The Secret Sisters

~Rainbow Dash

     I stood up and began towards the hill, hoping to make it home. After only a minute of walking, something crashed into me, knocking the wind from my lungs. I stood up and saw a tan pony with a black and grey mane laying on the dirt path. Daring.  She moaned and stood up, and regained her balance.

    "Home? What do you mean 'Home'?" She questioned. My eyes grew restless, "HOME, as in Equestria... Like I tried to explain to you..." I turned around and began to trot away when my tail was jerked backwards. "Sorry, but you're not going anywhere" Daring said. "Yes I am, I am going home, don't care what ya say." I corrected. "Well, if you DO go, you'll probably end up floating in an endless black space, not Equestria" She convinced me to stop and glare at her questioningly.

    "What mumbo-jumbo are ya talking about now?!" I shouted. Daring pulled out a small piece of ripped paper and began to explain. "It looks like it's been ripped from an article or somethin' but it says here, 'anypony that enters can not escape'." My eyes bulged out of my head and I jerked the paper from her hooves. "Where did you get this!?" She shrugged and gave me a disappointed expression. "I dunno".

   My head shifted sideways and I stared at her, with Daring giving me the same look. "You look a bit more familiar than I read in the book." She said. "It doesn't matter right now, where did you get this!?" I hollered, the forest echoed and a few birds screeched and flew off. She shrugged again, "It showed up in my journal this morning..." I groaned and slapped my hoof against my face, dragging it down dramatically.

  So how was I supposed to get home? I have NO idea. Turns out, when Twilight said, 'Like a tunnel connecting 2 dimensions!' I was just LUCKY to get to the other dimension. I flew back to the cave with Daring, she tried to explain to me she would figure something out and I wouldn't have to worry and I would get home soon... but I still slumped away, ignoring her.

   It was mostly the same thing everyday, wake up, fill up some water bottles, and be on our way. I starting to realize how Daring Do is so famous for just traveling, it's freaking hard work. It's just walking, what's so bad about it? EVERYTHING. Bugs biting and itching, the lack of water, and food, the humid air, the heat. It's all just too much. Now I know why I hated traveling to other countries when I was a filly.

    I would complain every once in a while to try and get Daring to speak, but she would just ignore me. "How can you stand these bugs!?" No answer. "It's so stinkin' hot! Are you?" No answer. "Wow, about a pint of water left in this thing..." I shook the bottle dramatically. No answer. And so it went on, slicing branches away in complete silence, I had no idea why she wasn't answering me...

   "So... Where are we heading?" She stopped and turned looking back at me, she had a bored expression printed on her face,

"We're going to Saddle Arabia... What else do you wanna know!?" Daring asked in a tired, monotone voice. She turned around and continued in silence, and I kept my mouth shut.