Around A World: Equus

by Dragon Shimmer


The house of traps.

Twilight walks through the hall with the levitating filly. The purple alicorn gets annoyed when the filly struggles while talking to her. Twilight opens a room and a bag is dropped in front of her. The purple alicorn looks at it and sees it is a thick bag of cement.

Twilight glares at the filly. "Where is he now?"

The filly looks away from the purple alicorn. Suddenly, she is shaken by the purple alicorn. After a while, the shaking stops and the filly feels something not good inside. The filly turns to the alicorn. "You... are evil." Then he vomits into the ground

Twilight starts tying her up. "Then stay here, be silent and let me find your father."

The filly struggles to get away from the bound. "You can't get him. If I can get out of here..."

Twilight wraps a cloth around the filly and rolls her eyes. Then she casts the bubble spell surround the filly. The alicorn sighs in relief and leaves the filly there, ignoring the little pony's yelling.

Twilight goes upstairs and sees many balls rolling from the upstairs. The purple alicorn pushes them away. When she steps three more, a steel water pipe flies towards her. Twilight ducks to dodge the pipe. "Oh right, this filly will kill somepony if they walk into this house."

Twilight opens the door and a piano fly into her. The purple alicorn quickly teleport to dodge the piano. The purple alicorn rubs her head and sighs in frustration. "Okay, that's enough." Her horn and front hooves shine bright, then she slams on the floor.


Matt is struggling to get out of the flour because the flour bag slammed into his face when he opened the basement door. As he stands up, he sees a purple wave passing through the building. He sees a little pony and the alicorn on the top. The swordmans is pretty sure that's Twilight and the filly.

Matt sighs in disappointment and goes home, but the purple wave suddenly disappears around the large square on the wall. The swordman is moving around and hoping to touch something. After a while, a small square wall is pushed and the big wall opens slowly. Matt touches the magic circle. "Hey Twi, I found the hidden door."

"Coming. Just stay there."

Taking the chair, Matt sits down. The chair is cracked, causing the swordman falls. When the swordman stands up, he sees Twilight is looking at him with the filly. Matt rubs his head. "Nothing, I just ... tired. But why you still hold that filly?"

"If he even had any activation trap inside." Twilight creates a purple orb. "Now we will see what is down there."

The filly is trying to stop them but the purple aura wrapping around her body. Twilight and Matt steps down to the serect basement and sees what inside.


Celestia stamps a ton of paper after the court. Celestia decides not to invest in Appleloosa because there are many problems. When she is working hard, Luna comes inside and rubs her sister's face

Celestia pushes the blue alicorn and smiles. "What is this, sister?"

"Where are Twilight and others these days? Last time I visited the library, they are not there anymore."

'They will embark on a long quest,' Celestia says and pulls her desk. "Didn't they talk to you?"

"Yeah... maybe." Luna takes the letter and reads it. "... so what will we do now?"

"Nothing." Celestia coughs a little. "Nothing we can do here." Luna stares at her sister for a bit, which make Celestia feel uncomfortable. Celestia gulps. "What are you doing?"

When Luna places her front hoof on Celestia's forehead, she pulls it off her face. "Sister, your forehead is too hot."

"Am I? But I'm feeling well?" Celestia coughs more. "Just a little... tired."

Luna pushes the white alicorn. "No, you cannot work today. Please, it's about your health."

Celestia retorts. "But who will do the meeting today?" Luna points at herself. Celestia rolls her eyes. "You are not ready for it."

"I am ready. Please rest."

"Fine." Celestia coughs. "I will be back in... 2 or 3 days."

Luna helps Celestia go back to her room, then the blue alicorn returns to the office. Hundreds of documents are waiting to be stamped in front of her. The blue alicorn sighs and works hard.

Suddenly, a white earth pony with black hair comes inside. Looking around, she searches for someone. "Eh... Your Majesty, where is your sister?"

"She is resting, Inkwell. Please inform everyone that my sister will not be in court for two or three days."

"I got it." Inkwell crosses the paper by the feather pen. "I will announce it to everyone."

Inkwell bows to Luna and leaves the room. It is strange for the white pony to be in such a hurry.


Along with the filly, Twilight and Matt are walking down the long stairs. There are no traps in this room, which makes Twilight and Matt suspicious. When they are meeting the door, the swordman and the alicorn quickly jumps to two sides. Matt slowly opens the door abd many arrows are flying out of the room.

