//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 Mountain Tomb // Story: Daring Do and the Mystery of the lost city // by Vector-Brony //------------------------------// Daring Do & the mystery of the lost city Chapter 1 Our hero, Daring Do is up high in the northern mountains of ice and snow. It is so cold, her body feels chilled to the bone and the winds make it it impossible to fly safely. Not wishing to injure her newly healed wing, she is climbing the side of the mountain, in a long slow cold accent. She was on the trail of the tomb of the yetis, which deep inside, legend told of the great eye of the yeti king. A diamond the size of a apple and worth a fortuned to the museum back in Pegasopolis if she brought it back. The climb was proving to be harder than she first thought, as the rock face became almost completely vertical. Her hoof suddenly slipped on a lose rock and she hung by one hoof to the rock face. She mustered all her strength to pull herself back to the rock and continued her climb. She finally came to a large plateau just short of the summit, with the snow and the wind whirling around her hat. She fell to the snow completely exhausted from her climb. She fumbled into her backpack for a bottle of cider she had put in and on finding it she gulped down a few swigs. She started to feel he legs again and rose back to her feet. The blizzard was starting to clear and suddenly in front of her she saw it. A huge pair of doors carved out from the rock standing over 30 foot high. She trotted closer to see their was ancient Equestrian writing on the door with four large symbols underneath of, a Sword, a shield, a Hammer and a Axe. She pulled out a tatty book which she used to translate the words on the door. The door said “I am a weapon in times of war and I re-build when war has passed . What am I? She pondered the riddles meaning. All of these were weapons but which one could re-build after war had passed. Then it suddenly came to her, THE HAMMER! She exclaimed Hammers can be used as a weapon but they are also used as a building tool, so she pressed her frozen hoof on to the symbol of the Hammer and slowly the symbol move back into the door. Then with a great amount of rumbling and creaking, the doors slowly began to open. The surrounding snow was falling with the movement of the doors and Daring Do moved back as snow came crashing down almost on top of her. When she looked up, she could see the tomb was now open and a foul smell was coming from the opening. Suddenly their was pairs of red eyes coming from the darkness of the tomb and a low growling noise. Out of the dark came the wolves with dark grey coats and a look of hunger in their eyes as the gazed at Daring Do. She was glued to the spot in terror as the wolves charged towards her, but regaining her composure she turned and ran to the edge of the plateau with the wolves getting closer. Daring do reached the edge of the plateau and spread her wings wide, gliding up into the air, away from the edge. The lead wolf was not so lucky. He was running to fast to stop in time and the ice did not help. He skidded of the edge and fell to his demise. The others looked in horror at what had just happened to the leader and as Daring landed back on the ground they ran away with their tails between their legs. That's right you better run puppy dogs! Shouted Daring Do and the disappearing shapes. She trotted into dark and damp tomb with a cautious step. From the high celling hung huge icicles which dripped water onto Daring dos hat and in the walls were small recesses which held the bones of huge creatures which Daring decided, must be the yetis. She continued down the tunnel till she came to a large cavernous room with a giant statue of a yeti which had a pair of shinning eyes. A light shone from somewhere in the roof onto the statue and gave it a mysterious aura. But this wasn't going to stop our hero, as she spread her wings wide and took off towards the head of the statue. She hovered in mid flight looking at the yetis eyes to see which one was the diamond and noticed that one was a painted rock, so she looked to the other. Her eyes widened at what she saw in the socket. A jewel the size of a apple and more magnificent than she could ever imagine. She then noticed behind the eye was a symbol carved into the rock, of a pair of pegasi circling a hurricane with lightning coming out the top. She pulled out her notebook and made a rough drawing of the symbol and replaced the book. With a tug of her hoof she pulled it free of the ice and quickly pushed it deep into he rucksack. She turned back toward the door she came through, when she heard a rumbling and a grating noise from behind and as she turned her head she saw a icy fist coming towards her. She swooped out of the way just in time to see the fist plough its self into the floor with a smash and she ducked again as the second fist smash into the side of the chamber. Daring Do could see now that the statue of the yeti had come to life and was intent on killing her. She was flying around the yeti avoiding its fists of ice and when she saw her opportunity and with all speed she went for the door. But the yeti was cunning and smashed both his fists into the rock above the door, causing rocks to fall and blocked her escape. She looked up to the roof and saw that the light had been coming from a small hole just big enough for her to fit. She flapped her wings as hard as she could and just dodged another fist coming towards her. As she reached the hole she pulled her wings in as tight as she could and burst through into the open, spreading her wings wide to catch the air. No tomb is big enough to hold me! She retorted with that, Daring Do headed for home, a warm bath and a large beaker of cider.