//------------------------------// // The Fight for the Crown/Diamond and Daring's Argument // Story: Daring Do: And The Divine Crown of the End // by Diamond-ChiVA //------------------------------// “Well, I must say you two have done a good job on grabbing the crown for us.” said Caballeron as he grins, before he then whistles, calling out his henchponies.. Diamond glares at him. As she did, and heard him whistle, his henchponies then came in surrounding them. “Now give me the crown nice and easy, and we’ll be easy on you and Daring Do.” said Caballeron looking at her in her eyes. Diamond never said anything for a few seconds, as she then slaps his hoof with her free one, and grabs the crown with her wing and places it in her bag. “Sorry, Caballeron, but it doesn’t belong to you.” said Diamond as she backed up, next to Daring with a confident look. “Well, I was hoping we wouldn’t do this the hard way, but you kinda left me no choice.” Caballeron said, innocently, before his nice turned to a bit of anger. “Get the crown from them!” His henchponies then starts attacking them by trying to get the crown from them. Diamond and Daring then started protecting themselves, trying to prevent them from getting the crown. Daring was fighting Rogue and Withers, while Diamond is dealing with PickPocket and Biff. As they were fighting them, Biff holds Diamond in an arm lock close to him. Diamond struggles on getting out of his grip. “G-Get the crown!” Biff yelled at PickPocket. Pickpocket tries to get the crown from her bag, Diamond then bucks him on the chest, sending him flying into the bushes. She then rolled, making him let her go, and she got back up. “It’s gonna take a lot more than that to deal with me.” said Diamond as she then goes and help Daring, as Daring was then being held down by the other two, and Diamond side kicks Rogue, and Withers starts grabbing Diamond’s saddle bag, where she’s holding the crown. Diamond then uses her magic to keep grip on the bag, and spun him around while he was holding it, until she got him to let go and he landed on Rogue. Diamond smiled, knowing that she can use her magic again, and places the saddle bag on her back and helps Daring up. “I could've taken care of this myself, you know.” said Daring as she was a bit annoyed. “Sure you could.” said Diamond with a small smirk. Daring did it back at her, until Rogue tackles Daring to the ground, and Biff did the same to Diamond. Diamond then bucks him off of her, and got back up. The henchponies surrounds Diamond, knowing that she’s got the crown, and Diamond looks at Daring, and throws the crown from her bag to her. Daring catches it, and makes a run for it. Caballeron goes after her, while the henchponies stays back and fights Diamond. As the fight continues on, Daring kept running as Caballeron chases her to get the crown from her. Diamond was able to beat the henchponies, when she knows that they have no energy left to fight, she goes after Daring to help her. As soon as it happened Daring Do suddenly got into Caballaron's traps as Caballaron evil laughs and takes the crown away with it. “Nice try Daring Do! Hopefully you'll find another crown of your own!!” said Caballeron as he makes his getaway before Diamond got there as the henchponies caught up and followed Caballaron. Diamond then got there, and noticed Daring in the trap. “He got it, did he?” Diamond asked. “What do you think?” Daring asked sarcastically. Diamond then uses her magic to free her from the trap. “Are you ok?” Diamond asked. “No, Caballeron’s got the crown… I knew this plan wouldn't work between the 2 of us!” Daring sighed before yelling at her. “What are you talking about?” Diamond asked. “If Caballaron wouldn't have set up these traps this wouldn't happen in the first place all because you let his hench ponies try to beat you!! I mean what kind of princess are you anyway!?” Daring complained. “Excuse me? What else was I supposed to do, no one would make a getaway faster than you can, and I'm the Princess of Tai-Chi, and I was able to beat them for a little bit of time before you came in, if you haven't, they would have gotten the book from me, and would have found out where the crown was.” said Diamond. “Oh stop with this nonsense, you cause me to set off of those traps back inside the temple, and had Caballeron get the crown from us!” said Daring. “Look it wasn’t my fault, those hippogriffs doesn’t deserve to hide anymore, they should come out more, especially that now the Storm King is gone. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t know what Caballeron would be up to, and we wouldn’t have found the crown in time!” said Diamond. “You shouldn’t have gotten involved in the first place, why should I trust a pony like you?!” Daring shouted angrily. Diamond stood silence after hearing that. Daring sighed before saying “This is the reason why I do my adventures myself!! And I don't need somepony like you around to bother me!!” “Daring, everypony needs help sometimes, nopony does it alone!” Diamond exclaimed. “Well I work alone, Diamond-Chi, and that’s how it should’ve been.” said Daring. “You shouldn’t have come with me, your just a disgrace to me, and we shouldn’t have met in the first place.” Diamond covers her mouth, after hearing that, her heart felt like it broke into a million pieces, especially hearing that from the most adventurous pegasus she could've ever meet. “For your safety, Diamond, it’s best if you just stay away, and I don’t ever want you disturbing my adventures or bother me from my work anymore.” said Daring. “B-But… “ said Diamond as her voice cracks a bit. “Don’t bother, alright?” Daring asked, in a serious tone. “But… I… I was only trying to help… “ said Diamond, feeling ashamed and heartbroken from her words. “I don’t need your help!!” Daring shouted to her face, before she sighed and turned away, and says in a serious tone. “You’ve done enough.” Daring then took off fast to go after Caballeron to get the crown back, leaving Diamond alone. Diamond reached out a hoof to try and stop her, but due to the fact that she got her mad, and not to mention her words were very hurtful. Diamond felt tears coming to her eyes she then goes to grab the book from the hiding place under the bridge, and flies back home, leaving her nothing, but sorrow and despair.