"According to the Map of Sir Fetlock, we must be at the right place."
After three days of camping, avoiding (or fighting) predators, rowing through the rivers, and dozens of wrong turns, Party Favor led his three friends into an abandoned castle.
"So, is this the Castle of Sir Fetlock VII the Valiant?" Sugar Belle inquired.
"If it is, it would look like an exciting place to explore!" Night Glider burst through the door, with her three worried friends in pursuit.
"Wait, Glider!" the magenta baker cried. "I know you're a daring girl, but we don't know what dangers may lurk inside. We have to stick together to be safe!"
The three friends then stopped at a hallway, with two large upward stairs to their left and right, and another dim passageway ahead of them.
"You two will go up the stairs, while I will go straight into that sort of library thing," Party Favor instructed. "Got it?"
The two earth ponies nodded in agreement, and they split ways to search for their friend. The blue unicorn lit his horn with magic, as he explored the hall full of tall bookshelves, cluttered with dust-laden books written in various unknown and archaic languages.
"Glider!" Party called. "Glider, where are you? Perhaps you'd like to play hide and seek, do you? Come out, come out, wherever you are!"
But then, a oaken chest framed with gold curls and bars caught his attention. Other than the faint rays of sunlight that managed to break into the library, and his horn's magical glow, it was the only other discernible source of light to help Party find his way within the hall. He opened the chest, and it raised a platform filled with bottles. Each bottle was filled with a glowing green fluid, labelled with an image of what appears to be a ferocious canine.
"It would be a risk," Party thought to himself, "but if I want to show that I'm braver and better than Double, I'll do it. And I'm thirsty as well." He popped open the cork and chugged the green liquid into his mouth. As he felt that the drink had no effects (other than a sweet apple-like taste), he inconsiderable threw the bottle away.
Not before long, he heard screaming, and then what sounded like something crashing against a bookshelf, and then the roaring collapse of several falling bookshelves. He turned towards a thud, coming from his friend Double who had just landed after jumping from another bookshelf.
"Well, I just fell from a trapdoor," the white pony explained. "Any sign of Glider?"
"She isn't here either," Party answered.
"And did I just hear some broken glass earlier?" Double asked.
"Nothing," Party shrugged. "That's just an old glass that dropped down for not a reason I know off."
The two stallions went up the stairs, and they heard laughter from the hall to their right. When they entered that hall, they had found Night Glider, wallowing next to an unsteady statue of a gryphon. Party noticed that the statue is starting to fall, and so he quickly rushed unto the statue. Double dropped his jaw from the sheer speed of that party horse: he was usually the third-fastest runner of the group, but now that he quickly reached Glider in just a few seconds, he became fast enough to beat Double if the two of them raced again, in spite of the latter being the strongest of the four from his years of mountain skiing.
And another strange thing about Party was that when the falling gryphon sculpture was about to crush Glider, he was not
only able to stop the statue, but he slowly pushed it until it tipped over and fell towards the other side of the pedestal. Perhaps Party was taking some potion somewhere, that gave that small fry of a pony some super strength!
Party then turned towards the laughing pegasus. "Night Gilder," he asked, "what happened to you?" She stopped laughing and realized about her current situation: she was about to be crushed by a large statue, when to her surprise, Party had lifted the statue away from her, and offering a hoof to help her get up.
"Oh, that statue was super ugly!" Glider chuckled.
"Did you find any treasure?" Party asked.
"If you count all of this worthless junk as treasure, you can take as much as you want!" Glider tossed several rusted goblets at the two stallions, who either caught or dodged them.
"Quit it, Glides," Double yelled. "Are you really that crazy now?"
"I'm always crazy, dudes, even before I went into this castle or got brainwashed by Glimmy-Four-Shoes," the pegasus sneered. "That's what I am!"
Sugar ran into the hall. "Guys," she panted, "I think I found treasure as I was looking for Glides. Let's go!"