Daring Do's Map

by DemonicPinkieGamer

A Hidden Secret

"Awesome!!!" cried Rainbow Dash.

She looked over the map for a little longer before noticing a piece of paper stuck to the back of the map. 'What's this? Probably from Daring Do!' she thought excitedly. She pulled it off with ease. It was a squarish piece of yellowed paper. Rainbow Dash squealed with glee.

"Yes! I wonder what it says!!! I bet it's something AWESOME!!!" She shouted. She started to put her hoof on it, but suddenly, a light orange aura surrounded the paper.

"Whoa!" She said. She looked around, looking for the unicorn who casted the spell. Then, she remembered that unicorns couldn't walk on clouds like she could. She turned her attention to the piece of paper, which was now floating in the air. She grabbed at it, but the aura quickly shaped into a small bubble. The now perplexed mare poked the bubble, which now contained the paper. The bubble moved, but didn't break.

'Hmm... What should I do?' Rainbow thought. '...I know! I show this to Eclipse! Maybe she'll know how to break this bubble, being a unicorn... Rarity certainly wouldn't know how...' She grabbed the bubble and held onto it tightly. After a second, Rainbow Dash trotted toward her cloud door and kicked it into oblivion. She then spread her wings and head off for Golden Oaks library.

"WWOOOO-HOOO!!!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash.

She did a double corkscrew in the air and did a couple backflips with ease. She suddenly dive-bombed, holding on tightly to the bubble. The wind blew her rainbow mane everywhere, slapping her in the face and throwing her a bit off-course, almost ramming her into a building.

"Close one... maybe I need to practice turning more." Rainbow Dash said, trying not to crash in a particularily thin alleyway. She finally did a flip and landed right in front of Golden Oaks library.

"Phew... where is that bubble...?" She said. She looked around. She checked her mane, then brushed her tail with her wing, and she felt a small bump. 'Aha...' she thought. She pulled it out of her windblown tail, taking a look at it before trotting into the library.

"Eclipse? Are you here? I need something for you to do!!!" she yelled. After a couple of seconds, a flash of light came from the center of the room and faded. There stood a unicorn mare. She shook her head and looked toward Rainbow Dash.

"What? I was busy studying! This better be quite important, Dash." She said, annoyed.

Rainbow Dash blushed. "Oh no! It is important! Erm... what's this?" Rainbow said. She held out the light orange bubble in her hoof. Eclipse cocked her head, but after a second her horn ignited and the bubble levitated toward her.

"Hmm..." Eclipse said, studying it. "This is a lock spell. It is supposed to protect an item from being taken... or in this case, opened. I say, 'Supposed to' because these spells aren't supposed to be moveable." She frowned. She looked around the library before levitating a book off the shelves. 'Advanced Lock spells for beginners.' She flipped a couple of pages, frowning until she reached about halfway through the book.

"Alright. First, how old is this piece of paper?" the silver mare said. Rainbow Dash's face scrunched up in concentration.

"Umm... like, 600 years?" she said quietly.

"Alright, that explains a lot. You see, lock spells become weaker with time, as do many spells. However, this spell in particular is almost as powerful as a newly casted lock spell... aha! This tells us something about the caster! This spell must have been casted by a powerful unicorn. You know, the strength of a spell depends entirely upon the magical strength of the caster."

"Ermmm... that's nice and all, but... can you break it?"

"I don't want to, yet. First, I would like to take samples of the magic and maybe study it. Spells this old aren't common. Second, it could be booby-trapped. If this piece of paper is important, I could destroy it by accidentally blowing it up."

Rainbow Dash looked at the ground and her wings drooped. Eclipse walked over to her, placing her hoof on her shoulder.

"Can you wait a couple of hours?" she said. Rainbow Dash's face lit up dramatically, and she flew up into the air.

"I want to help. Can I, like... find some books about lock spells? Maybe I'll find something out!" she said happily. Eclipse smiled.

"Okay. Maybe in the meantime, you could look up some books about dismantling magical traps? That'll help a lot." Rainbow Dash did a little dance, flying up into the air. Eclipse walked toward a door to the left, going toward the lab. She opened the door, and walked inside. She gently placed the bubble on a lab table and got out a sheet of metal. She quickly fired up her horn and used a recording spell, which would record (kind of like a video camera) until the user stopped the spell. It was a routine for her, she had always done that when she was doing science experiments, to document her research.

She found sheets of metal to be best to cast the spell on, because it was easy to take with you and easy to make a little recording pop up. (Think of an iPad) She picked up a magically enchanted scalpel with her magic and sliced a thin layer off of the bubble. A paper-thin piece of light orange magic fluttered to the desk, where it was promply placed onto a microscope slide. When, suddenly, a voice came out of nowhere.

"Hi, my name is Daring Do..."

Author's Note:

Worked hard on this chapter! Expect more in the future. I've decided that i'm going to keep these chapters relatively short. Anyway, I hope you like what I produce, because I love to produce it! Oh, by the way. If you dislike this story, know in your little heart that I DON'T CARE. I thought our fandom was about LOVE and TOLERANCE...