Daring hums as she looks over the maps. "The temple should be around here." She said giving Arkon the one she's holding and takes out another closer and more detailed one.

Arkon nods as he looks it over. "Yes, based on Sentire's drawings, it should be here." He said looking at it closely.

Spitfire pushes down his map and points ahead as everyone stared at the tourist site where some tours are being held in an old crumbling temple and the courtyards.

"Um…I think this place is cleaned out. You sure it's right?" Daring asks looking back at Sentire and notices that she's gone and Rainbow turns her head to let her see Sentire walking on ahead as she runs a hand along the many walls.

"This is the place? Looks like the locals turned it into a tourist location." Arkon says.

Daring growls as she crumbles the map in her hands. "Why they…this shouldn't be a tourist vacation spot! It's one of the first temples we ever found of Greeks and they turned it into this! Why I ought ah…hey! Put me down!" Daring yelled as Arkon carries her over his shoulder down the road to the entrance.

"Pardon me, but who is in charge here?" Arkon asks the yelling stallion in a booth who was looking to Sentire, but stops and looks to him and the angry Daring over his shoulder.

"Um…well…that be the curator. He's over there giving the main tour." He said stunned as he points to a large group while still looking at him.

"What's his name?" Arkon asks.

"Troupi." The stallion said looking to the rest of the group and some of the team and tries to figure out why they are here.

"Ah, right. We are part of the Canterlot University group. We were told you were expecting us." Arkon says.

The stallion keeps blinking at them before Daring pokes Arkon's shoulder. "He doesn't know, but the curator does. Now let's go so I can give him a piece of my mind!" Daring yells at the end.

"Head researcher, you mind getting the curator?" Arkon asks as he struggled to restrain Daring. The stallion blinks confused before realizing what he meant and rushes off as Arkon puts Daring down before hugging her. "Now what is wrong?" He asks.

"Does he know how priceless this place is?!" Daring yells.

Dusk clears his throat. "Actually, to keep an equation open sometimes, parts of the finished sections has to be open up to the public so the team can get funding." He points out.

"That does not excuse it!" Daring yells at him.

"They literally clayed up the victims of Pompeii. If they didn't, the bodies would have turned to dust long ago." Dusk also points out.

Arkon hums. "That is true. Volcanic ash needs to settle sometime."

Daring growls. "Can't believe you are going along with this."

Arkon shrugs. "Well we did need some gold to get us here…right?" He asks.

Daring keeps growling at him as the curator comes along. "Excuse me, I am…" He was suddenly grabbed by Daring at his collar.

"Dead." Daring growls before being pulled away by the mares. "Hey! Lemme at him!" She yelled trying to flail around.

Troupi clears his throat as he fixes his collar. "Right then, you must be the team as told by your passionate explorer."

"I'll kill you!"

"We do not know where you are going to do this dig as we have cleared out this area already. But if you do find it, we will cordon off the area so no looky loos will have a peek." Troupi continued.

Sentire hums as she looks around the fountain and keeps running her hand along before stopping and reaching the water. "Excuse me, young lady. That is not allowed." A guide points out as the others start to notice her.

Sentire tilts her head before running her fingers along an edge and then stops at an old water line. She hums before standing up again and then punches the edge of the fountain which shocked everyone as she stood still.

"Excuse me. Security!" Troupi said before calling out as some guards rushes over and tries to grab Sentire before she jumps onto the top of the fountain.

"You know you could have just asked us to move it?" Arkon says.

Dusk groans as he covers his face. "Why?"

Sentire tilts her head as she waits before jumping to the other side and then punches that part and standing still before smiling. "It's…hey!" Sentire yells out as the guards grab her.

"Daring, let's take a look." Arkon says leaving Dusk to deal with that.

Daring growls as she carried right Troupi who was looking at her with slight fear. "Right then, I'll clear the area." He said walking away from the angry mare.

Arkon hums as he knocks on the edge where Sentire punched the fountain. "I see what she was doing." He said as he kept knocking.

Daring huffs as she was placed down and held a frown as she looks around the fountain. "Strange, this isn't new. The water is still running and not by motor. Looks like they kept it."

