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// Chapter 43: The Legend of the Silver Knight 
// Story: The Lost Shimmering Sun 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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On a saturday evening a few weeks after the thanksgiving parade and fair, Sun is in her room with her little sister having some quality times together. Sun is making sure her bookshelf is in order, especially since she has gotten her hands on a new Daring Do book. Her sister, Screwball, is simply sitting on the bed and looking at her sister organizing her books

Screwball says with amazement, "Wow sis! You must have the best complete set of Daring Do books I have ever seen. You also got a lot of other books too."

Sun giggles a bit and says, "I don't think I have the best complete set, but I'm glad I was able to get all these Daring Do books."

"Yeah." Screwball replies.

Then Screwball asks, "But where's your new book?"

Sun takes the book out of her backpack and says, "Right here."

The book Sun has just come out of the press and is able to get it the first day it comes out. The story is called Daring Do and the Legend of the Silver Knight. Sun and her friend Rainbow Dash are able to get their copies and thanks to Sun's research and Rainbow's determination, they are able to get first in line for the series. They have been waiting to come out for a while and now have their own copy of the book. Sun can't wait to read the book and she's very excited about it.

Then Sun happily says with a smile, "I heard that Daring Do and The Legend of the Silver Knight is amazing. I can't wait to read it."

"Can you read it to me?" Screwball asks with glee.

"Sure. We can read it before we get to bed, since it's the weekend after all," Sun answers while nodding her head.

"Yay! I can't wait!" Screwball cheers happily.

After brushing their teethes, putting on their pajamas, they decides to go read the book in Screwball's room. Screwball makes her feel comfortable by being under the blankets and laying on her pillow. Sun sits next to her and is able read to read the story to her sister.

"Daring Do and the Legend of the Silver Knight," Sun says while reading the title.

She then opens the book to the first page and reads, "In a distant forest just out of Vanhoover, lies a very large and beautiful castle that is now in ruin along with a village that is also in ruin. Daring Do is in front of the castle in search to find any clues about the old kingdom's mystery The Legend of the Silver knight…"

As Sun reads the book, she imagines that Daring Do is in front of the old castle where the Silver Knight uses to by a long time ago

"So this is old castle," Daring Do replies.

Daring Do looks at the old castle and see that this is the Castle of King Gold Stone and only son Prince Silver. She then takes the book from her backpack to take a look at the book she has brought with her.

Daring Do says while reading her book, "According to legend, the kingdom was ruled by an unjust king named Gold Stone, who abused his power and rob the people of the kingdom. One day, the Silver Knight was able to oppose him and managed to take the items back to the citizens. Everyone who loved the Silver Knight, but the king hated him and wants to have him arrested, but he and his other knights were unable to catch him. But according to the legend, the knight lives in the castle and knew every point in the castle."

Daring Do looks back at the castle to see that no one has been there for thousands of years. She knows that the only way to find the mystery of the Silver Knight is to go in the castle and see if the knight leaves behind. According to some of the rumors, the Silver Knight leaves behind his old journal along with his silver sword.

Daring Do says with a determined look, "Well, I'm going to unravel the mystery of the Silver Knight and find out his true Identity."

Sun imagines the story as she reads, "With determination and excitement for adventure, Daring Do goes inside the castle to find any clue of the identity of the Silver Knight."

Screwball who is listening to the story says with a surprised and amazed look, "Wow! So Daring Do was trying to find the anything the Silver Knight left behind."

"Yes. And it seems that it's just beginning to get interesting in this story," Sun replies.

"So what happens next?" Screwball asks.

Sun looks to where she is at and reads, "Once Daring Do enters the castle, she can see that even the inside is in ruin. She can tell it's going to be harder to find anything that might lead her to the silver knight's hiding place..."

Daring Do looks around the castle, she then start to search for anything that the silver knight has that might be able to help find his hiding place. Just as Daring Do is looking, she finds herself in the castle throne room and see two thrones. she can tell that the big one must have belonged to King Gold Stone while the smaller one belongs to Prince Silver.

Daring Do looks at the thrones and says, "Those two must be really close. but I remember that the father and son has some differences on how to treat their subjects."

Daring Do looks at the smaller throne a little more closely and notice something odd about it. She look to see a small nightingale on the top of Prince Silver's throne and think there's something odd about it.

She questionably says, "There's some kind of strange symbol on the throne, that the big one doesn't have."

