The red glow from Rainbow's pendant was swallowed by an immense darkness as she emerged from the thin corridor. She realized that the chamber was not only large, but it was naturally formed. The minotaurs only dug a path straight to it.
She felt a coldness settling about the place. She shivered slightly, gazing all around as her pendant's glow wafted across the vast cavern. There was no telling which was was north or south. As much as she could imagine, a pegasus could fly in any direction down there and not find anything.
“Hmmm...” She clenched her jaw and hovered, dead still. “This has gotta lead somewhere. What's the point of the tunnel that brought us here if not to—”
She stopped in mid-speech upon hearing something. It was the sound of trickling water, almost like an entire stream was bubbling beneath her.
Gazing down, she aimed the pendant towards the earth's core. Its rosy light glittered off a solid body of water. It was an underground river—amazingly wide and deep—and it was leading towards the right of the corridor exit. She realized that she wasn't the first to discover it, for upon closer inspection she spotted an abandoned camp full of mining tools, wooden boxes, metal supplies, and even a dock. The pier stretched twenty feet into the river, and two large boats made of oak planks were moored to the thing.
“Heh... Well, that's ubertastical.” She smirked.
“What is it, Miss Dash?” Astral's voice called from the corridor's exit. “What do you see?”
“You guys can come out now!” She shouted back. “It's safe! Also, you won't believe what I've found!”
Slowly, the group trotted down the steep hill of rock until all twenty-nine of them were gathered beneath Rainbow's hovering feature.
“Unless it's a buffet table of roasted squirrel, I'm not sure I'm gonna be impressed,” Red Turnip Sr remarked.
“Huh? What?” Rocktrot woke with an adorable yawn. “Is it breakfast time?”
“No, son, it's inexplicable underground river time.”
“Oh.” The foal blinked from atop his dad's spine. “Well, that's cool too.”
“Undoubtedly the minotaurs left these boats behind,” Astral said. “We can definitely make use out of the tools and maybe dig our way out of here—”
“Dude! Is the horn the only part of your head that's bright?!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed with a heavy shrug. “We should make use out of their boats instead!”
The unicorns glanced at each other. One of them looked up. “What for?”
“Think about it!” Rainbow Dash pointed. “Those things are made of oak! That's some heavy lumber to be carrying all the way down here just to go hunting for crawfish!”
“You think there's something way down there?” Red Turnip Sr pointed down the flowing river. “Another camp, perhaps?”
“Seems stupid of them to dig so deep without making another route out of this place!” Rainbow Dash said with a grin.
“What are you proposing we do?” Astral asked.
“What else?” She toutched down on the pier and started undoing the ropes that moored the boats in place. “How are your sea legs?”
Stop! Please! I can't read this story fast enough to catch up! You keep updating it making the number of unread stories in my que stay the same. This story is good but I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL THE UPDATES.
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Once again - "YAY!"
A sailing we will go! dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Rainbow_dealwithit.png
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uuhhh, i think thats a good thing
IIIIIt's Dashie's Second Marathon Evaluation Time!
So in this chapter, not a lot happens, actually. The cavern Dash finds contains a stream as well as a small camp the minotaurs set up, consisting of simple mining tools, a wooden pier, and two boats. Dash is going to follow the stream in the next chapter, so I'll be interested to see what happens there. These are my thoughts so far.
-MASH
P.S. Ugh...eyes hurt...must type faster...3 left...
Day 2: This place has been abandoned for six weeks... I'm not sure many still travel here...
Consarn this story and it's butt-load of short chapters!
It's too easy to read just "one more"!
“Huh? What?” Rocktrot woke with an adorable yawn. “Is it breakfast time?”
“No, son, it's inexplicable underground river time.”
“Oh.” The foal blinked from atop his dad's spine. “Well, that's cool too."
Hahahaha!
This could be a good thing, them easily sailing out. Or something bad will happen, bringing forth awesome fights scenes against whatever evil he attacked them. I'm hoping for the latter.
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I do.
Time to sail the river.
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As do I. I am enjoying this journey immensely.
3974398 Same here, and based on the steadily flowing upvotes, we're far from the only ones.
This is so addictive. I really don't want to go to work today.
4000904 I'm here too!
This is definitely my favourite line so far xD
887846 I love your comments.
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Like Pistachios, or Pringles.
Daannng.
D'awww (This is where I would put a squee emoji, IF I HAD ONE!)
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Too true.
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Fear not citizen, for I return.
In all seriousness, I'm glad to hear people are enjoying my comments. I've had to put off reading Austraeoh while I caught up on other fics. It's good to be back!
Do I have a clever anecdote for this chapter?
Nope. Here's Underground River from the anime Made in Abyss:
Edit: Upon further inspection, you're miles ahead of me. Time to put in some leg-work!
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dude, DEADASS i did the exact same thing when "underground river" came up in the text, the exact same video too. Penkin is just too good with atmospheric music when he has a good world and story to work with