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//   Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone Chapter Two : What goes around comes around 
// Story: Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone 
// by ExtraordinayPony 
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 Chapter Two : What goes around comes around

Daring walked up the stone steps to the enterence of the temple.  The smell of decay and danger hit Daring Do as she peered into the dimly lit entrance of the ancient temple.  She walked into the entrance hallway, which was lined with carved stone torches providing less and less light as Daring got farther and farther away from the sunlight outside. 

Bugs scuttled out of the way from Daring's feet as she walked, their home being disturbed for the first time in Celestia knows how long.  She saw a pony's ribcage, picked clean, but chose to ignore it and instead observed all of the ancient carvings in the walls of the corridor.  

Daring walked further until she was met with the feeling of her left forehoof sinking into the ground, accompanied by the sound of grinding stone.  Looking down, Daring saw that she had stepped on a trap button in the ground.  She pulled her hoof off of it quickly, and quickly ducked as three axes spun through the air where her head was an instant ago.  So whoever built this temple must've been a clever somepony, she thought, This place is probably littered with booby traps. 

I had better watch where I step.  Suddenly, the floor beneath her opened up, and she jumped in front of it just in time to see a blazing inferno that could have roasted her.  She looked up to see alligators hanging from the ceiling, but managed to get down and start crawling beneath them as they snapped at their out-of-reach prey.  

She crawled out from under the alligators and got up to see an even bigger axe swinging with the sole purpose of creating two Daring Do's out of one.  She jumped over it, and then arrows started flying from the wall opposite her and embedding themselves in the wall.  

She dodged the arrows, stepping on some, and did a backflip, landing on her back hooves - right on top of a hole where a spike was about to shoot upwards.  She straightened herself out of the way and jumped over it.  She jumped on top of another hole, and then jumped again before the spike could have time to impale her.  

She kept jumping until she saw a giant slab of rectangular cement start to block off her path.  Then Daring began flat-out running, moving left and right to avoid the spikes popping up everywhere.  She slid under the block at the last second and stood up facing the recently placed door and wiped the sweat off of her forehead.  Daring turned around and took a step - right on another trap button.

"Aaaarrrgghh..." she grumbled.  I can't really tell you  what happened next, but it involved a lot of strange noises, so you probably don't want to know anyways.  She came back out of the door that was at the other end of the mystery room, holding her now arrow-riddled hat in between her teeth, scraped said arrows off of it, and put the hat back on.  

When she turned around, a light from the cieling struck an object that was sitting on a pedestal in the center of this new chamber and reflected off it in all different directions.  

It was a perfect statue of a two-headed jackal, just sitting there, ready to be taken, and it was made out of pure Sapphire!  It was the Sapphire Stone!