The Road To El Herdado (Equestria)

by xGavlar

Chapter 1 : And So Our Adventure Begins

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In the land of Equestria there lived an magnificent ancient city of gold called El Herdado. It was said that it was build by the divinities also meaning by gods, that saw fit to bestowed. The equines that are living in the city believed it as a gift of a paradise. But all this was granted for only one millennium, and it has past the millennium. So the equines had to relay on who would look after the city and its citizens. Two Ponies took that task, two alicorns ponies, one that was male and the other who was female, his wife. They became leaders of the city and raised two children. They were both female, one was called Celestia who was the first child to be brought to this world, She was made with fur of pure white and had a mane and tail that had the lightest shade of the colours of the rainbow. The other sister was named Luna, She was made with fur of navy blue and her mane and tail had the colour of the night sky that sparkled. The husband and wife have never been happy in all their lives and lived on with their beautiful daughters.

Years have past since then, and speaking of the two sisters, during a sunny day in a temple. Celestia and Luna were having an argument about Celestia's plan of seeing the world outside the city. Celestia is wearing a white cropped tube top with a thin red stripe and one thick pink one and breechcloth-like bottom garment. Basically a bikini but native style. Luna on the other hand was wearing the same thing but instead of the colours white, red and pink. Hers is black cropped with a thin navy stripe and a dark blue think line and a black breechcloth-like bottom garment.

"Sister you can't leave the city, not without at least some guards to protect you. What if our parents find out your missing!", reasoned Luna.

"Sister, I'm quite capable of taking care of myself thank you. I'm only just wanting to see what's out there, what there is to discover" Celestia replied in a soft but firm tone.

"Sister, please listen", Luna pleaded. "I don't want to see you getting hurt. I reconsider you stay in the city and forget about this".

Hearing this brought a smile to Celestia's face, she slowly walks up towards Luna and gives her a sisterly hug, which Luna happily returns back

"I'm glad that you're caring for me Luna, but you don't need to worry I'll be fine." She said flatly, ending the hug and looks at Luna. "I'm only going to be gone for a little while", She turns heading to the temple stairs.

"Sister, Answer this" Luna said timidly, Celestia turned facing her. "What would the gods think of this?"

Celestia looked at a wall on of the sides of the temple, showing a picture of two manly human looking gods riding a mighty horse and underneath them was a citizen praying at them.

"I don't know sister... I don't know..."

One week before the Sister argument.
In The Marketplace Of Seville, Spain

"Seven!" Shouted Tulio as he rolled his dice.

"Alright!" Happily shouted Miguel as the dice stopped, showing a two and a five making the seven. They both high-fived and Miguel played a tune on his small guitar and Tulio picks up the dice. Then they started singing there own made theme while Miguel gives it a good tune with his guitar.

"Tons of gold for me, ha!", Tulio singed.

"HEY!"

"Tons of gold for me, ha!", Miguel sang after Tulio.

"Tons of gold for we, ha!, They both sung simultaneously.

"HEY!" shouted an angry voice that was from a balled headed sailor. "One More Roll!" he said as he pulled out a finger.

Miguel and Tulio shrugged, "uh guys, your broke! You got nothing to bet with!" Tulio said, rubbing his fingers in a money gesture, emphasising on the word nothing.

The balled head guy looked at his crew with a smug. "Oh yea..." he brings out a scroll from his shirt. "I've got this" then unfolds it, revealing a map.

"phff, a map..." Tulio deadpanned.

"A map?" Miguel said amazed.

"A map" the balled head guy replied. "Of the wonders of the new world."

"Wow..." said an amazed Miguel, while Tulio's enthusiasm didn't seem to care of the map, also making him sigh.
He tugs on Tulio's shirt, "Lets have a look."

Miguel starts reading on the descriptions on the map and takes the map from the man to get a more closer look at it. Tulio on the other hand wasn't giving a care about the map so he turned and headed off, but was stopped as Miguel pulled him closer to the map.

"Give us one moment please", Tulio said to the crew and looks at the map with his friend.

"Tulio look." He said patting the map with his hand, "El Herdado, City of gold. This could be our destiny... our fate."

Tulio rolled his eyes, "Miguel, If I believed in fate I wouldn't be playing with loaded dice!" he said, proving his point by showing the loaded die, which showed seven. Miguel made a begging face, dog sound like whine. "No not the face" he then started making a series of faces, "Oh no-no no no no..." The last face was like a dog with a paw out, with his tongue sticking in and out, begging. "no, no, NO!" Tulio continued.

