Daring Do and the tale of the one from Ponyville

Everypony knows that Daring Do doesn't actually exist, she was a fictitious character in a series of adventure books written by an unknown pony, everypony but two, and they wouldn't speak a word of it if their lives depended on it.

That aside, Miss Cheerilee had just finished class for the day.

She was busy reading through test papers as she walked and was often commenting to herself, some of the particular comments were "hmm, apparently Diamond Tiara has a crush on Pipsqueak aww so cute, anyway... Oh! That's interesting, Scootaloo got top marks, that is rather, strange." When all of a sudden something made her almost faint.

Twilight Sparkle, surrounded by many a excited pony, was reading aloud something new, something that had not been seen in 10 years.

It was a new book, a new volume of Daring Do.

It was fresh off the presses, or so it looked, Twilight must have gotten it from Canterlot, as she had connections in the book stores there, allowing her access to all the newest titles.

Cheerilee's heart rate went up through the roof as she dropped everything, including half of the classes test papers and ran straight for a barn on the horizon.

Within the hour she had made it to Apple Acres and was sprinting towards the main house.

She literally ran through the door leaving a comical pony shaped hole and hurriedly looked around the room for something, or somepony.

Her heart rate lowered a bit when she saw what she was looking for, resting in the rocking chair was a green coated mare with a grey mane from old age with the cutie mark of three apple pies, it was none other than the legendary Granny Smith.

Granny was currently reading a story to the two sisters, Apple Bloom and Apple Jack.

Apple Jack bolted upright from her laying position on a green couch and stared at the panicked Miss Cheerilee and said "What in tarnation is goin' on Miss Cheerilee? I mean its great to see y'all but what on earth was the crashin' through the door about?"

Both AJ and Apple Bloom stared at her but Cheerilee did not return it, she was still staring at the now bewildered Granny Smith.

"S-sorry about the d-door you two, b-but I really need to speak with Granny Smith in p-private if you don't mind."

Apple Jack gave her a angry and confused stare, but decided to give her the benefit of a doubt, "C'mon Bloom, lets go see if Big Mac needs any help." She exited, dragging a protesting Apple Bloom with her.

Miss Cheerilee waited for about five to six seconds and checked if they were being listened to and then sat down on the couch next to Granny Smith in the rocking chair.

"Jade, "she began "It happened, they published a new one, you know what that means, don't you Jade?"

Granny Smith suddenly bolted upright and lost all trace of her old ladies voice and eyes flew wide open.

"Yes dear, yes I do."

To understand how any of this makes sense, we need to go back, far, far back to a time much different than the one today.

It was roughly the 1930's and the entirety of Ponyville was gathered around the tree house awaiting a very special visitor.

As it happened a sixteen year old Miss Cheerilee, known as simply Samantha to everypony else was with a twenty two year old Granny Smith (Jade being her first name), standing at the edge of the crowd eagerly awaiting the said celebrity.

The VIP arrived, sounded by a roar of applause and cheers as she stood on the other side of a velvet rope.

It was the one, the only Daring Do herself, in her green jacket and usual safari hat shaking hooves and signing autographs as she made her way along the velvet rope.

Samantha Cheerilee was different from the present day version, her hair was smooth, long and flowing, with spikes at the front and a radiant beautiful face.

As miss Do drew closer, Samantha's heart rate slowly began to raise, until she was face to face with the teenage adventurer.

Daring looked at her with a raised eyebrow as she signed a copy of Daring Do and the golden idol of Chachapoya and said "Don't have many fan fillies, good to see I have some fans that aren't all drooling guys." and she winked at her.

Jade Smith simply looked down and Samantha and said calmly "well, that went well, no rabid fan attack, no fainting ponies and only seven ponies with exhaustion. I think that went rather well, considering her mass of fans."