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// Chapter 4 - 2/2 
// Story: Daring-Do and the Griffon's Goblet 
// by Creative Charmer 
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	Griison arrived at the front door and landed on the edge, with his legs and arms all on the ground. He then looked around, as he felt like he was not alone. "Hmm..." he mumbled as he looked around.
While he was looking around, Daring-Do was sweating with extreme nervousness. She was on top of a ledge that was right above the door. Daring did not notice the ledge earlier because she couldn't see it from where she was standing, and she only saw the door from below when she flew to it in the first place. When she flew upwards in panic, she saw the ledge and quickly landed on it, lying as flat as possible so Griison couldn't see her, and luckily he didn't. But she wasn't out of the woods yet, as Griison was still looking around from in front of the door.
"Okay, Daring, just stay calm," Daring thought to herself. "Don't make any sudden moves or sounds, and everything will go smoothly. Once he's gone, you can go back to trying to find a way inside," Daring then stopped thinking, and her face became blank. "Wait," she thought as she started pondering an idea in her head. "If Griison is here now, then he'll have to use the door to get inside. If I watch him, I'll know how to open the door!" Daring smiled at this new idea, but then her smile turned back into a frown. "This is definitely dangerous, as he still might see me," Daring gulped, then made her determined look again. "But I might never get inside if I don't watch now. I've been through worse! I can do this!" Daring then slowly turned left on her side towards the ledge. "Be careful Daring. No sudden moves or noise,"  She placed her right hoof on the ledge and slightly poked her head about over the side.
Griison continued looking, but soon he decided that nobody was around, so he turned back around and faced the door. Daring watched intently, making sure she wasn't going to miss a thing. Griison stood up straight while facing the door, then bent down and grabbed the bottom of the door, and started pulling up on the door. Daring couldn't believe her eyes. Griison kept pulling until he lifted the door all the way up to its stopping point. Griison let go of the door, walked through the doorway, then turned around, which made Daring move back onto the ledge entirely so as not to be seen. Griison then grabbed a handle on the inside of the door, and pulled the door all the way shut.

Daring-Do was still lying on her back on the ledge, sweating and trying to catch her breath. "Urgh!" she said in frustration as she pounded her left hoof on the ledge. "I can't believe that's how he gets in!" she slapped both her hooves on her face. "I'll never be able to open the door that way! I'm not even close to strong enough!"  Daring slammed both her front legs back down on the ground, and continued to lie there in frustrated silence. Although she was upset, Daring was not one to give up so easily. She looked up at the sky as she lie on the ledge, and thought about what she should do now. "There has to be some other way to get into the mountain; or at least another way to get through that door! Think, Daring!" Daring shut her eyes and placed her left hoof on her forehead as she thought long and hard about what to do.
The minutes ticked by, and Daring's mind was completely empty on ideas. She sighed in a defeated way as she took her hoof off her head. "I just can't think of anything. This has never happened to me before. Whenever I'm in a temple or some ruins, there's always something around I can use to help me, but not this time!" she started talking louder as she sat upright. "It's just one door on the side of a mountain, and also unlike temples or ruins, it doesn't have some kind of switch for me to use!" Daring then flopped back onto her back in frustration, shut her eyes, and became silent for a few moments. "...if only Griison could hold the door open for me," she said sarcastically. Daring lie there and stayed silent for a few more moments, but then her eyes opened instantaneously and widened, as she was just struck with divine inspiration. She very quickly sat upright again. "...that's it..." she said in a mostly quiet voice. "...that's it!" she said in a louder voice, now starting to look more excited. "That's how I'll get inside!" Daring flew two feet above the ledge, looking more confident than ever. "All I have to do is wait here for Griison to open his door again, and when he comes out, I'll be able to slip in when he isn't looking!" Daring looked very proud of this plan, but then the thought of a new problem made her proud expression disappear. "Oh..wait...Griison will probably close the door right after he goes through it. There's no way I could by him unnoticed if he's standing right in front of the doorway," Daring looked frustrated all over again, but not as much as before. "There has to be some way for me to get by him...hmm..." Daring pondered a little while longer. "I have to think of a way for him to keep the door open, but he has to be out of the concave part of the entrance, too, or else he'll see me," Daring pondered some more. "...maybe if I distract him somehow, he'll forget about the door long enough for me to sneak inside...but what kind of distraction to do..?" Daring looked around at the ledge, with her back facing the wall, as she tried to see what and where would make the best distraction for Griison. She noticed a rock lying on the ground to the left of where she was standing, so she walked over and picked up the rock with her wing and began examining it. She then looked at the part of the ledge that the rock was closest to. "..maybe I can distract him using this—yeah, that's it!" Daring said with excitement. "I can wait on the other side of the ledge, and when Griison comes out, I'll toss this rock to this side of the ledge. When Griison hears the noise, he'll go to investigate, and then I can sneak by him and enter the mountain!" Daring-Do felt truly confident that this plan was foolproof. She finally has a way to enter Griifious Mountain, find the goblet, complete her mission, and most importantly: get rid of Griison so the ponies can regain their freedom!
"Now all I need to do is wait for Griison," Daring said in an upbeat way. She then laid herself on her back and began waiting for Griison to depart from the mountain.