The Secret Sisters

~Daring Do

    I trot down a small creek and find a deep cave, trying to forget the incident from earlier today. I lay down some stones into a small circle and gather some fallen sticks and branches. When smoke began to rise from the branches vigorously being rubbing together, I heard a sharp snap, but ignored it for a rock tumbling down.

    After lighting the fire, I grabbed my stuff and scooted closer to the heat. I heard a roar of thunder tumbling in and watched as a dark, black cloud rolled into the forest. As the first few, fat drops fell, the cave seemed to look brighter, I took out my journal and open it to a new page. I tried to concentrate but dazed off staring blankly outside where the ground became damp. I blinked hard and slammed the book shut, and rolled closer to the flames, drifting off to sleep.

'Fire. It was everywhere and everything. I rushed as the meadow behind me burned to ash, I couldn't turn around to look, it was catching up to me. Orange tongues begin to nip at my sides, adrenaline pumped through my veins, pushing me to my limits. Though the entire time, I was mesmerized by the sparks soaring into the inky, black sky. They danced with the stars, but only momentarily, they dived back to the earth and started new little fires.

I stared down on one in-particular that flew in front of me, instead of flying to the sides. It landed right at my hooves stopping me dead in my tracks. There was nowhere to run. The spark grew into a blaze that met with the main fire, I was surrounded, trapped. It was my worst nightmare.'

  I jerked my eyes open and jumped to my hooves. I glanced around, nothing was wrong, the fire was now only smoke, ash, and anything left in the pit was burnt-to-a-crisp wood. I noticed a small slip of paper sticking out of my journal, it looked as if it was torn from an article, but I had no idea where it came from. I walked out to the river and packed up my things, refilled my jug of water, and left.

   While I traveled down the creek, I studied the piece of paper.

...in Saddle Arabia. These are extremely da...

        ...both of them appear...10,000 years...

...portals...Once anypony enters, they can not escape.

   I put the slip of paper in my pocket and continued down the river, I was curious to see if anything had happened to the split, or maybe even who put the paper in my journal. I came to a turn and at that point, I could see the peak of the hill. I ran and found myself at the foot of something much different from yesterday.

   The hill seemed as if it was once a volcano that had erupted. The split had turned into a crater, I trotted up cautiously, not knowing what to expect. The rim of the crater was like a cliff, but the middle was very different. It was like a funnel cloud, wide and not very steep for 30 yards, but it changed into a steep narrow drop down into darkness. I flew closer to the narrow gap and noticed a tiny purple light. I thought I was just seeing things, but I was wrong. VERY wrong. It would change my thoughts on the world forever.

     The light began to swirl upwards, turning to a shade of teal. I stepped back nervously, not having any idea what was happening. Lightning began to spark from the gap, I jumped back just in time before it shaved my mane off. It was then that I got scared for the first time in my life, I heard screaming. My fur stood straight up, along with my back. My legs began to buckle. I couldn't do anything, I was too nervous. The screaming became louder and the blue light closer. I fell over when lightning almost hit me, then it happened. It seemed as if the world had just exploded.

   I woke up dizzily, I barely opened one eye, somepony was looking at me, but I couldn't even make out if it was a mare or stallion. It was blue, for sure, and looked as if it had a rainbow mane and tail that wasn't taken care of very well. She was staring at me wide-eyed, I scooted back and jumped to my hooves. "A-are you... D-daring Do?" She stuttered.  "Yea. Why does it matter so much?" I muttered."But-but you're only a book character!!!" she cried. I brushed off the leaves and grass and actually looked at her for a moment, finally recognizing her. It WAS her, Rainbow Dash. My idol as a filly, but I grew up and realized she was only a fictional character.

   I shot a confused look at her, speechless. "Rainbow Dash?" I said quietly. "You know my NAME!?!?" She hollered. "Uh... You're only a book character" I pulled out my book: Rainbow Dash and the Changling Attack. She studied it with a questioning look, and pulled out a book: Daring Do and the Griffin's Goblet. I stood in amazement. We trotted back to the cave I spent in the night before, Rainbow asked tons of questions about me and I asked loads of questions about her.

   "Where is Equestria?" I asked puzzled. "Wait, we aren't in EQUESTRIA!?!?!" She hollered nervously. "Sorry but no, we're near Saddle Arabia." I answered a bit disappointedly. She stood up and started to trot back into the direction of the split. "Where are you going!?" I shouted to her. "Home" she replied.