{"sf1_id":791158,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Equestrian Knights Ch 9. Give Me Light!","author":"BluebloodFan91","words":2165,"posted_at":"2014-12-03T15:31:00.000Z","tags":["Adventure","Blueblood","Carrot Cake","Character Development","Clean","Cup Cake","Equine","Fantasy","Flam","Flim","Friendship is magic","Griffin","Gryphon","Hoops","Horse","Humor","Iron Will","Jetset","Lightning Dust","MLP","Minotaur","Mr Cake","Mrs Cake","My Little Pony","Pegasus","Plot Development","Pony","Story Progression","Story Series","Suburban Knights","Trixie","Unicorn","Upper Crust","dumbbell","gilda","parody","score"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791158-equestrian-knights-ch-9-give-me-light","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/791158","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=791158\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Ch 9. Give Me Light!\n\n\nThe group wandered through the cave they had entered\nin the last chapter. The six unicorns among them lit up their horns for\nlight when it got too dark for them to see in the cave.\"And then the guy said, the aristocrats!\" said Hoops, finishing a joke he had just told. None of the group laughed.Hoops looked around at all of them in confusion. \"Hey, how come none of you are laughing?\" he asked.\"Hoops, remember back in season one when you were still funny?\" said Dumbbell.\"Season one was the only season we were in,\" replied Hoops.\"Oh, right,\" said Dumbbell sadly. \"Stupid writing staff!\"Suddenly they came to point where the tunnel divided into two tunnels. The group stopped before the two paths.\"Darn it! Which way do we go?\" asked Flim.\"Blueblood, what does the map say?\" asked Trixie.Blueblood\npulled out the map and looked at it. \"If the cave should split from\nleft to right, pick up a stone and speak 'Give me light',\" he read out\nloud.Lightning Dust raised an eyebrow. \"Pick up a stone and speak 'Give me light'?\"\"That's what the map says,\" said Blueblood.\"Give\nTrixie that!\" said Trixie, snatching the map out of Blueblood's magical\naura with her own and looking at it herself. She saw that he was in\nfact right though. \"You've got to be kidding me.\"\"Right,\"\nsaid Gilda as she rolled her eyes. \"So we're just supposed to pick up a\nstone,\" she picked up a stone off the ground and held it in her claws,\n\"and say 'Give me light'?\"Suddenly Gilda saw a dark hooded face appear right in front of her. \"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!\" it shouted.Gilda shrieked and dropped the stone. The face vanished instantly.Gilda\nlooked up to see the rest of the team was all staring at her like she\nwas nuts. \"Didn't you guys see that!?!\" she exclaimed.\"See what?\" said Dumbbell. \"You freaking out?\"\"But it was right there!\" she pointed right in front of her where she had seen the apparition.\"What was right there?\" asked Upper Crust.\"A big floating creepy head! It shouted 'dooooooom!'\"They\nall stared at Gilda for a long moment. Then Blueblood picked up the\nstone Gilda had dropped with his magic and set it in his hoof. \"Give me\nlight,\" he said.Suddenly a dark hooded face appeared in front of him as well, screaming \"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!\"Blueblood shouted in surprise and dropped the rock. The face disappeared.\"You see!?\" said Gilda.Blueblood nodded and turned to the rest of the group. \"She's right.\"Trixie\npicked up the stone in her magic and then placed it in her hoof.\nBlueblood moved his hoof near the stone, but Trixie looked at him and\npulled it away.\"Hey, Trixie can do it!\" she said.\"I know, but there's no reason I can't do it with you,\" said Blueblood, placing his hoof on the stone as well.\"Hey I want to see too!\" said Hoops, reaching forward.\"And me!\"Soon, all of them had their hoof, or claw, or finger on the stone.\"GIVE ME LIGHT!\" they all said at once.The\ndark hooded face appeared in front of all of them.\n\"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM\" it shouted, but this time none of them let go of\nthe stone. The face continued. \"So, puny mortals, you seek the correct\npath to the goblet of life?\"\"Yes,\" they all said.\"Very\nwell. Before you lies two paths. One path leads to an endless\nlabyrinth, from which there is no escape or turning back. The other path\nwill lead you out of this cave to where you need to be.\"\"We already deduced that,\" said Flam. \"Which path is the right one?\"\"I\nwas getting to that! Now, you must...\" The hooded pony was interrupted\nwhen they heard the sound of a door open and a sweet, female voice began\nspeaking behind him. \"Sweetheart, did you remember to order more\nflour?\"The hooded pony looked back at whoever\nwas behind him and took off his hood, revealing none other than Mr. Cake\nfrom the bakery in Ponyville. \"Hey, I know you!