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// Spelunking 
// Story: when slenderman left me in paradise 
// by Jimbob 
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[Knight]

{Me}

“So basically what you’re saying is that three young fillies decided to go into a deadly forest and to try and get their ‘Spelunking’ cutiemarks?” 

“Yes!”

I sighed would a day without going into the Everfree be too much to ask for?

“Fine let’s go”

“Jake I couldn’t possibly ask you too help me we just met”

“Just try and stop me Rarity” three helpless fillies in a dangerous forest and you want me to sit it out. Right sure.

“So anywho let go.” I headed back outside followed by Twilight and Rarity.

“Hey Twi shouldn’t we get a search party or something going?” 

“Ummm they might not be too eager too go into the woods with you” she was avoiding making eye contact.

“Now who said they would know I was in the woods?” I jumped in the air and hovered there for a bit.

“Go get all the help you can I’m gonna go look for them” I flew high into the air and spotted the tree line and flew towards it. 

{Any idea how to find these girls?}

[Just one. They were going spelunking right?] 

{Yeah}

[So they’ll be surrounded by shadows but also giving off light right?]

{Yeah the probably have a lantern or something} 

[So if we can find some caves we can see if there any lights in there]

{How?}

[We feel how far the shadows go and see if anything causes the shadows to become longer or short like a light source] 

{How will we even find the caves?}

[That’s up to you] 

{Fine}

Ok I just gotta get lower and start looking for caves, I mean how many could there be?

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Five caves later I was still having no luck. I was flying towards a mountain thinking that there was probably a large cave system there and they might be in it. I spotted a huge cave entrance toward the bottom of the mountain. I glided down and sent my feelers out. Several black tendrils flowed out of my shadow and into the cave. This cave felt different it was huge all the way through instead of narrowing and changing like the other caves. My tendrils shot back and I took in the information they brought.

There was definitely two light sources in there but and one was moving closer to the other. I figured the not moving one was a crack in the cave to the outside but the other….. Well hopefully it was the girls. I stepped into the cave and shadows began to swirl around me. They shot into my eye leaving me momentarily blind.

“The fuck..?” I cracked open my eyes and saw that I could see every detail of the cave as though the sun was shining all the way down here.

{Night vision sweet} 

[Only bad news is your eyes are coated in shadows right now]

{So what I have pure black eyes?}

[Yep] 

{That’s badassery straight out of anime right there}

[Badassery isn’t even a word]

{Yet}

I continued down the path till I started feeling a hot wind begin to blow around me. Must be the crack to the outside I figured. I continued down the path and entered a huge chamber I saw three little fillies holding a lantern around something glimmering. I also noticed a small jet of flames occasionally flowing in and out. Wait a sec, my brain struggling to put two and two together, flames, shiny things, hot wind, and caves. SHIT this is a dragon’s cave I need to get the girls out of here. I ran towards the girls who were trying to climb the mountain of gold. If I could just get them out of here without to much noise the dragon with stay asleep and we’ll be……..

*CLANG*

My train of thought was broken when one of the girls, Scootaloo I think, dropped a large golden goblet on the ground. I froze a loud rumbling sound came from behind me. I turned just in time to see a golden-colored dragon rising off the ground, its reptilian eyes darting toward the light source in the room. This guy was huge! He was easily two stories tall with a mouth-full of needle like teeth and a barbed tail. I turned and ran straight at the girls who had frozen as they were. I looked over my shoulder to see the dragon inhaling.

I jumped in front of the girls and summoned two balls of dark fire into my palms. The dragon breathed out fire straight at me and the girls. I put my hands up and sent out my own wall of fire. The fire met in the middle and held there I pulled my left hand back and concentrated on charging shadows into it. My fire was being pushed back slowly I lifted my hand again and unleashed the energy I had in it.

A black beam shot through the flames and straight into the roof of the dragon’s mouth knocking it over and causing it to stop breathing fire. I turned and scooped up the girls, who still weren’t moving, they screamed almost successfully deafening me but not stopping me. I got out of the main cavern and put them down.

“You girls get outside NOW!”

They didn’t even hesitant and ran straight towards the cave entrance. I turned around to see the dragon regaining its footing. A song went through my head made me smile a twisted smile. The dragon got up and growled at me like the devil himself.  This was looking to be an interesting battle. 

“Fight”