Bored. Bored. Boooored. So. Fucking. Bored.
"Then go do something."
Oh right. I didn't think about that. Just one question. What the fuck should I do?!
"I don't know. Don't you have homework to do?"
Finished it.
"Your shift at Sugarcube Corner?"
It's the weekend.
"Help out at Sweet Apple Acres? Challenge the Dude to another bowling match? Practice with your sword?"
I don't feel like doing anything physical today.
"Play with Button Mash at the arcade? Hang out with your friends?"
I already do that every week.
"Oh come on! I don't have any more suggestions! What do you want me to do?!"
Give me something new to do. Something that doesn't require physical activity.
"Okay hold on. Something new, and something that doesn't require physical activity. Um...read a book."
I don't wanna...hmm.
"What?"
Actually, maybe that's a good idea. Yeah. I think I'm gonna go read a book. And who knows? Maybe it could be fun.
"Fun? You're actually considering my idea of reading a book fun? Don't take this the wrong way, but what is wrong with you?"
Hey, this world might have some interesting stories just like on Earth. There were even websites dedicated to writing stories, although to be fair they were all fanfics that people made to express their love about certain shows. Some even star themselves as the main character and write about them going on awesome adventures.
"What in God's name are you talking about?"
Nothing. And besides, reading is only fun if you chose to do it on your own terms. If a teacher gives you homework to read, then it takes the fun out of it because you're required to read and you can't go at your own pace. Seriously, I was required to read 50 pages of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre within two days. Have you seen how long each page is?! And don't even get me started on the book's plot! It's about an orphan girl who runs away and finds love. That's pretty much it. I'm down for romance in books, but only if it's not what the whole book is about. Otherwise, it's kind of a yawn.
"Okay, enough to of this! Who do you think you are, the Nostalgia Critic? The Angry Video Game Nerd?"
None of those two even do book reviews.
"That's not the point! This isn't some kind of book review! Now go find a book to read and silently judge everything from a scale of 1 to 10."
You're right. To the library!
I walked into the library to see the abundant number of books strewn across every shelf. Shelves of books covered the walls, both top and bottom floor, and there even more shelves across the room holding even more books. It's gonna take forever to chose one that's good. Luckily for me, they were separated and organized by genre. I immediately flew to the action section and started to comb through it. If nothing interested me here, then I'll search in the horror, drama, and mystery sections next. One book caught my attention. I took it out and examined the green covered book.
"Daring Do and the Quest of the Sapphire Stone," I told myself, "Okay. Looks promising so far. It has a nice cover art."
The book depicted the title text in big letters across a scroll. It showed a pegasus mare with yellow fur, a black and grey mane and tail, a cutie mark of a compass, and an explorer's hat and uniform. The mare was holding a stone, presumably made of sapphire, in one hoof while swinging away with a rope away from some alligators...crocodiles...I can never tell the fucking difference...that swimming around in...water...lava? Whatever. One thing boggled me though.
Why does she look like Professor Dash, just recolored?!
Is Professor Dash also a treasure hunter?!
"Gasp. Just like Indiana Jones!"
My thoughts exactly! To hell with it, I'm interested. I took the book and sat down on table, and started reading.
As Daring trekked thought the tropical jungle, the wet heat zapped her energy and slowed her every step. If only she could escape this oppressive atmosphere and fly up to the cool blue sky, but her crash landing in the jungle injured her wing and she was grounded for a few days. A few days. It might as well been a few months, or a few years. The mosquitos buzzed loudly, the macaws cried from the high trees, yet all of these distracting noises were not enough to cover the sound of the predators following her every step.
As Daring Do ran through the forest, the predators continued to give chase. She hopped over a lot with a smile on her face in hopes of hiding from them, and eventually losing them. She ducked down and turned around, only to bump her muzzle with a tiger, one of the predators chasing her. It growled and tried to bite at her, only for Daring Do to duck just in time and jump back, a relieved smile on her face.
She turned around to the sound of footsteps to see another predator, a black panther.
"Wakanda forever!"
Rest in peace, Chadwick Boseman.
The panther roared, making Daring give a look of worry. The look became more prominent as three more predators surrounded her, including...a white kitty cat. Seeing this brought back the confidence in Daring. As the kitty hissed at her, she easily leapt over it and running further into the forest, the predators giving chase immediately afterwards. She zig zagged between the trees, then looked back to see the predators running. She looked forward and stopped just in time, as she was about to fall into a ravine. She heard the sounds of growling and looked back to see the predators coming closer and closer. Daring leapt and grabbed onto a nearby vine, swinging to the other side of the ravine. She smiled and gave a salute to her chasers, who stopped at the edge.
Safely landing on the other side, Daring finally allowed herself a moment to breath. She turned around to find herself face to face with the long lost temple that she had sought tirelessly for 60 days and nights.
"Holy shit."
You thinking what I'm thinking?
"I know exactly what you're thinking."
Why is there a kitty cat in the middle of the tropical rainforest?/"This mare is exactly like Indiana Jones!"
"What?"
Uuuh I mean, yeah, this mare is exactly like Indiana Jones.
Torches aligned on the wall of the temple. The smell of decay and danger hit Daring Do as she peered into the dimly lit entrance of the temple. She proceeded forward, unaware of the glowing red eyes watching her from within the walls. Many bugs were crawling across the floor, but that didn't worry her. What did worry her was the skeleton lying on the ground, rotting and crawling with more bugs.
