Best Friends For Ever! by Chloe Ryder

Author:Chloe Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

‘That’s Divine,’ Pippa exclaimed, pointing. Her voice rose suddenly. ‘And hanging above the picture is the last horseshoe!’

‘It is indeed.’

The voice that came from the doorway sent shivers racing along Pippa’s spine. It was Baroness Divine.

‘I’ve been expecting you.’ An evil smile played on Divine’s lips. Throwing back her head, she laughed triumphantly, then she shouted, ‘Guards, seize them!’

Chapter 4

A group of Night Mares, wearing the guards’ uniform of diamond-encrusted black sashes, charged into the laboratory and surrounded Pippa, Stardust and Misty. They marched them outside and into a long, dark tunnel lit by flickering torches. As the tunnel twisted and turned it kept splitting into more passages.

‘Left, right, right, left, left, left,’ Pippa murmured to herself as she tried to memorise the route they were taking.

They were travelling downhill and, after entering a very narrow tunnel, they finally arrived at their destination.

‘The dungeons,’ Stardust whickered, her breath catching.

The guards roughly nudged the trio into the same cell. The door clanged shut and the key scraped in the lock.

Divine’s hoof steps rang out mockingly as she started to trot away.

‘You’ve failed.’ Divine laughed.

‘Wait!’ cried Pippa. ‘Why are you doing this to us?’

Divine swung round to face them. Drawing herself up, she said, ‘Nightingale may be my distant ancestor but she was a fool. When she found magical gold in the Volcano she fashioned it into two sets of symbolic horseshoes, one set each for the King and Queen of the new island of Chevalia that the horseshoes went on to create. The island was a place where all ponies could be equal. But how could that ever be when Nightingale had decreed that there would be a King and Queen? Far better, I say, that the island remains a volcanic rock, led by only one pony. My plan is to destroy the last golden horseshoe so that Chevalia will return to what it was – a simple place with no Royal Court or Princess Ponies. There will be just one leader. Me. I shall rule the new volcanic island.’

Stardust let out a loud sob then bravely swallowed to stop any more from escaping.

‘How are you going to destroy the horseshoe?’ asked Pippa. Her heart hammered in her chest as she played for time.

Divine’s eyes glowed in the torchlight.

‘I plan to throw it into the heart of the Volcano, where the hot lava will melt it.’

‘Won’t that be dangerous?’ Pippa asked. ‘What about the magic locked inside the horseshoe?’

‘Enough!’ roared Divine. ‘My plan is nearly complete. I don’t have time to waste talking to a silly little girl.’

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