Chapter 4 is here, along with the revelation of the special appearance, other than Zecora of course, enjoy.


Antoine and the girls made their way back to the center of the fort, where Fluttershy was waiting for them.

" How are you doing Fluttershy, feeling better", said Antoine.

" Not really, I still feel a little woozy", said Fluttershy.

" If you want, you can...", Antoine was cut off, as an arrow flew past the group hitting a door.

" What in tarnation", shrieked Applejack.

Everyone turned to see a woman on the higher floor of the fort, dressed in black and red armor.

" Who is that", said Rainbow Dash, as the woman took off.

" That must be Rogue, she's given a message that it's now time to take on the Cage", said Antoine.

" The Cage, what's that", said Applejack.

" You'll find out when we get there", said Antoine, he then turned to Fluttershy.

" If you want Fluttershy, you don't have to do the cage, you can wait here, take some more time to control your sickness, and we'll come back later to pick you up", said Antoine.

" Okay, thanks", said Fluttershy.

" Inhale the fresh air Fluttershy, and you should be good by the time we get back", said Rainbow Dash.

" We're in the middle of the ocean, she'll be inhaling salty air", said Twilight.

" Well at least the next time she faints, she'll be smelling salts", joked Rainbow Dash.

Once the group left, Fluttershy looked at the tigers who were in the treasure chamber, as a way to take her mind off the chef incident.

" Oh, you poor creatures, having to stay in there all day, out in the heat, I sure hope you've all been well fed", said Fluttershy, " And I sure hope that if you have been well fed, that's it not from other people who tried to get in the chamber".

Little did she know, someone began to approach her, and not long after, grabbed her.


Antoine, Sunset, Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Rainbow Dash arrived at the cage arena.

" We are halfway through the first quest, and you are still four keys short, this is the cage, run by the red Princess, Rogue", said Antoine.

The seven girls looked in shock at the woman sitting on the throne, dressed in black and red.

" Luna, is that you", said Pinkie Pie.

" SILENCE, THOU SHALL NOT SPEAK, UNLESS SPOKEN TOO", shouted Luna/Rogue.

" She's definitely staying in character, is she", said Applejack.

" So, you came to try and grab the forts treasure, and how many keys do you have exactly", said Rogue.

" Five", said Rainbow Dash.

" Childs play", said Rogue.

" Great film, scary, but great", said Pinkie Pie.

" I mean your first half of the key journey was too easy, this is where things get more difficult, three of you will compete in three of my duels, against three of my warriors, succeed and you win a key, fail, and you won't", said Rogue.

" This will be at the price of three tokens by the way, one per duel", said Antoine.

" What's the first duel", said Sunset.

" Allow me to introduce your first opponent, Mr Boo", said Rogue.

It was then, a muscular man stepped forward into the arena.

" He's the guy who hit the gong, and he's also the guy who'll take us to the dungeons if we got locked in the rooms", said Pinkie Pie.

Rouge then points at a small black urn next to her.

" This urn contains seven pieces of parchment, each with your name on it, I will draw a name from the urn, and whoever's name I draw will compete as Mr Boo's opponent, but as I sense one of you is not present, her name will not be drawn", said Rogue.

And so, she reached her hand into the urn, and then later, she pulled out a square piece of folded up parchment, she unfolded the paper, and read out the name.

" Applejack", said Rogue.

" Oh boy, here we go", said Applejack, entering the arena.

" The first duel is a simple arm wrestling duel, one round, win and you'll earn the key, a chance to redeem yourself from your recent mistake, but first, payment", sad Rogue.

Applejack then gave Mr Boo her remaining token, who then gave it to Rogue.

Mr Boo approached a table and stuck his arm out, Applejack did the same thing as both arms were linked.

The challenge started, and while Applejack was showing a lot of effort, Mr Boo was winning.

Just as he almost claimed victory, Applejack made a recovery, and began pushing her arm up.

But it didn't last long as Mr Boo began pushing down again, only this time, Applejack's arm hit the tale, thus giving Mr Boo the win.

" Ouch", said Applejack, holding her arm in pain.

" Are you alright Applejack.

" Yeah I'm fine, just a little bruise, but nothing serious", said Applejack.

" An excellent effort, but sadly you failed, I told you things will be more difficult", said Rogue.

Applejack then rejoined the team.

" Don't worry girls, there is still two more challenges to face here", said Antoine.

" Challenge number two the opponent will be, Lady Boo", said Rogue.

The group all looked in surprise as a familiar woman entered the arena.

" That's the woman who beat Applejack in the wrestling challenge", said Pinkie Pie.

" Darn, I would've love to go up against her, and even the score", said Applejack.

" Or fail against her twice", said Rogue, causing Applejack to glare at Rogue.

Rogue then reached her hand into the urn a second time, and drew another name, from the remaining five names in the urn, opening the paper, she read's out the name.

" Sunset Shimmer", she said.

" Whoop her hide Sunset", said Applejack.

Sunset then entered the arena.

" In this next duel, you'll both be hanging onto bars, and hold on as long as you can, they will rotate and spin, first to fall looses, last one hanging wins", said Rogue.

After Sunset gives Rogue her remaining token, she and Lady Boo grabbed onto the bars, and it raised up, their feet being 4 ft. in the air, the challenge began.

The bars then began moving, but neither Sunset or Lady Boo reacted, they both kept their grip, neither of them struggling.

After a couple of minutes, Sunset's hands began to hurt, and she started to sweat.

She looked at Lady Boo, only to see that she wasn't struggling.