Daring Do starts to get suspicious about symbol, so she decides to see what it doesn. Daring Do feels the symbol and presses it. When she does, the throne starts to move forward that reveals to be a secret staircase behind it. Daring Do looks at the staircase to see that it's full of cobwebs and dust. Despite her problems with spiders, she knows that there might be an ancient treasure that is waiting to be discovered.

As Daring Do walks down the stairs with her flashlight, she says to herself, "This must be how the Silver Knight get around the castle. There must be some secret stairs and tunnels around the castle that the king might not know about."

When Daring Do finds herself downstairs she finds herself seeing a hallway and can tell that it might lead to where the Silver Knight's hiding place. Daring Do walks down the hall and see silver linings of fabric and old torches on the walls. Just then Daring Do, finds herself in front of a wall and wonder where else she needs to go.

Daring Do looks around as she questionably says, "I wonder if the Silver Knight had a secret switch around here."

Daring Do shines her flashlight at the wall and notice the same family symbol that is on the wall, the same one that is on the throne. Daring Do press the brick that has the symbol and it reveals an old room behind the wall.

The room seems to be empty and all that is in there is the the old picture of the silver knight and a spire that has a paper with writing on it.

She looks at the book and reads, "This is the message of the Silver Knight. To find my secret treasure is to go north 15, east 3, west 7, and east 9."

Daring Do start to think about what the clue means and think it might be direction to the knight's treasure. Daring Do starts to think hard to figure out the measurements. Just then, she remember that they don't measure like modern times, but measures by rugs and carpet. She then thinks as she convert the measurements in her mind. After figuring out the location, she can see that part of the wall as the same symbol like the others.

Daring Do press on the symbol and a small part of the wall opens to reveal a secret compartment. Inside the compartment, it the silver sword, the silver armor, and a journal with silver lining on it and it has the same nightingale symbol on the cover.

"This must be the journal of the silver knight," Daring Do says with excitement.

Daring Do takes the book out of the compartment so she can read the entries of the silver knight.

Daring Do starts to look into the journal and says, "The silver knight snuck into the castle in order to take back the belonging the king has stolen. The Silver knight is none other than the King's son, Prince Silver. He decided go against his father to help his people, but make sure he does it in secret."

Daring Do is surprised to see that the silver knight is the king's own son, who is only doing this to protect his people. Just as she put the sword and book into her backpack, she then start to hear a strange sound. She turns to see the door closed right behind her and water start to fill up into the room.

Screwball shockley says, "Oh no."

"Don't worry Screwy, I'm sure Daring Do will know how she can escape the room." Sun says with a smile.

Sun continues to read, "Daring Do can see that the water is filling up the room really fast and trying to figure a way out…"

In the story, Daring Do is trying to think of a way to get herself out of the room along with the sword and journal. Just then, Daring Do sees that above her is a lighting that is big enough for her to escape. Just then Daring Do believe that the only way for her to escape is to use the knight's armor to float her way to the top.

Daring Do sits on the armor that is laying on the ground and says to herself, "I hope this works."

The water starts to fill up faster and faster, and can see that her plan is working. The armor is carrying Daring Do to the top, but because the water is filling up fast, it's carrying Daring Do and the armor at top speed. Just as she reach to the top, the water launches Daring Do into the air. Then Daring Do falls into one of the trees into the forest and is able to get a soft landing too.

When she is able to breath, Daring Do looks to see that she has found the sword and the journal and now they're her. She decides it will be a good idea to get out of here before anything happens. She gets herself down the tree and start heading back to civilization.

But then, four wild cats and a small white kitten surrounded Daring Do and are looking very angry and ready to strike. Daring Do makes a serious look to see that she knows that getting the sword back to the city won't be easy especially with her arch foe around.

Daring Do angrily says, "Show yourself, Ahuizotl!"

A maniacal laugh surrounds the area and a male spanish accent says, "I know you would be here, so why don't you make your life easy and give me the sword."

Ahuitzotl walks past the tree he's been hiding behind. He looks at Daring with a sinister look on his face and knows that she has what he wants. Daring Do suspects that Ahuizotl might be after the sword of the Silver knight. Sh eknows she needs to get out of here as possible.

"I will never give you it, Ahuizotl," Daring Do protests with anger.

Ahuizotl chuckles and says, "You always want to do this the hard way don't you. Hop my friends will give you a good fight.

