The two pegasi walked down the smooth stone hallway, a torch in Derpy's mouth. The picked up the torch as they were walking along. It seemed that they were not lit awhile ago, but the sticks themselves looked a thousand years old.
Walking down the lit hallway, the two saw Rats, mice, and some other small creatures scurrying around. Shadows danced from the light of the torch, making a dark shade against the light grey stone. Rainbow and Derpy looked at the walls. They were't like the bricks used for fireplaces, buildings, but more like cinder block.
The hall never seemed to end. Finally, after what seems liked hours, the two plopped down at the doorway of a large chamber. Resting, they looked around and chatted.
"Wow, I never knew halls could be that long," Derpy exclaimed.
"Me neither. Hey, What is this place?" Rainbow asked.
"I have no idea!" Derpy said.
The chamber had monuments near the the ceiling. There were four statues staring down at them, their paint paled. One was a green Earth pony, wrapped in vines. The next was a dark grey or black stallion, his chin up as if he were royalty. He kind of looked like Princess Luna, except a stallion instead of a mare. He was a Unicorn, too. The next was a red pegasus. Her hair looked like it was burning. The last statue was a mare, a very popular one too. The Alicorn was sculpted very accurately. Princess Celestia stood, looking proud.
The pegasi got up. In the middle of the chamber, there was a book opened up. The torches around the room made the black outlined letters glow.
When the world is still green, the mighty protect it from darkness. The fire burns in their hearts, bringing light to the world.
Green, Darkness, Fire, and Light. Four elements. The first puzzle was easy; arrange the elements from least powerful to most.
Four pressure plates were laid infront of the statues.Rainbow walked up to the third one, and put her hoof down on it. Celestia's colors lit up like neon lights, it almost looked like the real Celestia. Derpy wasn't looking at the statues when the alicorn lit up. Derpy bowed down, and looked up at the statue. "Hello, princess."
Rainbow looked at derpy as if she were crazy. "Thats not Celestia... Its just a sculpture of her" Derpy got up and looked down at the floor in embarrassment. Rainbow turned and looked behind the monument. There was a metal door at the other side of the room. Rainbow and Derpy ran up to the door and tried to open it. It would not budge.
"Hm..." Rainbow thought.
Maybe if I fly into it hard it would burst open...
Rainbow trotted back a few steps. She flapped her wings, went up into the air, and flew towards the door.
"Rainbow! Wait!" Derpy cried.
Rainbow finally thought about the bad outcome of this action, but it was far too late. All Rainbow could do was to slow herself before hitting the door with a thud.
"Oof" Rainbow grunted. The door was still not open, so Derpy went back to the plate and pressed the first one. The dark Unicorn lit up, and his color was indeed black. Derpy debated between he forth or the second plate, and she put her mind on the fourth, and the Earth pony exploded with light, but was put out with all the other ponies. Derpy reeled back in confusion, trying to figure out what just happened. She settled on choosing the wrong one, and did the same order she did, except with the second instead of the fourth.
When they were lighting up, The door at the end of the room, the door opened a little more and more. Rainbow finally regained consciousnesses while Derpy was going into the next room. Rainbow quickly got up and followed her into the next room.
The next room was full with broken junk - vases, necklaces, rings, and some other small things. In the middle of the room, there stood a pool being filled from a small tight hole above. You couldn't fly up there, because the water was coming down. The room held no book or anything. Derpy looked around while Rainbow was inspecting the pool. Derpy didn't find much, just a unbroken vase and necklace.
Derpy saw a glint in the corner of her eye; a torch reflected its light off a solid gold handle. Derpy, always interested in shiny things, went up to the handle, and try to take it with her, but she almost lost her whole mouth from trying to pull it with her. She dug up to see what was actually a lever. She pulled it again, this time upwards. The water in the pool drained. Rainbow was actually looking in the pool to see if there was a lever. When the water stopped, she thought she did something. She looked at her hooves, and found that she shifted a rock.
Hah! They thought they could fool me.
"Lets go, Rainbow Dash!"
The two pegasi flew up into where the water once spouted from.
The next room was again full of junk, but this time not broken at all.
"Too bad we don't have any bags to put them in so we could get rich." Rainbow said to Derpy.
"Why do you say that?" Derpy smiled and randomly found a bag squished into her mane. How? Rainbow thought. Then again, this was Equestria, anything could happen. Rainbow and Derpy filled the bag with the stuff that looked the most attractive to collectors.
When they finished, they headed into the next room.The grey stone turned into more like a limestone, except harder like regular stone.. It was full... of tree's?!? A underground jungle, in the middle of a mountain, in a tomb? Moss would be suspected, but a jungle?
Rainbow and Derpy had to manage through this jungle, full of tree's so they would not be able to fly over this. There was a slight glow around it. Probably to stop Unicorns from using magic. As they got closer, they saw a machete. Derpy walked over and picked it up, and went into the jungle, with a muffled, "Com oon, vainbow!"
Rainbow sighed, and followed Derpy into the jungle. When she saw Derpy again, she was about to slice some vines, ut when the large knife came in contact with the vines, it bounced off and was thrown out of Derpy's mouth. The edge was now broken and dull. What are these vines made of? The two pegasi thought, looks of shock on their faces.
Rainbow went up to the vines, and tried to pass, and she did with ease. The knife could not slice through vin- oh. The spell on the jungle must not just work on unicorns, the vines could not be cut by metal. Who made this tomb? They must have been a pretty talented unicorn....