Sentire smiles as she walks into the finished doorway of the temple and sees it large size and wide open space. "Wow. Not bad." She said looking around as the furniture was placed.
Arkon says nothing as he lays a brilliant purple cloth over the marble altar.
Sentire giggles as she runs up to the altar and looks it over. "Wow, how much is done?"
"Not quite…it's missing something, but I can't say what." Arkon says.
"Try the ancient symbols that Prince Artemis use in his big spells." A voice said from the doorway and they both look over to see an orange mare with a green jungle outfit and a pith hat. "Might help with those that try his spells on their own and would be great for the front pillars." She said looking over the blank pillars.
"Who are you?" Arkon asks.
The mare looks over and smiles. "Name's Daring Do. Prince Solaris told me you'd be here."
"Oh. What do you need?" Arkon asks.
Daring sighs as she walks up to them. "Basically I came for the temple you may have mentioned."
Arkon says nothing before turning away. "I'm sorry, but only lord Artemis can give me orders to take anyone to Skyhold." Arkon says.
Daring raises an eyebrow. "Really and nothing will change your mind?"
"Nothing. I took an oath." Arkon says.
Daring sighs. "I'll be back tomorrow."
"I will remain here." Arkon says.
Daring hums as she walks away while Sentire tilts her head at her. "Wow, she's…big." She said noticing the large breasts.
Arkon says nothing as he continues to work.
Sentire then leans over the altar as he works on placing in the details on it. "Are you coming to the…dance I think it was called or…geo…gale?" She tries to remember.
"I believe that is a month away." Arkon says as Caligo slept on a bench.
Sentire smiles as her tail swings around happily at the thought of spending more time with Dusk and the others. "Are you coming?"
"Maybe." Arkon says.
Sentire giggles and hugs his head. "Great. You're going to need something to wear."
Arkon sighs as he got up in the middle of the night to investigate a strange sound. "Hello?" He called with his staff in hand as he steps into the main hall.
Arkon received no response as he looked around.
Arkon hums as he starts walking around. "Caligo, is that you?" He asks.
A scrap was heard and he looks to near the entrance where the light scrap was heard from and walks to it. "Caligo?" He asks again as he scratches his head. "I need to get use to this world and strange things."
A sudden hit from behind his head made him cry out and drop to the ground unconscious.
A clawed talon reached out and grabbed Arkon and lifted him over someone's shoulder as the other grabbed his staff. "Now we will all know." The figure said to himself.
Sentire sighs as she keeps looking between the list and the couple of stallions lying or sitting around the room as Dusk and Barb try to make something. "Well…they are decent over time." She said looking to Applejack, Elusive, Berry and Butterscotch.
"I didn't agree to this." Applejack says mad.
Dusk leans his head out. "You sure? I didn't like her until I started to get to know her."
"Do not make these decisions for me." Applejack says mad and gets up.
Sentire sighs. "I guess I won't be having him. Are you sure?" She asks Applejack.
Applejack says nothing as he exits and slams the door behind him.
Sentire slouches and slowly falls to the ground and ends up sitting on her legs as they split to her sides. "Did I do something wrong?"
Berry comes up to her and gives her a hug. "Nah, he just needs time because this was so sudden to him. Especially being with more males than females."
"He is the stubbornest pony in town." Elusive says.
Butterscotch smiles. "Remember the harvest?"
"Please do not remind me." Dusk says.
Berry chuckles. "Such a stubborn pants. Wouldn't let us lift a single finger to help."
"Yep." Most stallions say before they hear an explosion.
They all quickly rush to the window and sees smoke coming out of the entrance of the temple.
Daring sighs as she opens the door to the temple, inwardly grumbling how much effort it took to arrange a meeting with Artemis and then having to convince him to allow this.
"Unbelievable, all that and for what? Getting dismissed. There has to be something that will get him to talk." Daring grumbles to herself as she walks into the main hall. Daring then notices a candle stand tipped over.
Daring frowns as she picks it and just lets it stand. "That would never happen. Arkon! You awake?!" She calls.
Daring gets no response as her instincts suddenly start screaming danger.
"Arkon!" Daring yells as she runs around the temple trying to find him.
"Come on you slow witted dogs, we have to go." A familiar voice to her says.
