calmed a bit at these news as he put his picture away.

"Well, don't you stand there like a bunch of bozos," he said to them. "Let them in here!"

"Yesss, Massster," Kaa replied as Hiss got up quickly. The two of them then turned to the back of the door. "He shall sssee you now." The two of them then slithered into the room, and six other creatures entered right behind them.

But they're not just any creatures, mind you. They happened to be Garble and his gang from the Great Dragon Migration. The first to enter was Garble himself, the red leader with the spines of orange that would make others believe he represents the colors of a famous team of phoenixes. Behind him came two other members of his gang; the fat brown dragon named Bulldoze, and the violet dragon with blond hair named Rad. The last to enter were the other three members of the gang: Daimundo (Dai for short), the albino dragon with pink eyes and spines; Haze, the grayish-lavender dragon; and Smokes, the black-and-green dragon.

Garble looked up at Discord with his arms crossing his chest before turning to Kaa and Hiss with an unimpressed look.

"This is the guy you said can help us?" he asked in disbelief. "He looks like another dragon to me!"

"Well, uh," Rad whispered to him matter-of-factly, "except for the various animal parts. Yeesh…"

"I can see you're not too impressed," Discord said to Garble with a smile before holding up his eagle claw as it started a glow. "How's this for a demo of what I can do?"

"WHOA!" The group then turned to see Bulldoze hanging upside down by the mace-like tip of his tail, which was glowing alongside Discord's talon as it floated in the air.

"Crikey!" Dai cried with an Australian accent. "Bulldoze, how dya do that, mate?"

"I'm not doing anything!" the brown dragon answered, frantically flailing his arms around. "Get me down from here!"

"Hang in there, bro," Haze replied with a Hispanic accent. He and Smokes then flew up to him to get him down. Taking it as his cue, Discord stopped his spell, and Bulldoze fell on top of the two dragons with a loud crash.

"Oooh…" Kaa and Hiss groaned with a wince.

"They are going that tomorrow morning," Kaa stated, opening one eye with an expression of pain.

"Hey, what's the big idea, dawg?" Smokes yelled, his accent like that of a famous rapper (your choice, but all I can think of at the minute is Xzibit).

"It's not my fault," Bulldoze protested as they got up.

"Not bad for dragon lookalike with various animal parts, huh?" Discord asked, giving the shocked Garble a sly smile. "I can also give your surfer friend here a new hairstyle if you want another demo." Rad quickly covered his head in fear.

"Dude, no way!" he yelled. "No one…touches…the hair!"

"Hmph!" Hiss scoffed to Kaa. "And you complain my hat and cape issues."

"Right now," Kaa growled in reply, "I don't want to talk about or even hear it. Alright?"

"Alright, I'll admit it," Garble said, holding up his hands in defeat. "You got some skills on you." Discord smiled in reply as he sat back down onto his divan.

"Now I'm pretty sure you came to me for a…certain reason," he said to the red dragon.

"These two here said you can help us get Spike back," Garble answered, thumbing at Kaa and Hiss.

"That's right. And your reason why?"

"He may be raised by a bunch of namby-pamby Ponies," Garble spat in answer, "but he's still a dragon. We want to intervene with this problem because he's still one of us…not to mention he's like a little brother to us when I dubbed him Rookie Dragon."

"So you think a part of him still misses being part of the gang?"

"Duh, we don't think; we know!"

"Well, I think might have just the spell that will convince him to rejoin your gang," he said to him with a bit of thought, "but there's just one thing the seven of you have to do for me in return."

"And what will that be?" asked Dai.

"I'll let you know after I had convinced that Spike will rejoin your gang," Discord answered before turning back to Garble. "So do we have a deal?" Garble then turned to his gang, who shrugged with reluctance. He then turned back to Discord firmly.

"Deal!"