The map owner took the map back from them making Miguel doing a dog whine sound. "I said One More Roll! My map against your cash."

They both look at each other, Miguel giving him a tempted smile, Tulio sighed 'Don't make me regret this Miguel' he said thoughtfully before agreeing with a nod. "Alright Peewee your on" he starts shaking his dice.

The one now named Peewee put his hand out, stopping Tulio. "Not with those. This time we use my dice" he said bring out his own pair of dice.

"err...", Tulio said dumbfounded.

"Got a problem with that?" Peewee asked with a serious angrily tone. Tulio shook his head putting his own away and taking peewees dice. he gives a angry stare at his friend and mouths "I'm going to kill you" also doing the gesture with the finger across the neck. Miguel shrugs and points at himself with an uneasy smile, hoping it wasn't towards him. Tulio turned back forward and began to gamble. He starts doing every single good luck shake he knew from the book, from rubbing the dice with both hands to rubbing them with his armpits, "Come on baby, we're gonna need that crappy map...".

While he was doing that Miguel start playing his little guitar, giving quite a serious playing face, while also flirting with one or two women in the crowd. Is it me? Or does Miguel take his guitar playing WAY to seriously?...

"Stop it!" Tulio growled through the skin of his teeth, Miguel giving back a nervous smile.

"Show. Me. Seven!" Tulio said, rolling the dice. All eyes were on them. One die stopped on the three side, while the other was still spinning. Tulio and Miguel bit they're bottom lips while peewee holded his breath. The other die stopped... revealing the four side.

Tulio moved both hands away from his covered face as the crowd shouted in disbelieve, "Seven?!".

"Alright!" Miguel said as he happily took the map from the gold pile.

Tulio "Seven!" laughed crazily as he still couldn't believe his luck. "Well nice doing business with you" he cradled his gold closer to him underneath.

But fate had another idea for him, as his own dice fell out from his shirt pocket and rolled in front of peewee, showing a total of seven.

Peewee took the opportunity. He bashed the ground with his fist making the dice jump but after each bash the dice will and always showed a five and two making the total of seven. "I knew it!" He said angrily. Tulio grabbed the dice and hosted it back into his shirt pocket, "You're dice are loaded!". Tulio and Miguel decided it was time they headed off, so they turned and ran. "After them!" shouted the angry sailor. They ran up a couple of boxes and make it above a small building rooftop, Tulios footing after the last box made the stacks of boxes and barrels tripped and crash to the ground making it impossible for the chasers to catch them now.

"Thank you all for coming, You've been great see you soon", Miguel continued before dropping at the other side of the building.

"Adios", Tulio joined the drop with him. They both slumped to the ground and decided to compliment on each other.

"Congratulations"

"No you, that was good"

They kept complimenting each other until there was a heavily breath snort to the side of them, they both turned to face the animal that Mooed at Miguel which was full of black and had red eyes full of hate that was staring at Miguel, they appeared to have landed inside a bulls den.

"We should of looked before dropping I think...", Miguel said uneasily.

"Yeah... Umm, Miguel I have a plan." Miguel nodded back, "You... Pet him... And I'll... RUNNNNNNN!". He rushed as fast as he could away from the bull leaving his partner behind.

Miguel Ran after Tulio, catching up to him. "Aw jeez thanks a lot!" he jeered, as the bull made the chase. They both climbed over the high fence but with stupendous strength the bull bashed the fence making it snap off the sides, They continued running away until some angry sailors caught their sights.

"There they are!" One of the sailors shouted. Chasing after the two but instead retreated after seeing the bull.

The two ran and jumped for their lives while being chased by a black bull, angry sailors and a battalion of Spanish guards geared with swords and crossbows. So after swinging from washing lines and dodging crossbow bolts they made it to a dead-end which is on one of the firing stations above the docks. They both look down spotting two open barrels filled with water "I bet we can make that", Miguel said.

Tulio looked back seeing the guards getting closer to them. "Two Pesetas says we can't".

"Your on!" Miguel shouted just before jumping, Tulio following behind. They screamed and threw arm out as they got closer to the barrels. When they landed inside the barrels... "You lose" Miguel taunted before 2 coins were flicked into his barrel and both closing each other.

Unknowingly to them their barrels where being craned onto a ship that was ready to depart.

"What's happening Here!", Tulio asked worriedly.

"Umm... We're both in barrels. That's the extent of my knowledge", Miguel replied.

As the barrels were soon on board, Both pushed out the corks that was at the sides of the barrels, unfilling the water out so they could breath. Tulio devised of a way out.

