Daring Do: And the Divine Crown of the End

Back inside the temple.

Diamond tries to use her magic to lighten up the place, but it’s blocked like it’s under a spell or something.

“It’s not letting me use my magic.” said Diamond.

“Ohh.. I forgot to mention that this temple actually prevents unicorns and alicorns from using their magic.” Daring Do explained.

“Oh, now you tell me.” said Diamond. “How are we gonna see? It’s dark in here.” she asked.

“Hmmm… there should be some light here somewhere. “ said Daring Do as she starts to look for it.

Diamond starts to look for a light somewhere. Daring Do then sees the torch light coming on her right.

“Diamond, follow me, slowly, but carefully. There could be traps somewhere in this temple.” said Daring Do as she walks to the torch light.

Diamond nods and follows Daring Do carefully in case if there’s traps where they can’t see it. When Daring Do and Diamond got to the light, and they see a lantern hanging on the wall. Diamond grabs the lantern, and gives it to Daring Do, she holds the lantern handle in her mouth.

“Stay close, and watch your step, who knows what kind of traps there could be in this temple.” said Daring Do as she continues walking down the hall.

Diamond nods, watches her step, and stays close to her in case of traps. It took them an hour down the hall of darkness, but they were getting closer to the end, cause when they did so, Diamond sees sunlight at the end.

“Daring, I see the light.” said Diamond as she points at the light in the left corner of the hallway.

“Nicely done, Diamond.” said Daring Do as she smiled.

Diamond smiles, as soon as she did that, she tripped over a tripwire. Diamond looks behind her and she sees she tripped over a tripwire.

“Uh oh.” said Diamond getting a little scared.

The lach on the ceiling went down, and a boulder rolls down, and it starts rolling towards them.

“Oh No!” said Diamond shockingly.

“Come on, quickly!” Daring Do exclaimed as she hurry to get her up.

Diamond and Daring Do makes a run for the light. The boulder was getting closer to them, when they got to the end, they leaped through it, the entrance was too small for the boulder to fit, and it made the boulder stop. Diamond and Daring Do looks behind them and sees that the boulder has stopped.

“Phew. That was.. too close.” Diamond relievely pants. “Now I know to look out for traps in these kind of temples.”

Diamond and Daring Do gets up from the ground and looks behind them again, and Diamond is starting to feel kind of ashamed, and Daring Do puts her hoof around her.

“Hey, it’s ok, everypony makes mistakes.” said Daring Do as she looks behind her. “We’ll find another way out later, right now, let’s just find the crown.”

“*lightly sighs* Ok.” said Diamond gave in a little sad smile.

Diamond and Daring Do continues walking. While their walking, the place they stumble was more beautiful than any other temple Daring Do has ever seen, and how Diamond imagines it.

“I gotta admit, this temple is more beautiful than I ever imagine.” said Diamond.

“That’s one thing I can agree on.” said Daring Do.

Diamond and Daring Do kept going on through the temple, until they see the stairs that goes down, but there was sign right next to the stairs, and its written and Japanese. They both go up to the sign.

“I… I actually can't read it for once. This is Japanese language. I've read every language, but Japanese.” said Daring Do as she tries to read it and looks at Diamond.

“Your lucky I can.” said Diamond. “Let’s see.”

Diamond starts reading it. It says: “Down these stairs and you will see. The chamber that contains the crown under the sea. If you sing the right tune to cheer up a sea pony, the crown will be set free.”

“So… what does it say?” asked Daring Do.

“It says: ‘Down these stairs and you will see. The chamber that contains the crown under the sea. If you sing in the right tune to cheer up a sea pony, the crown will be set free.’” said Diamond.

“A sea pony? These ponies used to live in this temple before this was hidden away.” said Daring Do. “What does it mean by ‘the right tune’?”

“I don’t know, but looks like we’re about to find out.” said Diamond as she looks at her.

Diamond and Daring goes down stairs, and when they got there, they walked upon the room with some Cherry Blossom flowers hanging everywhere, and Sacred Lotus flowers flowing in the water chamber.

“Wait.. so we actually have to go underwater to get the crown?” asked Diamond.

“Guess so.” said Daring Do a little confusingly.

“If this place wasn’t anti-magic proof, I would bring up air bubbles for us to breath in.” said Diamond.

“Hmm.” said Daring Do as she looks around for something for Diamond and herself to breath underwater. “Well… I don’t think we can get the crown, cause’ I don’t see anything for us to breath underwater with.” said Daring Do.

Diamond then remember on what Zecora gave her in case if it was something important that is deep underwater. Diamond looks in her bag, and she pulls the pills out of there.

“Maybe this will help.” said Diamond as she shows her the pills bottle.

Daring Do looks at the pills bottle.

“Pills?” asked Daring Do confused.

“Not just pills. My friend Zecora gave me these pills in case of something important that is deep underwater. 1 pill will give you air in your lungs. Plus, you would have the ability to talk underwater too, and no oxygen tank needed.” Diamond explained.

“Did she said when is it gonna wear off?” asked Daring Do.

“She said once you taken the pill, and once you get underwater, it will start to work, but when you get up to the surface, it wears off.” said Diamond. “We can do it as long as we need to.”

“Perfect.” said Daring Do.

Diamond takes out 2 pills, and gives one to Daring Do, and they both swallowed it.

“Come on.” said Daring Do.

Diamond and Daring Do goes underwater, and the pills’ effect is starting to work on them, they can start to feel the air in her lungs.

“How are you feeling?” asked Diamond.

“Pretty good, actually, I can actually feel the air in my lungs.” said Daring Do.

“That means it’s working.” said Diamond.

Diamond then seeing the golden light on her right.

“Daring, you seeing this?” asked Diamond as she points at the light.

Daring Do looks at the golden light Diamond is pointing at.

“That’s gotta be the crown, cause’ no other jewelry or anything valuable would be shining like that.” said Daring Do. “Come on!”

Diamond and Daring Do swims to the direction on where the light is coming from. As soon as they got there, they see the crown, they try to swim to it, but then the laser cage came out of nowhere and blocked them from getting it.

“Who dares to try to take the crown?” said ????

To Be Continued