Highschool Dragon
Chapter 90: Temple of the Dragon's Eye
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter getting a bite to eat and going over a plan, Daring Do, Rainbow Dash, and Spike left Manehattan and headed off to the jungle of Equestria. They trekked through the deep thick jungle, while avoiding such things as predators, poisonous or living plants, and potential enemies.
"This jungle feels like it goes on forever." Spike said, as he was pushing several tree branches aside to clear a path.
"I know. Feels like we're going in circles." Rainbow agreed, as she hiked through the jungle.
Daring who was calm and collect spoke up, "When you've been to as many jungles and lost civilizations as I have, you get used to it."
The two ponies suddenly bumped into Spike who halted in place, "Spike, what's the hold up?" Rainbow asked, only to get shushed by said dragon who dragged her and Daring into the bushes.
"What's going on?" Daring asked, as Spike whispered.
"We got company."
They looked ahead and saw Caballeron and his hench ponies trekking through the jungle, "Let's go you fools! Daring Do may have the key to the temple, but if we get there before she does we can take it from her." he explained to his boys.
"Cocky little..." Daring grumbled.
"Should we take them?" Rainbow asked her idol.
"Not yet. We don't wanna blow our cover." she whispered back.
"But that doesn't mean, we can't throw them off." Spike said, as he picked up a rock and threw it to a tree which caught Caballeron's attention.
"What was that?" he asked.
"I don't know boss." one of his hench ponies answered.
"Then go check it out!" he ordered in irritation.
The one pony looked at the tree where he heard the sound and saw nothing, "Nothing here, sir."
Caballeron sighed, "Then let's keep moving." they were about to press on, until they heard more sounds hitting against the several trees behind them, "Fan out! We're being watched." he said cautiously. As Caballeron and his hench ponies were searching around, Spike, Daring, and Rainbow used their confusion to get ahead.
When they got far away from them, Rainbow spoke to her dragon man, "Good going, Spike."
"That'll hold them for a bit." Spike said.
"Maybe, but we still need to keep up the pace." Daring noted, as they continued onward.
The three adventurers found their way out of the jungle and happened upon a temple decorated in dragon statues, "This is it." Daring told them.
"Whoa." Rainbow gasped.
"Sounds like an ideal place for a dragon." Spike noted.
"Come on, the hole for this key should be somewhere around here," Daring said, as she checked the walls, before finding a keyhole in the wall, "Here we are." she placed the key in and turned it.
They heard the sound of unlocking and a door started raising up to reveal the entrance into the temple, "All right you guys, this is it." Daring told her partners. They proceeded inside unaware they were being watched.
As the trio walked down the hall using a torch, Spike spoke, "Man I feel like I'm in one of these action movies."
"Only better." Rainbow put in.
"Keep your eyes peeled. This place is loaded with booby traps." Daring warned them.
The two proceeded with care, only for Spike to step on a tile that sunk into the ground. Suddenly from the walls launched some arrows right at them. Daring suspecting this grabbed the tow and hit the floor avoiding the incoming projectiles, "Traps like that?" Spike winced, as Daring scowled.
They made their way through the hall before happening upon a chamber with no exit, "Great. A dead end." Spike sighed.
"Maybe to normal eyes," Daring replied, "There's obviously some switch in here to open."
"We just have to find it." Rainbow added.
The trio started searching around the room littered with old broken pottery. Spike looked under one broken vase to see a handle switch. Taking a chance, he grabbed and turned it. To their surprise a new entrance opened up, "How did?" Daring was surprised, before she and Rainbow looked over at Spike.
"Does this make up for my mishap with the trap?" the dragon boy asked hopefully.
"It's a start." Daring smiled, as they continued on into the temple.
As they walked, Rainbow looked ahead of them and saw something shiny, "Something's up ahead."
"It's what we're looking for." Daring said, as they hurried.
They pulled to a stop upon reaching another door and looked inside to see a chamber decorated in diamonds, "Wow. No wonder they call it Dragon's Hoard." Spike said.
"So many gems." Rainbow looked at the countless gem shards.
"But only one of that." Daring motioned above them.
Spike and Rainbow looked up and saw atop a pedestal was a diamond that looked like the eye of a dragon, "What is it?" Spike asked.
"The Dragon's Eye," Daring marveled, "Let's grab it and go."
Before they could go for it, they were lassoed by the hench ponies, and approaching was Caballeron and Ahuizotl, "No one is going anywhere." Ahuizotl spoke.
"Especially not you three." Caballeron added.
"So you managed to catch up, did you?" Daring asked.
"Indeed," Caballeron agreed, "And very sneaky to distract us with your little pebble throwing."
"But seeing how you three got so far ahead we thought it would be best if you did the hard stuff for us." Ahuizotl continued, as he was accompanied by his jungle cats and Tirek's soldiers.
"So we'll be taking the Dragon's Eye now," Caballeron added, "And then we'll be handing you two over to Lord Tirek."
Spike and Rainbow frowned, as the dragon spoke, "Like hell!" he concentrated and assumed his armor form before breaking out of his rope restraints.
"Get him!" Ahuizotl ordered, as his big cats and Tirek's forces pounced.
Spike grabbed a tiger and threw it into a panther, before grappling with one of the guards spears. When one of the other guards tried to attack him from behind, Spike ducked down while still holding onto the spear and made his opponent collide head first with the one coming at him from behind.
"Ouch." Rainbow cringed.
Spike quickly went to Daring and Rainbow before cutting them free, "We got to get the diamond." Daring said.
"And get out of here." Rainbow agreed.
