Daring Do and the Ring of Faikok

It was a particularly busy day in Canterlot. Several antique stores had recently opened, that drew a lot of customers from far and wide. Suits could be seen coming in and out of the stores. Some were there to admire the wide display of artifacts while others came to buy and trade. Rings, necklaces, paintings, clothing to exquisite chairs and tables. There were just some of the millions of items displayed in the massive stores.

As closing time approached, every anthro began to leave. One of the antique store owner by the name Gilbert, was closing up for the night as her locked up several artifacts in their respective display cases. He was interrupted when the bell that hung behind the entrance door, gave a ring, indicating that some anthro had entered. Gilbert looked back to see who it was. Before him stood a mare who had light brown fur. She wore a white, silk dress that was almost similar to Princess Celestia's royal gown. Her black and grey shaded mane peeped out of her white sun hat. She was also wearing black, designer glasses that prevent one from seeing her eyes.

"Oh, umm.... are you closed?" the mare asked in a calm innocent tone.

"Uh... yes... but I could spare a few minutes for you if you would like." Gilbert said.

"That would be wonderful." she said with a gleaming smile.

Gilbert scratched the back of his head as he asked, "So... uhh... what are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for something..... ancient," she said as she walked around looking at items, "something... umm... extraordinary and has an interesting story into it."

"Huh...." Gilbert said as he put his left hand on his chin, lightly tapping his jaw, "well I do have a lot of ancient stuff, but about an interesting story...... hmm...."

The mare continued walking as she looked at some artifacts that really caught her eye.

"Ah.. there is one thing." Gilbert said as he removed a small red box that had a gold design edges, from a drawer.

The mare approached him with great interest of what was inside it.

He opened the box that revealed a silver ring. It had ancient writing on its edges, surrounded by small images of  dragons. On top of the ring were 2 dragons coiling around each other in one huge circle. One dragon was orange, while the other was blue in color. On each dragon there were ting ancient writings as well and at the center, where the two dragon heads met, were two symbols.

"This is the ring of  Xaralil." Gilbert said.

"Is it authentic?" she asked.

"No, but it is a copy of it. It has the exact description as written in the books." he said.

"So tell me more about this ring." she said as she examined the design of the ring.

"Well, this ring was originally created by 2 gods. Sonro, who could control ice and Ramel, who could control fire. They gave the ring their powers since they had no heirs to inherit their power at that time." he said.

"What do you mean 'at that time?'" she asked.

"Well according to this scripts," Gilbert said as he removed several old, brown papers. "during the time of their death they had no descendants who were able to take over their powers. Legend has it that there are very few descendants of the two gods who were scattered all over the world. The descendants had a unique mark on their body to show that they were from their kind. So they decided to keep the power in a ring,that was hidden in a temple in an unknown area. Only the pure descendants would manage to find the location of the ring and the determined and strong in heart would overcome the challenges in store for them." he said.

"I see." she said remembering something, "What about these writings?" she asked pointing at the ancient writings on the ring.

"No one knows what it means since it is some old equestrian language that only some descendants might understand." he said.

"Hmm.... interesting." she said as she rubbed her right, finger on her chin, rubbing lightly, "Very interesting. So, how much is it?"

Gilbert looked at the ring as he said, "Well, considering that it isn't the original ring.... ummm..... 1000 bits."

The mare knew for such an exotic thing, there had to be high cash involved. "Hmm?" she said. If she wanted to get the ring for a lower price, she had to do a little.....'persuasion' which she was quite talented at.

"Well I'm sure," she said as she walked around the stallion, "you can lower the price for me."

"I'm sorry miss, but I can't" he said.

"Come on," she said laying a finger on his chest, as she moved it around with a sadistic smile, "no one will know, we are all alone."

Gilbert blushed lightly as he said, "With all due respect miss. I honestly can't lower the price just like that. The ring took a long time to be made, its materials and its......."

Before the rather handsome, orange stallion could say and\y more, the mare pulled him by his grey shirt into a kiss as they swapped tongues. The stallions poor mind was now jumbled up and confused since that was the first kiss he has ever gotten in a loooooong time. Especially from a gorgeous mare. The mare knew she had made her kill as she slowly broke off the kiss.

"Does that change your mind?" the mare asked in a sadistic voice, whispering in his ear before giving it a gentle lick.

Gilbert, who was quite stunned as well as a bit hard said, "Umm.... I could sell it for 750 bits... nothing less."

The mare gave out a cute smile as she said, "Now that wasn't so bad wasn't it?"

The mare took out her bit card from her wallet as she gave it to the store owner. He removed the agreed amount of bits as he said and gave it back to the mare. Gilbert gave her the box which contained a ring and added a ribbon on it.

"Could I take the papers with me?" the mare asked.

"Umm... sure... I guess I wouldn't need them any more." he said.

"Thank you." she said as she took the papers and head for the door.

The mare opened the door as she looked back at Gilbert giving him a last smile as she said, "It was nice meeting you. Lets do this some other time.

"I hope so too miss." Gilbert said as he watched her walk away.