The next day, me and Spike joined Rarity on yet another gem hunt to make the fancy suits for another upcoming concert performed by the Pony of Pop herself, Sapphire Shores!

Now, another reason why I was assisting Spike and Rarity seek out gems in the rocky hills outside of Ponyville (but this time, out of Diamond Dog teritorry), was so that I could "protect" Rarity from Spike's romantic infatuation with her.

After a few more gem finds, Rarity gave both me and Spike rewards for being so loyal on this job thing. She gave me both a Rose and an Earthworm to eat and gave Spike one of the gems to eat. I quickly got into action as soon as Spike was staring at Rarity and imagining her sweet-talking him. I got out the baseball bat I had brought for this very reason and (while Rarity had her back turned for a second) gave Spike a huge bonk on his scaley crested noggin.

"Geez Griffy!", complained Spike, "Why do you keep doing that to me?"

"Because you and Rarity are two totally different Creatures!", I explained in rough fashion.

"Now boys!", Rarity said butting in, "There is no need to battle physically over some male thing"

Spike and I just rolled our eyes and continued with Rarity on our gem hunt.

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Just a little further on, we came to what appeared to be an abandoned cave in the ground that was blocked by many medium-sized boulders.

"Looks like this cave hasn't been used in ages", I commented.

"Well this deep cavern does look like a perfect place for gems to be hiding", suggested Rarity.

So the 3 of us managed to remove the boulders aside with Rarity's telekinesis spell and proceeded into the dark tunnel.

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After 20 or 23 more meters into the underground cavern, we came across a huge Insect nest-like chamber. The enormous chamber had a tiny bit of lighting to it from myserious green steam rising up from the floor.

"Look at this guys!", said Spike, pointing to a strange carving of a message on the cave wall that read, "Beware the Swarm, Wake one and you Wake them All".

"Seems like a warning you guys", I said while shaking with fear.

"It seems like we are in danger", added Spike.

"Sounds more like an old mare's tale", said Rarity.

"Are you serious?", Spike asked, "We might be putting our lives at risk"

"I don't really believe in most old legends", replied Rarity, "And you two should not really believe them either"

We looked curiously at the strange 1 meter-wide dome like objects on the side of the cave wall, there must have been at least hundreds of these things.

Suddenly, as Spike took a closer look at one of the 1 meter-wide dome things; he noticed that inside it was the coiled up body of what looked like an enormous Arthropod. Then Spike did one of the worst things possible, tap on the dome thing; causing the Beast inside to wake up and burst free out of its dome thing!

The three of us were terrified as the thing landed on the floor just 20 feet away from us and started to uncoil itself. We could'nt so it clearly (due to the cave being mostly dark), but we could tell it looked like an Ant walking on two of its six legs and standing at a height of 10 feet when on those two legs. It also was carring four swords, 1 sword per hand. It then turned around and stared at us with its glowing red eyes in a menacing stare.

All of a sudden, more huge Ant things started bursting out of their little "wall domes".

Me, Spike and Rarity all freaked out and started to make for the exit, which would be the only way we got in here.

It was as if we had awaken something evil from an ancient past. And you know what, We did!

To Be Continued