As she observed her surroundings, she wasn't paying attention to where she was going, as she suddenly stepped on a pressure. She heard the sound of gears grinding to her right, and she ducked down just in time as a flurry of axes were shot at where her head was at. A bead of sweat ran down her face as stared at the axes that nearly decapitated her, now stuck in the wall.
Daring heard more gears grinding, this time from below her. The ground suddenly opened up, but fortunately she was quite flexible and was able to stretch across. She moved away just in time for fire to erupt from the hole. She ducked down when a trio of alligators came down from the ceiling and started biting at her. She jumped out of way of a swinging axe, and dodged each and every arrow shot at her.
Spikes started to burst from the ground, so Daring did front flip after front flip and dodged them all. She saw that the door ahead of her was starting to close, so with all her might, she ran forward, dodging more spikes that erupted. She sled down and moved out of the way just in time for the door to close. She got up, wiped her brow, and gave a sigh of relief...only to step on another pressure plate, making her groan in frustration.
She dodged every single obstacle thrown at her and sled under the now closed door, holding her hat that now had arrows pierced into it with her mouth. She shook the arrows off and put her hat back on. She looked up at a hole in a ceiling, the light shining through it moving towards something sitting on a pedestal. At last, she was face to face with the legendary Sapphire Statue. Her eyes sparked at the sight as she gave a large smile.
She was about step forward when she noticed the pattern scattered across the ground. She looked around and noticed the tiny holes on the walls. Knowing what would happen, she kicked a rock onto of the patterns. It activated a pressure plate, and dozens of arrows rapidly shot out from the wall. Not wanting the same to happen her, Daring observed the plates closely. They all depicted pictures of animals.
"Hm, there must be a pattern here. What do all these animals have in common?" Daring asked herself. There were pictures of tigers, eagles, lions, and-
That's when it hit her.
"Aha! These animals are all predators, except...rats!" she exclaimed.
With sweat running down her face, she closed her eyes and placed a hoof on a rat plate. Not hearing the sounds of arrows, she sigh in relief and started hopping between each and every rat plate. She front flipped on the last plate onto the platform with the pedestal, as well as the statue. She got up as she took off her hat with her mouth agape, as she finally became face to face with the Sapphire Statue.
"Oh man. I bet she's gonna do what Indie did to retrieve the idol in the beginning of the first movie. She's gonna take a bag of sand and replace the statue with that."
Uum...nope. Says here she just took it off the pedestal.
"Aww."
After putting the statue in her hat, she started to hear more gears grinding. She looked back to see another pressure plate on the pedestal. The ground started to rumble as the ceiling began to collapse. She was about to run back the way she back when suddenly the ground erupted and revealed a pool of lava below. She backed up onto the platform as the lave slowly raised higher and higher. She was starting to run at of ground. Daring looked back up to the hole in the ceiling, and with all her might, jumped from platform to platform, before giving one final leap and grabbed onto the edge of the hole. She climbed up, only for steam to burst out, launching her into the air.
She landed on the grounded with the statue landing in front of her, when suddenly a large paw stomped next to it. She looked and saw another cat larger than the ones chasing her. He was dark blue and light blue in color, had small eyes, a hand as a tail, and was wearing Egyptian-like regalia.
"You thought you could evade me and capture the relic for yourself, but you were sadly mistaken Ms. Do," he said as he picked up the statue, "And now, you shall meet your doom!"
He blew a whistle that resembled a cat, before Daring found herself surrounded by the predators as the cat let out a maniacal laugh.
Later, Daring Do found herself tied down surrounded by the predators.
"Wait, what?"
Maybe I should find...what was her name...A.K. Yearling, and ask her to please reword that because that just sounds wrong.
"Yes. Please do that."
"You won't get away with this Ahuizotl," Daring said as she struggled to break free.
"But I already have," Ahuizotl said before pulling a lever, causing to ground to rumble to which Daring have another groan of frustration.
"Not again!" she said.
Ahuizotl waved and ran out with the other predators. Spikes shot out from the walls as they started to slowly close. Spiders and snakes crawled out from holes in the wall. Sans started pouring at onto the ground.
"Quicksand," Daring said as she struggled.
"Woah hold up! Spikes, closing walls, spiders, snakes, and quicksand?! Isn't that overkill?! What kind of people used these temples?!"
I don't know man. I don't fucking know. Just roll with it.
With all her might, Daring pushed her hat to her hind hooves. She bit down on the hat as she pulled it using her hooves, before using it as a make shift sling shot. Her bounced on the walls. As she took a deep breathe, the hat bounced onto the lever, pushing it up and making the walls retract and the quicksand draining away.
"Defying the laws of physics. Sweet."
First of all, this is fiction. Second of all, Professor Pinkie.
What about me?
Gah! Professor Pinkie...please don't interrupt my thoughts.
Okie dokie lokie.
Anyway, the ending was pretty basic. Daring escapes the trap, retrieves the statue, Ahuizotl curses her, and Daring Do makes off into the sunset. In conclusion, the story was good, the characters were likable, but the ending was...eh. My final rating would be...not great, but not bad either. Something I would recommend.
"You said this wasn't a book review."
No, I agreed with you about this not being a book review on Jane Eyre.
"Sigh. Anyway, I think you should head to your room. Your professors would whoop your ass if they caught you awake way past curfew."
What do you mean?
...
IT'S MIDNIGHT?!