"Hum, it's hollow in some places." Arkon says when one of the parts he knocked on jared a bit. "Hello." Arkon says.

Daring quickly rushes over to him. "What do you got?"

Arkon smiles. "Sentire was onto something alright." He said as he now knocks around the edge. "It's maybe a puzzle." He said before another one jared. "Oh yes and we have to figure out the pattern."

All the others look closer as some of the tourists was watching them mess around with an iconic fountain. "Now don't do anything unless I say so." Dusk warns as he drags Sentire over by an arm.

Sentire smiles. "You like me. I knew you weren't mad." She said hugging him. "Opposite." She calls.

"Gotcha." Arkon says as he heard gears moving as the fountain emptied and in the middle formed stairs leading down. "I will say this for the greeks, they were clever."

"Well they were expert mathematicians and actually made calculus." Daring said as the courtyard was being cleared and the team sets up equipment. "No time like the present." Daring said carefully heading down.

"I mean the entrance wasn't even in the entrance temple there." Arkon says.

"Deception." Sentire calls as she hurried after Daring.

"Daring, get back up here." Arkon says.

Daring stops and looks back at him. "Why should I? We already got it open, let's go. Those guys can catch up and we got our gear." Daring said as the team was still placing equipment and she shakes her bag a bit.

"Daring, come back now." Arkon says.

Daring huffs. "I'm going." She said before being pulled back by Sentire and a smoke cloud erupted in front of her.

"Deception." Sentire sang as she pulled Daring back up the stairs.

"What have you learned?" Arkon asks not looking happy.

Daring groans. "Don't rush in head first." She grumbles.

"And?" Arkon asks.

"Listen to husband to be?" Daring offers meekly.

Arkon sighs.

Daring groans. "What do you want me to say?"

"Sit andwait." Arkon says.

Daring groans as she flops down on the ground as Arkon sits down with her. "So what now?" Vinyl voiced as she looks at the plaques around the courtyard.

"We wait." Arkon says making both Daring and Vinyl groan.

"I don't think they are the waiting type." Rainbow said.

"Well they will have to." Arkon says.

Vinyl flops onto her back on a trunk. "Why?" She groans out.

"Because the path is booby trapped." Arkon says making Vinyl chuckle.

Sentire smiles and kicks a rock down the stairs. "Darts." She calls out and their hear metal striking stone. "Rocks." She said before they heard some crumbling. "Deadly."

"Booby trap." Vinyl repeats still chuckling.

Arkon raises an eyebrow confused. "What is funny?"

Vinyl smirks as Octavia gets it and facepalms.

Arkon keeps blinking confused. "Um…?"

Daring shakes her head. "Don't bother."

"It's Vinyl being foalish." Spitfire says.

Vinyl giggles. "Booby traps."

"Vinyl, come with me." Spitfire says. Vinyl shakes her head before Spitfire dragged her away with the trunk. "Idiot." Spitfire said dragging her away to a corner. "How about this for one?" Spitfire says before twisting one of Vinyl's nipples.

Vinyl eeps and jumps a bit as Arkon watches and blushes hard. "You molestor." Vinyl accuses her.

"Not so funny now is it?" Spitfire asks.

Vinyl frowns and pounces on her and tries to get her shirt off. "Why you…!"

"Stop it you two." Arkon says trying to cover his blush.

Vinyl and Spitfire looks over before Vinyl makes a little pull and tears Spitfire's shirt off. "Sorry." They said.

"Just get clothed." Arkon says hiding his face.

Daring shakes her head. "Oh boy." She said as Spitfire covers herself and they both run off to find some clothes.

"Why did Vinyl run? She still had all her clothes." Rainbow says.

"Feel her up." Octavia grumbles.

"I will let my husband to be do that for me." Daring says.

Arkon gulps as she Rainbow smiles. "You know, he did feel me up." She said smirking.

"Oh?" Daring asks.

Rainbow nods. "Yeah, but it was in the dark."

"Tell me more." Daring says.

Rainbow grins as Arkon blushes heavily. "Um…" He tries to say but a hand clasps his shoulder and makes him look to Butterscotch. "Don't bother. Once she gets started, she can't stop."

