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// Chapter 11: Adventures Awaits for Everypony 
// Story: The Princess of Nature 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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After having their breakfast, Twilight and her friends are taking Tiger Lily to explore Canterlot. Tiger Lily is surprised and amazed to see how Canterlot is very different than her home. Tall buildings, lots of ponies, and other kinds of things she has never seen before. Twilight turns her head to see how Tiger Lily is doing. She can see that Tiger Lily is amazed about being in an environment very different from her own.

Rarity turns to Tiger Lily and says, "Darling, if you don't watch where you're going, you're going to end up…"

Before she can finish her sentence Tiger Lily accidentally bump into somepony and they both fall to the ground.

Rarity sadly says, "Bump into somepony."

Tiger Lily and the pony starts to rub their heads after their encounter..

"Are you alright?" The mare asks in concerns.

"Yeah. I'm fine, but you should pay more attention to your surroundings," Tiger Lily replies while apologizing to the mare.

When Twilight and the others turn to where Tiger Lily and the mare encounter act. They are surprised that the mare that Tiger Lily bump into is somepony they haven't seen in awhile.

Rainbow comes up to her and surprisingly says, "Daring Do!"

The mare known as Daring do, is wearing her A.K Yearling disguise, looks up to see Rainbow Dash and her friends. Daring hasn't seen them in a while, so she kind of glad to see some familiar and friendly faces.

"Hey Rainbow. Hi girls. Didn't expect to see you here," Daring says.

"Neither did we," Twilight replies, happy to see a familiar face.

"What are you doing here in Canterlot?" Rarity asks.

"I was hoping to find some information about The Lost Kingdom of the Florandelle to find it's ancient treasure," Daring explains her reasons.

After hearing what Daring is doing, Rainbow shouts with excitement, "Yes! Sounds like another awesome Daring Do adventure."

Daring use her hoof to over her mouth and says, "Not so loud, Rainbow."

After Daring removes her hoof from Rainbow moth, Rainbow blushes a little and quietly say, "Sorry."

Daring Do then notice Tiger Lily and she is kind of surprised that she is an alicorn.

Dairng politely says, "Hello."

Tiger Lily flinches a little then hide behind Fluttershy. Daring Do is kind of confused to see her hiding behind her friend like that.

"Is she okay?" Daring asks looking confused.

"She's fine. She just gets nervous around ponies she doesn't know," Twilight explains.

Then Daring says, "I'm more surprised that she's an alicorn."

"So did we." Applejack replies.

"So, she's with you?" Daring asks.

"She sure is," Rainbow answers.

Twilight and Rainbow walks up to Tiger Lily who is still hiding behind Fluttershy, hoping to give them a proper introduction.

"Tiger Lily this is Daring Do, but she is also known as A.K. Yearling." Twilight says to Tiger Lily.

"She's a friend of ours," Rainbow adds.

Twilight then face Daring and says, "You see, Tiger Lily is still feeling a bit timid."

"She used to live all by herself, so she's still getting used to being around other ponies," Applejack adds.

Daring says, "I see."

With that Daring walk to Tiger Lily, while Twilight and Rainbow help Tiger Lily come out of her shell and walks to Daring Do. At first, DAring is a little nervous, but she knows she needs to try making new friends. She walks to Daring Do with a shy look on her face and going to introduce her to the adventurer.

Daring says, "It's very nice to meet you Tiger Lily. My name is Daring do."

"Hello," Tiger Lily replies with a soft smile.

Rainbow asks, "So did you have any ancient artifact with you?"

"As a matter a fact, I did. I have the tiara of Princess Water Lily. And it's the key to finding the real treasure. The Elemental Staff of Florandelle," Daring Do answers.

She then looks around with a serious look and says, "But I also have some problems on my hooves."

"Let me guess, Ahuizotl or Caballeron wants it," Rainbow asks looking like Daring's situations are predictable.

"How you guess?" Daring replies with a smug.

"After reading your stories, you seem to cross paths with those two a lot," Rainbow replies.

"I agree," Twilight adds.

Then Daring says,"Well, you're not too far off. I'm being tailed by Caballeron and his hench ponies, right now."

"I wouldn't be surprised if he's trying to sell it to Ahuizotl," Rainbow bluntly answers.

"He is and I need to find it before he takes it to him. The staff has the power to control nature," Daring explains her reasons about getting the staff.

"It does!" Fluttershy says with a shock.

Then Daring explains, "Princess Water Lily hidden the staff away so nopony would abused its powers. Some of her subjects and her royal adviser thinks it should have been destroyed, but they had trouble finding out how."

"Bummer," Pinkie says out of the blue.

"How does the tiara help find the staff?" Fluttershy asks.

"According to the ancient text, the tiara needs to be worn by a pony who is the reincarnation of the princess and then it will show the pony where the castle is," Daring Do explains.

"How are you going to find that pony?" Twilight asks.

"That's easy it glows green when the princess' reincarnation is close by, but it glows gold when it comes in contact with that pony," Daring answers.

Pinkie then notice Daring Do's saddlebag is glowing green.

She then asks, "Is that what the glowing from your bag is coming from?"

After hearing Pinkie's question, Daring takes the tiara from her bag and she can see it glowing bright green. The tiara looks like it's made of golden vines and in the middle of it, it's a bright pink water lily with a green gem base for the leaves.

"It's glowing green," Daring says to herself.

"That means the reincarnation of Princess Water Lily is close," Rarity replies.

Daring decides to take a look to see if the pony she needs to find is around, but when she gets faraway from the group, it stops to glow.

"It stopped glowing," Daring says to herself.

She then walk back to where Twilight and the others are and the crown starts to glow green again.

Daring turns to Twilight and her friends and says, "It's possible that one of you is the reincarnation of the princess."

