The smell of decay and danger hit Daring Do as she peered the dimly lit entrance of the ancient temple. She felt eyes watching her back as she entered, bugs crawled around and ominous bones lay scattered across the floor. As Daring glanced at her surroundings she felt the ground beneath her move. Of course, she had step on a pressure plate! She ducked as three axes flew across her head and hit the wall with a thud. She stared at them in shock and a little fear. She heard a clanking sound and she spread her hooves wide and sucked in her belly as fire erupted from beneath her, she jumped away. Daring didn’t even get a chance to stand up straight as hungry alligators chomped at her head above her. Daring Do dropped down to her belly and scooted along the floor. She jumped over a guillotine and ducked as an arrow flew past her, she stood up on her hind legs as an arrow flew beneath her. She zigzagged back and forth and the volley of arrows continued. Finally she jumped further away from the arrows into safety. But in fact, she wasn’t safe at all, she stepped on another pressure plate and beneath her a deadly spike flew out of the ground. She kept jumping as spikes protruded from the ground, she looked ahead for a second to see the door across the room slowly shutting. She galloped once again zigzagging to avoid spikes. She ran harder. Daring Do slid on her back just as the door closed and she pulled her head just at the last second.
“Phew!” Daring rasped in relief as she wiped her forehead of sweat. Yet again she heard the clanking sound. “Ugh!” she said in anger as the ceiling began to crumble. More series of death traps continued and Daring Do eventually found herself in the next room. She heard the door clank shut behind her. Oh, my hat is covered in arrows. She brushed them off. Daring Do glanced at the room around her. A blue sparkle caught her eye. The light from the little circle in the ceiling from above moved and shined perfectly on the statue of two twin jackals, the Sapphire Stone. Daring stared in awe at the thing that sat before her.