Arkon looks fearfully at them as they talked. "In their words, oh boy."

"The tents set up?" Dusk asks.

The team nods. "Yes, just over near the wall. We'll keep setting up the other stuff." A mare said.

"Arkon." Daring says smirking hearing that.

Arkon gulps as he was dragged away to the tents.

Dusk slowly looks over to Sentire who was smiling at him. "No honeymoon." He said before quickly walking away to his tent.

"Aw, but we are wed." Sentire whines.

Dusk glares to her. "Forcibly." He calls heading inside his tent.

Sentire smiles as she follows him in.

Applejack sighs as he follows as well. "I'll go make sure they do anything yet since Dusk isn't ready yet."

"What about Arkon?" Berry asks.

"Not my problem." Applejack says.

Elusive shakes his head. "Oh boy. They are going to have fun one way or another."

The next morning, everyone sat and waited as some ran tests.

"The main corridor is clear, but we have to be careful as the side ones have some still there. And one side step into them can spell death." One said.

Arkon nods and looks to Sentire. "Can you guide or shall I?"

Sentire smiles. "Sure. I do know some tricks they like to do on hallways."

"Can't we stay in bed a little longer?" Vinyl groaned off, still not up.

Arkon shakes his head. "No, the faster we look at the problem, the quicker we can have a solution." He said as Sentire grabs her bag and heads down the stairs as she follows a researcher guide.

"Carry me then." Vinyl groans.

Arkon sighs as he lifts up Vinyl on his back and let's her wrap her arms around him. "Better?" He asks following the group.

"Yes." Vinyl says laying her head on his shoulder and lets him carry her as she goes back to sleep.

Daring smiles. "We really do care. Sorry for last night." She said to him.

"Just listen to me and don't risk your life so carelessly." Arkon says.

Daring loses her smile. "Oh. Okay." She said looking away a bit and tries to look at the corridor walls.

"He cares about you." Spitfire says.

Daring sighs. "I know."

Arkon smiles and wraps his outer robe around her shoulder and pulls her close while still carrying Vinyl.

"Ah, our husband to be taking care of us huh?" Spitfire asks smirking.

Daring chuckles. "Yeah, he's a good hubby." She said leaning on him.

Arkon was silent as they kept walking, his grip never loosening on his staff.

Sentire smiles as she hears this and keeps looking up the information on her books before perking her ears up and stops and looks behind her. "Wait…" She said to herself before she saw a sharp blur pass by at the team member at the back into the side hallway. "Wait!" She yelled rushing back and looks to see nothing. "Oh no." She said reaching for her scythe but stops. "Arkon, staff!" She calls.

Arkon hesitates a little before throwing it to her.

Sentire grabs it as she feels the magic on it before charging it a bit. "Come on." She said before another blur passes by and grabs the one in front. "Shit!" She yelled rushing forward and looks down the hall. "It's fast. Maybe a quicker." She theorized as she starts to look down each of the halls. "Huddle up. No halls." She said peeking down one.

Everyone starts to huddle up away from the halls as Sentire looks through each one as they keep walking through each one. "Don't get…" Another blur passes by. "Separated." She said miserably and looks to see another of the team gone. "This one knows to wait." She said peeking where it went. "We have to hurry." She said staying in the middle and they all try to rush ahead now.

Blurs keep passing by and Sentire sees more of the team going away and catches some glimpses of it and seeing it is as high as Arkon's staff or even a bit higher as it stood a foot above his ears. She growls and tries to hit it with the staff, but misses every time.

"Which way?!" One of the last team members calls as they reach the end of the hall and only have two ways to go.

"Okay, go left. The greeks resented right handers." Sentire calls and watches the right for anything in its slightly foggy and dark hall as they rush down the left before following behind them.

"How much farther?" Arkon calls as he keeps most of the mares close and Vinyl tries to keep a strong grip around him.

Sentire frowns before rushing ahead and then grabs Arkon's robe. "Sorry." She said before quickly throwing him into a wall and makes him smash through it into a large chamber. "They love off the site chambers with little entrances." She said as Vinyl drops to the ground where she was carried a second ago.

