Sky High

This chapter is Dark and contains scenes with heavy and bloody violence. I will clearly mark the specific scene in the chapter, read at your own risk. The scene is need for the story.

The next few days at Twilight's were some of the most peaceful days of Skye's life. Most of the time he sat around, reading countless numbers of books. When he wasn't reading he was outside, flying with Rainbow Dash or walking around, playing with other ponies. Every so often Dash would join him on the Library floor. Normally, Skye would read anything that Twilight recommended but every so often he would read a few Daring Do books, recommended by no pony other than Dash.

Whenever Skye was busy reading his books, Twilight was busy working on her new spell. Twilight was given a task to create another dimension. The dimension had to fit the constraints of a fiction book. She had to imagine how every single character would act and respond to specific scenarios. She must have full control over all of her characters and because of this she, herself was not allowed to travel to her made up dimension. It was recommended to her that she not put any pony in her dimension if there is any possibility of danger.

Twilight wanted to keep her spell a secret from her friends. Why? Because she wanted to surprise Dash and Skye with a chance to live in the same world as Daring Do! Momentarily of course. Twilight couldn't wait to see the look on Dash's face when she her hero, Daring Do, standing in front of her. The spell was almost ready, she knew she could create the dimension and she was pretty sure that she could make the characters properly. The only problem Twilight thought she had was monitoring her new world. She thought she had a solution for her little problem. Twilight was going to put her dimension into the book itself. Her goal was to see her friends adventure through the Daring Do universe but if that failed the book should edit itself to what her friends are doing, it was genius.

Twilight squealed in excitement as soon as soon as she was sure the spell was ready, which attracted the attention of Skye and Dash, who rushed up to Twilight's study room. Dash was the first to walk in.

“Yo, Twilight, what's up?”

Twilight made her best attempt to keep in her excitement. She didn't do a very good job as she faced Dash and slowly tilted her body. “Nooooooooothing.” She said with a huge smile on her face.

Skye was the next to speak, “Are you sure? You seem really happy.”

“What do you mean? I'm always happy! Aren't you always happy?”

“...yeah...” Skye said quietly.

“Good, now Dash, you should come over tomorrow, ok?”

Dash could tell Twilight wasn't telling her something, she decided to toy with her a little bit. “I don't know Twilight, I'm realllllly busy tomorrow.”

“Oh, ok. Well, how about the day after tomorrow?”

“Ow, sorry Twilight, I'm gonna be busy that day too.”

“We-well... how about the day after the day after tomorrow?”

“Sure, sounds perfect!” Twilight was finally relieved that she found a day Dash was open. “Wait! Actually I've got something I've got to do that day too! Real sorry Twilight.” Dash said with the biggest grin on her face. Twilight gave a sad groan as she started begging, she knew Dash was messing with her at this point.

“Please Rainbow?”

“I don't know Twilight...”

Twilight gave Dash her saddest face, “Please please please please please please please.”

Suddenly Dash burst out into tears laughing, she thought making her friend beg was one of the funniest things she's ever saw. She looked over at Skye, who had a very confused look on his face. “I'll be over tomorrow Twilight, don't worry.”

“Yay! You won't regret it!” Twilight said, jumping for joy. She turned to Skye, “Skye, do you mind staying at Dash's for the night?”

“Hey!” Dash exclaimed, “Don't I have a say in whether or not Skye gets to stay with me?”

“Hmmm... yes. Wait! No.” Twilight joked, trying to copy her friend's bad jokes, she ended up being the only pony to laugh.

“Hmpf, fine. Let's go Skye. Cya tomorrow Twilight.”

“Goodbye Twilight, see you tomorrow.” Skye managed to butt in before he followed Rainbow Dash out of the room.

“Cya later you two! I can't wait for tomorrow!”

Spiked entered the room from where Dash and Skye just left. He had overheard the entire conversation and couldn't help but feel worried. He knew what Twilight had planned to do due to her talking to herself frequently. “Twilight.”

“Yes Spike, what is it?”

“Uhm, well it's just, isn't the land of Daring Do dangerous?”

“It's not that dangerous really, besides they'll have Daring Do by their side. I'm pretty confident that those three will be able to handle themselves.”

“But what about Ahuitzotl and all of those deadly traps?”

“Oh I dumbed down Ahuitzotl, but kept all the traps the same. Honestly none of those traps should be a problem for a pegasus. It's just that most of the time in the books, there is something wrong with Daring's wings.”