Daring gasps and rushes to the voice before hiding behind a pillar and sees a large griffon carrying a limp body over his shoulder with some diamond dogs around him as they leave through the side entrance.
'Damn Azkiz.' Daring thinks throwing a rock across the room. The echo getting their attention.
"What was that?" One of the dogs asks.
"Go check it out." The griffon says.
The dogs grumble before one of them walks off where the rock was thrown. "Why always us?" He grumbles to himself.
Daring then throws several more rock. "Someone is messing with us." Another says irritated.
"Just check whatever is doing that and deal with it. I need the location and fast." Azkiz said walking out.
Daring throws a few more rocks and the irritated dog yells. "That is it!" Before pulling out a dynamite stick.
Daring goes wide eyed and runs. "Shit!"
The dog throws the explosive as the rest call out to try and stop him. Daring, using the confusion to her advantage, runs up to Azkiz and kicks him in the nuts and grabs Arkon and runs as he doubles over in pain before the explosion throws him into the wall.
Daring yells out as she was thrown out the front door with Arkon being thrown ahead and lands on the ground. "Ow. Arkon?" She weakly asks as she lifts her head up.
Arkon says nothing as a thought occurs to Daring. 'Well I'm thinking road trip.' Daring thinks.
"Arkon!" A chorus of voices yell and Daring sees a bunch of stallions and one mare running towards them as she tries to get up.
"Dang explosive happy dogs." Daring says as they are surrounded by them.
"Who the heck are you?" Sentire asks before getting a closer look at her. "Oh, Daring Do. You okay?" She asks looking her over as Dusk and the other check over Arkon.
"What the heck happened? I heard the explosion from my house." Rainbow says landing.
Dusk frowns as he starts to heal Arkon. "Daring? What happened?"
"Well I came back to try and convince him to give me directions to a certain place and found Azkiz and some of his goons trying to kidnap him and got him from them." Daring says.
Rainbow yells in excitement. "Daring Do?!"
"Um…shall we continue this elsewhere as they are still in there." Daring says.
Dusk sighs as he lifts Arkon. "Come on. And help Daring up. And Rainbow, be respectful."
"I am." Rainbow says lending her shoulder.
"So Dusk, where are we taking them to?" Applejack asks.
"Well the best place I would think is…
"Canterlot." Dusk says as they pull into the train station.
Berry leans in close to his head. "Why did you wait two hours to tell us the city?" He asks scratching his head.
"Berry, were you in your own little world for the last two hours?" Dusk asks.
Berry shrugs. "I don't know. I was following the lines based on the reader."
Daring looks at him weirdly as they carry Arkon out as Gleaming Shield met them outside.
"Hello brother." Gleaming said as Dusk smiles and hugs her.
"Hello sister." Dusk greets before they are whisked away by the guards.
Dusk smiles at his big sister. "So how's my brother in law?"
"Mem, he is having trouble getting it up." Shield whispers into Dusk's ear.
Dusk raises an eyebrow. "Oh, he is the prince of love so I think he knows a few spells for that problem."
"Oh he wishes he could." Shield jokes.
Dusk rolls his eyes. "Did Barb make it?"
Shield nods. "Yeah, just got on the train before. She's waiting at the castle and helping make some plans on what to do next. Can't believe she still has that figure though."
"Ok, so where…" Dusk starts.
"My office." Daring says.
They look back to her. "Where?" Dusk ask.
"My office in the university. They won't think to look there. Too obvious." Daring says.
They all nod as Rainbow try to contain her excitement as they head to the university before Arkon starts groaning. "What happened?" He groans.
"Well you were attacked and nearly abducted and someone threw an explosive in the temple." Rainbow said.
Arkon nods before going wide eyed. "The temple!" He yells and quickly moves and groans as he gets some aches that made him stop.
"We will repair it when we return." Rainbow says.
Arkon groans as he holds his stomach. "Where are we right now?"
"Canterlot." Daring says leading him to the university.
Arkon sighs. "When can we go back? I have to rebuild the temple."
"They could still be there or watching it." Daring says before greeting the guard for the university. "Hey Steel."
The guard nods and opens the gate for them. "Hey Yearling. See you finally got a date." Steel jokes.