"What is chasing us?" Arkon asks groaning as he sits up.

Sentire shrugs as she gets the others inside. "No idea." She said before backing up with them as they take in the large chamber and sees pillars holding up the corners while a large statue stood on the other side. "Huh, so that's him back then? Too much over fixated on the torso." She said seeing the robed Poseidon holding a trident with him and just standing.

Daring shrugs. "Artist usually like to show off the heroes and gods of their times. Makes them feel important and able to get a job that can support them and that was with the high classes."

"This will work." Arkon says grabbing his staff from Sentire.

Daring raises an eyebrow. "What are you planning?"

"Come forth Doshita." Arkon says and a black portal opens close by and spider like legs come out of it.

Elusive shirked and jumps into Berry's arms with Butterscotch gasping at the sight. "What is that?!" Elusive calls out.

"Another of my familiars." Arkon says as a fanged spider finished rising from the portal before it closes. "Doshita, I'm sorry, we will have to save the pleasantries for later. For now, can you use your nearly invisible webbing to create a trap in the doorways?" Arkon asks looking up at it.

Doshita chitters and crawls over to the crumbling doorway and starts to crawl on the walls and spins webbing at it swings to the other side each time.

"How strong is the webbing?" Dusk asks.

"Strong enough to stop a train cold I would wager." Arkon says.

Doshita chitters and then places a bundle in the middle and then crawls over to Arkon and chitters at him.

"Has whisp explained it to you all yet?" Arkon asks.

Doshita wiggles its front legs at him and chitters.

"Good, then you basically know what happened. I must say, it is very embarrassing. Oh, that reminds me, lord Artemis wants me to train more priests so get the others to help you keep an eye out for a few to become partners." Arkon says.

Doshita wiggles its front legs at him again.

"How do you know that? Has Whisp been summoning himself and spying on me?" Arkon asks making Doshita seem to chuckle.

Daring raises an eyebrow. "Well this one has an attitude."

"Oh you are right. Everyone meet Doshita, she is a spirit of bonds. Like bonds of friendship." Arkon says.

Dusk and the rest of the stallions and mare look to each other before looking back to him. "Really?" He asks unamused.

"What? You know any other creature that creates it's threads so fast?" Arkon asks.

Rainbow clears her throat and leans over. "I don't think he means that part."

"I don't get what youmean." Arkon asks.

Rainbow sighs. "He means the bond of friendship part."

"Well not just friendship. It kind of gets complicated and I would need a diagram to explain it well." Arkon says.

Dusk quickly takes out a paper and quill and quickly scribbles something down. "Does it look like this?" He asks showing the elements of harmony and their names around a tree looking picture.

"A little more complicated like this." Arkon says drawing what looked like a eight circled venn diagram with lines criss crossing everywhere.

Dusk blinks and looks to his own. "Huh, not bad a drawing." He said comparing before roaring was heard and they look to see an almost large werewolf like creature struggling with the webs.

Sentire frowns and takes out her scythe and prepares to swing before stopping and leans a bit closer to look carefully at the creature.

"I wouldn't do that and just kill it." Dusk advises preparing his magic.

Sentire looks into its eyes and gasps and smiles. "Anubis!" She yells and hugs the creature who looked confused for a bit before blinking and then smiling as it changes form and becomes more of the standard body type with the head of a jackal.

"Sentire. Been a while." Anubis said trying to hug her but was stopped by the webs. "Excuse me, can you releases me…wait, these are made by a spirit of bonds. No wonder my beast form was helpless." He says.

A spring could be heard going on in the background, but that was Berry playing with a slinky and stretching it and letting it come back. "Wha…?" Dusk asks shocked.

Arkon smiles. "I am glad my actions impressed a death god." He said as the mares were shocked that a real death god were in front of them.

Sentire looks up to him. "Where are the ones you took?"

Anubis hums and looks down at her. "Oh? They are with you? I thought they were more trouble makers? If you can release me, I can show you where they are."

"Hum, release huh?" Arkon asks scratching his head and Doshita mimics him.

