>>379049Food and water wasn't a problem in the jungle for a tiny horse. And Daring Doo was a tiny cute horse. There was plenty water to be found in small rivers everywhere and even the air was moist, however, Daring Doo could do without that. The heat was killing her, well, not really. It did make her pant in her wetness. Her eyes going all cross-eyed as she constantly had to hydrate to stay focused. Her tongue flopping out to catch the water in the air, and only for that reason.
She bent down and eat a green plant, that seemed non-poisonous and also had no colorful frogs sitting on it. She eat while she could. Princess Celestia clearly didn't know about her predicament or she'd never lower the sun while she was in this pinch. Before the darkness was upon her, she wanted to eat so she didn't accidentally eat something, or someone, poisonous.
She had built a small shelter with branches, logs, and giant fan-like leaves. The shelter was built next to the trunk of a tree to support it.
After she lost her pursuers she had kept running for what felt like miles but probably was much less.
Darkness fell on her and she crawled into her shelter and blocked the "entrance" with another branch. There, in the blackness, she could hear the croaking of pony colored frogs. The rustling of leaves from the tree crowns high above as the wind could only reach so far. Some type of birds chirped from time to time.
She felt herself calming down. It wasn't even close to her first time spending her night in the wilderness, not even in the jungle of Doom. She stretched out her limbs and sighed contently. She felt herself drift off.
Grrr. Oooh. Krrr. Hiss. Ahrrr.Daring startled awake. After her many years of experiences she could recognize the sounds of some of the bigger predators in the world. The growl of a tiger, the diaphragm pumped moan of a moose, and the hissing hiss of a snake, coming from no other creature than the moosed chimera. The apex predator of the jungle?
She held her breath as she heard the creature sniffing for her.
She could hear a snake tail slither behind two clopping hooves coming towards her in the dark. The sound of twigs cracking under hooking-claws. A growl like thunder hit hear ears as she could feel the abomination's breath on face. She lay so still you'd think it was a cockatrice and that she'd seen it's eyes. Her eyes remind close, however, as the very sound of the growl washed over her.
Was this where she died?
But then.
"Ooga booga, where's da pony mare at?" Something hollered, followed by a bunch of other zigga expletives, and bunch of grunting like, "Yeah," and "Ahh."
Light cut through the darkness. It seemed that at least a portion of the horde of the striped asses
Gettit gettit? Ass as in Donkey. Hehe. hunting her, had found her? Well, they were here and they carried torches. Did they unlock that on the tech tree? ^^
She could feel the tiger head's breath on her face still but now, with the aid of light she could see the chimera's snake-head and moose-head peering back at the newly arrived group.
It seemed the tiger part of the chimera was out voted as the other heads salivated over the group of zebras. It roared, silencing the whole jungle with the exception of the winding wind in the tree tops.
There was a pause, then she heard.
"Ahhh, sheeeeeeit," some zigga said. "Is it just because I'm striped?"
The chimera pounced on him, tearing into his flesh as screamed like bitch-ass zigga.
Cuck. I would have taken having my flesh stripped of my torso like man.Daring Doo took this opportunity to flee.
--- A few days later, Daring Doo left the jungle and got to harbor city of Jagged Bay. From there she traveled with airship all the way to Canterlot. Even some more days later, she retailed the story to journalist firing off camera-flashes like they were a firing squad at her, as she stood on a podium. Flanked on her sides, stood the museum chief executive officer pony and Princess Celestia. Behind her on the wall, protected by a cage of glass, hung the full set of Pharaoh Plot Whipper's regalia.