Post Author's Note:
Hellooooo once again audience!
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Anyways, without any further statements, here is…CHAPTER SIX!
Chapter Six: It's a Trap!
"AHHHHHH!" was all I heard all the way down, from myself as well as the others.
The fall had totally taken us by surprise, so much so, that I didn't even think about using my wings to pull us all back up, and apparently Lightning didn't either, because as far as I could tell, WE WERE STILL FALLING. Finally we hit the ground, and I heard something clanking above us. I looked around and saw that everyone was moaning in pain, including me. There were lit torches that seemed like they had been there for ages, and what looked like gold was piled against the walls. It seemed that this dungeon was cylindrical, had dirt floors and only had one exit door.
Oh, and just another tiny detail. WE WERE IN A CAGE.
"Everyone all right?" I asked.
"Ya, I'll be a fine. Just a couple scratches." Lightning replied.
"Yeah. Thankfully I landed on my face, so that broke my fall." Rainbow said grimacing.
"However, my wing survived with just a couple dents. Nothing to horrible." She said.
I noticed her face was bleeding a bit and the crimson blood trickled down the right side of her face.
Yikes, that landing must have been painful…
"Well, if everyone's all right, it's time to face the bigger problem. How in Tartarus are we gonna get out of here?" I asked shaking the bars of my cage.
"Well not like that dummy." Rainbow said.
"You got any better ideas?" I asked glaring at her.
Rainbow simply shot a glance, and sat back down defeated.
I sighed and asked, "Lightning? You got anything?"
Lightning started bucking the cage with all the strength he could muster, and all he did was make the rattle a bit so that little pebbles and dust fell from the ceiling.
"Cut that out dude!" I shouted. "You're going to get us killed!"
What are we going to do guys? There doesn't appear to be any means of escape in sight!
All I got back was two sighs that almost told me we were never going to get out of here.
I paced around the cage for a bit trying to think of anything that could get us out of these blasted bars. Where were we anyways? While thinking of these things, I sighed and proceeded to lean against the bars of the cage, standing on two hooves and extending my fore-hoof on the bars when suddenly, I tumbled over to the left. I looked up and realized that the bars were extremely old and rusted, and I had fallen right out of my cage. Sometimes the hardest of puzzles are solved with the simplest solutions I guess.
Rainbow and Lightning had busied themselves with staring at their injuries and dozing off a bit and they didn't notice that I had tumbled out of the cage.
I trotted around the perimeter of the cage and walked up to where Rainbow was lying down, and said, "Hey Rainbow. Guess What?"
"What Stor- W-WHAT? H- How did you?" Rainbow asked extremely confused.
"Because I'm a ninja, now if you two would kindly walk over to that hole in the cage so we can escape, that would be fantastic." I replied.
Lightning suddenly perked up, saw that I was outside and asked the same thing that Rainbow said, "W-wha? How?"
I told them I had fallen out of the cage when we all piled out, in which they just laughed at me, but I reminded them, that if it weren't for me, we would've been stuck in there for a while.
We trotted up to the exit door and opened it, and to our amazement, we huge gems scattered all over the tile flooring of the hallway we had just entered.
"Whoa!" I said, and oohs and aaahs came from all of us.
Immediately, Lightning went to go grab the shiny red gem lying on one of the tile spaces. He lifted it up and grinned at Rainbow and I. As he was still in amazement that he was holding a fortune in his hand, an arrow shot straight him from the walls, and if it weren't for that gem that blocked it, he would've been a goner.
Staring at from where the arrow came, he gently set the gem down and backed away.
"Well, um, this room is booby-trapped." Lightning said still a little shaken that he almost died.
"Yeah, I probably should have warned you considering all the adventuring books I've been reading. I sort of saw that coming." Rainbow said with a toothy grin that tried to cover up her mistake.
"Well, that would have been nice…" Lightning said grimacing.
"So, how do we tell if we're about to get pierced by an arrow head?" I asked Rainbow.
"Well, if I remember correctly, there should be a pattern to the tiles on the floors." Rainbow said trying to remember the first Daring Do book she read.
I looked closely at the tiles, and sure enough, there were different inscriptions on each. Some were cages, some were predators such as Gators, Lions, Tigers, Bears, and only a few were mice.
"Well, this makes no sense." Lightning said. "How are a bunch of animals gonna tell us how to get out?" He said.
"Um, well, the amount of predators to the mice is huge. If I were, me, I think I would chose the path of the mice." I said.
"Seems legit." Rainbow said while prancing on over to the tiles.
"Lightning shouted, "Wait, shouldn't we test it with a stone or something?"
"Nah." Rainbow replied as she jumped to the first tile. Nothing happened.
"Yeah! Come on lightning, let's go."
After a series of jumping and hopping tile to tile, we finally arrived at the final jump, and it was pretty long.
Rainbow went first, and stuck the landing like a pro, Lightning followed, and it was now my turn. I decided I was going to reach the other side in style, so I got ready to do a super cool flip to the other side. I jumped using my wings to help a bit, did my flip and landed on right tile just barely. I tried to regain my balance, but I slipped off, and before I knew, a stroke of heat flew across over my head. I ducked, having a bit of my mane singed just a bit, and ran as fast as I could towards the others dodging arrows and flames the whole way there. Finally, I made it, and by the time I got there, I was a tad charred. I grinned embarrassed at my stunt, and they both started laughing at my "graceful" landing.
"Haha Storm, you sure are something." Rainbow said still chuckling a bit.
"Yeah, I know. I'm honestly just happy to be okay right now." I said examining myself.
"Well, you're sort of bleeding from that burn mark you got on your flank." Lightning said gesturing towards the burn mark just a little above my cutie mark.
"Oh. Wow, I couldn't even feel it. Until now anyways… Ow…" I said.
"Well anyways, we gotta keep moving. I'm already getting sick of this place." Rainbow said looking around with disgust at all the spiders and insects crawling everywhere.
"Yeah, let's move on." I said while opening the old creaky door to the next room.
"Ugh, can't we just go home already?" I thought to myself as we all trotted slowly into the next room.
End Author's Note:
Yeah, I think I would want to go home too…with a handful of all that treasure of course.
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