Anubis sweat drops. "You don't know the release, do you?"

"Have we ever released anything we caught like this?" Arkon asks.

Doshita shakes itself side to side.

Anubis sighs and looks to Sentire. "Try the scythe. And while you are trying, I'll think of something else."

Sentire smiles. "Of course, just wait your naked self." She said grinning.

Anubis looks down and chuckles. "Whoops. Sorry."

Sentire smiles and starts trying to slice the webbing. "So what are you doing here?"

Anubis smiles. "Investigating why our big water friend there disappeared."

"It's been thousands of years though." Arkon points out.

Anubis nods. "Yes, that has been taken into account. I have been looking for the answers for such a long time now."

"Good, because it would be bad if no one of your class didn't notice till now." Berry says making Anubis sweat wear no one could see on the back of his head.

Anubis tries to chuckle before looking to Sentire. "Are these stallions your new mates?"

"The one with the familiar isn't." Sentire says as Rainbow holds Arkon protectively.

Anubis chuckles loudly. "Amazing. You actually have most of the elements of harmony. Your father has told me about them in some meetings we have. And I must say, they look good for your types. Though then again, you have a many likes from our heat suppression sessions." He said slyly.

"Please don't talk about those. They got upset when I told them about those for some reason." Sentire says.

Anubis blinks confused. "Really? Back in my day, it was a free for all. Though I can see why with today's standards. You are well with your sessions, right?"

"Haven't had one. The rules here are confusing." Sentire whines.

Anubis chuckles as she slices the webs holding his arms. "I'll take that." He said grabbing the scythe and starts to slice off his skin on his other arm and makes the black skin fall to the ground before it separates into insects before they scurry away and leaves a new layer on him and he keeps slicing off his skin. "There we go. Now I will show you…as soon as I get out of these." He said starting on his legs.

"Oh, that reminds me. Arkon there is a priest of Artemis. You know, the moon brat as you call him." Sentire says.

Anubis raises an eyebrow and smirks. "Yes, that brat who keeps wanting more. Gimme more, gimme more." He mock whines. "Always wanted those strange moon treats. Good boy, but…well…a brat at most. How is the prince and his brother?" He asks starting to slice his head skin which put the others at nerve at how casual he's doing this.

"Lord Artemis teaches patients and understanding." Arkon keeps repeating to himself to keep calm.

Anubis chuckles. "You haven't seen him when he's hungry."

"Anubis, I thought you said respected the loyal priesthood, no matter the deity." Sentire says.

Anubis smirks. "Doesn't mean they are annoying. I think I had to spank Artemis one time when your father told me he's acting out. That was one lesson he will not forget. Still, you are well…correct?" He asks slicing off the last web and tosses the scythe to her and a long royal loincloth appears around his waist.

"Yes, but you are purposely antagonizing him." Sentire says pointing to Dusk who was frowning.

Anubis raises an eyebrow. "Didn't know he was a jealous type."

Dusk seemed to huff like a pufferfish hearing that.

Anubis keeps an eyebrow raised before walking over to a wall and then punches it and makes it crumble. "Sorry, but when I thought grave robbers, I had to place them on a scale." He said as they see team members were tied up against an old scale. "I eat hearts for a reason, okay."

"Well this is a temple, not a tomb…were the priesthood buried here? I know some temples have that tradition." Daring says.

Anubis shrugs. "Somewhat. For him it was small and in between back then. They have a chamber somewhere though."

"Can't be pony sacrifices or any creature that payed homage to him. Poseidon didn't approve of sacrificing the species that worshiped him." Arkon says.

Anubis nods. "Yes, they were more buried in his honour than anything else."

"So even his peers don't know what happened to him. He didn't say anything or something?" Arkon asks.

"Hardly." Anubis said dryly. "I kinda would have like a little letter or a bird messenger sometimes though."

"You suspect foul play at work?" Arkon asks the question on his, Daring, and Sentire's mind.

Anubis sighs. "It has to be. The only explanation."

"But what could do that to a deity without the others knowing?" Daring questions as those tied to the scales were released.