Twilight and the others look at each other with a confused look on their faces and are not understanding what Daring is saying. One thing they do know, the pony Daring is looking for is one of the.

"One of us," Rarity questionably says with surprised look.

"How can you tell? Applejack asks looking confused.

Before Daring can explain, Twilight has a good idea what Daring Do is talking about.

Twilight explains, "I think I know. When Daring was with us, the crown starts to glow green, but when she got far away it stopped glowing."

"Well, it seems to make this a lot easy,"

"But we need to see which one of us is that pony," Daring replies.

Before she can pass it to one of the friends, Pinkie comes over with a smile and screams,
Me first!"

With that Pinkie holds on to the crown, but it isn't going gold, it's still glowing green.

Pinkie says, "Not me."

She then pass it to Rainbow dash, but it doesn't responds to her either.

"Guess I'm out," Rainbow says.

Then Rainbow pass the crown to Applejack.

"Not me," Applejack says.

Then to Twilight.

"Or me," Rarity says

Then the crown's been passed to Rarity.

"Not me either," Twilight replies.

The it's been levitated to Fluttershy.

"Sorry," Fluttershy replies.

Fluttershy then passes the crown to Daring. The only pony who hasn't touch the crown in the group is Tiger Lily. Daring takes the crown to her, but she is too afraid to touch of, mostly because of how it will react.

Rainbow comes over to Tiger Lily and says, "Don't worry, you can trust her. She's not only our friend, but she's yours too."

Tiger Lily looks at Rainbow and then look at Daring. She can tell that Daring Do is a pony she can trust and can be around with.

She nods her head and says, "Okay."

Tiger Lily then reaches her hoof towards the tiara of the princess. When she touches it, the tiara unleashes and bright and golden glow. Daring and the others are being blinded by the light.

"Oh my! That is a very bright glow and golden no less," Rarity says surprisingly.

Then Twilight says, "This means that Tiger Lily is the reincarnation of the princess."

Daring Doo looks at Tiger Lily very closely and notice something important.

Daring says, "Now that you mention it, I actually have the picture of the princess right here."

Daring Do takes the out a piece of an old paper from her saddlebag and decides to show them to the others. When Daring show them the picture of the princess, they are shock to see that she resembles Tiger Lily. She has the same color hair, style, fur color and she has a horn. The princess' eyes are light blue, she doesn't have wings, and her cutie mark is a koi fish with a water lily.

"No way!" Pinkie says with a shock.

Then Twilight says, "The princess maybe a unicorn, but she resembles Tiger Lily so well."

"The resemblance is uncanny," Fluttershy replies.

"She does look like me," Tiger Lily says looking amazed by the resemblance.

"Except for the wings, cutie mark, and eye color she almost look like your twin," Daring adds.

Rainbow then nudge Tiger Lily on the front leg and says, "Looks like you're going on an adventure with Daring do."

Tiger Lily is surprised about what Rainbow said. She never been on the kind of adventure Daring Do's been on.

Tiger Lily nervously asks, "I don't know. I never search for an ancient castle before."

Twilight can see that Tiger Lily feels unsafe about going over there since she never been on these kind of adventure.

Twilight asks, "Would it be better if one of us comes with you and Tiger Lily."

"Okay, but just one of you," Daring answers.

At almost an instant, Tiger Lily comes to Rainbow and asks, "Rainbow, would you like to come?"

"I though you never ask," Rainbow answers with a smile.

"I think it's a good idea. You're in good hooves with Rainbow and Daring around," Fluttershy replies with a smile.

"Thanks," Tiger Lily replies with a smile.

Before Tiger Lily and her friends go their separate ways from Daring, Daring do comes close to the group and quietly says, "No problem, but you girls need to be careful, you never know who will be listening."

"Got it," The group of friends replies quietly.

Then Daring says,"I'll come by later and we can get ready to head to our destination. We'll meet each other at the Canterlot Sculpture Garden."

"Sure," Twilight replies.

With that Tiger Lily leaves the area with the tiara in her bag to get her things ready for another adventure.

Tiger Lily quietly says, "She sure is an amazing pony."

"You have no idea. She is unquestionably, undeniably, unstoppable," Rainbow says with with pride and excitement.

Then Rarity says, "Come on girls, we need to show Tiger Lily Canterlot before she can go on any adventures."

With that, The girls start to walk down the road to go to their first destination.

As they walk Tiger Lily shyly say, "Rainbow."

Rainbow turns to Tiger Lily and questionably asks, "Yes, Tiger Lily,"

"Do you and Daring believe I can go on an adventure searching the castle," Tiger Lily nervously asks.

Rainbow can tell that Tiger Lily isn't much for the big and dangerous adventure.

She puts her wing over Tiger Lily and says, "Well, maybe you will learn a different side of you and you might have fun. Plus, Daring Do and I will be there for you."

Tiger Lily shows a calm smile and says, "Thanks Rainbow."

With that Rainbow Dash and Tiger Lily walk to the others to their destination. Rainbow can't wait to take Tiger Lily on a daring do adventure, but she needs to remember to introduce Tiger Lily to her books when they get back from their adventure.

Little do they know, a few ponies has witnessed the whole thing and know that Tiger Lily is the key to finding the staff and they are hiding behind some crates. The only pass the carts are Caballeron and his hench ponies. Caballeron has followed Daring Do so he can steal the crown from her, but it seems that Daring has done most of the work for him. Now he's not only has his sight on the crown but he has his sight on Tiger Lily as well.

He then turns to his hench ponies and says, "Alright, you two go after the crown while the rest of you come with me."

With that two of the, leave to go after Daring Do and the crown, while Caballeron and his other two hench ponies go after Tiger Lily. He knows that he needs to find away to get Tiger Lily way from her friends, which is not going to be easy.