“I guess so...”

“Don't worry about it Spike, just remember I have everything under control! Even if there is a problem, we'll just send a message to Celestia.”

Skye spent the rest of the day roaming around town with Dash. Every once in a while they would talk about how strange Twilight was acting and why she wanted Dash so badly. Yet normally their thoughts would be cut short due to some interruption, whether it be little pegasus running up to the duo asking for flying lessons or seeing one of their friends on the streets.

After their encounters for the day were over Dash and Skye retreated back to Dash's house on the outside of town. They walked in to a magical flying turtle slowly bonking into Dash's face. The turtle continued to try to move forward ever so slowly pushing Dash backwards into Skye. Rainbow Dash started giggling, “Haha, I missed you too Tank!” Dash reached her hooves up and wrapped them around her pet turtle, which resulted in Dash and Tank to slowly lower down toward the ground. She let go of her pet so that it could fly freely as she began to retire to her room, when she reached the stairs she realized that Skye was no longer following her. She turned around to see Skye, walking toward the couch in the living room. “Skye...” She said in a quiet, shy tone, something Skye rarely ever heard from her. Skye turned around to see Dash by the stairs, a red tint on her face. She quickly turned and walked up the stairs. Very curious as to why she was blushing, Skye followed.

Skye trailed Rainbow Dash all the way up to her room, where he saw her quickly jump into her bed. Skye looked at Dash for a few moments as she periodically glanced at him. Skye turned to leave down the stairs when Rainbow shouted, “Wait!” Skye turned back around, looking Dash in the eyes this time. Her eyes almost seemed scared or worried as she quietly spoke, “Aren't you going to sleep with me? I mean, in the same bed. No like sleep with me or anything.”

“I don't know, you seem really uncomfortable with that idea.”

“No!” Dash shouted, jumping up from her prone position, she lowered back down slightly. “I'm really not.”

Skye started walking toward her with a slightly concerned look on his face, “Are you sure Rainbow?” She responded with a little nod as Skye climbed on the opposite side of the bed that Dash was on. “Good night Rainbow Dash.”

Skye went to sleep almost as soon as he hit the bed, it was just something he was used to doing. As soon as Dash thought Skye was asleep she slowly crawled over towards him. To her, Skye was so warm and fuzzy, she wasn't quite sure why, but she snuggled up right next to him. She fell asleep moments later.

Skye was the first to wake up the next morning, at 6:30, the same time he always did. The first thing he noticed was Rainbow Dash's snout in his face, strangely enough. He thought she looked kinda cute when she was sleeping and her quiet snoring helped greatly. He didn't want to move at all or wake her up so he just decided to lay there for a few hours, waiting until she woke up.

Rainbow Dash woke up with Skye staring into her eyes, it felt warm, she enjoyed it. Well, she enjoyed it for a few moments before her face turned red and she pushed Skye off the bed. “Wha-What are you doing so close!”

“Ow...”  Rubbing his head, “You're the one who came so close to me...”

Rainbow Dash got up from the other side of the bed, stuttering. “Wha-whatever, let g-go see Twilight.” Dash quickly walked out of her room down the stairs, with Skye following right behind her. They both grabbed a quick bite to eat and left to Twilight's.

There were only a few ponies awake at this time in the morning, all of them surprised that Dash was awake and moving. The two ponies flew silently towards the library. Dash knocked on the door and waited for the ever responsive dragon assistant. Strangely there was no answer, so Dash tried again. Once again, no answer. The two ponies looked at each other before Dash shrugged and opened the door herself. Skye followed Dash in as she called for Twilight. “Twilight? Spike?” The two ponies searched around the library before they ventured up towards Twilight's study. “Twilight?! Spike?!” They called for them again, once again with no answer. Suddenly Skye saw an open book on one of twilight's pedestals. He couldn't tell which book it was, but it looked familiar, and walked toward it. Rainbow Dash followed right behind Skye, thinking he had a hunch on where their friends were.

As soon as Skye and Rainbow looked at the writing in the book their vision started distorting as the world around them began to curve and bend. The windows and books in front of them began to disappear as they morphed into trees and bushes. Small scaly creatures scurried around the ponies hooves as their heads stopped spinning or at least their bodies did. Both Skye and Dash felt like throwing up, but Skye was the one who managed to keep it all in. Rainbow spewed her breakfast up all over the tall grass and tried many times to spit out the bad taste in her mouth. Skye was right beside her with his hoof on her back, trying his best to comfort her. He looked around this strange new world. The first thing he noticed was the incredibly tall trees and the deep undergrowth. He looked forward and thought he saw some kind of brown building off in the distance. Upon further concentration on the building it appeared to be some kind of ancient ruins. Suddenly his mind began working and he remembered a description of this scene from somewhere.

