Chapter Three: First Stop
The next day the journey was long and hard, and no pony had that much to say, but they did try to entertain themselves with ‘stupid silly little games’ as Mortimer would say. They included a game where you had to make a story with three nouns, one where the story would change once a pot was banged, there was always the very old classic ‘I see something with my little eye’ game too as well. There were also many other more random various games too as well.
And as they journey their illusions of grandeur and glory and action were kind of dimmed. “I thought that this would be more like an epic novel book.”
“Not everything’s like a book,” Daring said back to Marco now then.
“But I just expected a little bit more life and excitement, and not so much walking,” he said complaining very loudly as they continued to walk on now.
“Well guess what, if an actual real story were written about action and adventure over a very long distance some of the dialogue would include scenes like this, and not everything’s action and adventure all the time just wait for the good parts of the story where the author puts in something surprising and unexpected like the thing they thought was just a myth and legend is actually true and real, or the pony you thought wasn’t the killer actually was the whole entire time.
I do that a lot, and trust me if this were a story I think something would be bound to come along and create a mood and atmosphere of suspense right now.”
“Uh guys, do you hear that rustling?” Quentin said now then.
“It’s probably the wind,” Daring said now then.
“There is no wind,” Quentin said pulling out a sword.
“See? What did I tell you? Something suspenseful just came up, almost like we were in a story,” Daring said, and then she had a look of worry on her face now.
“You don’t suppose that we’re in a story right now, are we?” Quentin said.
“Nah,” every pony said at once and then they turned their attention back to the rustling. “What do you think it could be?” Quentin said to her now then.
“If my action adventure stories have anything to say it would either be nothing or just comedic relief or perhaps just maybe a real true monster instead.”
And with that said they waited for something to come out, anything at all.
And soon enough something did, and it was just a tiny little snake now.
“You can relax every pony, it appears safe enough,” Daring said going over to it and killing it, “Just in case,” she said explaining her actions now then.
And with that said they continued on their way.
“You know I expected something worse to show up,” Quentin said.
“Great, now you’ve jinxed us, I mean have you not read any novel ever?”
“Sorry,” he said. “Now I’m going to be on edge waiting for something just to show up so that I can finally
feel like the jinx is no longer in effect anymore.”
And with that said Daring was always on the lookout for something.
And eventually a jaguar did finally manage to show up.
“There we go,” she said looking at it, “Now the jinx is over.”
And with that said she furiously attacked it with her weapons and eventually she managed to blow the final killing shot and stood over it covered in blood.
“I am victorious!” she shouted holding the bloody sword up in the air now then.
“You don’t need to brag about it, we can all clearly see it you know.”
“I know, I just don’t really care,” she said smiling now then.
“Come on, let’s continue our journey,” Mortimer said very coldly now then.
And with that said they went on their way took a souvenir from her kill.
“Wow, those teeth really look cool and awesome on you.”
“Thanks a lot, but you forgot amazing and radical as well too.”
“Hey, don’t push your luck, okay?”
“Alright, fine then,” she said smiling now then.
And with that said they went on their way once more again.
Eventually they came upon some ruins.
“Should we explore this?” Marco said very nervously now then.
“Yes, we definitely should,” Daring said smiling as she went in now then.
She eventually came back with some gold and other various random stuff and told the team to grab whatever they could and then they would rest here.
And with that they did so and they found a lot of stuff, but still not enough to fill how much spare space that they had especially since it would only grow very soon enough since they would be eating some of their supplies. And then they did rest since they had more than enough supplies to get to the city, but as they did Daring and Mortimer tried to talk, but this time there was something that heard them, and it could understand every word that was spoken there…