The caves of the Diamond Dog mines were dank and bleak as ever. Gems and other rocks jutting from the walls. The mutts had a legion of ponies working under them this time. Mining for all the rubies, emeralds, or sapphires they could find. Ponies had harnesses attached to them to carry theses rocks, leaving them only able to take gems to other regions of the mine. The dogs must have plotted this for some time, this is far too complex for only one of them to come up with. The dogs' number's seem to have quadrupled from the Princess' last report. They have gotten stronger too, a challenge fitting for a dragon!

Pike, Proud Class of an elite dragon family, 'Prime' is what the first letter of my name stands for, showing ability of my class, and I'm an adventurer, this is who I am.

I was captured unsuspectingly with my team, a little while ago, along with a few dozen tourist ponies. Why ponies where on tour here is beyond me. My team and I were sent here to clear out the mountains for a bicentennial celebration of the freedom in Equestria. The merriment called for no possible threats, so my squad was entrusted with the assignment. Failure was not an option!

I resigned in a hold digging with my bare claws. I scratched up another diamond and tossed it in the cart behind me. The ponies pulling the carts whimpered as the dogs managing them slap their rear-ends to make them move. Ponies all around the caverns were exhausted and could barely move at this point. They were suffering, looking forward to whatever scrapes of hope they had left. Little did they know their agony would soon end in a showing of power over tyrannous monsters.

I looked up, out of my hole, I could see my partners continuously shifting glances back at me. The dogs were still mistreating the enslaved ponies. The cave scene was too bleak for my taste. I had to lighten the mood.

I wiggled my feet, getting a footing in the hole where I stood. Taking a breath in I readied to leap when I broke the chains binding me to the dirt. Landing in the middle of the cavern with a thump I alerted all the guard dogs around me. They all lunged at me with their spears extended. With little effort I did a twirl, extending my tail, snapping off the ends of the weapons. I stopped with dogs surrounding me on all sides, feet that two feet away. The dogs on my left were taken out with a wave of fire coming from their back side. The other dogs were momentarily distracted, giving me the opportunity to swiftly take them out with a karate chop.

The dogs fell and I soon smelled the most disgusting odor I had ever smelt.

"Burnt fur is the worst," I exclaimed briefly covering my nose.

My partners approached from the fallen, crispy dogs. There was a male dragon, Ozzy ,red scales and a yellow belly, with a head of thick black hair and little circular resting on his nose. The other dragon was female, Matty , mud brown scales, a pink belly along with matching pink spines poking through her hair and going gown her back and tail, and her hair was blue like the highest part of the sky.

Male, I stood 4 foot 7 inches, the average height of my team. I was emerald green, a purple belly, my spikes on my head matched, they were a little over normal sized , but averaged out going down my back and finally to my tail.

We each exchanged a fist bump, "These dogs have to home field advantage, don't let that slow you down." I spoke. They nodded.

We each split up. I freed the cavern I was currently in, moving to another open area dogs jumped me. They had a hold on my arm and leg. Momentarily distracted I was hit it the chest with a dull spear head. I kicked the one dog off my leg into the one with the spear in front of me. The remained mutt, I cracked his helmet with my free arm. He fell and I proceeded through to the next cavern.

I told the following group of ponies to not make much noise, I didn't want he whole caves to come crumbling on me with dogs. After that they remained relatively quiet. A few whispers every now and again was it.

The pattern repeated, until bigger dogs showed up. The average dogs that I've been seeing were 5 to 6 feet tall. Heavy guards were 6.5 to 7 feet tall, they were bulkier and wielded ax-like spears. Then there were heavy duty dogs, those dogs took quite a few had cracks to the head to down. The dogs had supposedly stepped up their game, now I was pumped.

A voice in my head shouted "YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH! Knock 'Em Dead!"

I bolted ahead of the pony group I was defending, spin-kicking the dog in my path. My tail made my whirl twice as effective. The flea bags went flying, after that I landed and swung at the last standing dog of the platoon, he let a feeble woof as he fell.

I wasn't sure if the ponies following me felt protected or scared out of their minds. I, a seemingly useless dragon, popped out of a hole and took out about 50 well armed dogs. If it was safety I was feeling them give off, then the swelling in my chest was growing. The swelling fondling in my heart was immense, it pulsated like….. Like a dagger stabbing in my chest.

I soon realized that a dagger really was stabbing in my chest. It didn't pierce my skin, most metals didn't usually, but jabbing into it kind of hurt. My thoughts had caught me off guard long enough for a runt of a cur to connect iron to my scales, such disgraceful acts were not allowed in my reference. I dispatched of him with a head-butt. The large spikes on my head had an added effect.

The walls seemed to continuously narrow then widen. I looked back at the now tripling group of ponies. The last cavern I cleared held a ton of captured ponies, all of which were females. I'd hate to imagine what the dogs might have done to them. The group I had to start with was clearly distinct amongst the rest of the ponies, they were much cleaner and under worked. The other ponies seemed to have been here for at least a few weeks. These dogs were only proving to be of lowering value to me.