\" shouted Trixie. \"You're that baker from Ponyville!\"\"Seriously, are all of these guardians just losers from Ponyville?\" asked Gilda.Mr.\nCake ignored them and spoke to who ever was behind him, which they\nguessed was his wife. \"I told you to check the pantry,\" the yellow baker\nstallion shouted. \"I told you I'm not buying more flour when we already\nhave an open bag!\"\"Pinkie Pie keeps dumping the flour on herself to entertain the kids!\"Mr. Cake clenched his face angrily. \"Darn it, Pinkie Pie! Why haven't we fired her yet?!\"\"Because she's a nice girl, and nowhere else will hire her.\"Mr. Cake sighed and hung his head. \"Right.\"\"Yo!\" Dumbbell spoke up, not happy with being ignored.Mr. Cake looked up. \"Oh, right.\" He looked back at his wife again. \"Dear, I'm kind of with a client right now, so...\"\"Oh, okay. I'll leave you alone,\" said Mrs. Cake.They then heard a door close and Mr. Cake turned back to them. \"Sorry. Where were we?\"\"You were telling us which tunnel to take,\" said Blueblood.\"Oh, right.\" He put his hood back up over his head and cleared his throat. \"You must...\"Suddenly\nBlueblood cried out and pulled his hoof away, causing everyone to\naccidentally drop the stone in surprise and the vision of Mr. Cake to\nvanish.\"BLUEBLOOD!\" everyone shouted.\"Sorry,\" said Blueblood. \"Some cold water dripped on the back of my neck and surprised me.\"They picked the stone back up and all held it again. \"Give me light!\" they all said at once.The dark hooded face appeared in front of them again. \"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM\" shouted Mr. Cake.\"Do you have to shout like that every time?\" asked Upper Crust in annoyance.\"Unfortunately, I'm contractually obligated to,\" said Mr. Cake. \"NOW STOP DROPPING THE BUCKING ROCK!!!\"\"Hang on, I've got an idea!\" said Gilda with a mischievous grin.With\neveryone still touching it, Gilda maneuvered the rock so it was lying\nin her palm. She then tossed the rock into the air, and Mr. Cake's image\nimmediately vanished. Before the others could ask what she was doing,\nshe caught the rock in her palm, and Mr. Cake appeared again to all of\nthem.\"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!\"Gilda tossed the rock again and caught it. The same thing happened.\"DOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!\"\"Gilda, stop that!\" ordered Blueblood.\"Wait!\nThis is fun!\" said Gilda as she kept tossing the stone and catching it\nover and over again, forcing poor Mr. Cake to cry out each time.After the umpteenth time, Mr. Cake had had it. So immediately after shouting doom, he yelled, \"STOP IT, YOU BITCH!\"That got Gilda's attention, and she immediately stopped bouncing the rock and glared at the baker.\"YOU\nINSOLENT MAGGOT!!!\" continued Mr. Cake. \"MY TWO FOALS ARE MORE\nCOOPERATIVE THAN YOU! SO YOU KNOW WHAT!? YOU FIGURE YOUR PROBLEM OUT\nYOURSELF! I'M DONE!\" And with that, Mr. Cake disappeared.\"HEY!\" Gilda shouted. She grabbed the rock for herself. \"Give me light!\" she said.Nothing happened. \"GIVE ME LIGHT!\" she yelled at the rock.Again, nothing.Gilda threw the rock in rage. \"Darn it! He's not answering!\"\"Way to go, Griffon,\" said Flam. \"You ticked him off, and now we have no idea which way to go!\"\"Yeah, well...\" Gilda grumbled. She didn't want to admit it was her fault.\"So what do we do now?\" asked Score.\"Hey, Trixie,\" said Hoops. \"Can you use like some sort of gem finding spell to find the right way?\"Trixie looked at him like he was crazy. \"How would finding gems lead us the right way?\"\"Um... oh. Nevermind.\"Iron\nWill walked up to the two tunnels. He looked into each one and sniffed\nthe air a few times. Then he turned around and looked at the group.\n\"It's the tunnel on the right.\"They all stared at Iron Will.\"How could you possibly know that?\" asked Jet Set.\"The air down the right path smells fresher,\" said the minotaur. \"When in doubt, always fallow your nose!\"Everyone\nlooked at each other, and then shrugged and followed Iron Will down the\nright tunnel. After a few minutes, they saw daylight up ahead of them.They emerged from the cave and found themselves back in the Everfree forest.They all let out a sigh of relief.\"Okay, we're back on track everyone,\" said Blueblood.\"Um...\" Jet Set's voice sounded terrified. \"W... we have company,\" he said, pointed off to their left.Everyone\nlooked to where he was pointing and gasped at what they saw. The six\ncloaked guardians from before were standing right there, apparently\nhaving been waiting for them by the cave.\"Horse feathers,\" cursed Lightning Dust.\"RUN LIKE LITTLE FILLIES!\" shouted Blueblood.They\nall turned and fled from the cloaked guardians as fast as they could.