The Adventure

“Hey Pinkie Pie! What’s the rush?” Rainbow Dash asked as she watched as a pink blur that she questioned was actually a pony flew through Ponyville.

"Can’t talk. Need to get to Twilight!” Pinkie squealed, speeding up to unnatural speeds. Turning around Pinkie wanted to see if Rainbow had been still following her, before accidently running into the trunk of the Golden Oaks Library, a squeaking sound radiating through the air. Falling down on her rump, Rainbow couldn’t help but burst out laughing, neglecting to notice the purple unicorn walking outside.

“Twilight!” Pinkie yelled, jumping up and bear hugging her friend.
“Umm, hi guys. Did you need something? I was just getting ready to make some breakfast.” Twilight breathlessly asked, trying to get air into her lungs under the pressure of Pinkie Pie’s hug.

“Hey Pinks…” Rainbow flew down and landed next to Pinkie, placing her hoof on Pinkie's foreleg. “I’m not doctor, but I think Twilight needs to breath.”

“Oooops, sorry!” Pinkie immediately let go of Twilight, smiling sheepishly as the unicorn broke out into a coughing fit. “ I was so excited to see you! We have so much to do today." Pinkie squealed happily causing Twilight to become even more confused.

Looking over her shoulder, she noticed Spike with her daily calendar. Shrugging, Spike turned it around to a blank page.

“Um Pinkie?” Twilight started rubbing the back of her hoof, trying to remember if they had plans and she had forgotten to write them down. “I don’t understand. Did we have plans today?”
Pinkie started bouncing in place, attempting to control her excitement. "I found the most amazing location in Ponyville! It's really cute and it's got so many items and you just have to see it! Please can we go see it? Please!?" Pinkie Pie asked excitedly. Twilight took a step back, dumbfounded at what she just heard.

“Sounds fun. I’m in!” Rainbow Dash brohoofed Pinkie, ignoring the glare from Twilight.
“You promised Applejack that you would help her with...actually you never told me what you two were doing. Judging by the books you checked out, I’m not sure I want to know.”
Groaning, Rainbow wiped her face with her hoof before taking to the air again. “That isn’t until tonight. Come on Twi!”

“No, and Pinkie I'm not trying to be rude but whatever you found is probably restricted. We can't just go into some abandoned area without knowing for sure if we could be there. If it is restricted, as it most likely is since we have never heard of it before, it will be against the law to…”Looking up, she notice Pinkie already running off to where Twilight assumed was the spot.

“Pinkie wait! Rainbow...go take a nap or something" Twilight shouted teleporting near her friend to avoid having to run.

“And miss out on this? Yeah right!” Rainbow quickly flew after them, much to Twilight's annoyance.
When they got there however, she saw her other friends approaching the building.

“Unbelievable. Girls we really shouldn’t be here. We could be breaking so many laws right now!” Twilight whispered, looking around as if they were about to get arrested or something.

“Oh come on Twi, ya act like it’s the first time we’ve been in a buildin like this” Applejack remarked, following the others inside the abandoned building..

One by one the girls crawled through a small opening in the wall that had crumbled, coughing as puffs of dust shot up from the sudden disturbance.

"I’m with Twilight. Come on girls let’s go back. We shouldn’t be messing around in here. What if Mayor Mare finds out? She’ll will be angry with us if we touch anything. Let's just go back home and forget this even happened. I don't get into trouble" Fluttershy whispered, her body trembling as she attempted to hide behind Twilight.

Twilight quickly changed her mind however, noticing the walls of bookshelves filled to the brim. “Think about what we can learn in here! Who knows how long these have been here…” Twilight couldn’t help but take a scroll out of one of the bookcases. Unrolling it she noticed that it had been a map of constellations.

"Hey check out this old chest!” Rainbow Dash tried opening it with her hooves to no prevail. Smirking Applejack went over and bucked the lock on the chest. It immediately flew open, revealing an assortment of just random things that reminded her of a fillies toy box

“I could have done that.”

“Keep tellin yerself that.”

"Look Twilight there's old dresses in this suitcase. Perhaps I can refurbish them, or recreate them. I love the rustic feel to them. I might be able to inspired my fall line from them! Rarity started pulling out them out to get a better look.

Twilight sighed, knowing they shouldn’t be there. "Girls stop! This property is restricted for a reason. I can talk to Mayor Mare and Celestia though, and see if we can get permission to be in here. We should go though.” Looking around at all the scrolls and books, Twilight cursed at herself, not wanting to go herself.

"Think about it his way, years from now this will probably be restored and everything. Right? We can get rich off this place!" Rainbow Dash threw a small metal object at Twilight. Shaking her head, Twilight levitated the object back into the box while rolling her eyes.

