Post Author's Note:
Hello once again audience!
Don't really have much to say today except the usual OC Villains entries still needed.
Um, yeah that's it, so here is the mythical CHAPTER SEVEN!
Chapter Seven: Rock and Roll
We had gone through the doors and entered a decently sized room that was dimly lit except for a glimmer of sunlight shining down upon a miniature pyramid-like structure, which held upon it a glamorous hunk of a diamond that would have had Rarity flipping out.
There appeared to be no other escape from the room except up from where the sun was shining through.
"Guys, I think we all know what will happen when either of touches that thing." Lightning said reminiscing his incident.
"Of course you do." Dash Remarked. "You kind of almost died."
"All right guys, so we knows what happens when we touch it, but how are we going to get out of here? There doesn't appear to be any means of escape except that hole up there." I said pondering our options.
Rainbow looked over at me as if I had just missed the punch line to a joke.
"WELL, then don't you think we should climb up and outta here?" She asked expecting a positive answer.
"Yeah, but you wanna try climbing up there? If you can't tell, it is pretty high up." I said trying to shoot down her past comment without hurting her feelings much.
"We could, stack ourselves perhaps? Lightning said.
"Lightning, that idea is…actually pretty good." I said reflecting over this new method of escape.
"Let's get to it then!" Rainbow said excitedly.
We trotted up to where the huge diamond lay and stared at it with lust.
"Remember, whatever you do, do NOT knock it over okay? Who knows what kind of traps we could spring." I reminded everyone.
They both nodded and proceeded to climb to the point where the diamond lay. Since Lightning had the most upper body strength out of all of us, he was to be the base of our little tower. I would be second, and Rainbow would be at the top because of her wing injury and all.
Lightning stood extremely close to where the diamond lay, as it was the second highest point to the top. I clambered on Lightning's back trying to gain my balance, and I saw it was about one more pony to reach the top.
"All right, Rainbow's turn." I said nervously.
I tried to grab Rainbow's hoof to try and bring her up on top of me, and I could hear Lightning grunting from underneath. Hold on Lighting, I thought to myself.
Rainbow was almost on my back, but she was struggling a bit trying not to further injure her wing. Her hoofs scratched up on Lightning's back a little bit and he let out a little yelp, but she was almost at the top of our makeshift ladder.
"You okay down there Lightning?" I asked in between breaths.
I heard him grunt a little and then get out, "yeah, I'm fine."
Finally Rainbow reached the top, and by this point I was tired, and Lightning was extremely tired. Rainbow tried to reach up to the opening in the whole and use her teeth to grab a vine and pull herself up with the help of her hooves as well of course.
Rainbow grabbed the vine and clenched it between her teeth and said, "I GAH EHT!"
Which I think was "I got it."
"Great!" I yelled. "Now pull yourself up!"
Rainbow flapped her good wing and used all her effort to pull herself up.
Under all the stress of pulling herself up and keeping her balance, Dash didn't realize that she was biting the vine harder than a dragon bites his gems. She clenched her teeth even more on the last leg up, and the vine snapped.
"WAAHH!" She yelled, and fell off, rolled onto me, who fell on top of Lightning, who stumbled over and knocked the jewel off its resting place.
Dear sweet Celestia we were screwed.
Rainbow was lying on the ground moaning in pain, and it looked like she had fallen on her broken wing this time around.
I shot up as soon I had realized that the jewel was knocked over, and Lightning did as well.
We both froze anticipating certain death, but instead, the area where the light was shining simply closed shut, and another cave door opened up from where a dirt wall was in the room, revealing a downward slope.
Lightning and I both sighed in relief, and then we tended to Rainbow was still on the floor, and, crying?
"Are you crying?" I asked.
"NO!" She snapped. "I'm, sweating out of my eyes." She sniffled.
"Well, we're almost out of here." I said. "I can feel it…"
"Come on Storm." Lightning said. "We'd better get outta here soon."
"All right. Here, I'll carry Rainbow on my back, and we can switch later. You need the rest." I said.
"Well, if I'm not going to carry anything, can I at least take the diamond with us and we can like, split it when we reach the surface?" Lightning asked eying the gem.
"Fine. Hey, it might just pay off our Academy bills!" I said excitedly. "Yeah, take it, and let's go."
Lightning nodded, helped Rainbow carefully onto my back, got the gem and we started for the slope.
It was a narrow slope down with torches lined up on both sides, and it appeared to be extremely deep. We trotted a few yards down when we heard the clanking of an ancient mechanism.
"What was that?" Lightning asked.
"You heard it too?" I asked.
We heard a rumbling and tumbling towards us at great speed was a huge boulder that looked like it had been sitting for ages.
"OH SHIT" I yelled.
Before I even turned to run, Lightning was already soaring down the slope at a great speed.
I took off too realizing I had wings as well. My flight was extremely strenuous with Rainbow on my back, but I managed to outrun the boulder…for now anyways. I was lagging behind, and soon Lightning escaped my sight, and the boulder was getting ever closer.
"Hang on Rainbow!" I yelled.
I was surprised she hadn't said anything up to this point. All she did was moan in pain as if her wing was the only problem at the moment.
That boulder was gaining, and I could now see Lightning coming into view again…what was he doing though?
The Huge hunk of rock was literally on my backside and I felt my tail brush up against it a couple times. I could now see what Lightning was doing. He was holding a gate open!
That brave stallion!
I flew ever quicker to make it in time so that Lightning wouldn't get crushed.
We were yards away from the exit point and the rock was directly behind, and the crushing gate was directly ahead. The final leg, any mistakes here, and we were all finished.
I gave it everything I had, dashed through the gate, tumbled across the floor and hit a wall.
Then darkness overtook me and I was out.
End Author's Note:
Hmm… Gems? Huge rocks? That scenario seems vaguely familiar…
Sorry for late post, but I made it in time. HAHA, SCREW YOU TIME! YOU CAN'T BEAT ME!
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