"Well damn!" Caleb yells out looking over the interior of the inside of the temple.

Dark statues lie everywhere either standing proud holding swords, spears, and bow and arrows, or just crumpled up on the floor. The windows are taller than anything the three have ever seen. The temple is truly bigger on the inside. It seems to go underground and upward nearly into the sky as well.

"I have to say... The books didn't tell me it was so... big..." Markus says.

"Well! Lets get to exploring! I'm sure that we'll find something in here!"

Markus walks forward talking to the group.

"Alright! Now lets all stay together and not split up just in case one of us gets trapped or." He turns around and finds the two gone already.

He turns back around to see Indie going up the stairs and Caleb going down them. Markus sighs.

"Oh well..."

Caleb kicks the rusted doors off their hinges and walks into the room. He immediately takes notice to all the different columns leading down the hallways to another door.

"Lets see what you got hiding in there."

Caleb jogs forward ready to reveal the many things this place has to offer. He feels something sink under his foot. He looks down to see a piece of stone sinking into the floor. He scratches his head and just lifts up his foot. Something slams behind him followed by a thing of armor falling down holding a gigantic sword in front of him.

"Oh hell yea! A challenger has appeared!" He yells throwing up his arms as they envelop into fire.

He runs forward towards the gigantic suit of armor. He jumps up and thrust out his arms making a column of fire cover over it. The armor doesn't seem to be affected and just thrust its' sword through the flame. Caleb barely turns in the air to miss getting skewered. He grabs the arm of the armor and launches himself up towards the head opening of the armor. He holds a fireball in his left hand and throws it just as a hand reaches up to grab him. The fire ball goes inside but a scream doesn't follow.

He clearly sees inside to see that it is, in fact, a empty shell.

"What! How can it be mov... Magic... right..." He says as the armor grabs him out of the air.

The armor throws him across the room and runs towards him sword sliding against the floor cutting through the stone of the ground. Caleb rolls across the floor till he hits the resealed doors. Caleb rolls right as the sword slides up missing cutting him in half.

"Close!" Caleb says getting to his feet and jumping around the side of the empty armor.

The armor swings again with a full circle momentum. Caleb jumps up using a fire boost, flips, and ignites his foot on fire ready to slam his foot down on the head piece of the armor. His foot comes down against the metal but it doesn't dent. He falls down and is kicked into the wall. He stares at the armor's empty head and says, "I'm going to burn you!"

The armor thrusts its sword that Caleb easily dodges after prying himself out of the wall. Caleb takes the wrist of the metal beast and ignites his hand. He presses hard against the the metal that gives way. The creature stumbles back it's other hand still on the sword embedded into the wall, but he other hand melted a bit down. If the armor had a face, than it would looked pissed.

"Come on you hunk of junk I don't have all day!" Caleb says motioning for the armor to make the next move.

The armor does so by punching at him. He jumps up and lands on the armor's hand. It yanks back only doing the thing that he wants him to do. With the speed Caleb jumps and grabs onto the armor's head and starts melting it by crushing his two hands together on part of it's giant head. The armor falls on its knees and reaches up to stop him.

"Good bye!" He says jumping to the right as the armor crushes its own head before falling to the ground with a loud clang.

"And good riddance!"

Indie felt bad for doing this to his friend. He listens to him mostly all the time, but this time he wanted to do it more on his own. A chance to explore something like this was a chance in a life time. He decided to go to the top area and hopefully find different types of map of the area. He reaches the top to find two giant owl statues standing on each side of the double door.

He studies the bronze owls. They seem so well done and not worn down like a lot of the other stuff in the building. He walks to the double doors and wings shoot out blocking the entry way.

"Wha?"

"Entry must be verified." The owls speak in union.

"Oh... Well, how do I get verified?"

"Must be verified."

Indie just shrugs and decides to go up further. To the right of the right owl are stairs leading up even further. He starts up the stairs listening to his echoing footsteps. This place fills him with peace. Unlike being in the forest, it feels as if he truly belongs here. Not just him, but his friends as well. It almost feels like home.