"That's too many arrows." Matt turns to the filly. "What else can you give us, kid?" The filly turns away.

When the arrows are stopped, Matt throws a stone inside and many snakes fall on the ground. Twilight huffs. "Classic."

Matt smirks. "Deathly classic."

After entering the room, Matt finds only another door. He waves his arm outside and the purple alicorn follows him. The swordsman slowly opens the door and sees nothing but many pieces of papers cut and stuck on the boards.

Twilight checks the board for a while and sees that all of them are related to the dragon killer in Manehattan. A pink smoke fills the air, then the door closes and traps the duo inside. Twilight and Matt faint.

The filly opens the door after five minutes. He laughs at them. "Hah, you can't beat me to it." Suddenly, a purple aura wraps around him. The filly struggles. "Not again. Why didn't you sleep already?"

"Classic traps don't make us fall, girl." Matt pats the filly's head. "You should spill the location or we will burn this place."

The filly is silenced. "You... you won't." Matt sets his sword on fire and looks around. The filly waves his front hooves. "Wait wait, I will lead you there."

Twilight puts the filly down. Matt rubs his head. "Well... lead the way. Just don't do anything and we'll be fine."

The duo follows the filly to her father. It would be great if something could get rid of these two abnormal creatures.


Diana eats her pie and lying on the table. No customers as usual. The black cat flips herself and sees Sunset poking her with cat toy. Diana slaps the toy away. "I am not your pet."

"I just try to feel like a normal cat." Sunset points at the cats that are standing on the cargo's roof. "Like them."

"Why are all those cats here?" Diana gets up. "I remember not hiring any cats."

"Well... I don't know." Sunset sighs. "Anyway, when will we be able to sell our cake? Or are your cakes made for feeding these cats?"

Diana waves her paws. "You see the pony around?" Sunset looks around and everyone steps away from the wagon. Diana rubs her whiskers. "And with a 'no kids allowed' sigh, no one will buy them."

Sunset is stunned. "You know how to chase customers away."

Diana flips herself and yawns. The orange dragon shakes her head and rubs Diana's back. When the black cat enjoys the rubbing, the brown pony with yellow hair steps toward them. Diana smiles. "Hello again. How can I help you?"

The stallion looks around and smiles. "I want to hire you, black cat."

"Hire for what?" Diana eats the apple candy. "If that is something illegal or something insignificant, I will deny it."

The stallion chuckles. "I want to hire you to make the cake for my birthday." Diana silences for a while, then closes the door. The stallion stops her immediately, "Hey, I'm not done yet."

Diana glares at the stallion. "Then hire someone else. I'm not good at birthday cakes."

"No, only you can make my birthday cake." The stallion starts begging. "Please help me, I will pay you one hundred bits." Diana turns away and takes a pan. The stallion steps back. "Two hundred. I will pay two hundred."

Diana aims at the stallion. "One more raise price and this pan will be on your face. This is not an auction wagon."

The stallion rubs his chin, then requests. "How about coming to my house? Maybe you will understand what I am trying to do."

Diana is going to reject but Sunset taps her claw on her back. The black cat sighs and replies. "Fine, I will be with you."

" Excellent. I will prepare a wagon for you two there." The stallion began to leave the bakery wagon. "My name is Gold Bar."

"Diana." The black cat folds her paw. "My name is Diana."

The stallion nods and leaves the duo. Diana just gets inside the wagon and closes her store.


Twilight and Matt follow the filly. On the way to the room, there are many traps setup for some intruders inside. Twilight and Matt are impressed with the traps



Matt rubs his chin. "Did you make all of these traps?"

"Who else could do that than me in this house?" The filly huff. "It's not fair when that fake purple princess detects all of the traps."

Twilight rolls her eyes. "I thought your father is collecting the newspaper."

"Whatever." The filly stomps. "Next time you two won't survive when you walk into this house."

Twilight giggles. "Maybe I can help your family get out of this place, and go to Canterlot."

Slowly, the filly turns around. "I don't trust you."

Twilight pats the filly's head. "Fair enough. I would like to know your name before we continue... Argument."

"My name is Lilly Bell." The filly slaps her hoof away. "I'm tired now."

The filly leads the duo to her father. The thinf is so helpful for them.