The jungle can be a very mysterious and dangerous place, but not dangerous enough for Daring Do! Join her as she traverses through the jungle's undergrowth to old ancient ruins. Can she obtain the crystal horseshoe before Ahuitzotl can? Or will Ahuitzotl get his grubby little hands on it and end the world. Learn about it in the final book in the series, *Daring Do and the Herd of the Crystal Horseshoe.***

That description was at the end of the last Daring Do book Skye read and he was pretty sure he knew where he and Dash were. He heard the sounds of the undergrowth breaking, but ignored it as he focused his attention on Rainbow. “Rainbow, I think I know whe-”

Dash cut him off as she looked forward and began hyperventilating. Standing before her was none other than the amazing Daring Do. Dash had no idea what to think as she just started to speak.

“Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!! You're like, like Oh! My! Gosh! You are, you are... Eeeeeeeeiiiiiii!!!” Dash ran over to Daring before she had time to reacted and picked her up hugging her, crushing her actually. Daring managed to escape the grapple after a few moments and yelled out in a slightly more British accent that Dash and Skye imagined, “It's Daring Do... and who do you happen to be?”

“I-I-I-I...”

Skye spoke up over Dash's rambling. “My name is Skye and this excited one is Rainbow Dash. She's kinda of-”

“A BIG FAN. You are just THE. MOST. AWESOME. MARE. EVER!” She ran up to crush her hero with a hug again but this time Daring expected it and swiftly moved out of the way causing Dash to plummet into the ground. “So... Awesome!”

“Ughh, what are you two doing here? This is a remote location that practically nopony knows about. How did you get here.”

Dash continued on rambling, forcing Skye to be the one to talk. “Well our friend brought us here... maybe she thinks you need help.”

“Hmpf, me need help?! Preposterous! Your friend clearly doesn't know who I am or what I've done. What makes them think I need help?”

“Well... I can guarantee you that my friend knows all about you and I can guarantee you that you would benefit from our help.” For once in Skye's life, Skye was able to lie fluently. He really had no idea why he and Dash were here or what they could do to help.

“Hmpf, ok I'll give you both a shot but I'll tell you when you're done, got it!?”

“Yes Ma'am!” Dash shouted out, getting a chance to help our her hero.

“Yes Ma'am.” Skye said, with a serious tone in his voice. He knew that he was most likely in one of the Daring Do stories but that was about it. He wanted to follow Daring around so that he could learn why he was there.

Suddenly Dash and Skye heard a voice coming from inside of their own head, it was Twilight. “Hey guys, enjoying your time?”

Rainbow Dash burst out, “Oh my gosh Twilight! You are the best pony ever!”

“Twilight?” Daring Do asked Skye.

“Yes. She's the friend I was talking about.”

Daring Do looked at him confused but figured by the name that Twilight was some sort of magical princess that sent these two ponies on a quest. It was, of course, the only logical conclusion. Suddenly Skye heard something that he was pretty sure only he heard. Rainbow Dash was still trying to talk to Twilight, praising her for her good work. “Skye, there's a huge problem. I'm supposed to be able to control practically everything that happens but... I can't. I can't change how any pony acts and I can't change the setting of the story. I also can't hear you... but that's ok. Whenever you think or say anything the book I'm reading will edit itself so that I can read it. Try think 'ok' or something of that sort.”

Skye stood still with his eyes closed, thinking 'ok' over and over again.

“Alright alright, calm down Skye. I read all of that, it works. Don't worry about keeping in touch with me, I need to go find Spike, it shouldn't take longer than an hour... and Skye... stay safe.”

Skye promised Twilight he'd keep Dash and himself safe as he followed Daring Do toward the ruin. Apparently she had given Skye tons of information about the ruins they were about to go through and Skye payed attention to absolutely none of it. She wouldn't repeat what she had said at first when Skye wasn't paying attention. It was then when Skye realized why Twilight mentioned she couldn't change anything. He guessed that this 'Daring Do' was Twilight's best rendition of Daring Do, which explains why she wasn't as nice as he had hoped.