"Rainbow and I will handle these chumps, the diamond's yours, Do." Spike told the adventurer.
Daring smirked, "Always." she flew up for the pedestal, but Ahuizotl leaped over and clung to the pedestal before climbing up it.
The two reached the Diamond and grabbed it together, before fighting over it, "Give me the diamond, Daring Do!" Ahuizotl struggled to take it.
"But I was just envisioning on what a great engagement ring it could be." Daring sent a flirtatious look at Spike who while fighting Caballeron's hench ponies blushed from the idea.
"Spike, heads up!" Rainbow called, as she used a thunder strike to scare away a cheetah and panther.
Spike noticed more of Tirek's guards coming at him, but using his enhanced strength took each of them down. He looked around and noticed some pony was missing, "Where's Caballeron?"
Rainbow looked and spotted the doc had climbed up the chamber via vine and pulled out a dart gun loaded with a tranquilizer, "No!" she flew as fast as lightning and knocked Caballeron off his focus resulting in him shooting the dart right into Ahuizotl's shoulder.
"Caballeron, you idiot!" Ahuizotl cursed, as he started getting woozy, "You idi-odi-ot." he released the diamond and plummeted to the bottom of the chamber.
Rainbow punched Caballeron making him lose hold of the vine and feel, only to be caught by Spike, "You saved me?" he asked.
"Only so I could do this!" Spike answered, before punching him in the head and dropped him down on Ahuizotl.
Suddenly the chamber started shaking, "The temple's collapsing!" Daring warned her partners.
"Time for us to go!" Rainbow called.
"There's no way we can fly out of here before the temple collapses." Daring told them.
"Then it looks like I'll have to make us an exit," Spike said as he channeled his energy into his fists and flew at the wall putting holes in it. He continued to punch his way out before giving them an opening, "Come on!" The pegasi flew out of the hole with Spike, as the temple collapsed.
Outside the temple, the hench ponies and jungle cats brought Caballeron and Ahuizotl out of the temple before it completely fell apart. Caballeron frowned, as Ahuizotl spoke still in a dizzy tone, "I'll-I'll get you... Daring..." he passed out again.
Suddenly appearing before them was Tirek in astral form. This shocked Caballeron who spoke nervously, "Lord Tirek! Uh, we were just um..."
"You and Ahuizotl are absolutely pathetic, Caballeron!" Tirek called out, "Consider our partnership terminated." he vanished. Caballeron hung his head down humiliated, as did his hench ponies.
Up in the sky, Spike, Daring, and Rainbow flew off, as Daring Do tucked the Dragon's Eye into her sack, "That was some adventure. And I couldn't have done it without you guys." Daring told them.
"That's what friends do." Rainbow reminded her.
"And harem lovers." Spike winked at them.
"All true," Daring blushed, "And once we get back to Manehattan I believe I promised us a hot tub soak." she batted her eyes at Spike. Spike smiled at the idea, as they continued on.
Later on back at the hotel, Spike was relaxing in the hot tub in Daring's room, "Oh, yes. This is the stuff."
"Room for more?" came Rainbow's voice, as she and daring entered the bathroom with their bodies wrapped in towels.
Spike eyed their towel clad bodies, and answered, "There's always room."
The girls smiled, as they dropped their towels exposing their naked figures to Spike. The dragon boy marveled at Rainbow's figure, while also admiring Daring's DD bust. The two ponies giggled at Spike's lustful expression, and stepped into the tub sitting on both sides of him.
"Oh, yeah. Nothing's better than a nice soak right after an adventure." Daring stretched her arms up.
"Is this how you always wrap up an adventure?" Rainbow inquired.
"Yeah. Though I don't let the readers know about that. Otherwise they'd probably try reading the end to see how I relax."
"I'd read the whole thing regardless of you hot tubbing after an adventure." Spike assured her.
"Me too." Rainbow agreed.
"You guys are sweet." Daring smiled, as she moved over so she was straddling Spike and began making out with him.
As Spike lip locked with Daring Do, he thought to himself, 'Damn, this feels so good.'
Suddenly they were interrupted,as Rainbow scooted in next to Daring, "Stop hogging all the man-meat, Daring Do. After all. I was in his harem first." Rainbow proceeded to make out with Spike who was just as passionate with her as he was with Daring.
When they parted for air, Daring spoke to Rainbow, "Not bad, Rainbow. But can you handle this?" she surprised Rainbow Dash by cupping her cheeks and started kissing her. Rainbow was shocked at what was happening, but started giving into it, and returned Daring's kiss. Spike on the other hand watched the scene while getting more aroused by the minute.
The two parted, and noticed Spike staring at them like a perverted zombie, "Looks like we both got his attention now." Rainbow noted.
"So let's show him what we both can do for him together.' Daring said, as the two pegasi both made out with Spike who wrapped his arms around them both keeping them extra close.
'Best adventure ever.' the dragon hero thought.
That night, Spike and Rainbow Dash returned to the mansion in their world. Spike spoke to Rainbow, "Now that was a fun way to spend the day, huh?"
"You bet it was." Rainbow agreed, and suddenly the door opened, and Twilight and the others entered.
"We're home!" Pinkie cheered.
"Good evening, Spike, Rainbow Dash." Rarity greeted.
"Hey, guys." Rainbow greeted.
"How were your days?" Spike inquired.
"It was all good." Fluttershy answered.
"But we're all just glad to be back." Applejack added, while removing her hat to wipe her forehead.
"So how was your day?" Twilight asked the two curiously.
Spike and Rainbow Dash looked at each other, before Spike answered, "Oh, you know. Same-old, same-old."
"What he said." Rainbow added.
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