Ahuizotl snaps his fingers and his wild cats cats start to corner Daring Do. Daring can see that she has no choice but to fight of the cats.

She says with a determined look," Bring it!"

The tiger begins to charge at Daring Do, but she manage to punch the cat on the chin and sends the tiger flying. The the other cats start to attack Daring do and they are not giving her a break. As Daring Do fights off the cats, Ahuizotl is able to pull a sneak attack and manages to pin Daring Do to the ground. Now Ahuizotl and his wild pets have captured Daring Do and now they are going to get rid of her.

Screwball starts to look scared and says, "Oh no, Daring Do's been captured!"

"Don't worry Screwball, Daring Do always find a way to get out of these situation, so I'm sure she'll find a way to get out of this mess," Sun replies.

"So what happens next?" Screwball asks.

Sun starts to read the story to see what happens now. In the story, Daring Do is now inside of a deep hole in the ground being tied up.

Daring Do struggles as she says, "You'll never get away with this."

"But I already have," Ahuizotl remarks while holding the sword.

He and his cats leaves with the sword leaving Daring Do tied up at the bottom of the hole.

"Not again," Daring Do says as she struggles being tied up.

Daring Do knows she needs to find a way to get out of here before Ahuizotl gets away with the sword. Just then, Daring Do remembers that her pocket knife is in her front pocket and decides to use it to cut her ropes.

Daring Do is able to to grab her pocket knife with her teeth and use it to cut the ropes. It has taken her some time, but she manages to get herself out of her rope, but now she needs to get out of the deep hole. Daring Do looks around and sees that the ropes that is used to tie her up are long enough to help her out. With quick aim, and good knots, Daring Do manages to get it on to a branch to get herself out of the hole. She then starts to hurry to get the sword back from her arch foe.

Somewhere deep in the forest, Ahuizotl and his cats here taking a break from their long journey. He is very proud that he finally has the sword and manage to get Daring Do out of the way.

Ahuizotl pets his kitten and says, "With Daring Do out of the way, there will be no one to stop me from spreading my wrath."

He then holds up the sword with pride and says, "I am victorious."

But then, Daring Do swings on a vine and takes the sword from Ahuziotl's grasp.

She says, "I'll take that."

Ahuizotl and his cats look up the see Daring Do getting way with the sword.

Ahuizotl says with a shock "What?! No!"

"Better luck next time Ahuizotl," Daring Do remarks.

She then find herself on top of the cliff and leaves Ahuizotl defeated. She then runs through the forest and is able to deliver the sword to the location it needs to be.

"With the sword recovered and Ahuizotl defeated, Daring Do is able to escape the forest and able to bring the sword and the journal to the city and everyone knows the true mysteries of the Legend of the Silver Knight," Sun says finished the story.

After reading the book, Screwball and Sun really enjoy reading this story and think it's very adventurous and mysterious. They can see that the book is amazing as always.

"That sure was a great story," Screwball says with a smile.

"I know. Who would have thought that the Silver Knight is the king's son," Sun replies.

Screwball asks, "I wonder if your friend Twilight has great books like the Daring Do books?"

"I don't know, but maybe she does have something similar in some way or another," Sun answers looking curious.

"You could say that again," Screwball says.

Then Sun says with a smile, "I know. I love these Daring Do books."

"Yeah. I can't wait until the next book to come out, so you can read it to me," Screwball says.

Then Screwball starts to yawn a bit and start to feel tired. Sun looks at the clock on the desk to see that it's a quarter past eleven. They have finished the book and they've read if for a while.

Sun turns to Screwball and says, "We'll have to wait until the next time, but right now, we need to get some sleep. It's really late."

"I guess you're right. I'm tired," Screwball replies with a yawn.

Sun tucks her sister into bed and can see that she is comfortable in her bed. They both give each other a hug and will be glad to see each other in the morning.

Screwball yawns and says, "Goodnight Sun."

"Goodnight Screwy," Sun says with a smile.

After saying goodnight to each other, Sun turns off the lights and Screwball falls right to sleep. Sun goes in her room and decides to get to bed since it's so late. After Sun falls asleep, she then start to have another strange dream. Sun dreams herself that she is in a strange room reading some books. From the looks of it, Sun seems very interesting in researching something very special. The last thing she end up seeing is her with a horn and wings on her back. After that the dream simply disappears, but Sun is still sleeping like she's not bothered by it. By tomorrow, it will be something else she needs to think about and ask Twilight about it too.