There was a small path of tall columns leading toward the ruins in the middle of the jungle. The columns had strange markings on them, something Skye couldn't read. They walked past the columns in complete silence until they reach the walls of the ruins. There was no visible entrance on the side they traversed, but thankfully for them they could all fly. They landed on the ramparts as they gazed upon the ruins. Surprisingly almost half of the ruins were a giant courtyard. The rest of the ruins were, what appeared to be a large pyramid. From where they were standing they could see the entrance and it was already open.

“Drat... that bloke Ahuitzotl and his lackeys are probably already inside. We need to be careful from here on out.” Dash gave Daring her militaristic salute and Skye gave her a quick nod. The pegasi traversed the ramparts until they reached the closest corner of the pyramid. The flew down the the ground, Daring taking point, before glancing inside the pyramid. The hallway they looked down seemed well lit and never ending. Daring took caution as she slowly took one step into the tunnel, recoiling back only once. “Stay behind me.” She began to venture further into the ruins.

It wasn't long until Daring stopped the party, they were probably only about 50 feet in. “Stop.” She looked closely at the ground before she pointed out what she saw. “Look, that panel has a strange marking on it. Looking at the walls there appears some sort of dart or arrow trap, don't touch that plate, got it?” Both ponies nodded at Daring as they cautiously proceeded past the trap.

The hallway eventually curved downward into a slope. Daring hadn't spotted any more traps or any of Ahuizotl's goons and Dash was starting to get a little hyper. The realization had just come over her that she was exploring an ancient ruin with Daring Do, she couldn't hold in her excitement anymore. “Psst, Skye.”

“Yeah, what's up Rainbow?” He whispered back.

“ISN'T THIS LIKE, THE BEST DAY EVER?!” Dash's shouts echoed throughout the ruins.

Daring Do stopped and turned around, she looked furious. “What are you doing you moron? Do you want everypony in here to hear you? Stop acting so stupid.”

“Sorry.” Dash faced the ground, this wasn't the hero she expected to meet. Daring Do turned again and continued forward. The first step she took caused her hoof to slowly sink into the ground. The three ponies heard mechanized contraptions running. They looked behind them as some sort of fluid started covering the floor. Before they had a chance to react the fluid was covering their hooves and they were sliding down the curving spiral.

All three ponies began to scream as they rapidly slid down the ancient slide. The end of the ride just happened to be a very large pit filled with spikes. The good news was that they were all pegasi, so they didn't have a problem with the hole in the floor. The bad news was that Daring was furious with Dash now, if Dash hadn't distracted her she would have easily seen the trap. They ponies flew to the opposite side of the pit and resumed their journey, this time in complete silence.

Before long, they entered a very large dome room. The top of the room must have been 200 feet high and from there a light shown down into the room. The walls were covered in paintings of the night sky, including accurate representations of constellations. There were four separate hallways that all went off in their own separate directions, one being the way they came from.

“Let's split up. Go whatever way you want, just don't follow me.” Daring was clearly still upset as she walked down the right most hallway. Shrugging, Skye and Dash separated, Skye going down the middle and Dash going down the left. After about half a minute Skye heard cries for help coming from the direction that Daring Do walked off toward. Skye turned round and ran back to the dome room, then down the right side hallway. After only one left turn Skye saw Daring Do, trapped in a fusillade of endless darts. It appears as if she found a sweet spot within the trap that she could stay in, but was stuck there.

“Hey you, Skye, turn this off!”

“...How?”

Daring pointed out a button on the other side of the dart trap. “Push that!”

Skye stood still, staring at the dart trap. “...How?”

Daring gave a frustrated groan. “The end of this hallway probably intercepts the one you went down. I can tell because I can see that this hallway takes a hard left up ahead. Now, Hurry!”

Skye turned around and ran back to the dome room. He knew he had to help Daring as fast as possible when he heard Dash's screaming coming from the left most hallway, it sounded like a scream of agony. “HELLLLLLLLP! SKYEEEE! DARING DOOOOOO!” Skye paused for a second, wondering who to help first before he ran down the middle hallway. He had to help Daring first, she knew what she was doing and he would help Dash right afterword. He took the first right he saw and ran for a while. Before long, he was at the dart trap Daring was stuck at.

“Good, now turn it off please.” She said as Skye walked toward the button. Before she had a chance to thank him he started talking.

“Rainbow is in trouble, I think she's hurt.”

“She's your problem.” Daring said walking past him.