An hour passed before I met up with my teammates again. An hour solid with dogs and spears coming at me. The dogs must have been not strong at all during the time the first alleged report was made. The last hour was all hype I came up with to keep fighting. The dogs at first must have been the worst. A few dragons got all the attention of the best defense the dogs had to offer in the first cavern they were in, no disappointments can come of this I thought to myself jokingly.

I exchanged glances with my team. Ozzy had a group twice the size of mine following him. Matty had a few ponies short of my size group. We all nodded.

"I think that might be all the ponies. My group said that was all in the south-eastern region." Ozzy said.

"The ponies said that was it for the north-western sector." Matty followed.

"And I came from the southern most area." I affirmed. "That leaves us to the northern most division."

Our groups merged and became one big legion of ponies. The tunnels didn't get any smaller but widened into almost highways. The tunnel finally opened up into what was a equivalent stadium. The gems jutting out of the walls looked like bleachers for a vast amount of dogs. There was a hug diamond that stabbed through the top of the subterranean ceiling filtering light in. The well lit area soon filled with dogs, in every bleacher, the opposite end of the stadium were the only other possible exit could be swarmed with dogs. These dogs ambushed us.

One dog jumped dogs from the bleachers over head and landed in from on us. He had a standard guard uniform on, but his was golden. His fur was slightly more kept, and he looked minuscule amounts more intelligent than the rest of the stadium of dogs. He presented himself to me with a bow.

"Dragon, dragons, ponies, all of you. You have gotten pretty far, but if you turn back now you will save the embarrassment that is about to come of you. To think you have made it to this point! You Shall Not PASS!" The golden armored dog had risen his voice. "I shall personally lead the masses of dogs in to the upper world! The nation of Equestria will fall land a dog kingdom will rise! " he breathed in, "Canine will have the dominate ratings amongst competing sho-"

It looked like he was going to go on, for a good while at a least. I tapped my teammates with my tail as the dog continued his monolog. They didn't move, but they tapped my back letting me know they knew what I was thinking. We all, in a split second's time, jumped and blasted the mutt back to the other side of the stadium. Within that moment the stadium's wall rippled.

The now arena buzzed with furious and foaming dogs. They came at us with everything they had. I had to remember to breath it looked so exciting.

Spears were being thrown and chunks of earth were used as weapons. They broke a huge dirt clods over my back. Their attacks made me laugh out loud. So many fist flying I couldn't keep up. The last thing I remembered before everything went to blitzkrieg was the disappointment I felt when it would all come to an end. Fists became an ocean, the spears were clouds overhead, and the diamond in the ceiling was the sun. I did strokes and kicks evenly through the water; I caught the clouds as the fell at me, everything was like a dream come true. When I finally came to the 'ocean' was at rest, the 'strokes' I did were equivalent to me tearing the arms off every mutt that was under me, and finally the 'kicking' I did was actual kicking, but every kick landed on the head of a dog game it a serious concussion.

The bodies laid under foot and hoof now as we followed wherever the tunnels lead us. As I took out he arena Matty and Ozzy cleared the tunnels ahead we might use. They had anticipated me wiping out the dogs single handedly.

The tunnels started to slope upwards and light filtered in from outside. The whole battle only took about two or three hours. In the beginning it would have taken a complete day to clear that many foes, weak as the dogs were. The sun was almost at high noon, which means we must have woken up sometime in the morning after we were captured with some of these ponies. The surface was getting nearer until we stopped. A pony had yelped from the huge mass. Matty slithered through the crowd to reveal a dog that had popped it head out of the ground at the wrong time. She brought him to the front. I looked the miserable mutt in the face. It's view was locked with mine. It didn't blink before I realized it had a whistle in its mouth and was blowing on it. I smacked the cur in the face. He ran on all fours as fast as he could to the entrance of the cave. A wall of more dogs blockaded the exit.

The golden armored dog stood in front of the dogs again. "These are my elite warriors! You don't Stand A CHANCE!"

I stepped forward and gave a light chuckle, "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!" I shouted , then snapped my fingers. Flames passed around me from Matty and Ozzy's twin blaze combo fire blast. The heat would cook anything on the spot.

I emerged from the cave and took a big breath in. Hoping to smell fresh air, I got: "BURNT FUR! AAHHHGG!" I growled. I held my nose as I watched the ponies pass exiting the cave. They got their spunk back as the reached the sunlight. At least three hundred ponies had been saved today. My team and I would have an awesome report for the Princess now!

Matty, Ozzy, and I exchanged our signature handshake. We looked to the pony village in the distance, to were the rescued ponies inclined. It didn't look half bad. Almost a sudden urge told me to investigate the village for something I was missing, but my mind pushed it away.

"That's another mission: Complete."

"Sure is!" They both chimed.

"I'm hungry! "

"You're always hungry." Ozzy laughed, soon followed my Matty and I.