Walking up the stairs leads to a circular room with a giant telescope in it in the middle of it.

"Wow. I wonder how Markus would feel about seeing this?" Indie says walking around the telescope.

It is a rusted bronze and seems so fragile, yet seems it could with stand some wear and tear. He looks the way the telescope is pointed and notice the gigantic hole in the wall pointed at Canterlot. Curious, he looks into the telescope to see that its pointed right at the castle.

"Huh... spying on the enemy..."

Perhaps this belongs to humans!

With that in mind, he feels as if it is his duty to look in every room to find out if his hunch is true. Oh how great it would be to find out if his hunch was true. Perhaps this place will aid in their fight against the princesses.

Feeling ignored, Markus begins to look around the main area. Pedestals hold pearls upon them along with torches all around the room. They are all unlit, of course, but that wasn't the biggest concern of him since it was still light out. Other than going up or down, there seems to be a way around to the back of the temple. Walking around the stairs he walks into an open area. A floured garden that seems to be untouched by time and hold a variety of all types of exotic plants.

"Beautiful." He breathes out taken back from the astonishing find, "I wonder what's kept them like this?"

He walks out into the garden and studies the ground as well as certain plants. He finds nothing out of the ordinary, but it does seem to always be moist.

"Maybe this area gets lots of rain..." He says looking into the sky.

He shrugs it off and continues to look around. To the right of the garden is a fountain with a woman holding a heart in her hands and kneeling. He walks over to it and reads the plaque on the front of it.

"The final resting place for Mrs. Gardina and the peace between unicorns and humans. This garden will stay flourished under the watch of Gardina forever."

He turns around and looks over the garden again.

"A garden taken care of by a spirit... I must say, that is truly something..." He says turning back to the statue.

He can't help but wonder what's the point of the heart in her hands. Perhaps that has something to do with the garden as well. He can't quite put it together, do to the lack of knowledge he has, but he's sure it's probably tied into something about this place. He walks to the other side where there seems to be a giant stone sword. A plaque rests on the wall surrounding it as well.

"May god's holy light protect us in our hour of need. May he guide our swords to strike true against our foes and never against each other."

He sighs and looks away up into the skies.

"Seems like god has failed us huh..."

He stands there silently lost in his thoughts as he tends to do. Till the sound of hooves catches his ears...

"I'm telling you! This is where the marks are leading to!" Twilight says.

"Alright Twilight... If they're not here, I'm going back to their campsite and waiting for them to return."

"Alright alright. If they're not here than we can do that."

Fluttershy keeps quiet the entire time. She hasn't said much of anything since they've left Ponyville. She's kept herself to her own thoughts the entire time.

"Alright. I'm going upstairs. Rainbowdash, go down stairs and Fluttershy... can you wait here?"

Fluttershy shakes herself out of her thoughts at the voice of Twilight.

"S-Sure Twilight."

"Alright. If you see them yell out for us okay? Same to you Rainbowdash."

"Right! But I'm sure I could beat them up ten-"

"Yes yes yes Rainbowdash. We know you can beat them up easily." Twilight says rolling her eyes at her friend's boasting.

With a humph Rainbowdash flies downstairs quick as wit. Twilight goes up the stairs her horn lighting up with magic. As the girls hooves get further and further away, Fluttershy starts getting lost in her thoughts once again unaware of the eyes looking her way.

Luna stands in front of the throne. She knows what is behind them, but she doesn't know whether she wants to go back down there or not. She had just finished talking with the returned Celestia and Luna had asked her if she could go back down. She said she was starting to get worried for her sister and wanted to help anyway she could. She wasn't going to reveal what she really wanted to see.

"Its good to see you want to help with the cause Lulu."

Luna turns and gives a small smile to her sister.

"Well anything to help you out Tia."

"Are you sure you are ready for this?"

"I've... I've steeled myself this time." She says remembering what happened last time.

With the ignition of Celestia's horn she says, "Than come with me."

Author's Note

My attempt at making it longer without revealing too much.