The Saving of Celestia

Chapter VII

Twilight was scanning the map as they travelled west to Checkpoint B. Twilight realised the kidnapper must of had someone else with them or else he would have to take the princess to Checkpoint B and wouldn't of been at Checkpoint A.

"everypony be on your guard there’s got to be another kidnapper at Checkpoint B" Twilight said.

They were about half way there when they got to a mountain, the map didn’t mention a mountain. the path drawn out on the map went right over it.

"What do we do here?" asked Pinkie Pie

"Fly over it!" said Rainbow Dash

"Yeah? How am I supposed to fly over it I don’t have wings! Duh!" said Pinkie Pie

"Then grow some!" shouted Rainbow Dash.

"Stop arguing!" said Twilight "we can climb over"

"Ugh" said Rainbow Dash "I suppose so..."

They got to work climbing the steep mountain to find Checkpoint B; everypony was finding it hard to climb such steepness,

“Argh!” Shouted Applejack, “I cant take it anymore!”

“Too bad” said Rainbow Dash smugly “you’ll just have to try harder…”

“I bet you anything, you would be struggling if you didn’t have your wings” Applejack replied, very angrily.

They argued for hours but Twilight and the others were too tired too intervene. When everypony finally got to the top of the mountain, they could see another cave in the side of a ravine that the other side of the mountain led into.

“Look! Checkpoint B” said Twilight “we’d better get moving”

Everypony started to walk down the other side of the mountain, into the ravine, there were torches burning outside of the cave, It might as well of had a banner that said ‘CHECKPOINT B HERE!’ on it.

“Its another cave!” said Pinkie Pie

“Really?" said Rainbow Dash, sarcastically.

“Silly Dashie, its obviously a cave!" said Pinkie,

“Ugh” said Rainbow Dash as she face-hoofed.

They carried on climbing down towards the cave, Twilight started thinking about what they would do about the other kidnapper there and what we would do about him or her. Will they be a Pegasus? Will they be a Unicorn? Or maybe just an Earth Pony.

“Oh Twilight stop worrying, It’ll be fine!” she thought to herself as they approached the cave. Twilight could hear noises coming from inside the cave, it sounded like someone talking to himself, in a worried voice, It was definitely was a male pony.

“When will they be here?” he asked himself “what’s going on?”

“Who are you?!” he shouted to the entrance of the cave, as he saw the silhouettes of Twilight and Rainbow Dash.

“Were here for the princess” said Rainbow Dash as angry as she was confident.

“What princess?” he said, sounding worried.

“Princess Celestia” said Twilight

“What? Princess Celestia? She’s at her castle!” replied the pony shakily,

“I know your lying, its obvious” said Rainbow Dash

“I don’t think he is” said Twilight

“What?” said the Stallion from the dark, "lying?? Why would I be lying?”

“Its obvious!” shouted Rainbow Dash “he’s so nervous!”

“Yeah…” said Twilight “why are you nervous?”

“Because my friends are late” he said “we were supposed to meet here ten minutes ago”

“And?” said Rainbow Dash “why would that make you nervous?”

“Well, I needed them to help me with something” he said “I found something in the cave”

“Found what? Was it diamonds?” said Rarity

“Um…” said the stallion “no, it was a fossil, we found it yesterday and decided to come and dig it up this morning, but there late”

“Ooh! A fossil!” said Twilight excitedly

“This is no time to go digging up fossils Twilight” said Applejack “the Princess needs our help”

“Cant I just take one quick peek?” Twilight asked

“Ugh, hurry up then” said Applejack

Twilight ran off into the cave giggling excitedly.

“Who are you anyway?” asked the male stallion, he was still out of view

“Oh us, I’m Applejack, and their names are Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie Fluttershy and Twilight just ran into the cave” Applejack replied “who are you then?”

The stallion walked out into the light, he was dark blue and had a lighter blue mane; his cutie mark was two music notes,

“I’m Noteworthy” he said, he wasn’t very nervous anymore “so lets go and see what that Twilight is doing”

They all walked into the cave were Twilight was staring at a huge rock with these markings in it that kind of looked like the outline of an animal, a lion standing on its hind legs?

“Its an Ancient Manticore fossil!” shouted Twilight “do you know how rare this is?”

“Uh no, me and my friends just saw it when we went into the cave” Noteworthy said

“I have a bad feeling about this…” whispered Applejack to Rainbow Dash

“Hmm” said Rainbow Dash

Twilight was just about to blow some dust off of the edge of the fossil when the whole thing came to life, well, it looked like that. The Ancient Manticore fossil broke into tiny pieces like an eggshell, underneath was a real live Ancient Manticore.

“Where are you going?!” shouted Rainbow Dash as Noteworthy ran out of the cave

“Your Princess is in another castle” Noteworthy shouted back

“What the hay is that supposed to mean?!” Rainbow Dash shouted back.

Just as Rainbow Dash had finished shouting back to Noteworthy she turned and saw the Ancient Manticore smash one of his huge paws into Twilights face

“Twilight!” she shouted.

She was angry now and flew towards to the stupid Manticore and kicked it right on the nose

“You mess with my friends, you mess wi-” Rainbow Dash shouted ,but was cut off by the Manticore’s paw in her face.