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// Chapter 4: "Coco's Bazaar Trades and Goods." 
// Story: Daring Do Adventures: Daring Do And The Raiders Of Atlantis 
// by XombieSlayr 
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Chapter 4: "Coco's Bazaar Trades and Goods."

The Town square was bustling with busy ponies, eagerly buying up various wares and merchandise from the many stalls that bordered its pathways. But Daring Do raced towards one in particular. A large, cluttered beyond description, Sales kiosk, that had a sign proudly exclaiming: "Coco's Bazaar Trades and Goods- If its strange or wack, we have it in back!" in bright green letters.

As always, Coco Pie, the lovable sales pony who seemingly sold anything a pony could need or want, was behind the counter discussing something with one of her customers.

"While it certainly looks like it, I can assure you that this figurine doesn't dance." Coco smiled sweetly as she gestured to a medium sized fiber glass model of a lemon with arms, legs and a large mustache that seemed to be tap dancing. 

Her customer, a yellow unicorn with a light blue mane eyed the thing suspiciously.

Daring ran up to Coco's kiosk, nearly out of breath.

"Coco!"

Coco glanced over to Daring and smiled warmly.

"Hey, Daring! I'll be with you in a minute, kay?"

"Coco,I don't really have time for-

"Now, as I was saying, the figurine looks like he's dancing, but in actuality he can't dance."

The unicorn still looked suspicious. "And your sure, it can't dance?" She asked.

Coco smiled and nodded. "A hundred percent! So what do you say?"

The unicorn thought for a moment, before answering.

"Well...alright."

She dropped a bag of bits on the counter.

"But if it does start dancing, I can take it back right?"

Coco smiled again. "Absolutely! Just bring him back while he's still dancing."

She glanced over at the figurine. "Because, I'd really like to see that!"

The unicorn collected the figurine and trotted off, as Daring approached the counter.

Coco deposited the bits from the bag into her register, then plopped the bag into a large crate marked "Bags."

"So, what can I do for you today, Daring?"

Daring was in a hurry, so she got right to the point. "I need a plane that can get me to Iceland." She said plainly.

"Oh? Going after yet another treasure of great value? or are you just going skiing?"

Daring sighed. "I don't have time to explain, Coco. Do you have a plane for me?"

Coco looked taken back a bit, but smiled anyway. "Give me a sec!"

She went back behind the stall's curtain. Daring heard all manner of strange noises and sounds as Coco searched her back room.

She came back after a minute holding a set of plane keys in her mouth.

"Here you go! It's the big blue one at the docks! It might need to be refueled, but it should get you to Iceland just fine." She said tossing the keys to Daring.

Daring pocketed the keys. "Thanks Coco. Hang on, I've got something to trade for-

"Oh! Don't worry about that. it's on the house this time!" Coco said cheerfully.

Daring was surprised. "Wait, You don't want anything to trade for it?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

Coco smiled sweetly. "Nope, Just be sure to bring me back something cool from Atlantis, kay?"

"Thanks Coco!"

Daring turned to leave, then stopped.

"Wait...How did-

Daring was about to ask Coco how she possibly could've known about Atlantis. But she was on a time limit.

She thought better of it, then hurried off.

As she watched her friend gallop away, Coco looked over at no one in particular and smiled slyly.

"I wonder how this one, will play out." She wondered aloud, garnering several looks from passers by.

Coco was a strange earth pony, indeed.