Daring glares at him. "Shut up."
Steel laughs as he raises the newspaper again.
Daring groans. "I sometimes hate that guy." She said leading them to a back entrance.
"What else is new in this world?" Dusk asks sarcastically as they enter the building.
Daring shrugs. "Well other than the temple exploding, we have a bad guy I use to know that is going after an ancient temple or just a big land that only our friendly priest here and Prince Artemis knows about. Prince Solaris told me about you by the way."
Arkon groans. "I will not tell you the location even after all this."
Daring nods. "Yeah, that's why after I heard of this information from Prince Solaris, I did some digging and came up with some information." She said stopping at a door and opening it to which they find a bunch of yarn connected to pictures and documents all over the room that would barely allow room to maneuver. "As you can see, I did some digging." She said to the gaping group. "Now let's finish the puzzle."
Five seconds later.
"This isn't very comfortable." Dusk said as they were all tangled in the lines in positions that would make a contortionist proud.
"Right, to the next room." Daring said trying to carefully stretch over and through the lines with everypony else trying to follow.
Five more seconds later.
"Okay, I stopped here." She said pointing to a map of the mountains up north in the Crystal Empire as they stood in another room with a window showing the yarn messy room.
Arkon says nothing, but snickers a bit.
Daring looks to him. "What?" She asks rather annoyed.
"I may not be allowed to tell you where Skyhold is, but I can say you are way off." Arkon says.
Daring raises an eyebrow. "I said I stopped here. I didn't say how." She said pointing to the picture before she follows another piece of string. "I was going over it from start to finish and then I realized I had my apportionment with you so I left in a hurry." She said as they follow her string before it stops behind the windowed wall. "Here's the last piece I was able to get." She said as they now see a string coming through the wall and into the room and ends up on the cork board behind them to land on a map of the Frozen North near the west sea. "Now we just need a better location." She said looking to Arkon.
Arkon remained silent as a letter appeared before Dusk.
Dusk grabs the letter and unrolls it and sighs. "You don't have much of a choice now Arkon. Artemis's orders. Find Skyhold and protect it." He said reading it off.
Arkon takes the letter to confirm this and nods.
Daring smirks. "So…where is it?"
Arkon point to in between the galloping gorge and Vanhoover and traces his finger upwards into the mountain far north and stops.
Dusk smiles as he sees the spot. "Pack your bags guys. We have a…"
"Mind if I take this?" Applejack asks.
Dusk looks confused for a moment and shrugs. "Sure, okay."
Applejack smirks. "Road trip!" He calls out that rattled their bones.
"Dusk, I can't let you do this." Gleaming says at the train station.
Dusk frowns. "Sis, I have fought Prince Artemis in his Darkhorse Knight form, Eris, Cerberus, very pesky parasites, messed up vines that Eris made which I still say speaks of her preferences for fetishes, the Everfree Forest countless times, my friends on a daily basis, crazy fanatical relation problems with other species who lives nearby, Umbra, and mares that just want me for my status. What have you done that won't allow me to go?"
"I'm your older sibling." Gleaming says.
Dusk huffs. "And what are you going to do about that, captain?" He asks knowing he has higher status.
"I…" Gleaming stops when Spitfire and one of her lieutenants land close by.
"Prince Solaris sent us to accompany you." Spitfire said as she carried a small backpack and the lieutenant carried two suitcases. "Glide, take those inside." Spitfire says.
"You got it sir." The mare said walking inside the now stopped train. "Hello handsome." Glide says entering.
Spitfire shakes her head before turning to Dusk. "So we ready prince?"
Dusk raises an eyebrow and crosses his arms. "I don't know." He said before turning to Shield. "Am I?"
Shield was about to say something when Artemis appears. "Hello Dusk, I came to see you all off."
Dusk smiles. "Hello Prince Artemis." He said bowing slightly. "We are just about to head out."
"Oh, I am glad I caught you in time to wish you all well." Artemis says before Dusk gets on and the train starts moving.
Shield sighs. "I am barely winning with my little brother now."
"Younger siblings usually can win." Artemis says as the train disappears into the tunnel.
Shield sighs. "I usually hate it when I'm stuck here now."
"He will be fine." Artemis says.