"Ok Miguel we got to move fast. On three we jump out and head for the docks", He said firmly.

"Good good ok excellent", Miguel replied quickly.

"Ok one, two, Three!" They said simultaneously. But the plan failed as they both couldn't open the barrels. "Three" they said again, but the same happened. What they didn't know is that a heavy chest was placed on top of them, blocking them from opening the barrels.
The ship then set sailed, being its journey into the new world.

What have seem to be days, was Hours. Three hours our two heroes have been inside those barrels, the sun was setting as the sea ran smoothly. Miguel was about to give up getting out, but Tulio is never the one to give up easily.

"Come on, one more. We can do it" Tulio said, Miguel agreed.

"One, Two, THREE!" They said together, shouting three as soon as they popped out of the barrels like pop-eye pirate. Eyes of the ships crew started at the sudden two with evil grins and stares. The crew started slowly circling the two, making it impossible to make an escape.

Lock and bounded from the neck and hands they were send to the Captains deck where they became face to face with a familiar Spanish Conquistador. "Cortes..." Miguel said in a whisper.

"My crew was as carefully chosen as the disciples of Christ, and I will not tolerate stowaways." He said, cracking his knuckles, making Miguel gulp. "You will be flogged. And when we port into Cuba to re-supply, God willing, you will be flogged some more. And then enslaved on the sugar plantations for the rest of your miserable lives. To the brig."

"Alright, Cuba". Miguel beamed, before both were dragged away to the ships brig.

Hours passed again as our heroes were out of the fire and into a another. In the brig Miguel was lying down resting while his buddy thought of a way out. Through the roof of the brig a sudden red apple dropped from the deck above and landed on his stomach, Miguel awoke and held the apple in his hand, admiring it. The sound of a human skull knocking on a think wooden plank was heard as Miguel moved closer to Tulio, has he was doing what has just be described.

"So err... How, how's the escape plan coming?", He timidly asked.

Tulio stopped hitting his forehead, looking back at him with a black eye replaced on his left eye. He replied back. "Wait... Wait, I'm getting something. Yeah..." before continued knocking his forehead back on the think plank. A lightbulb appeared in his head as he stopped again and mentioned Miguel to lean closer, describing the plan.

"Ok here's the plan." He started, "You and I are gonna grab some supplies, hijack one of those longboats and then... Row back to Spain like there's no maƱana!" He ended firmly.

Miguel wasn't getting this plan of his, "Back to Spain, in a rowboat?". Tulio nodded. "Great. Sensational. And that's your plan, is it?" He asked sarcastically.

"That's, pretty much it...", He said quite anxiously.

Miguel just all of a sudden beamed, "Well I like it! So... How do we get on deck?", Sounding truly delighted. Tulio paused staring, as he didn't really thought about this before the first part of their plan. He replied with a sheepish chuckle. "Oh, great..." He said bored.

"Well, then, what's Your idea, smart guy?!", Tulio shouted in a annoyed tone.

"Wha-What do you mean? You're the one that comes up with the plans!" He replied back less annoyed.

The sound of a horses neigh was heard and gave Miguel an idea with the apple he held in his hand. "Get up, I've got an idea. Give me a boost" Tulio did what he was asked and gave Him a boost up to the roof that leaded to the deck above.

On deck was Cortes's Fateful War horse named Altivo who was sniffing around the deck for something, Tasty. That is, until a voice called out to him.

"Hey Altivo! Look what I've got here!" He shouted to him in a whisper, waving the apple around. "You want the nice apple? Come and get it!" Altivo slowly trotted forword to him, keeping both eyes on the delicious apple. "But you have to do a trick for me first! All you have to do is find a pry bar. It's a long piece of iron with a hooky thing and the end.

"Miguel, you're talking to a Horse!" Tulio deadpanned.

Altivo trotted away, "Yes, that's it boy. Find the pry bar!", Miguel Continued.

"Yes, "Find the pry bar". Tulio jeered quietly. "He doesn't understand "Pry bar"! He's a dumb horse, there's no way he'd..." He stopped as a set of keys were dropped into the brig unexpectedly.

"Well. Its Not a pry bar".


Author's Note

Look... I know its mostly the movie parts but the chapter which they arrive at the city will have parts of my own in it. So if your gonna hate this because of this chapter, give it a chance. At least read until they get to the city which is chapter 4 when it comes. If you still don't like it, then I understand. Hope you guys enjoyed it! Also Please if you dislike it explain why in the comments.

P.S - First Time doing Crossover :pinkiegasp:

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