A free-thinker in the everfree forest.

Silver eagle was waiting outside the forest for his hired associate to arrive. He has found a map inside the book in the canterlot library which would lead to a dungeon in the everfree forest. Silver always enjoyed dungeon crawling, but he also always brings somepony along to talk about his philosophy with.

Amber Flash trotted up to the entrance of the Everfree Forest. Although she was not afraid of anything (expect perhaps spiders) the Everfree made her feel uneasy. She had her jousting armour on, save for her helmet, and carried a saddlebag. "Alright! I'm ready to do this!"

"Good. Now lets get going." Silver said walking into the forest. He then turned and walked into the forest. As they were walking, silver asked amber "So your from the crystal empire right?"

Amber repositioned her saddlebag on her back. "Yup! Crystal Empire born and raised! It is beautiful up there, but I needed some adventure, a change of scenery." She said as she walked along. "And what about you? Where do you come from?"

"I'm from New Pegasus, a city of gambling and neon lights." Silver replied "And they only steal ten percent of your income there, which is relatively better canterlot which takes almost half."

Amber cocked her head. "Well, I've been to Canterlot. No one had ever complained about income taxes." She said, then scratched her head. She them smiled, "Well, I guess it's not the kind of thing you talk about with strangers."

Amber checked all her gear. "Well, I'm good here. Shall we be off?"

"Well considering how used to them they are I suppose they wouldn't complain too much. Of be we shall!" Silver replied before cannon balling into the forest.

Amber smiled and trotted after Silver. "I just love adventures." she said, running through the forest. "So, what exactly do you have planeed for me here?"

Silver got up from where he landed and brushed himself off "Well I have a map to a dungeon with me and im going to need somepony to watch my back while I crawl through it. So basically your something of a bodyguard." He said.

Amber laughed. "A bodyguard eh?" she said, walking up next to Silver. "Are you sure you could stand using such a pretty mare as your bodyguard?" She asked, before laughing more. "But this sounds like fun. I doubt we'll find anything too dangerous in there."

"Well you never know. Besides, a pretty mare such as yourself won't have to lift a hoof if this thing works." Silver said holding his crossbow with his unicorn magic. "By the way, have you been to canterlot recently? Im wondering cause i havent been able to go there for some time cause of my refusal to pay certain extortions there."

Amber Flash nodded. "Yes, I was just there a couple of weeks ago. Why do you ask?" She asked, sowing down. "Do you have family there or something?"

"No, i just do a lot of business there. Unfortunately my business entails certain fees that the authorities thrust on me which my refusal to pay put me in the situation I am in now." He said as he looked at his map and led his partner to their destination.

Amber shrugged. "That kind of sucks. Oh well, there is not much one could do about it. It's just how they decide to run things." She said. Amber was never the one to rebel against authority, although the government of the Crystal Empire was rarely tyrannical.

"Well if everpony didn't pay them then they wouldn't be able to run things at all, but thats an issue for another day. We should be arriving at the entrance right...now." Silver stopped in front of a large cave.

Amber stopped next to Silver. She poked her head slightly towards the cave. "Hello in there!" She said, then perking her ears up to listen for her own echo. "She chuckled and then looked at silver. "Well, shall we go in?"

Silver got on the ground and crawled into the cave "Let the dungeon crawling begin."

Amber Flash laughed when Silver began to crawl on the ground. She shook her head and began to slowly follow him into the cave. "Well, aren't you silly?"

"Well you never know if they left any traps." He said as he continued crawling. The cave then slowly transitioned into a castle dungeon as they further entered the dungeon. Silver used his magic for lighting as the traversed the dungeoned ans he stopped when he noticed something on the ground. He picked it up and saw it was a key "This could open something important.

Amber Flash looked at the key. "Cool. If this is a castle dungeon, that probably unlocks a cell door or something like that. If we're lucky it's a master key." She said. "Well, perhaps we should find what it unlocks."

Silver nodded in agreement and continued onward. When he turned a corner he quickly turned back after noticing a walking skeletal pony. He whispered to Amber "Theres a skeletal pony there. Im going to sneak attack it with my crossbow and you ram it with your ousting spear."

Amber rolled her eyes. "You mean a lance?" She said, levelling it. "And how will a crossbow do anything against a pony with no flesh?"

"It depends on the bolt thats used. Skeletal beings are not so much alive as they are reanimated by magic. I can use an enchanted bolt to cause interference and then you just have to smash it to break the spell." He explained. Silver loaded the bolt, peaked over the corner and shot it at the skeletal pony. The skeleton staggered and Silver gave Amber the signal to charge at it.

Amber grinned and pointed her lance at the skeleton. She charged towards it, impacting it with her lance as it fell into pieces. "There must be a unicorn nearby to animate the bones." She said. "Pity, the remains should be treated better than this."

"Well thats not always the case. This kind of magic was only used hundreds of years ago and these spells last for a very long time." Silver said walking ahead of Amber "Lets keep moving, and be wary of other enemies."