“Hey, she's my friend! And she needs your help. Please Daring Do?”

She stopped and turned toward him. “I don't care! Ok? I've got a world to save and I can't waste time helping some stupid mare who shouldn't even be here. If you want her to be saved so badly, how about you go save her!” She turned back around and started walking away.

“She would help you, if you were in trouble.” Skye said solemnly but Daring just ignored him. Skye ran back to the dome room and ran into the hallway Dash went to. The hallways took a hard left and suddenly Skye saw something that confused him. There was a wall in his way. He knew that there were no other hallways he passed by and he definitely didn't pass by Rainbow Dash. He examined the wall very closely and didn't find anything strange about it. He put his ears up to the wall and heard whimpering and a low, dark voice. He knew who it was, it must have been Twilight's voice for Ahuizotl.

“So, you want to be untied huh? Well, we can do that, but it comes at a price.”

“No... not that. Stop. Let me go. LET ME GO, LET GO OF MY WING! NO, NO!!!!” Skye heard the sound of a bone cracking and the sound of Dash's wailing. He immediately started pounding on the wall, hoping and praying that he was suddenly strong enough to break through it.

“Stop! Let her go!” He screamed through the wall at Ahuizotl. He put is ear up to the wall again as he heard footsteps approaching him.

“Oh my, you aren't Daring Do. Oh well, that doesn't matter. I'm guessing that this is your mare and you'd do anything to make sure she's safe, that's how all of you heroes are. Get me the crystal horseshoe little colt and I’ll set your friend free. Fail me and she will die a miserable death... HAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Skye turned and ran, he had to beat Daring to the Crystal horseshoe, he just had to. He made a mad dash down the middle hallway and set off a dart trap that ended up send a few darts into his sides. After not too long he caught up to Daring Do who was cautiously proceeding through the hallway.

“Why hello there Skye, save your marefriend?”

“No...” He said panting. “...Ahuizotl got her, she's in danger.” He slumped down in front of Daring Do, which was strange he was normally never this tired after running. Daring look down on him and noticed the darts sticking out of him.

“You idiot!” She quickly dropped down on her knees and pulled out the darts with her teeth. “Those darts have a deadly poison on them, I'm surprised you aren't dead yet.” She looked at him with a little bit of sorrow in her eyes.

Skye managed to stand up and looked her in the eyes. “I'll be fine... I need to save Rainbow Dash...” He started wobbling, he had the worst headache he'd ever had in his life.

“You really want to save her don't you... Fine! I'll help you, but we're done after I help you.”

“Ahuizotl said he would trade the crystal horseshoe for her.”

Daring just looked at him in disbelief. “Well let's go get it then.” She turned and proceeded through the hallway. Confused as to why she didn't object, Skye followed. The two ponies soon entered into a large treasure room, with gold coins and other jeweled accessories. “Be careful, this is most likely trapped, don't pick up anything.” At the end of the treasure room was what Daring Do and Skye were looking for, the crystal horseshoe. Skye stood back as Daring Do walked up to the podium holding the horseshoe. Instead of being extremely careful or trying to be delicate Daring Do walked up the the horseshoe, quickly snatched it up, and started running. She ran past Skye as the room started rumbling. Skye followed suit, and just in time too. Right behind both him and Daring Do came a large spherical boulder. It chased them all the way down the hallway back to the dome room. Both Skye and Daring jumped out of the way of the boulder before it rolled through the room, crashing into furthest wall of the room.

“That was too easy...” Daring said, looking cautiously around the room. Suddenly the dome room started rumbling as the light at the top turned off. Daring Do started hearing the rumbling of water. “Quickly, down the hallway Dash went!” The two ponies made a mad dash for the left most hallway. They made it to the wall but Daring had no clue what to do, she started to panic. Skye banged hard on the wall, water was starting to build up.

“Ahuizotl! I have the horseshoe!”

The wall slowly opened from the bottom up as water rushed past the two adventurers, pushing them towards the middle of the new room they were in. The door closed right behind them, leaving only a few inches of water on the ground. The new room they found themselves in looked extremely similar to the dome room. Instead of the paintings of the stars, the stars were magically projected onto the walls and moved ever so slowly. Not only that but solid stone slabs floated horizontally around the outside of the dome. From the top of the dome shone down actual sunlight. Standing before Skye was Ahuizotl, holding a broken Rainbow Dash in his tail hand.