" How is she not struggling, I sweat that lady has military training", Sunset thought to herself.

After some time, Sunset felt herself slipping, she felt like her arms were gonna give, and eventually, she lost her grip, and fell off, ending the challenge.

" It was a shame it came to this, two challenges taken part, two challenges failed, for me, the fun has been doubled, hopefully you can be successful in at least one of my challenges", said Rogue.

Sunset made her way back with the group, checking her hands to see if they have any blisters, thankfully, there wasn't any.

" Let me do the next one", said Rainbow Dash.

" BE STILL", shouted Rogue.

Rainbow Dash stayed put.

" The final competitor is well agile for his age, Little Boo", said Rogue.

It was then a young lad entered the arena.

" He looks like he's the same age as us", said Pinkie Pie.

Rogue then reached into the urn for the third and final time, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Twilight looked on wondering who will be picked.

Rogue then pulled out, and unfolded the paper, and revealed the third name.

" Pinkamena Dianne Pie", said Rogue.

" Well, wish me luck girls", said Pinkie Pie as she entered the arena, and she gave Rogue her token.

" This duel is about reflex, in front of you is a large cross, filled with buttons, in which you must hit before your opponents when they light up, the first to win 10 points, wins the duel", said Rogue.

Pinkie Pie and Little Boo stood in front of their target.

The challenge began, one of the buttons lit up on each cross, but Little Boo got his before Pinkie.

" You need to be more quicker Pinkie", said Rogue.

In the next round, Pinkie Pie got her target quicker, evening the score, one all.

" You both still need 9 points to win", said Rogue.

Pinkie Pie got the next three, while Little Boo was still with only one point, Pinkie Pie was three points ahead.

However little Boo got the next three afterwards, and the gap thinned, and they were both even again, 4 all.

And the next strike afterwards, resulted in Little Boo overtaking Pinkie Pie, but only for a short time, as Pinkie Pie evened the score again, but that also didn't last long.

Little Boo got the next three, and was two points ahead of Pinkie Pie, and he only needs two more to win.

Pinkie Pie however wasn't giving up, as she tried again, only for Little Boo to win another point, and was only one point away to victory.

And finally, Little Boo won that point, and the game was over.

" Zero victories, how disappointing", said Rogue.


Fouras chuckled as he watched the group leave the cage, empty handed.

" Such a pity, all three duels in the Cage, failed miserably, and nothing changed, they are still liable to getting up to six penalties", said Fouras.


After leaving the cage, the group made their way back to the center.

" So this is what they meant by volunteering, they came to Prance to volunteer as actresses for the show, and doing so during the summer break is the best opportunity as any", said Sunset.

" So if Luna's here in the fort with us, does that mean Celestia is too", said Pinkie Pie.

" As actresses, no offence, but, while Luna was outstanding back there, Celestia isn't known to be that good of an actress", said Applejack.

" People can change, whatever Celestia's is doing, I'm sure it'll be good", said Twilight.

Antoine then cleared his throat, as the team turned their attention to him.

" Okay, recap time, we have five keys, and although we failed to collect any in the cage, we still need four more keys to access the treasure chamber, who still has a token", said Antoine.

" I do", said Twilight.

" Me as well", said Rarity.

" I also have one, and so does Fluttershy", said Rainbow Dash.

" Okay, four keys needed, four more challenges to face, excellent, as long as we don't fail anymore challenges, we should be fine", said Antoine.

" What happens if we don't have enough keys, by the time we run out of tokens", said Twilight.

" Hopefully it won't come to that", said Antoine.

" Wait a second, where is Fluttershy anyway", said Applejack.

" She's probably still sick from that chef challenge, and went to the sick bay", said Rainbow Dash.

" I don't know what she's complaining about, she didn't have to eat the food", said Rarity.

" Pig's blood, plus she's a vegan", said Rainbow Dash.

" Don't you mean vegetarian", said Twilight.

" Same thing isn't it", said Rainbow Dash.

" Uh, no, it isn't", said Twilight.

" No matter, I don't think she's in the sick bay", said Antoine, leading the group to the nearest screen, showing Fluttershy, in the gypsy's room, drinking a glass of water, and the gypsy was with her.

" It is now her who must face the gypsy, this time, she is playing for double the value of gold", said Antoine.

Fluttershy looked at the 15 cards, and she made her first choice, revealing a gold tiger, the gypsy then placed 10 gold coins into the brown bag, and when Fluttershy made her second choice, revealing another gold tiger, 20 coins was added, giving her a total of 30.

" If she finds all the gold tigers, she can get up to 1,050 gold coins", said Twilight.

Fluttershy then made her third choice, and the card was revealed to be the black tiger, much to her dismay.

" Oh dear, she had greater odds that Sunset, and she lost", said Pinkie Pie.

" Looks like once again were at 0 coins, out of a possible 1,575 coins you could've won in both rounds at the gypsy's room, but never mind, the treasure chamber has a much greater fortune inside anyway", said Antoine.

Snails then arrived to give Antoine the next scroll, for the next challenge.

" The Temple of Destiny, well, it'll soon be noon, time doesn't stop for anyone", said Antoine.


Fouras once again chuckled at what he saw.

" Nothing has changed, maybe there successes earlier was nothing more than beginners luck, and they are still liable to getting up to six penalties, with what's to come next, I don't think they stand a chance, especially as they cannot afford to fail anymore challenges", said Fouras.


And that's it, the cage duel is over, next chapter the girls will take part in the rest of the challenges in the first stage of the journey, and the next chapter will determine whether or not the team have enough keys for the chamber, until then, peace.