Daring Do: And the Divine Crown of the End

Diamond and Daring Do follows the guards’ instructions on how to get out of the temple, they took a right path first, then the left, and they made it out of the temple.

“I didn’t even think they would have another way out.” said Diamond.

“Probably we wouldn’t have gone this way.. If you didn’t set off that trap.” said Daring Do.

“Hey! That wasn’t my fault, the temple was so dark I couldn’t see anything.” said Diamond. “Besides, if we haven’t cheered the Princess up, we wouldn’t have the crown right now.”

“I actually didn’t wanted to sing, but it was worth getting the crown.” said Daring Do.

“What are you talking about?” Diamond asked.

Daring Do then started to get nervous a little and started to sweat.

“Wait… you did this, so you can just get the crown and not worry about the Princess? You didn’t want to show her the best time ever. You just wanted me to distract them!” said Diamond starting to yell.

“*sighs and started to glare* I never would've done it, but this isn’t Equestria! We can’t just keep singing songs, and try to make friends and expect for everything to workout. It’s not enough, we are not enough.” said Daring Do a little angrily.

“No, Daring Do, we stuck together, I had a feeling she should come out more, and we were gonna get the help we needed, the only thing that stopped us, was you.” said Diamond as she points a Daring Do.

“Well I’m doing the best I can to protect it. It’s always on me, I’m the one Caballeron wants, I always work alone.” said Daring Do as she turns and walks away a little.

“You’re also the only one who doesn’t seem to trust her fans!” Diamond yelled.

“Well maybe I would’ve been better off without any fans like you!” Daring Do yelled at her face.

Diamond gasps and her pupils started to shake and hangs her head down with her ears drooped on what she said.

“Don’t bother coming to my home, and don’t bother seeing me again.” said Daring Do as she walks away from Diamond.

“B-But.” said Diamond as she reaches for her.

“I don’t want to see you again. Goodbye, Diamond.” said Daring Do.

Daring Do began to run off back home.

“Daring Do, Wait!” Diamond yelled hoping she would wait.

But Daring Do kept running off leaving Diamond behind. Diamond then felt tears coming to her eyes, and runs off more deep into the forest. After a few hours of running, she finally stumbled by the bridge where Daring Do actually hid the book. Diamond looks at the tree with the 3 leaves, opens the secret compartment, sees the book, places her bag down, but then heard a clunk in her bag, she opens it and sees that she still has the crown.

“I-I can’t believe I still have the crown, I must’ve forgot to give it to her.” said Diamond as she looks at it, then at the book. She glares, and takes the book with her, and flies straight home with both the book and the crown. As soon as she got back, she places the bag in the attic close to the photos of her with her best friends. She gets out of her attic, and lays on her bed, with her face lying on her pillow, and started crying. A few seconds after she started crying, there was a knock on her door. It was Rainbow Dash and Pinkie, she opened the door.

“Uh.. Diamond?” said Rainbow Dash as she peeks in, and looks at her.

Rainbow closes the door and goes up to Diamond.

“Diamond, you ok?” Rainbow asked as she places her hoof on Diamond’s back.

Diamond looks at Rainbow with her eyes a little red and puffy from crying, then Rainbow started sitting on the bed right next to her.

“Woah, Diamond what happened?” Rainbow asked concernedly. “What’s the matter?”

“Yeah, why are you crying?” Pinkie asked.

“*sighs* It’s a long story, Rainbow, but I don’t want to explain it.” said Diamond as her voice cracks a little.

“Come on, you can tell us, Diamond.” said Pinkie as she rubs Diamond’s back in comfort.

“*sighs* I can’t say it, girls, but I can show ya.” said Diamond.

Diamond then started grabbing Rainbow’s and Pinkie’s heads.

“Woah.” said Pinkie as she got her head grabbed and being pulled close to Diamond.

“H-Hey, what are you-” said Rainbow as she got her head grabbed and being pulled close to Diamond.

Diamond then uses her magic to show Rainbow her memory that was in her head. After the flashback, Diamond stops, and Rainbow looked shocked, and Diamond whimpers.

