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// The Daring Box 
// Story: My Diary I wrote in Ponyville: Daring for an Adventure 
// by Hoobe 
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We followed the group that attacked Daring Do. She was injured so we had to take a stop for a moment. The injury was not bad gladly.

"What is your plan?" I asked Daring Do "Surely, they would have noticed that we are close to them"

"Yes" she said.

She explained to me what we need to do. I was not so sure about her plan because, though she went on several adventures of her own, she never saw that group before. Soon enough the group left separating the ways.

"Which was should we go?" I asked

"Well" she said "The best thing to do is to start with an easy step. We should follow the steps of the first Pegasus."

"You mean the one who is not the leader?" I asked.

"That's the one." she said.

We followed that Pegasus. It lead us to where it looked like a swamp. At a place like swamps, I knew that dangers can happen and one of those dangers is crocodiles. When we arrived, we noticed that the Pegasus flew away in the other side of the direction. We couldn't tell exactly where that Pegasus flew. We have no idea what the name of that Pegasus was. Before we could take a step, we noticed that the group of crocodiles were coming towards us. Daring took the action as usual. I on the other hand had an idea how to get past those crocodiles.

"Wait just a moment" I said "There is a better way to get past those crocodiles"

"What is that?" she asked me "Didn't I tell you that I don't need help?"

"Well it is not about helping" I said "and yes you did said that you don't need help. It is just the fact that we should try something else and I just got a plan what to do. It should not take long. If my plan failed, you can just go ahead with your plan right away"

Because I can talk to animals, I communicated with the crocodiles.

"What are you trying to do there?" I asked to the crocodiles.

They told me that they were just swimming around. They did not say anything about eating. Usually crocodiles at this time would plan to eat something, whether a bird or just anything else, but I was surprised to see that the crocodiles were not planning on anything like that.

"Do you mind if I pass down your swamp please?" I asked "I promise not to hurt anyone. We are kind of in a hurry and we are not here for anything."

The crocodiles said yes but also gave a warning to us. It was not so bad as they allowed us to pass. Generally, crocodiles do not let anyone pass by, even to their own relatives. They tend to eat almost anything as they are the beasts or in my word brawlers of the swamp. However even to Daring's surprise along with me, these crocodiles did let us pass. Daring and I continued to explore across the swamp. It was hard to find the destination where we were trying to find because it was kind of foggy and hard to see around where to go. While we were exploring on the way, I felt that I hit something. At first I though it was another crocodile. However I later noticed that it was not a big deal and was only hit by a log. We reached the end of the swamp. When we reached the end, I saw something strange outside of the swamp and the one that was not too far from us. It was no other than the note.

It said "With those crocodiles blocking, Daring Do will never find this key right here"

The key was located right in the box in front of us. We tried to open it on our own but it did not budge open. We later noticed that we needed something to open.

The scroll which was written besides the box said "In order to open the box, you need to insert two different keys. Only the true keys will open the box or you will get burned"

I couldn't really understand what the scroll was saying. Daring also had some hard time trying to figure it out. We stand each other for a moment. While we were wondering, I saw two hoof prints that are next to the box in each of the different sections. This made me curious. What if the hoofs and the only hoofs are the ones to open the box? I was not so sure so I asked Daring Do about it. She said they it was worth a try. So we decided to try it. When we did, the box opened. Daring and I later figured it out that it was the hoofs that opened the box. I questioned myself how come it was hidden all the time? I guessed that it was hidden by that Pegasus because that Pegasus did not want us to know that it is easy to solve the problem. When we were about to leave, we heard the strange sound. It was no other than the booby trap. Thankfully, it was not hard to dodge, as we got away from the booby trap. The item that we obtained was not the item that Daring had. The item that we obtained was a statue. Nether of us had an idea what kind of the statue is. I was pretty sure that we will find out what the statue is and also be able to recover the item that she needed to find as we head on to the next stop. We never saw that Pegasus again, at least not yet because our trip was not over and there were still more things to come.