Daring Do and the temple of Earth

I woke up to a loud banging at the barn door. "Applejack, I need to get some hay for Fluttershy," the mysterious voice said.

"Ah can do it later." I could hear Applejack's southern accent argue.

"But she need it now, or else some of her animals will starve," a bang echoed in the barn.

"Pretty sure what's left can last,"

"Nope, I am going to get some now," A louder bang.

"Ah said I will do it later,"

"She needs it now," The voice said. Another bang was heard. "If you won't let me in, I will just let myself in," A few seconds later, a loud bang came and the barn doors opened. Whoever that was crashed in the hay. I looked over at the site of the crash. A rainbow mane popped up, then the rest of the pony came out. She was a cyan blue with a rainbow mane. There was only one mare in Equestria that was like that. Rainbow Daring Dash. The only pony to do a Sonic Boom without magic. Princess Twilight did one, but she used magic to do so.

Rainbow Dash looked over at me, then at Daring Do. Her jaw dropped. If it could stretch, it would probably reach the floor. Her wing flared out and she flew towards Daring. She was going to attack her while Daring while she was sleeping. That was a low move. I flapped my wings until I was off the ground. "Oh no you don't," I raced towards her. I flew in her direction till I was next to her. She was good, but not great.  I swung my hoof at her, and missed. I moved away and then slammed into her with all I got. We started to head towards the hay stack, but I stopped myself just in time. Rainbow, however, crash landed in the hay behind Daring.

"What was that for!?," She shouted, brushing the hay in her mane out.

"I can't let you hurt A.K.," I shouted back to her, using her fake name that I heard from yesterday.

"A.K. is Daring Do,"

"I know that already. Why are you trying attack Daring. Who are you. Are you some infiltrator of sorts," I interrogated. I flew down and pinned her to the floor. She wriggled, trying to escape from under my hoof

"Crystal, who is that. Is it an enemy,"

"Daring," I flew over to her,"You are awake. That pony over there tried to attack you," I pointed to the fake Rainbow Dash. "She is an imposter,"

"No, she isn't. Crystal, meet my good friend Rainbow Dash," She flew over to Rainbow.

"What in Celestia happened to you?" Daring asked. Rainbow had straw in every place possible. She was a mess. Her mane had pieces of straw in it. Her tail was just as bad as her mane. She shook herself like a dog shaking off water.

"Hey Daring, who is that," Silver asked. Tea Cup came over next to the faker.

"It's Rainbow Dash," Tea Cup answered. She looked at me, then at Rainbow. "Did I miss something," Daring nodded.

"Crystal attacked her thinking that she was trying to attack me,"

Tea Cup rolled her head while saying, "Oooohhhhh."

"I'd love to chit chat and all, but I got to save Equestria... again.... from a national enemy of the country," Daring sighed. "Look Rainbow, we can talk later OK," She put her wing on top over Rainbow. "Besides, you always get the first copy of my book. It'll be like your there with me," She took her wing off Rainbow and walked toward us. She stood next to us and turned to face Rainbow. "See you later, you Rainbow headache," Daring saluted her and then flew off. She then came back to get her stuff. Her face had a silly smirk, the kind of face that says 'whoops, I forgot'. Daring gathered her stuff and placed it on her back. Sliver, Tea Cup and I had already got our packs on. We then walked out of the Barn.

When we walked outside, we got a chorus of goodbyes from the Apple family. The eldest, I think her name was Granny Smith, had a jar of the famous zap-apple jam and an apple pie. She gave them to us as a gift. I ruffled through my bag and got out an apple. But not just an ordinary apple, a crystal apple. They stared at it like it was a newborn filly. "Ah can't take this, ah just can't," Applejack said trying to give it back to me.

"I insist, besides, it's no ordinary apple. When planted, it will grow into a grand tree, only perfect apples grow and only blood relatives or a pony that has a pure heart may pick an apple." Applejack brought her hoof back to her side, her mouth agape.  A light-hearted laugh escaped from my lips. Granny joined in and soon everypony was laughing. The air felt slightly warmer and the sun shone ever brighter. I took a deep breath in, and then sighed, I felt as though I could take on the world. I could do anything. "I'm sorry but I think my friends and I should be going," I said. I waved my hoof goodbye and we journeyed to the Everfree.

After we passed Fluttershy's cottage. It was surrounded by bird houses and nests of other small creatures. With a thatch roof and with a small garden, her home looked very welcoming. "Find you got the music. Got the music in you," A small sweet alto voice sang. The voice was like a warm breeze on a sunny day. A yawn emerged from Tea Cup and several others followed. Silvers was trying not too fall asleep, but I could see her eyes were starting to droop. We followed the voice to see a yellow pegasus with a light pink mane. "Oh!" Her soft voice talked normally. That is probably shouting for her. "You startled me," she said to us, lowering her voice.

"That's OK," I said. "Also do you have an animal that can show us the way to the Castle of the Two Sisters?" We needed a guide, not a map.

"Uhh... no sorry, the Everfree is-is dangerous. I don't want any of my animals to go in there. It's where planets and animals... untamed,"

Fluttershy seemed really freaked out about this. I decided not to push her. We turned and left her to her singing.

We walked on the path for a little while before a spooky mist appeared. It was then followed by animal noises, when at last we reached the edge of Ponyville. The town line was marked by a line of twisted trees. We all stopped in front of it. Silver was the first to go in. She walked very slowly, carefully placing a hoof one after the other. "It's looks good," Silver said, waving her hoof to us to follow. Here we go, into the Everfree forest. I shivered. This place was cold.