“Come on girls! The last thing I, I mean we need is another lecture from Celestia about being somewhere we’re not supposed to.”
A moment later a loud crash echoed through the building. Turning around everypony relaxed a little to see that it was only Fluttershy. She had been examining a mirror and had knocked it down by accident.

"Fluttershy,are you alright?" Twilight asked, looking around at the shards of glass on the ground. Fluttershy blushed and chuckled lightly.

Her cheeks turning rosy pink as her friends stared at her.

“I’m, alright. No need to worry about me.”

They continued to look over the chest, and some of the boxes they found containing old paintings and books. Looking around at the vast material surrounding her, she started making a mental note of how she should even begin to organize it when something on the mirror caught her eye.
"Huh? What's this?" Twilight asked mumbled. She took notice of how thick the mirror was. Picking the mirror up with her magic, she shook it was amazed when she heard something inside of it. She looked over, she took notice of Rarity.

"Rarity, can you help me really fast?" Twilight yelled, examining the mirror a little more.
Rarity turned her head around and blushed while laughing as she held some old jewelry in her magic. “I didn’t touch anything, I was just admiring the jewelry in this bag.”

"I know you touched it, now come over and help me!" Twilight said. Rarity ran over to Twilight, taking the mirror into her magical grasp.

"Twilight you wouldn't believe this! There was this large..." Rarity was cut off by a wall to her face. Dropping the mirror, the shattering noise echoed loudly making a noise that anypony outside would have noticed.

"Rarity please look where you’re...what is that?" Twilight watched as a sheet of paper fell out of the mirror. She furrowed her brow, Twilight cleared away the glass from around it and picked it up with her magic. As Twilight unfolded the paper, all of her friends crowded around her.
"What do you think it is?!" Pinkie Pie squealed.

“I’m not sure. It’s in a language I’ve never seen before.” Twilight turned it around and back a couple more times. “Maybe one of the books in Canterlot Castle will help?”

"You do know once Princess Celestia finds out we broke into restricted property, she's going to get super duper mad at us. Right?" Pinkie asked, earning her a glare from Twilight.
Rarity carefully took the paper from Twilight, examined it for a moment. "I know what it says. I’ve used them before in a couple of my dresses. They’re symbols meant to represent letters." Rarity explained, almost oblivious to the fact that she pointed out an obvious fact.

"Sugarcube, we know they are symbols. Can ya just translate it for us?" Applejack asked, glancing at the paper. Rarity chuckled as she nodded and leaned in to read the symbols. A couple of them were smudged or the ink had been worn out, so it took her a moment.

"If you are reading this,
then you must turn back
For sorrow and death await you.
If you must go down this path you will either
find something beyond your wildest dreams…
or you will die."

Everponyl flinched as Rarity finished reading the warning.
"Well gee that's cheerful." Rainbow Dash remarked, rolling her eyes. Twilight looked at the clue in Rarity’s hooves. On the bottom it looked like a map showing the way to something beneath Equestria

"But I don't understand. This looks like it should be in an artifact room in Canterlot. What is it doing here?” Pondering on the reason of why the map was stored away in a mirror. She continued to look at the map.

“You know what this means?” Rainbow Dash cheered, snatching the paper out of Rarity’s magic.
“Pirate map!” Pinkie squealed, literally bouncing off the walls.

Soon they heard some ponies walk past the building. Not wanting to get caught, they all quickly ran out leaving Twilight behind. Twilight groaned before running after them. "Girls come back!”
A moment later she caught up to her friends staring at a demolition crew, about to demolish the building.

"That's sad that they have to take this place down.” Pinkie mumbled
All those books!" Twilight said, before sighing in relief as some ponies arrived went in and started collect all the books. Twilight put the map in Pinkie's mane for safe keeping, as her and her friends walked away. Not wanting to get in the way.

"Come on girls! We should go!" Twilight exclaimed. Some of her friends like the idea but Fluttershy was less than pleased.

“I don’t know. It sounds dangerous.” Fluttershy whispered.
“This is going to be so awesome!” Rainbow Dash yelled, taking to her wings.

Fluttershy whimpered at her friend's eagerness. She felt a sense of adventure to, but the prospect of another quest, as they had done to many to count, made her a little uneasy.

"Girls if we found some sort of artifact or some hidden place we could start saving old historical buildings from being down." Come on! Please!" Twilight told them. They were all still a little skeptical everypony quickly decided to go, except Fluttershy.
“See you in the morning!” Twilight grabbed the map again, before everyone went home for the day.