Daring got up from the floor and brushed herself off. The toxic fumes had gone away, so she was able to breathe clean air. Judging from the light, she assumed daylight had left a short time ago. It was dark, but not pitch black. She began to walk forward, thinking about her encounter with the princess. "Is it true?" She thought to herself. "Was that real or as it my mind playing tricks on me? It could have been an effect of the fumes released by that trap…" She doubted that it was real, however real or not, it had sent her a message. She no longer was fearful, and instead was twice as courageous than before. As she walked forward, she pondered the matter more. But eventually, she gave up on trying to determine if it was real or not. It WAS the princess after all, but she was completely out of her mind at the time. So instead, as she walked along the seemingly endless hallway, "Seriously, what is up with this castle and never-ending hallways..." , She thought about what more surprises this place had in store for her "Perhaps there might be-" She was cut off as the floor beneath her broke, and she fell through. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed, crashing through the floor of various floors.
She woke up from being unconscious, lying in a pile of rubble and debris. She seemed to be at the very bottom of the castle. It was light out, which meant she had been out for quite a few hours. She groaned. She tried to fly up the hole, but realized her wings were still useless. That wasn't good. And she seemed to be a strange room. The clouds themselves were light from the day, but the light seemed to be trapped in them. Strangely, the room was pitch black. She looked around the rubble for her backpack, which must have fallen off in the fall. After rummaging around for a few minutes, she found it. Taking out a match and lighting it, she immediately wished she hadn't. The room was covered in skeletons, although some of them looked shockingly recent. To top it off, the room reeked with the smell of rotten flesh. Daring almost puked, but managed not to. Covering the floor of the room were gravestones, marked with various names. She walked over to a grave with a hole dug in front of it, and looked at the name. As soon as she saw it, she began to feel sick. Marked on the gravestone was:
Daring Do
1990-/ / / /
The grave next to it also had a hole dug and not filled.
Bravely Blue
2000-/ / / /
She noticed the death dates on both were crossed out. But who had put them there? And how did they know who she and her brother were? She quickly looked around for an exit, but found none. She panicked. She had to find a way out, and fast. She looked around some more, and eventually found a crack in the wall. She knew this was her only way out. She quickly pulled a gravestone from the ground, ignoring the various bugs and worms scrambling out from under it. She used it to chip away at the cracked wall, trying to break through. Eventually, sweating and out of breath, she broke through and stumbled into the newly found hallway. Fortunately, it was a short hallway, and she came across a stairway. She tried to look up, but it did not seem to end. So, she did the only thing she could. She climbed.
Earlier That Day…
Moving silently and swiftly, Shadow Bolt continued to stalk his prey. He was after a dust-yellow Pegasus with a grey mane. She wore a green shirt and an explorer hat. This one had made it farther than the other explorers he had seen before. The Pegasus wondered how his Unicorn friend was doing observing the young explorer who had come here with the one he was after. As she slept from the toxic fumes of his trap, he rummaged through the cloth she had brought. It was fashioned so that it could be worn on her back, and contained items. He wondered how her civilization had managed to survive with such low-class products. Upon searching her bag, he found her name and the name of what he assumed to be her brother. Daring Do and Bravely Blue. He then placed everything back, and returned to his hiding spot. When she awoke, he followed her. Then, she had gone and fallen perfectly into his next trap. He floated down on his wings, and found her knocked out at the bottom of the castle. She was only out for a few hours, however he was able to use a special cloud to make it appear as if it was day out. He then dug two graves in the tomb and wrote both their names on it, along with the birth dates he had found. When she awoke, his plan worked. Sort of. She had found the tombs and panicked, but just as he was about to attack, she picked up a tombstone. Thinking she had seen him and was going to attack, he slunk back into the corner of the room, the darkest place in there. Instead, she wacked the wall with her newly found tool, and broke through. Shadow cursed himself, and followed her. However, she had begun climbing the stairs, and to avoid being seen, he stayed behind. She would, after all, encounter more of the traps he had set ahead of here, just in case. But she would never get to the real treasure. She wouldn't get past the final challenge, if she ever made it there. Only one person had ever got that far. And that was Courage Do, the one who was still locked in the room of the final treasure. Every day Shadow would feed him just enough to keep him alive. It was his payback for what Courage had done to him and Dark Dusk.
And that ends this chapter! I wanted to make this chapter longer than It originally was going to be (which was super short) so I decided to use my OC, Shadow Bolt, and my other OC, Dark Dusk. I will provide more information on them in later chapters, but for now they are MYSTERIOUS...
Also I'd like to give a super-duper-ultra-huge-epic-pie filled shoutout to SirUnsheathedSparkle, A.K.A. Victorious Failure for doing a dramatic reading of Chapter 1.
His youtube name is SirUnsheathedSparkle, or, Victorious Failure. I would put a link, but not allowed to. .
Second shoutout goes to, yet again, Christ's Disciple, because he's answered almost every QotC and has become a regular here in the reviews section, and as well as a regular reader. So everybody, if you want a shoutout, hit that review button every couple of chapters or so, leave a helpful review, and you might find your name right here: _*
Also, for those of you wondering, although Gamer will not be doing RQ, I will still be doing QotC, because as I said before, RQ will not be every chapter. Just clearing that up! And, on to the long-anticipated QotC: Do you have any OC's (Original Characters, for those of you unfamiliar with the term) you have created?
See you all in my next chapter!
-EpicPie1
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