Chapter 4:

Daring Do paced through the jungle, brushing leafs and branches to the sides as she followed behind two ponies that she never expected to be working together; Dr. Caballeron, whose very mention seemed to make Daring's skin crawl in disgust of him calling himself an archaeologist. And Elusive, who Daring thought she knew enough to know that his morels wouldn't let him work with ponies that were the likes of Caballeron.

Obviously, Daring Do was going to need to rethink who she once counted as one of her close friends.

The mare managed to keep her distance from the group in front of her without drawing attention to herself, as well as keeping them without her line of sight, despite the numerous amounts of overgrowth.

But she couldn't shake this uneasy feeling inside her that formed when she was sure that Elusive had spotted her in the tree she had been hiding in upon hearing them. Though what really caught her attention was the fact that they still seemed oblivious to her presence; like Elusive hadn't told the others about her yet. But she couldn't get why…

When nightfall finally came over the area, and the group ahead of her set up camp for the night, Daring Do quietly flew up into a safe-looking tree and set up the hammock she had brought along with her, since carrying a sleeping bag was too big to carry. After she set the hammock up above the tree and safely away from predators, Daring Do quietly moved across the thick branches that could support her weight without creaking and went to see if she could listen in on whatever the group below were talking about.

She could hear the idle chatter going on amongst Elusive and the saddle stallions that carried the stuff; Daring couldn't see Caballeron anywhere, making her think that he was sleeping in one of the tents they had set up while she wasn't watching.

She saw the small fire they had started flare up slightly, indicating that one of the stallions, possibly Elusive, had added more wood to the fire. "Hey, 'lusive, what exactly are we looking for again?" asked one of the stallions, and Daring Do listened closely.

"Fine, Gold, I'll tell you again," said Elusive's voice, and Daring Do heard what could only be the sound of ruffling papers; like Elusive was looking for the right page in some book. She heard Elusive clearing his throat, and looked closely; through a gap in the trees, she saw the Brit-mane-ia Unicorn stallion taking a half sheet of paper from a pocket, and Daring Do could vaguely see a small picture.

"We're looking for a temple in the middle of the jungle, said to not have been entered or even seen for that matter, for nearly 1500 years. It is said that a strange, mystical power surrounds and fills this 'Temple of the Night' on the Full Moon after the Summer Solstice. And then, and I quote, 'The true way to your heart's desire shall be revealed, through the Eye."

"Bad thing is, I've only managed to acquire half of the information that we need; some Griffon somehow managed to get to it before me," added Elusive, and Daring Do knew in that instant that she was going to have a little talk with her contact….

Though something else Elusive said caught her attention; Eye. Daring Do flicked through a few pages that she managed to take with her, she confirmed that he must have been talking about the Eye of Bashtaar; though that confirmed that they were both looking for the same thing.

Daring Do knew that she really did need to collect the other half of the piece of paper for all of the information to be available to her. Even though it was a slightly inconvenience to her, Daring Do knew that that was all it was; the slightest bump in her road to finding the Eye of Bashtaar.

Slowly putting the papers back into her jacket pockets, Daring Do knew she had to turn in earlier if she wanted a good chance of getting up again early enough to wake up before the group below, and possibly even sneak the other half of paper that she needed from their camp.

Daring Do heads back to her hammock along the thick tree branches and slowly got into her hammock, trying not to fall out and give her position away. Luckily, she didn't fall out. Daring tilted her hat forward, slowly dropping off into a light sleep; ready to wake up again at the drop of a hat.

As Daring Do slept, Elusive turned the half sheet of paper over and read the back of it, seeing another picture on the back of it as well as reading something underneath it.

"A trickster spirit…in the form of a pony?" Elusive asked himself, since the other ponies were heading into their separate tents for the night. This left Elusive being the only one up. But this meant that he could look through the stuff of the page that he had somehow managed to miss during his first look over.

"He can be characterised by his strange, sometimes cruel, sense of humour. He also is rumoured to be able to bend the rules of reality to his will, making him a powerful force to be reckoned with. Caution should be stressed when trying to find this Demon," read Elusive, but he was annoyed at the small fact that the page failed to tell him what the name was of the Demon. He tried looking over both sides of the paper again, but found that the name seemed to continue onto the other half of the page that he didn't have.

Sighing, Elusive rubbed his eyes and blinked slowly; he was tired, and maybe he'd be able to find something that he missed because he was tired, and was missing something that might have been in plain sight. Getting to his hooves, Elusive put the half sheet into his pocket and headed into his tent, the fire lighting the area up in its soft glow, while the rest of the area was filled with darkness.