“Woah… Diamond, I…” said Rainbow shockingly.

Diamond just sighs again.

“I can’t believe Daring Do would say that to you.” said Pinkie with a little glare.

“*sniffles* I know.” said Diamond.

Rainbow then gave her a hug, and Diamond started crying on her shoulder.

“It’s ok.. everything’s gonna be ok.” said Rainbow as she rubs her back in comfort.

Pinkie strokes her mane in comfort. After a few minutes of crying, Diamond then started to calm down, gently pushes her away, and wipes the remaining tears in her eyes.

“One question, what was that thing that you and Daring Do were carrying?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah, I’m curious about that.” said Pinkie confusingly.

“*sighs* Come with me.” said Diamond as she gets up.

Diamond, Rainbow, and Pinkie goes up to her attic, Diamond gets out her bag, and shows her the Divine Crown of the End, and the book about it.

“Woah..” said Rainbow shockingly and amazingly.

“Ooohhh....” said Pinkie shockingly and amazingly.

“This is the Divine Crown of the End, this crown actually tried to destroy Equestria once by somepony. But years ago, Starswirl the Bearded hid it away into a Forest Temple which is 4 miles away from Daring Do’s home, hoping that nopony would find it. So when I found out that Dr.Caballeron wants it, I got help from Daring Do, when we got into the temple, we found an underwater kingdom under the temple. Me and Daring Do were turned to Sea ponies and-” Diamond explains but gets interrupted by Rainbow.

“Wait hold on… You.. and Daring Do.. turned to Sea Ponies?!” Rainbow asked as she got very excited.

“Yep.” Diamond answered.

“Wait.. I thought the queen is only able to turn ponies to sea ponies.” said Pinkie.

“That’s what I thought.” said Rainbow with her eyebrow raised with Pinkie.

“The queen must’ve given the pearl to the princess, when she had to go somewhere or something.” said Diamond.

“You mean, Princess Skystar? She has her own kingdom? How is that possible?” Pinkie asked.

“No, she didn’t, there was another princess inside the temple. Her name was Princess Mythical. The queen must’ve have a second princess.” said Diamond.

“Wow.. 2 princesses, that’s new.” said Rainbow.

“That’s something I can agree on.” said Diamond.

“So does Daring know you still have it?” Pinkie asked.

“No, she doesn’t, I would, but we got into a fight, and she doesn’t want to see me again.” said Diamond as she hang her head down a little with her ears droop.

“What?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah.” said Diamond.

“Hmm. Well hopefully she’ll come to her senses.” said Rainbow.

“Yeah, cause’ that was rude.” said Pinkie concernedly.

“Me too, Pinkie.. Me too.” said Diamond as she looks at both Rainbow and Pinkie.

Pinkie goes up to Diamond, and wraps her arm around her. Diamond looks at Pinkie and gave in a little smile, and Pinkie smiles back at her.

“Listen, I gotta go, I have a wonderbolt training I need to go to, I’ll see ya later.” said Rainbow as she’s about to walk out.

“Ok, see ya later, Rainbow, and thanks.” said Diamond with a little smile.

“No problem, Diamond.” said Rainbow as she flies out of her room leaving Diamond and Pinkie alone.

Diamond looks at the crown and the book, then goes to her window looking outside with Everfree Forest and sees the Forest Temple she went to.

Should I give the book and the crown to Daring Do, or should I keep it safe and not give it to her? Diamond thought. What do I do? What am I gonna do?

“I don’t know what to do.” said Diamond.

“Maybe you should take it back to Daring Do.” said Pinkie.

“But what if Caballeron tries to get it from me before I give it to her?” Diamond asked.

“Hmm.. good point.” said Pinkie.

“I don’t what I should do, Pinkie.” said Diamond.

Pinkie and Diamond starting singing on what to do. After the song, they both look at each other.

“Think about it, Diamond. Ok?” Pinkie asked.

Diamond nods yes. Pinkie leaves and Diamond stays by the window for a while.

Maybe I should give to Daring Do.. but then again, I should keep it til’ Caballeron never returns for it. Diamond thought before going to bed.

To Be Continued