Daring Do and the temple of Earth

The darkness of the forest had encircled us. It was midday, yet, it looked like night time in here. It was so unnatural, from the trees, to the animals, to the weather. Tea Cup looked the worst, even a twig snap would cause her to leap up in fright. Venturing deeper in the forest was quite scary at some points, luckily, we haven't seen a single Timberwolf. Those horrific beasts were made with magic and broken twigs. Yet, they can rip off a ponys' flesh in seconds. The death toll caused by these thing were unimaginable. Cockatrices were another big problem. One glance at their eyes and you would be stone.

A bush rustled, and Tea Cup gave a shout and wrapped her entire body around Silver like a scaredy cat.   Silver struggled to get her off. That pony has quite a tight grip, to my surprise. Clucking came out of the bush (*and then a Scootalo appeared* A joke i found, not to be mean. I like Scootalo) and then a chickens head appeared.

"Oh look a chicken," Tea Cup said, leaving Silver and went to take a closer look at the chicken.

"Tea Cup, I don't think that is a chicken," Silver said nervously. The rest of us nodded in agreement.

"Nope, chicken. I will prove it to you," Tea Cup began to grab the chicken

"TEA CUP, NOOOOO!!!" We shouted but it was too late. Tea Cup grabbed the chicken head and pulled it out of the bush. Turns out, we were stupid an it actually was a chicken. For about 5 minutes of having it we met a very hungry crocodile. Silver did the reasonable thing and gave the croc the chicken. Poor Tea Cup cried for about 30 seconds before becoming her happy, unusual self.

We stopped at a rotting bridge. The twine was falling apart and the wooden planks were soggy with some mold. "How are we going to get across?" asked Tea Cup. "It looks unstable, we should probably turn back," She laughed nervously.

"Duh, wings," Daring flared her wings, grabbed Tea Cup and flew across with her. Tea screamed the entire way, flailing her hooves in all direction. While flying she had her eyes shut. She squirmed, she wriggled, she did everything she could to get on the precious ground again. "We're here, you can let go of me now," Daring said. Tea Cup looked down and saw that she was only a few inches above ground.

"Oh... hehe," Tea grinned sheepishly.

"Your turn," I said, unfurling my wings.

"I got a better idea. Tie this rope on the other side, and do a hitch knot and an eight knot," Silver directed. I flew over and tied one end of the rope to a tree that wasn't rotting. Silver tied the other end to another tree. She then pulled out a simple harness and a pulley. She was going to zip line across. Putting on her harness and placing on the pulley to the rope, she first flicked it to see if it was secure. A few steps back, then, she ran a fast a her legs could carry her and zipped (no pun intended) across one

side of the gap to the other.

"Why couldn't I do that," Tea whined.

"Because you haven't been zip lining before," Silver replied. Then, she took of the pulley and then took off the harness. Tea Cup pouted.

"Come on, that castle is only a few feet!," Daring galloped into the mist. Silver followed her towards the abandoned castle. Looking at Tea Cup, I motioned her to follow me. She quickly shook her head no. I grunted and pointed my head towards the castle. Tea Cup latched herself on a tree, not going to budge.

"Tea Cup, you know, I am going to the castle with the others. That means you will be alone," I commented, trotting into the mist.

"NO WAIT! COMEBACK! DON'T LEAVE MEEEEEE!" Tea Cup whined. I trotted back to the mist.

"Come on, be a good solider," I said to the pony hugging the tree. "Or do you want to be left there?"

"But I don't want to be a good solider. I'm not even a solider," She stated. I did the only thing that could possibly get her off the tree. I brewed tea.

I sat down, and then called Silver and Daring. We all circled around. Daring made a fire and Silver gathered more fuel. I look around for a plant that was good for tea. I looked around, mostly, I saw poison ivy and poison oak. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted lavender. I walked over to it and plucked some of its' blossoms. All that I needed now was some chamomile, it's good for the mind. I did a 180 turn and scoured for them. Green tree, brown tree, yellow, brown, black, pink, green, brown, yell-. Pink! I turned to face the tree, I walked towards it looking at it closely. Is that a cherry blossom? It is a cherry blossom. But why would it be here. Doesn't matter, cherry blossom was still a good tea component.  I flapped my wings and got some of the trees soft pink petals. I landed back on the dirty earth. I guess this will have to do. On the way back, I saw some chamomile. Yes! I hastily grabbed some leaves and flew all the way back to the small campfire.

Silver had just poured a cup of hot water. I placed the ingredients into the tin cup. "Are you sure this is going to-,"

"TEAAAAAAAAA!!! GIVE IT TO ME." Tea Cup shouted aloud. A blur came over and took our makeshift tea pot/cup.

"Hey that was our tea!"

"IT'S MINE, ALL MINE!," The crazy mare shouted, galloping in the distance

"I can't believe it worked," Silver whispered. Daring and I nodded.

"Tea Cup, since you took our tea, you have to do us a favor." Daring Do said.

"What kind of a favor?" She appeared from behind and scared the daylights out of us. "Lemme guess... I KNOW! You want me to come into the Castle where the could be giant spiders that could eat your face or changelings that could impersonate us! OKAY! I shall do it for TEA!" Placing her hoof over her heart she swore that she would do this favor-no matter how scary it was-to go into the Castle.

"I swear, she is related to Pinkie Pie."

The mist enveloped us once again as we traveled into the mysterious Castle of the Two Sisters