Anubis smiles. "That's what I am to find. Funny, I took that course on a whim and now look at me. I'm almost unemployed."

"So you know what room this is?" Arkon asks.

Anubis smiles. "Oh yes. This is a joke room. The one you are looking for is actually behind the statue. You just need to move it or maybe squeeze through if you have the body type. Sorry Sentire."

"So this was a decoy and the real entrance was in the entrance temple after all. A double deception." Daring says.

"Deception." Sentire sang as she makes the scythe disappear. "Also it's good to see you again. I did miss you a few times after you had to leave."

"Well I had to. You know how much work I had backed up from my territory alone if I wasn't getting help from another. I wouldn't even have been able to come here." Anubis says.

Sentire sighs. "At least you're here. Are you going to help us?"

"Hum." Anubis says sounding like he was thinking it over.

Sentire leans close to him and gives him the puppy dog look. "Please."

"Hum." Anubis says using her head as an armrest.

Sentire smiles to him. "I'll feed you like I made it when we were together."

Dusk, hearing that, pulls her away.

Senture smiles to him. "I mean food. Besides, he's my friend again, not my temporary mate…or heat suppressioner."

"Verypossessive." Vinyl says.

Dusk growls a bit as Sentire smirks. "Are you jealous over me?"

"Agreed." Spitfire says.

Dusk huffs as he keeps dragging her away. "I'll stay if you cook the meat just the way I like it." Anubis calls much to the displeasure of Dusk.

"So anything an archeological team can learn about the Greeks from this decoy?" Daring asks Arkon as Anubis overhears.

Arkon sighs. "I do not know. You can learn what you already know or learn a new lesson in between a learned one."

"What are you two talking about?" Anubis asks.

Daring looks to him. "Learning from this place, basically."

"Daring wants to know if we will gain more insight to the ancientgreeksas much knowledge was lost." Arkon clarifies.

Anubis stares at them before chuckling a bit. "Wow. You mortals, always wanting to get far. Well…there is not a lot left…unless you count diaries."

"You know where they are?" Daring asks.

Anubis stops and stares at her. "Oh no. I mean spirits and god diaries. Being immortal beings leaves us with many things to talk about. When you mortals attempt to contact us, all that white noise you hear, that's us getting rid of the feeling and blurting it all out at once. Your big religious book, that's just a story book he made in his spare time. Kinda funny some of your kind is taking it literally. I wouldn't stone Sentire if my life depended on it."

"Then none huh?" Daring asks.

Anubis smirks. "What do you think mortal?"

Daring lets out an exasperated sigh as Arkon rubs her back and Doshita starts poking Anubis with her leg to make sure he was real.

Anubis raises an eyebrow as he looks down and smirks at the spider. "Yes, I'm here and I can kill you with a touch. Though, not by involuntary means. I do have control unlike the pony kind."

Doshita hiss at him backing away.

Anubis shakes his head. "Oh brother. So…anything do you know that I don't?"

"It's ok Doshita. You can return now." Arkon says.

Doshita chitters before a portal opens behind her and she crawls backwards into it while staring at Anubis and shooting a wad of webbing at him.

Anubis rolls his eyes and tears it off with his skin before throwing it away. "I can repair easily you know."

"Do the spirit of bonds have something against you?" Arkon asks.

Anubis shrugs. "Must be the fact I can take their master away easily."

"So it's not personal?" Arkon asks.

Anubis shrugs again. "Who knows. I have made a great many enemies sometimes."

"Including the Walrus deity." Sentire jokes.

"We do not speak about that incident." Anubis says.

Sentire grins. "Why not? It was so…"

"I said not another word!" He yells getting annoyed and have a slight blush on his black skin.

"Embarrassing." Sentire finishes.

Anubis groans and rubs his muzzle in frustration. "Dang you Sentire."

"Meh." Sentire says sticking out her tongue.

Dusk smiles a bit as he sees her actually ticking off a death god.

Arkon and Daring soon followed the others as they left.

"I'm telling you, you got…" Sentire starts.

"Cut that out. That is the end of that discussion." Anubis argues as he follows her with the rest.

'So it isn't just me.' Dusk thinks smirking.