Here.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here? Did you lie to me little colt? Do you not have the crystal horseshoe?” Skye looked over at Daring Do who glanced at all of the floating slabs and the top of the dome before she looked back to Skye. Skye gave her a quick nod before he charged Ahuizotl at crazy speeds. His charged knocked back Ahuizotl, forcing him to drop Dash on the floor, causing her to cry out in pain. Skye now ignored Ahuizotl, running toward Rainbow.

“Rainbow Dash...”

She looked up to Skye with tears streaming down her face. “It hurts Skye... It hurts.”

“I know Rainbow, but I won't let him hurt you anymore. I promise.” Skye ran his snout through her wet mane, trying to give her any comfort he could. Just by looking at her he could tell that Ahuizotl snapped both of her wings and threw her around a bit. He knew it would all heal but he wasn't just going to let anypony do that kind of stuff to his friends while he knew about it. Dash on the other hand was looking past Skye. Even with her blurred vision, she still managed to notice Daring Do, escaping through the hole in the ceiling, running away from her battles.

Skye turned and faced Ahuizotl, who was now ready to fight. Skye charged Ahuizotl again, with just about the same amount of speed. This time Ahuizotl saw it coming and quickly dodged out of the way forcing Skye into a wall, but Skye jumped right off the wall back into Ahuizotl at almost the same speeds, knocking him off his feet yet again. Ahuizotl stood yet again, this time angry. Skye charged yet again but this time not only did Ahuizotl see it coming but he knew just what he needed to do to stop him. When Skye was in range Ahuizotl grabbed him with his tail and threw him to the ground. He picked him back up and took a bite into Skye's side before letting him go, dropping Skye to the ground. Ahuizotl had razor sharp teeth and Skye could feel each of them rip through his skin. He stood up, enduring his pain, his blood mixing with the water at his hooves. Not knowing many fighting techniques, he tried once again to charge Ahuizotl, hoping the same thing wouldn't happen again. Unfortunately for Skye the same thing did not happen again. Ahuizotl grabbed Skye in mid air and very swiftly bit into his neck. It was the second most painful thing Skye had felt in his life and had been lucky enough that Ahuizotl hadn’t ripped through his throat. Ahuizotl dropped Skye after he was sure he had finished the job, yet Skye stood up. Instead of charging Ahuizotl he instead walked over to where Dash was laying down, who was no standing with even more tears rolling down her face. He dropped down right in front of her looking her in the eyes.

“I'm... sorry...” He said weakly, not taking his eyes of off hers. Dash knelled down next to Skye, “Shhh, don't talk. It's alright. It's alright!” She rubbed her snout softly up against his as she heard the splashing of water behind her. She managed to lift her head, but was too afraid to turn around. She knew exactly who was behind her but had no clue what was about to happen. She heard the splashing stop right behind her and felt breathing right behind her ear.

“He. Failed. You.”

The breath moved from her ear to her neck as she started to whimper. She looked down at Skye who was still looking up at her but now with sad eyes. Suddenly the back of her neck felt warm as she felt Ahuizotl's razor-like teeth sink into her flesh. She couldn't scream, she couldn't talk, she couldn't think as the teeth slowly dug deeper and deeper into her neck. She couldn't feel pain, she couldn't breathe, she looked down at Skye, hoping that he would help her or tell her what to do. Instead all she saw was the side of Skye face, he had turned away and closed his eyes. Her blood and tears dripped onto Skye's body as her vision grew blurry. She was dropped on top of Skye, hearing Ahuizotl's laughter as she slowly started to grow deaf. Her blurry vision and bad hearing started to distort, twisting and turning, she was pretty sure she was dying.

Suddenly her hearing turned back to normal and she no longer felt any pain. He opened her eyes to a happy Skye nuzzling her.

“Wow! Sorry it took me so long,” Dash heard a voice from behind her, she immediately stood up on all four legs and stood defensively looking at this purple stranger. “You wouldn't believe where Spike was. Anyways, how was the story? I can't wait to read it.” The purple stranger took a step forward. Dash immediately took a step backwards. “Huh? What's wrong Dash?” The stranger took another step forward, this time causing Dash to run for the window, crashing through it, as she took flight, away from her captor.

Twilight stood there confused, “Skye... what happened in there.” By the time she looked to the spot where Skye was laying, he was by her pedestal grabbing the adventure book in his teeth.

He looked at her with his same sad eyes. “Sorry Twilight, some books are just bad...”, he told her before he left with the book down the stairs and out the door.