\nThe guardians gave chase, hurling dark magical blasts at them as they\ngalloped after them.As black magic blasts shot\npast her all around, an idea came to Lightning Dust. She looked at her\nteam members and shouted, \"EVERYONE, GRAB HOLD OF A TREE NOW!\" She then\nlanded on the ground and turned to face their pursuers.\"Lightning Dust, what are you talking about?\" asked Blueblood.\"Just do it!\" she ordered them.Confused,\nbut trusting her, the group stopped running and all ran for the nearest\ntree. They grabbed onto the trunk or a branch and waited for whatever\nLightning Dust had planned.Lightning Dust flared\nher wings and took off into the air like a bullet, heading right over\ntheir cloaked pursuers. She then began flying around and around in a\ncircle in the air, stirring up the wind. It quickly became obvious to\neveryone that she was creating a small tornado.\"STOP\nHER!\" shouted one of the guardians, and they all hurling magical blasts\nup at her. Lightning Dust was too quick though, and easily avoided\ntheir shots as she continued to create a tornado. Before\nlong, the funnel cloud formed. As the rest of her team held onto their\ntrees as best they could to keep from getting pulled away by the\nwhirlwind, the cloaked guardians screamed as they all got sucked up in\nthe tornado. The sound of their screams were cut out over the sound of\nthe raging winds as the mini-tornado got stronger. Lightning eventually\nsaw all six guardians get flung by the winds far over the treetops, and\nout of sight.Her plan a success, Lightning Dust\nlet the tornado dissipate. After a few minutes, the wind finally died\ndown enough and she flew back down to where her team members were\nclinging to trees.\"Pretty impressive, right?\" she asked as she landed next to them.\"That was awesome!\" said Hoops.\"Yeah!\" agreed Gilda. \"You weren't kidding when you said you were even faster than Rainbow Dash.\"As\nthe rest of the group congratulated and complimented Lightning Dust,\nTrixie noticed that they were missing someone. \"Hold on. Where's\nBlueblood?\" she asked.They all looked around. Prince Blueblood was indeed nowhere to be seen.\"Where did he go?\" asked Upper Crust.\"You don't think that jerk ditched us, do you?\" said Gilda.\"I\ndoubt it,\" said Trixie. She then used her magic to pull a piece of\nparchment out of her saddlebags. She held it up for them to see. \"I have\nthe map.\"..............................Blueblood\ngroaned as he sat up. He hurt all over, especially in his right hind\nleg. He looked around him. He was lying on the ground in a different\npart of the forest, and none of his team was in sight.He\nremembered how he had lost his grip on the tree during Lightning Dust's\ntornado and then got hurled through the air over the forest. He had\nscreamed, but he doubted anyone had heard him over the howling wind. He\nhad then hit a tree, fell down through the tree's branches and landed on\nthe ground below, where he was now.He checked\nhis hind leg. He winced as he tried to move it. It really hurt, but he\ndidn't think it was broken. He got to his hooves, wincing in pain and\ntrying not to put too much pressure on his hurt leg.\"HELLO?!\" he called out as loudly as he could. \"GUYS?! ARE YOU THERE?!\"Suddenly\nsomething black dropped down right in front of him. He yelped in\nsurprise and terror as he saw it was one of the cloaked guardians.Blueblood made to run away, but the guardian grabbed Blueblood's head in their hooves, keeping him there.\"Look into my eyes!\" the guardian said with a menacing voice.\"I can't see you're eyes!\" said Blueblood. \"They're covered up!\"\"Oh, right,\" said the guardian, remembering he was wearing a mask. \"Well, then just pretend you can see them.\"\"Why in Tartarus would I want to do that?!\" replied Blueblood.\"Um...\"\nThe guardian was quiet for a moment. \"Oh, what ever!\" The guardian then\npunched Blueblood in the head. Blueblood fell to the ground, knocked\nout cold.The other cloaked guardians then showed\nup out of the forest. They watched as the guardian that had knocked the\nPrince out searched through Blueblood's saddlebags and all over his\nperson. Finally, the guardian stopped and looked up at his comrades. \"He\ndoesn't have the map,\" he said.\"Curses!\" said another guardian. \"One of the others must have it. Lets go.\"\"What about him?\" said another guardian, pointing at the unconscious Blueblood.\"Leave him! He's not worth the trouble.\"The six guardians trotted away through the forest, leaving Blueblood for dead.","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791148-equestrian-knights-ch-8-the-striped-witch-of-the-woods.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/791164-equestrian-knights-ch-10-a-visit-from-the-past.json"}